AP Network News. I’m Carlotta Bradley.
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A Kansas woman is charged with kidnapping a baby who was cut from her mother’s womb. A newborn girl found in Kansas today is said to be in good health. Ben Espy, sheriff of Nodaway County, Missouri says it’s a crime that’s hard to deal with.
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--- Nobody here has ever perceived this ever taking place. To have a fetus taken out of someone’s womb, and then doing an Amber Alert, and trying to find, trying to find a child. It’s unconceivable.
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The maker of Celebrex says it’s leaving the drug on the market.
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--- Pfizer Incorporated says it is not taking Celebrex off the market, despite a study associating the popular painkiller with an elevated risk of heart problems. The study showed patients taking high doses of Celebrex had a 2.5 times greater risk of cardiac problems than those on a placebo. Celebrex is in the same class as Vioxx, the Merck and Company painkiller withdrawn in September. Epidemiologist Marie Griffin at Vanderbilt University says the new study suggests problems with all such drugs, called Cox-2 inhibitors, but she notes in this case, the problems arose in patients taking four times the normal dosage of Celebrex. Warren Levinson, New York.
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President Bush wants to move quickly to name an intelligence chief and a new homeland security secretary. Spokesman Scott McClellan.
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--- The president will appoint the person who he believes is the best person for each of those positions. Those two positions are critical in our government, and the president will move, is moving forward already on both of them.
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Today Bush signed the intelligence overhaul bill that created the intelligence director position.
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A holiday party at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California. A cheerful Jackson greeted about 200 youngsters today. He stopped short of mingling, calling out to them from his driveway instead. He said, “Merry Christmas, I love you.” He walked back into the house and then later left the ranch. A Jackson spokesperson says groups take kids to Neverland at least three times a month. It has nothing to do with the molestation case.
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This is AP Network News.
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Health experts are recommending changes in who can get a flu shot. Dr. Lance Rodewald with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says local agencies should decide who can get the shots because some locations have more flu vaccine than others.
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--- The HIP thought it was very important that local and state health jurisdictions had the option to sub-prioritize among the groups to restrict further if they don’t have enough vaccine to meet these expanded priority groups.
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The recommendation is due to worries that vaccine may go to waste.
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Authorities in Maryland think they know why a man may have set fires at a housing development that was being built south of Washington, DC. Brian Witty reports from Greenbelt, Maryland.
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--- He does say inside the affidavit that he was upset with the company for what he described to authorities as indifference to the death of his infant son. He went on to explain that he felt the company was not sympathetic to his family’s needs during their time of crisis.
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