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Priest drives into crowd
Authorities and witnesses say a priest drove into a group of churchgoers after a Good Friday service near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing an 89-year-old woman and wounding four other people. Madeline Romell’s leg had to be amputated shortly after the Friday afternoon crash in the parking lot of St Maurice Catholic Church in Forest Hills. She was pronounced dead about five hours later. Parishioner Angela Thomas tended to the wounded, including a man pinned under the car. She says the priest told her the accelerator just went. Witnesses say the priest served at St Maurice’s.
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Saddam’s AK-47 returns
Federal customs agents say a pearl-handled AK-47 that belonged to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and was in the hands of the US Army is being sent back to Iraq. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the automatic rifle is chrome-plated and has a photo of Hussein near the sight. ICE spokesman Lou Martinez says the return of the rifle was recently requested by the Iraqi government and ICE traced it to Fort Lewis in Washington.
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