Going to church...Rescue frustration...Deadly bombings in Iraq

CHICAGO (AP) While Barack Obama's name was invoked at church services nationwide today, the president-elect wasn't at any of them. He went to the gym instead. Obama doesn't have a church in Chicago since severing ties with his longtime pastor, the Rev.

Jeremiah Wright Jr. He plans to choose a new church in Washington.

PETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP) The death toll from Friday's school collapse in Haiti stands at 88. Angry Haitians stormed the twisted wreckage today to demand that rescuers speed up their painstaking search. Tensions eased after authorities let several dozen locals help clear rubble.

BAGHDAD (AP) Bombs have killed at least eight people across Iraq and wounded dozens of others. Authorities thwarted a car-bombing in the northern oil city of Kirkuk (keer-KUK').

ST. JOHNS, Ariz. (AP) A funeral Mass is set for tomorrow in the town of St. Johns, Ariz., for a man whose eight-year-old son is accused of killing him and another man in a shooting last week. A funeral Mass is set for tomorrow. The boy is being charged with premeditated murder.

NEW YORK (AP) A 90-year-old woman who says she was the young nurse being kissed by a sailor in New York's Times Square in that famous 1945 V-J Day photograph is a guest of honor of the Navy.

Edith Shain will serve as grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day parade Tuesday.

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