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• First-year manager Mike Matheny, wearing a uniform top over an undershirt that was soaked and aromatic from the bubbly that flowed, addressed the media outside the clubhouse around 1 a.m. local time after the Cardinals clinched the second NL wild card when Los Angeles lost to San Francisco.
• The Dodgers' elimination set up a final hectic day to the regular season in which the AL West and AL East crowns are up for grabs, and Miguel Cabrera can become baseball's first Triple Crown winner since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967.
• Just before Matheny emerged, raucous cheering could be heard.
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Vatican police testify in trial of pope's butler
NICOLE WINFIELD,Associated Press
• VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Members of the Vatican police force have said they found thousands of documents hidden inside the home of Pope Benedict XVI's former butler, including original documents signed by the pope with indications they should be destroyed.
• The police officers testified Wednesday in the trial of Paolo Gabriele, the pope's once-trusted butler who faces four years in prison if convicted of aggravated theft for stealing papal documents and leaking them to a journalist.
• The final four witnesses were heard Wednesday and closing arguments are set for Saturday, when a verdict by the three-judge Vatican panel is expected.
• Inspector Silvano Carli said that of the hundreds of thousands of documents seized from Gabriele's home, about 1,000 were of interest since they were original or photocopied Vatican documents.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, Oct. 3, the 277th day of 2012. There are 89 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 3, 1962, astronaut Wally Schirra became the fifth American to fly in space as he blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma 7 on a 9-hour flight.
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• On this date:
• In 1789, President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanks (Continued on page 36)
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