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• 7. FORMER PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER'S SON ABDUCTED
• Officials say gunmen seized the son of Yousuf Raza at a rally before this Saturday's elections.
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• 8. HAGEL DEMANDS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NUCLEAR CREW MISSTEPS
• The defense secretary responded to an AP report that found 17 launch officers were reassigned for violating Air Force codes and weapons safety rules.
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• 9. A DEFENDER NOW ACCUSES MICHAEL JACKSON OF ABUSE
• Wade Robson, who was a defense witness in Jackson's molestation trial, now says the pop superstar sexually abused him for seven years.
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• 10. UTAH TEEN CHARGED IN DEATH OF REFEREE WHO WAS PUNCHED
• The 17-year-old faces homicide charges in the death of Ricardo Portillo, who was hit after making a call in a high school soccer match.
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AP News in Brief
Women held captive in Ohio endured lonely, dark lives; kidnap suspect due in court Thursday
• CLEVELAND (AP) -- Three women found alive after a decade in captivity endured lonely, dark lives inside a dingy home where they were raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while walking to a garage steps away, investigators say.
• The 52-year-old former school bus driver accused of kidnapping and raping the women will make his first public appearance in court Thursday after emerging as the lone suspect.
• While many questions remain about how Ariel Castro maintained such tight control over the women for so many years before one of them made a daring escape Monday, the horrors they suffered are beginning to come to light.
• Police say the women were apparently bound by ropes and chains at times and were kept in different rooms. They suffered prolonged sexual and psychological abuse and had miscarriages, according to a city official briefed on the case.
• Castro has been charged with four counts of kidnapping -- covering the cap (Continued on page 25)
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