ROCKETS DO IT AGAIN

More than a decade after a heartbreaking last-second loss to North Carolina State cost them the NCAA title,Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon finally won a championship togetheras theHouston Rockets completed their unlikely championship runwith 113-101 victory over the Orlando Magic. With the four game sweep of the Magic, the sixth-seeded Rockets became the most underestimated team ever to win an NBA title. The 33-year old Drexler was traded to his hometown team earlier this year after eleven years with the Portland TrailBlazers.

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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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