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Troops from Massachusetts's various military units march into Boston's State House to participate in a ceremony reactivating the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, the all-black regiment depicted in the Academy Award-winning movie "Glory." (By Elise Amendola -- Associated Press)

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Nebraska Alters Safe-Haven Law

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children -- including teenagers as old as 17 -- to be abandoned at state hospitals. The law, approved hours earlier by the legislature in a 45 to 3 vote, makes Nebraska the 14th state to make abandonment legal only for infants up to 30 days old.

Black Infantry Unit Reactivated

BOSTON -- An all-black Civil War infantry unit honored in the Oscar-winning movie "Glory" is making a real-life comeback. The 54th Massachusetts -- praised for a doomed charge in South Carolina in 1863 -- became a ceremonial unit for the state's National Guard. As a ceremonial unit, the 54th will conduct military honors at state functions and funeral services for veterans.

-- From News Services

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