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Bristol Palin wants Levi Johnston to step up as a dad and pay her some of the money he's raked in from his naked media blitz. Court documents were filed by Bristol's lawyer Wednesday in Alaska, demanding $1,750 a month from Levi, retroactive to the birth of son Tripp on December 27, 2008. According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Bristol believes Levi has pulled in "in excess of $105,000 in 2009 through various media interviews and modeling related activities."

Jesuit Fr. Thomas J. Reese, editor for the past seven years of America magazine, a premier publication of Catholic thought and opinion, has resigned at the request of his order following years of pressure for his ouster from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The resignation caps five years of tensions and exchanges among the congregation, which was headed at the time by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, the Jesuits and Reese, according to sources close to the magazine who asked not to be identified. A release from the magazine May 6, which did not...

Corning man shot during break-in at N. Tier house, investigators sayA Corning man was critically injured early Wednesday when he was shot while burglarizing a home in Bradford County, state police in Towanda said. State police said they were called shortly after 2 a.m. to a home on State Line Road in Windham Township, where the 39-year-old homeowner told police he discovered Chad Patterson, 25, in his home. Police said the homeowner told them he was awakened by Patterson, and after a confrontation, shot him while he was still in the home. Patterson was able to flee the scene despite...

A LOCAL leader of the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was killed early this morning in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem as he was handling an explosive device, Palestinian security sources said.