DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — The Irish government ordered a new investigation Wednesday into how a Roman Catholic bishop mishandled complaints against sexually abusive priests in his diocese.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas authorities are seeking permanent custody of an 14-year-old girl who was allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, a step toward severing her parents' rights altogether.

DENVER (AP) — Sharecropper's grandson Terrance Carroll was chosen Wednesday as speaker of Colorado's House of Representatives, making the state the first in the nation where blacks lead both chambers of its Legislature.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether four men seeking to challenge their detention as terror suspects at a U.S. base in Afghanistan were likely to take to the battlefield if released.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The leader of a polygamous communtity in western Canada who has admitted having numerous wives and dozens of children was arrested Wednesday and charged with practicing polygamy, according to court documents and local officials.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police detained three retired generals and dozens of others in raids across Turkey on Wednesday, as they broadened their investigation into an alleged plot by secularists to overthrow Turkey's Islamic-rooted government.

ATLANTA (AP) — Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Future donations to presidential libraries would have to be publicly disclosed, the House decided Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When galaxies initially formed, they weren't the first in the cosmic neighborhood. The supermassive black holes, which reside at the center of galaxies, probably moved in first, a new astronomy study suggests.

BOSTON (AP) — Boston College called a news conference Wednesday afternoon to discuss its football team and coach Jeff Jagodzinski, who has interviewed with the New York Jets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A human rights group is asking President-elect Barack Obama to end immediately a ban on most American travel to Cuba.

NEW YORK (AP) — Here comes the bride, all dressed in green.

NEW YORK (AP) — Here comes the bride, all dressed in green.

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