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HADDONFIELD, N.J. - Gay Americans have arrived at a "teachable moment." Often feeling marginalized in political discourse or grousing that they're used as political pawns, they have the nation's attention - and sympathy - after a recent spate of teenage suicides and two apparent anti-gay attacks in the heart of their community.

SALISBURY, Md. - The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a missing girl in Maryland because it includes the wrong last name for a person convicted of rape in Delaware in 2001.

SALISBURY, Md. - Maryland authorities are searching Christmas Eve for an 11-year-old girl last seen wearing red fuzzy Christmas pajamas, and they say a registered child sex offender has been charged in her disappearance.