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Missionaries freed by Haitian judge land in US

MIAMI — Eight American missionaries charged in Haiti with child kidnapping have landed in Miami. Lt. Kenneth Scholz with the U.S. Southern Command said Thursday that a C-130 cargo plane carrying the Americans landed at Miami International Airport. The group still hadn’t emerged from customs as of early Thursday.

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