Olan Horne, 48, a survivor of clerical sex abuse, believes that Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States marks a turning point in the way victims of sexual abuse are treated in the Catholic Church.

"I saw it in his face, heard his voice. He understands," said Horne, one of six survivors who met Thursday with the pope, in an interview with the St. Louis Beacon from his Massachusetts university food service office.

Larry Salci, the former president and CEO of Metro, has landed in a new position. On Monday, Salci was named president and CEO of Colorado Railcar Manufacturing in Ft. Lupton, CO, near Denver. Colorado Railcar is the only U.S. designer and manufacturer of passenger rail cars. Salci left Metro last December, after the completion of MetroLink's Cross County Extension and the loss of a controversial, multimillion-dollar lawsuit against some of the contractors involved in the project's construction.

Three recent polls give Sen. Hillary Clinton a small but persisitent advantage in Pennsylvania - and undecideds may tend to favor her as well. But Sen. Barack Obama appears to have escaped damage from his recent controversial remarks.

A decision in a case out of Kentucky could mean that executions will start again in Missouri.

In a Louisiana case, Gov. Matt Blunt submitted a brief, noting the case of Michael Devlin. The arguments presented before the court challenged the death penalty for a man convicted of raping his step-daughter.