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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said Friday it had asked the Mexican founder of the conservative order Legionaries of Christ to renounce celebrating public Masses and live a life of “prayer and repentance” following its investigation into allegations he sexually abused seminarians. The Legionaries said in a statement that the …

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Four fraternity members accused of making pledges wear cowboy clothes and suffer homophobic insults in a “Brokeback Mountain”-themed initiation ritual face $1,000 fines under the state’s anti-hazing law. University of Vermont police said the civil penalties stemmed from a March 2 party at the Phi Gamma Delta …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Roadside bombs hit two U.S. Army convoys southwest of Baghdad on Thursday, killing a total of three soldiers, the military said. In northern Iraq gunmen kidnapped 10 people in two villages in northern Iraq, but U.S. and Iraqi forces saved seven of them in a gunbattle, police …