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Jimmy Carter's Psychic Connection Former President Jimmy Carter reveals that he once used a psychic in a trance to do what the United States' satellite surveillance system couldn't - find a downed American plane. In an interview for GQ magazine excerpted in The Weekly Standard's Scrapbook section, Carter recalls: "We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic - a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. "So we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every 90 minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't...

Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions, has died, Portuguese media reported today. She was 97.

(11/06/03 - BROWNSVILLE, TX) — A man who confessed to suffocating, stabbing and beheading his common-law wife's three young children was convicted on three counts of capital murder Thursday. John Allen Rubio, 23, hung his head but otherwise stood emotionless as the verdict was read. He and his common-law wife, Angela Camacho, confessed to the deaths in March. They told police they killed 3-year-old Julissa Quezada, 1-year-old John Esthefan Rubio, and 2-month-old Mary Jane Rubio because they thought the children were possessed and they didn't want them to grow up evil. Jurors deliberated about eight hours Thursday before reaching a...