Oceans Apart

You know your marriage is finished when a holiday at a $10,000-a-night Caribbean resort isn't romance enough to see you through the first week of the New Year. Reps for JENNIFER ANISTON and BRAD PITT confirmed a PEOPLE report that the Hollywood power pair are separating after 41/2 years of wedlock, months of tabloid speculation and a probably joyless trip to Anguilla. The comely couple, who met on a blind date in 1998, told PEOPLE in a statement that they "remain committed and caring friends" with "love and admiration for one another." Guess that means they split the tab.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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