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Greeley businessman apologized Wednesday after a joke about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama fell flat during the National Western Stock Show's annual Citizen of the West banquet. William R. Farr was pretending to read telegrams congratulating this year's award recipient, University of Colorado President Hank Brown, when he pulled out a piece of paper and said, "I have a telegram from the White House."

A WOMAN today wiped away tears as she recalled in a Sydney court her cousin's baby gasping for breath after being born four months prematurely. It is alleged the baby's mother was unlawfully given abortion drugs by doctor Suman Sood, who is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court. Dr Sood, 56, has pleaded not guilty to the baby's manslaughter and to two charges of procuring an illegal abortion. Abortion is legal in NSW if, taking into account the patient's medical, social and economic circumstances, a doctor is satisfied that the pregnancy would endanger her life or physical or mental...