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• US troops brave grenade attacks in key Afghan town

  Pfc. Sean Provenzano saw it whiz by out of the corner of his eye: a dark object hurled from a rooftop as he patrolled the medieval maze of alleyways in this fort-like walled village at the center of America's Afghan surge.

• Celebrity adviser pleads guilty in NYC to fraud

  A financial adviser who has worked for Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese pleaded guilty to fraud charges Friday, admitting cheating wealthy and elderly clients out of tens of millions of dollars in what his lawyer said was a "colossal error in judgment."

• Japan missing more than 230K listed centenarians

  More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released Friday.

• A park grows in Ballard where a religious sect once flourished

  Where a religious sect had its compound will soon become a park in Ballard.

• Calif. man killed by police was wielding spatula

  Police in California say officers feared for their safety when they gunned down a man who turned out to be wielding only a metal spatula when he was shot.