Nation IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : Leland Widow Gives Birth to Twin Boys
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The widow of Texas Rep. Mickey Leland, who was expecting at the time of his death in a plane crash in Ethiopia last summer, gave birth to twin boys at an Atlanta hospital, a spokesman said. Alison Leland, 31, was in town for festivities surrounding today’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. She and the twins are doing well, the spokesman said. But the infants, several weeks premature, are in a special care nursery.
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