New temporary Flight 93 memorial


New temporary Flight 93 memorial

SHANKSVILLE, Pa.

A new temporary memorial has opened in western Pennsylvania at the site where Flight 93 crashed during the 2001 terror attacks.

The National Park Service unveiled the indoor space featuring posters and exhibits Thursday.

A previous temporary memorial was outside and included a fence with mementos attached. It had to be relocated as construction continues on the permanent memorial.

Park Service Site Manager Jeff Reinbold says a portion of the fence and some mementos will be showcased in the new temporary facility.

Donations for Ariz. law soar after suit

PHOENIX

Retirees and other residents from all over the country were among those who donated nearly $500,000 to help Arizona defend its immigration-enforcement law, with most chipping in $100 or less, according to an analysis of documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

The donations, 88 percent of which came through the Arizona defense fund’s website, surged this week after the federal government sued Tuesday to challenge the law. A document from Gov. Jan Brewer’s office showed that 7,008 of the 9,057 online contributions submitted by Thursday morning were made in the days after the government’s filing.

Iranian Embassy: Stoning called off

LONDON

The case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning drew international outrage after her lawyer’s blog posts sparked a global campaign to save her life, and British media reported late Thursday that the stoning would not occur.

The Iranian Embassy in London said that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani would no longer face death by stoning, according to Channel 4 News and The Guardian newspaper. A message seeking comment from the embassy was not immediately returned, and it was not immediately clear if Ashtiani still faced death by other means.

Priests who abuse impaired targeted

VATICAN CITY

The Vatican is cracking down on priests who sexually abuse mentally impaired adults, sanctioning them with the same set of punishments meted out for clerics who rape and molest children, The Associated Press has learned.

A church source close to the Vatican told the AP on Thursday that a soon-to-be-released Vatican document on handling clerical abuse of minors under age 18 would also refer to adults with an “imperfect use of reason.”

Such particularly vulnerable victims now will have their cases handled directly by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under a special set of norms that can result in a priest’s being quickly defrocked without a canonical trial.

Dad of missing boy suspects his wife

PORTLAND, Ore.

The father of a 7-year-old Portland boy missing for more than a month told a judge he believes the boy’s stepmother is involved in the disappearance, according to a court document released Thursday.

The father, Kaine Horman, also said in his request for a restraining order against Terri Moulton Horman that investigators told him that he had been the target of a murder plot by his wife in late 2009.

Investigators have not named Terri Horman as suspect or a person of interest, but in recent weeks they have focused their investigation on her.

Police have said she was the last known person to see the boy. She told police she left him at his school, about two miles away from their home, after an early morning science fair.

Associated Press

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