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ALBANY - It will cost the Albany Diocese more than $2.4 million for attorney Mary Jo White's exhaustive investigation that found "no-merit" to sexual misconduct allegations against Bishop Howard Hubbard. Nearly seven weeks after the former U.S. attorney cleared Hubbard on a number of sexual misconduct charges, diocese officials made public the final bill late Thursday afternoon by issuing a short statement. Diocese officials, including Hubbard, would not comment on the hefty bill, nor discuss how it might affect the feelings of parishioners, except to say they decided to release the amount before they paid it. "We're not going to...

BOSTON -- Bishop Howard Hubbard assigned a priest to churches in the Albany Diocese throughout the 1980s after the priest was forced to leave a Boston parish under a cloud of concerns about his relationships with young boys, newly released internal documents of the Boston Archdiocese revealed Thursday. Hubbard was in regular contact with Auxiliary Bishop Thomas of Boston in 1978 and 1979 as church officials wrestled with how to handle the concern about the Rev. Dozia Wilson's alleged sexual abuse of children. Hubbard and Daily exchanged letters, spoke by phone and met in person about Wilson, according to his...