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Delegation departs from Miami to retrieve Aristide JOHN PAIN Associated Press MIAMI - A delegation of American and Jamaican officials departed Saturday to bring ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from his exile in Africa to be reunited with his family in Jamaica. The five-member delegation boarded a 13-seat charter Gulfstream jet in Miami and expected to arrive in Central African Republic on Sunday afternoon after several refueling stops. Delegation members, including U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said bringing Aristide to Jamaica was not an attempt for the former leader to regain power in Haiti. She called their mission "humanitarian." Aristide...

GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) -- Police reinforcements fought bloody battles with gunmen as they tried to retake Haiti's fourth-largest city from rebels who seized it two days earlier in a challenge to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At least three police were killed Saturday, and crowds mutilated the corpses. One body was dragged through the street as a man swung at it with a machete. A woman cut off the officer's ear. Another policeman was lynched and stripped to his shorts, and residents dropped a large rock on his corpse.