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SALT LAKE CITY - The parents of a bride-to-be told their daughter they were taking her on a shopping trip, but then drove to Colorado and kept her there until she missed the nuptials, officials said. Lemuel and Julia Redd have been charged with second-degree felony kidnapping. Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson said Tuesday he met with the couple's daughter, Julianna, and her now-husband Perry Myers before charging the parents. "I've never had a case quite like this," Bryson said. "It is strange that parents would go to that extent to keep an adult daughter from marrying the man that...

Iran denies abducting sailors and Marines By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 02/07/2004) Iran has dismissed British accusations that Revolutionary Guards effectively abducted eight British servicemen on the Iraqi side of the Shatt al-Arab waterway last week. Its foreign ministry expressed "surprise" at a statement by Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, that the six Royal Marines and two Royal Navy sailors had been "operating inside the Iraqi border and were forcibly escorted into Iranian territorial waters". Hamid Reza Asefi, a ministry spokesman, said the British charge d'affaires in Teheran had "signed a letter confirming that they entered Iranian territorial...