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NATION IN BRIEF

An artist's rendering shows the "Sacred Ground" Sept. 11 memorial. (By Aleksander Novak-zemplinski -- Paul Murdoch Architects Via Associated Press)

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PITTSBURGH -- A hit-and-run victim lay dead on a Pittsburgh roadside for three days, probably because the body was covered by snowfall, police said. Jason Knight, 32, was killed Friday night by a vehicle that struck him while he was walking along a road in Venango County, outside Pittsburgh, and was not discovered until Monday, Pennsylvania state police said. He died of head injuries.

TOPEKA, Kan. -- George Tiller, an abortion doctor who has been the target of protests for years, has been cleared by state regulators in the death of a mentally retarded Texas woman who received a late-term abortion at his clinic.

YORK, Pa. -- Relatives of Lillie Belle Allen, a black woman shot to death in an attack by a mob of whites during a week of racial violence in York in 1969, will receive $2 million from the city under a tentative settlement, according to the Patriot-News of Harrisburg.

LAS VEGAS -- A former armored car driver who turned herself in after more than a decade in hiding pleaded guilty Wednesday in a $2.9 million heist on the Las Vegas Strip. Heather Tallchief, 33, surrendered in September in Las Vegas after living for years in Amsterdam under an assumed name. Her lawyers said she was tired of hiding and wanted her son to have a normal life.

-- From News Services

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