Rose Matias, top left, a freshman at Daniel Webster College, and her family are trying to survive after their home was destroyed in the Lafayette Avenue fire in Lawrence last Friday night. Rose sits on the bed with her sister, Heydi Almonte, 9. From left, other members in their Comfort Suites room are Rose's aunt, Minilda Jimenez; her other sister, Daley Matias, 17; her mother, Katti Matais, and her grandmother, Elsa Susana.

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• Plane through: Cessna lands on Houston golf course

  HOUSTON (AP) — An area near the 11th hole at a Houston golf course provided a smooth landing spot after a small plane ran out of fuel and glided on to the grass.
  The Cessna 170 was expected to be moved from Hermann Park on Tuesday. The unplanned landing of the single-engine plane happened Monday night on a flight from Lafayette, La.

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