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HARARE, Zimbabwe – African leaders hoped to find a resolution to Zimbabwe’s deepening political crisis Saturday at an emergency summit in Zambia, but state media reported that President Robert Mugabe would not attend the “unnecessary” meeting. Instead, South African President Thabo Mbeki, a key mediator in the crisis, traveled to …

DECATUR, Ala. – A Decatur woman clung to a wooden cross set atop a backyard fence for hours in the summer heat to protest what she called the mistreatment of her son, who is being held in the city jail. A poster placed on the fence in Maria Thornton’s yard …

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. – A prosthetic leg has been returned to a Sierra Vista woman two weeks after it was stolen. Police Sgt. Lawrence Boutte says a man brought the leg to the station Tuesday, saying his son had found it near a trash can. Boutte says the leg was …