AP Top News at 3:16 a.m. EST

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8 missionaries freed in Haiti, return to US

BOISE, Idaho — American missionaries accused of child trafficking in the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake returned home Thursday and urged the safe release of the two women left behind in a Port-au-Prince jail. Three of the eight reached Boise early Friday. Nearly 200 people holding balloons and signs greeted Carla Thompson and Corinna and Nicole Lankford with cheers and hymns as they arrived at the Boise airport shortly after midnight.