NEWS OF THE DAY
_1 Stolen baby: An 18-year-old woman abducted from a Florida hospital hours after her birth has met her biological parents for the first time. Kamiyah Mobley met her birth parents Saturday in Walterboro, the South Carolina city where she was raised under a false name, media outlets reported. Craig Aiken said after the 45-minute meeting he is still in shock about suddenly being reunited with his long-lost daughter, but their first meeting couldn’t have gone better. Mobley was only 8 hours old in 1998 when she was taken from a Jacksonville hospital by a woman posing as a nurse. Last week, police charged Gloria Williams, 51, of Walterboro with kidnapping. Aiken said it’s not yet clear what’s next for his family, and Mobley will decide whether she will visit Florida.
_2 Ice storm: A third wave of sleet and drizzle glazed swaths of the central U.S. on Sunday. Much of the region remained under an ice storm warning on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The freeze made roads harrowing. Near Kansas City, Kan., two troopers escaped injury when their vehicles were struck while working a crash. And in central Nebraska, authorities believe icy conditions contributed to a fiery crash involving two tractortrailers Sunday on Interstate 80, forcing the temporary closure of the highway.
_3 Health coverage: President-elect Donald Trump says his plan to replace the nation’s health care law will include “insurance for everybody.” Trump made the comment in an interview with the Washington Post published Sunday. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us,” Trump said, but he declined to reveal details. An embrace of universal health care would be a sharp break for most Republicans, as they plan to repeal and replace the current health care law. Full repeal without replacement would strip health care from millions.
_4 Costly repair: The cost to fix a broken sewer line that caused a football-fieldsize sinkhole north of Detroit is estimated at more than $78 million, Macomb County’s public works chief says. The repairs in Fraser could take about a year to complete. Officials temporarily evacuated almost two dozen homes because water and gas service had to be shut off. Nineteen families have since been allowed to return. Three homes were condemned.
_5 Clergy sex abuse: Boston’s archbishop has been appointed to a top Vatican office that handles cases of abuse by priests. Pope Francis named Cardinal Sean O’Malley the newest member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which enforces church teachings and judges sex abuse cases. O’Malley will remain the archbishop of Boston. The move strengthens his role as a key figure in the church’s work to prevent abuse. In 2014 he was named president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. He was appointed Boston’s archbishop in 2003 after Cardinal Bernard Law resigned in the wake of a clerical sex abuse scandal.
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