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Rescued penguin gets some TLC A penguin that was rescued off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state by the Brazilian Coast Guard receives treatment from a veterinarian at the Niteroi Zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Friday. While large numbers of penguins arrive on Rio de Janeiro’s beaches every year, swept by strong ocean currents from the Strait of Magellan, there have been more this year than at any time in recent memory.

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HOUSTON
4 die in crane collapse
The largest mobile crane in the nation collapsed at a Houston oil refinery Friday, killing four workers and injuring six others, a company vice president said.
The crane, capable of lifting 800,000 pounds, fell over at a LyondellBasell refinery in southeast Houston about 2 p.m. The large crane fell on or knocked a smaller, nearby crane.
The crane belonged to Deep South Crane & Rigging. A refinery official described it as the nation’s largest mobile crane.
PITTSBURGH
Cops: Woman’s body found
Police said Friday they found the body of a woman with her hands bound in the apartment of another woman who showed up at a hospital with a newborn she falsely claimed as her own.
The body was found Friday night in the bedroom of Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl Williams said. He said the woman had been dead about 24 hours, but that he couldn’t tell if she had recently given birth.
Some blood was found near the body, Williams said, but he would not say if there were signs of trauma.
Investigators found the body hours after Curry-Demus was charged with one count of child endangerment and one count of dealing in infant children, a misdemeanor, according to court records. She has been jailed until she posts $10,000 bond and undergoes a psychiatric exam.
According to police, Curry-Demus showed up at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh on Thursday with a newborn baby that still had its umbilical cord attached. Tests later proved she was not the mother, police said.
WASHINGTON
No baby-boom projection
More babies were born in the United States last year than ever before, according to preliminary data, but it’s not another baby boom just yet.
About 4,315,000 children were born in 2007, about 15,000 more births than the peak time of the baby boom in 1957, said Stephanie Ventura, a demographer at the National Center for Health Statistics, which compiled the data from birth certificate registrations at state health departments.
“According to our provisional data, we had the highest number of births ever reported in 2007,” she said.
But this doesn’t mean there’s a baby boom under way. In the mid-’50s about as many babies were being born from a lot fewer women.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
Probe: Cop sought free joe
An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.
Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran, was fired July 8. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin failed a polygraph test that he insisted on taking.
The coffeehouse’s employees claim that since June 2007, Garvin had visited the store as many as six times a night while on duty.