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Hundreds gather for King Day service in Atlanta (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 03:57 PM CST

AP - The inauguration of the nation's first black president is a huge step toward realizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality, but there is still work to be done, King's nephew told a large crowd Monday at the church where the civil rights leader once preached.

Brazil church collapse kills 9, injures 96 (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 09:39 AM CST

AP - Police and rescuers picked through a latticework of bent steel Monday after the roof at one of Brazil's largest evangelical churches collapsed between services, killing at least nine people.