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By Margaret Lyons in News on Nov 14, 2007 12:57AM

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops elected a new president today, and it's Chicago's own Cardinal Francis George. But it's not all good news today for George: the Sun-Times got a copy of a letter he sent, in which he says new legislation that allows sex-abuse victims to sue perpetrators even after the criminal statute of limitations has expired, is "about money."

Police are saying that Sarah Montgomery, the 11-year-old South Side girl missing since this weekend, ran away from home.

A rare green-breasted mango South American humming bird is now calling the Brookfield Zoo home.

Kathleen Savio's body was exhumed this morning.

Part of a mural captured by Joe M500