MANTLE IN GOOD CONDITION

Doctors say Mickey Mantle is doing "remarkably well" after undergoing a second operation to stop bleeding around his newly transplanted liver . A hospital spokeswoman said such bleeding sometimes occurs in transplant cases and does not mean the body is rejecting the organ, which seems to be functioning well. Mantle, who was expected to be out of bed and moving around a bit by the end of the day, remains at Baylor Medical Center in critical but stable condition and could return home in two to three weeks.

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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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