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New York (AP) — New York Stock Exchange closing prices Monday:

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AFLAC	48.050 Up	.140
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Accenture	56.480 Up	.670
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Defense Secretary Gates arrives in Iraq

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew to Iraq on Thursday to begin the second leg of his tour of two major war zones.

Gates' visit to Iraq comes during a week in which coordinated Baghdad bombings have killed 127 people and wounded more than 500. Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for the bombings and warned of more strikes to come against the Iraqi government.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell called the bombings "heinous" and said they were a sign of …

Freak act of nature leaves Maywood family stunned

There, says the grandmother, pointing. You follow her finger upthe oak to the 6-foot scar that's still fresh.

"She was taking him out for a walk," she said. "He loved beingoutside."

Dorothy Gunn is talking about her granddaughter Tiffany Gunn,14, and 8-month-old grandson, Darrel. On Wednesday night, she hadheard a hideous cracking noise, "like thunder from a storm," andrushed out to see the two children crushed to death by an enormousbranch.

On Thursday, Gunn and her family, numb from what appeared to bea freak accident, sat staring at the tree that Tiffany and Darrelloved to play under.

"They were always kind of inseparable," she said on the …

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Venezuela to ask new US gov't to hand over Posada

Venezuela will renew its demand for the United States to extradite a former CIA operative accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane that killed all 73 people on board, a lawyer for the Venezuelan government said Friday.

Venezuela hopes President Barack Obama's administration will see the case of 80-year-old Luis Posada Carriles differently and turn him over to face trial in Venezuela, attorney Jose Pertierra said.

Officials in the administration of former President George W. Bush snubbed a Venezuelan extradition request, but prosecuted Posada on immigration fraud charges, which a federal judge dismissed in 2007.

An immigration judge …

Tech can't get shots to fall, loses to A-B

DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER

There are bad days. And then there are BAD days.

West Virginia University Tech had the latter Thursday.

Long jumpers, short jumpers, lay-ups, and even a dunk, allbounded off the rim with merciless regularity as the Golden Bearsshot a miserable 28 percent Thursday en route to their 62-48 loss toAlderson-Broaddus. "In the beginning we got a lot of good shots andthey didn't fall," Tech Coach Jeff Kepreos said. "We lost a littlebit of emotion, a little bit of confidence."

In the first half the Golden Bears missed 26-of-32 attempts,including 15-of-18 in the paint, as the Battlers took a 26-16 lead.

"I don't remember ever shooting …

A one-on-one conversation: filmmaker to filmmaker

Local indie filmmakers and aspiring film actors are invited to get up to speed through a one-day seminar offered collaboratively by Warning Films East and Color of Film Collaborative. "One on One: A Conversation with Filmmaker Jean Claude LaMarre and Actor Gabriel Casseus" gets underway at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 3, at Hibernian Hall, 182-186 Dudley St. in Roxbury.

"Boston is a market that has hidden talent galore of both filmmakers and actors," notes Daphne Valerius, a master's candidate at Emerson College who this year founded Warning Films East with Ma'at Zachary and Kadija Minah. "The city is seen as a college town and the film industry fails to realize the immense pool of …