Wednesday,  March 13, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 237 • 37 of 41 •  Other Editions

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to this tragedy and mentioned that he shouldn't think something like this can never happen to him," said Almonte. "Sometimes it just takes one bad decision to end in tragedy."
• Unfortunately, car crashes with multiple teen deaths are not uncommon. Five teens died in a Texas crash Tuesday; three died in Indiana last week, and four died in a California crash last month. But one aspect of the Ohio story may be especially compelling to parents involved in the usual battles with teens about where they're going, who they're with, and when they're coming home: Some of the kids misled their parents as to their whereabouts.
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Vatican interns from Villanova get front-row seat to historic resignation of pope, conclave

• PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Talk about a baptism by fire: On the first day of Lauren Colegrove's journalism internship at Catholic News Service in Rome, the pope announced his resignation.
• The Villanova University junior thought she'd spend her first day filling out paperwork and undergoing orientation. Instead, she ran over to the Vatican Press Office to attend a news conference and later conducted interviews in St. Peter's Square.
• "It's pretty hard to have a more exciting first day of work than that," Colegrove said in an email interview.
• Colegrove, originally from Tampa, Fla., is among four Villanova University students working this semester at the Vatican. It's an already uncommon internship that has taken on a whole new dimension with the historic departure of Pope Benedict XVI and the start of a papal conclave to choose his successor.
• Previous interns from Villanova, a private Catholic university near Philadelphia, have shot videos for the Vatican's YouTube channel, created 360-degree virtual tours of the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica, and performed research that led to the first papal tweet in December.
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Ore. motel worker helps police capture man suspected in slaying of Wash. grandparents

• LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP) -- An alert Oregon seaside motel employee helped police capture a Washington state man suspected of killing his grandparents, ending a multistate manhunt.

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