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• ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican soldiers dug through tons of mud and dirt in search of victims of a massive landslide, as authorities looked for a federal police helicopter that went missing while carrying out relief operations on the flood-stricken Pacific coast.
• The helicopter with three crew members on board was returning from the remote mountain village of La Pintada, where the mudslide occurred, when it went missing Thursday. There is still no sign of it, said Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong.
• "They risked their lives all the time," Osorio Chong said. "We are truly worried."
• Using picks and shovels, soldiers and farmers removed dirt and rock from atop the cement or corrugated-metal roofs of houses looking for bodies in this town north of Acapulco, where 68 people were reported missing following Monday's slide. Others carried away pieces of trees, wood and other debris.
• Two bodies have been recovered, but it was unclear if they were among those on the list of missing.
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• CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida woman who became famous for her uncontrollable hiccupping was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday night and will serve life in prison without parole.
• A Pinellas County jury deliberated for four hours before delivering the verdict against 22-year-old Jennifer Mee.
• Mee wept in the Clearwater courtroom as the verdict was read. Minutes later, Judge Nancy Moate Ley explained that the only possible sentence for the charge was life in prison without the possibility of parole.
• The verdict and five-day trial was a sad end to a chapter in Mee's short and sad life. Her attorneys said she suffered from schizophrenia and Tourette's Syndrome, and a court psychiatrist said Mee's intelligence was "low normal."
• As a 15-year-old, Mee developed a case of the hiccups that wouldn't go away. She appeared on several TV shows and while on the "Today" show, was hugged by

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