ON ICE

The future of this year's hockey season, scheduled to open on Saturday, is on ice as players and owners try to reach a collective bargaining agreement. National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman will delay the opening games if an agreement is not reached by Friday.

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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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