Tuesday,  June 26, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 348 • 28 of 31 •  Other Editions

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town that suffered one of the IRA's worst massacres.
• The British monarch's planned meeting Wednesday with former Irish Republican Army commander Martin McGuinness comes the day after her visit to Enniskillen, where a no-warning IRA bomb in 1987 killed 11 Protestant civilians and wounded 63 others as they commemorated British dead from the two world wars.
• The queen is expected to meet survivors and relatives of the dead alongside religious services in Enniskillen's neighboring Protestant and Catholic cathedrals.
• Worldwide revulsion at the Enniskillen massacre spurred McGuinness and other IRA chiefs to begin sounding out peace terms with the British. That quarter-century journey is to end with a Belfast handshake.
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Artist replaces image of Sandusky on mural at Penn State; ex-coach insists he's not guilty

• STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- The depiction of Jerry Sandusky on a well-known mural across the street from the Penn State campus has been replaced by an image of a poet and activist draped with a blue ribbon -- a symbol for awareness of child sexual abuse.
• It was artist Michael Pilato's latest step in erasing the image of the disgraced former assistant football coach following Sandusky's conviction last week on 45 counts at his child sex abuse trial.
• Sandusky was removed from the mural days after his arrest in November. But Pilato returned to the work on Sunday, painting in Dora McQuaid, a Penn State gradu

ate who is poet and advocate for domestic and sexual violence victims and issues. The blue ribbon was added on Monday.
• Also replacing Sandusky were two red handprints -- one belonging to Ann Van Kuren, one of the 12 jurors who convicted Sandusky and the other belonging to a sexual abuse victim.
• Meanwhile, as Sandusky insisted through a lawyer Monday that he was not guilty, Van Kuren said she hoped the verdict would help his accusers heal.
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Moody's downgrades its ratings of 28 banks in Spain, cites weakening of government's credit

• Spain's battered banks have taken another hit, this time in the form of a sweeping downgrade by Moody's.

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