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El Scan this code with your smartphone to see Sue Harris of Phoenix, a singer and songwriter who wants to keep the folk-music tradition alive. PLUS: Follow us on Facebook at facebook.comazcentral and on Twitter at twitter.comazcentral. TODAY'S NEWS BRIEFING 'Mini-Madoff gets 25 years, is ordered to pay $179 mil CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y A New York businessman dubbed a "mini-Madoff because he was arrested weeks after Bernard Madoff was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay $179 million in restitution money he doesn't have. Nicholas Cosmo, who apologized as he was sentenced, has had a gambling problem since high school, his lawyer said. He was arrested in January 2009 and pleaded guilty last year to mail and wire fraud.

U.S. fugitive held in Portugal allowed to leave jail while he fights extradition LISBON, Portugal A court has allowed captured American fugitive George Wright to leave jail and stay at his Portuguese home while he fights extradition to the U.S., his lawyer said. Wright spent seven years in a U.S. prison for a 1962 murder, then escaped and was on the run for 41 years until his arrest nearly three weeks ago. Pirates release oil tanker and crew that had been held off Nigeria LAGOS, Nigeria Pirates on Friday released an oil tanker seized off Nigeria, freeing the 20-member East European crew unharmed after five days in captivity, a German shipping official said.

There was no comment on whether a ransom had been paid for the crew or if oil aboard the MT Cape Bird had been taken. Police: Man who called in bomb threat to Oktoberfest was mad at his friend SALT LAKE CITY Police say a man who called in a bomb threat to a Utah Oktoberfest event said he was mad his boyfriend had gone without him and wanted him to return home sooner. Prosecutors on Thursday charged 37-year-old Daniel Ford Artley with a felony count of making a false alarm. Hundreds were evacuated from the event. NEW YORK CONCORD, N.H.

BREMEN, GERMANY Greenpeace launches new $33 mil schooner Greenpeace launched a new Rainbow Warrior on Friday, a $33 million schooner that replaces its battered 50-year-old boat, which saw numerous encounters with whalers, seal hunters and illegal loggers. The new schooner's first mission will likely be in the United States to campaign against the burning of coal for electricity. It will then head south to the Amazon to draw attention to rainforest destruction. The 190-foot ship, with two A-frame masts soaring almost as high over deck, is equipped witha helicopter pad and rapid-action release system for its inflatable boats, which in the past have carried activists into confrontations at sea. Melina Laboucan-Massimo of the Cree nation in Canada blessed the ship with a prayer in the Cree language, using smoke from sage and braided sweetgrass.

TOKYO Japan lauded for steps to limit radiation exposure A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency praised Japan on Friday for steps it has taken to reduce radiation exposure for the public, particularly children, near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. During a nine-day trip, the team visited schools, farms and offices outside the 20-mile exclusion zone surrounding the power plant, which was damaged by a March earthquake and tsunami. In a preliminary report submitted to the government, the 12-member team said Japan had developed "an efficient program for remediation allocating the necessary legal, financial and technological resources to bring relief to the people affected by the accident, with priority being given to children." Wire services Sick engineer to be evacuated from South Pole base by plane A cargo plane that will evacuate a sick engineer from the South Pole arrived Friday at a base in Antarctica. The plane flew from Chile to the U.K.'s Rothera Base on Friday, the National Science Foundation said. It will go to the foundation's South Pole research station today to pick up Renee-Nicole Douceur and take her first to the foundation's station in Antarctica and then to New Zealand.

Douceur, who is from New Hampshire, is a manager for research-station contractor Raytheon Polar Services Co. She asked for an earlier emergency evacuation after having what doctors believed was a stroke in August. Doctors she contacted for a second opinion say a tumor may have caused her medical problems, including faulty vision and speech and memory difficulties. Lineup for Sunday's TV news shows. CNN's 'State of the Union' 6 and 9 a.m.

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic Party chairwoman; Sen. John McCain, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. NBC's 'Meet the Press' 7 a.m., Channel 12 (KPNX).

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain; Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn. CNN's 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' 7 and 10 a.m. Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes; Chrystia Freeland, global editor-in-chief, Reuters; Paul Krug-man, columnist at the New York Times, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and Nobel laureate in economics; Bret Stephens, deputy editorial page editor, the Wall Street Journal (European and Asian editions); Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, nephew to the king of Saudi Arabia.

ABC's 'This Week' 8 a.m., Channel 1 5 (KNXV). Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod; Rep. Mike Rogers, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. 'Fox News Sunday' 8 a.m., Channel 10 (KSAZ).

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. CBS' 'Face the Nation' 8:30 a.m., Channel 5 (KPHO). Reps. Darrell Issa, and Elijah Cummings, D-Md.

Greek Orthodox Church destroyed on 91 1 to be rebuilt after a decade It took a decade, but a deal has finally been struck to rebuild a church destroyed on 911, the church and a public agency announced Friday. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said they have resolved their long dispute over how to rebuild St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, a small, 85-year-old chapel that stood across the street from the World Trade Center and was destroyed when the towers fell. The church and the public agency had been at odds over the details of a land swap that will move the church slightly down the street to make way for some of the giant construction projects now under way at Ground Zero. RINGGOLD, GA.

Mom charged with leaving girl in ditch wanted a family to find tot A northwestern Georgia woman charged with leaving her 2-year-old daughter in a ditch near a playground told police she is addicted to prescription drugs and hoped a nice family would find the child. Jennifer Haines, 31, was being held Friday in the Catoosa County Jail on charges of cruelty to children and drug possession. A report states that after leaving the girl Tuesday, Haines walked into a nearby home to watch and see what happened. Wire services BOSTON Quadruple amputee receives new hands, excited for ordinary things A quadruple amputee who received new hands through a transplant operation says he is looking forward to doing ordinary things again: getting dressed, taking a shower, making coffee and, sweetest of all, touching the faces of his two grandsons. Richard Mangino, 65, lost his arms below the elbows and his legs below the knees in 2002 after he contracted an infection.

Last week, a team of 40 surgeons, nurses and support staff at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital worked for more than 12 hours performing a hand transplant. UK TODAY'S DEAL! THIS DATE IN HISTORY In 1 951, the classic situation comedy "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS with the episode "The Girls Want to Go to the Nightclub." In 1964, it was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from office. $3S for 1 hour in the batting cages and 20 off any 1 item at Arcadia Sports ($40 value) Deal available for purchase today only. unapproved feed additive, state officials said Friday. The family says their goat feed may have been tampered with and they plan to appeal.

Disqualification means the college student who raised the champion won't get the $5,500 her goat netted at the State Fair auction, and her younger brother won't get $1,300 sale price of his goat. SAN JOSE Hot-dog vendor accused of selling guns to police Authorities say a California hot-dog vendor offered undercover officers more than just mustard and relish on the side. Jose Gilberto Ortiz, 58, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in San Jose on Thursday on charges of selling firearms to the officers from his hot-dog stand. Wire services HILLIARD, OHIO Mechanic helps woman free cat from dashboard A mechanic was the one doing the surgery at an Ohio animal facility when a woman drove in with a cat stuck behind her mini-van's dashboard.

WBNS-TV reports the mechanic had to take apart the dash during a three-hour rescue operation Thursday in the Columbus suburb of Hilliard. Nehal Dhruve says she hit the cat with her van and took it to the humane society. The cat wouldn't stay on the seat but climbed under the dashboard. PUEBLO, COLO. Grand champion goat is disqualified over additive The grand champion goat from this year's Colorado State Fair and another goat raised by the same family were disqualified after testing positive for an 1860i 1 1-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY "A friend to all is a friend to none." Aristotle, Creek philosopher (384 B.C-322B.C.) CORRECTIONS CLARIFICATIONS "Restaurant inspections," Oct. 8, Peoria Republic Page 12: The restaurant inspection for FuNuGyz Sports Grill should have shown no risk factors. Maricopa County provided incorrect information. "Tonight's top matchups," Oct. 14, Sports, C7: Glendale Deer Valley's football record is 7-0.

Its record was listed incorrectly for its matchup against Glendale Apollo. "Valley Home Values," Oct. 8, Community Republics, Page 3: A map that ran in last week's Community Republics had incorrect information regarding the percentage of change in median prices. The corrected map appears in today's Community Republic editions. The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com endeavor to correct errors fully and promptly.

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