Reigh Boss safe, dad arrested...Campaign racism?...McCain-Cantor?

BALTIMORE (AP) A man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit in Boston last weekend has been arrested in Baltimore. Authorities say the daughter, Reigh (ray) Boss, was found safe at an apartment where she and her father had been staying, and is on her way to being reunited with her mother.

Boston's police commissioner says there'd been a tip from a "concerned citizen."


ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Barack Obama says John McCain's campaign is not racist but has been cynical in trying to divert attention from serious issues. And addressing the National Urban League today in Orlando, Obama defended his push to bolster the nation's schools and dismissed what he called McCain's "slim" record on education.

The Obama campaign, meanwhile, has agreed to three debates with McCain.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A Republican source says GOP Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia has been asked for "personal documents" by the John McCain campaign. The chief deputy minority whip in the House has been mentioned among several Republicans as a possible running mate for McCain.

Washington (AP) Answers to one of the nation's most high-profile unsolved mysteries are in documents that could be released as early as next week. Prosecutors may close the investigation into anthrax attacks that killed five people. That could result in the release of new evidence against an Army scientist who killed himself on Tuesday.

ATLANTA (AP) Better tests and improved statistical methods may be behind a dramatic rise in estimated HIV infections in the U.S.

Health officials say the country had roughly 56,000 new infections in 2006. The estimate for the past dozen years had been about 40,000 annually.

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