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Italy lists missing cruise ship passengers

Italy lists missing cruise ship passengers

Officials have confirmed 11 dead, including six pulled from the wreckage since Monday. The identification of those six is still under way. No names have been released for the first five people found dead.

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Prayer vigil tonight for missing Minnesotans

Prayer vigil tonight for missing Minnesotans

Barbara and Jerry Heil are the only Americans among the more than 20 people who remain unaccounted for.
by Matt Sepic

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Family: No word on Minn. couple missing on cruise

The family of a Minnesota couple missing after a cruise ship capsized off the coast of Italy say they have received no word on the couple.

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Italian captain being placed under house arrest

Italian captain being placed under house arrest

ROME (AP) -- A lawyer says the captain who allegedly abandoned the crippled Costa Concordia cruise liner will be released from jail and placed under house arrest.

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Church of missing Minn. couple prays; more bodies pulled from water

Church of missing Minn. couple prays; more bodies pulled from water

Members of a Twin Cities Catholic church are praying for good news about their fellow parishioners who are still missing after a cruise ship capsized off the west coast of Italy Saturday.
by Annie Baxter

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Minn. couple missing after cruise ship wreck are devout Catholics

Minn. couple missing after cruise ship wreck are devout Catholics

A Minnesota couple missing after a cruise ship capsized off the west coast of Italy are devout Catholics who spent part of almost every day at church, where he taught religious classes and she made baked goods and other sweet treats for parishioners.

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Ill. fisherman rescued from Green Bay ice for the second time

Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Chief Curt Vandertie says the fisherman was unaware the ice had broken away and he was drifting away at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday.

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Costa CEO blames captain error for ship grounding

Costa CEO blames captain error for ship grounding

The captain of the cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany made an unauthorized deviation from its programmed course, a "human error" that led to the vessel's deadly grounding, the ship's Italian owner said Monday.

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Minn. couple among missing in cruise ship wreck

Minn. couple among missing in cruise ship wreck

The children of a White Bear Lake couple say their parents are among the missing from a cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of Italy.
by Annie Baxter and Rupa Shenoy

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Bodies of 2 men pulled from Wright County lake

Authorities have recovered the bodies of two young men who went missing Saturday after falling through the ice on Lake Charlotte in Wright County.
by Rupa Shenoy

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