News
in a few
STATE:
• Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill Sunday
that could give more than 1.1 million workers
and their families health insurance.
• A parolee driving 100 m.p.h. with
a suspended license crashed into a car Sunday
killing a 14-year-old girl and injuring
three others in a Los Angeles suburb.
• In all, 15 women have reported to
the Los Angeles Times that Arnold Schwarzenegger
fondled, spanked or touched them against
their will between 1979 and 2000.
• A Huntington Beach contamination
study theorizes that "bio-slime,"
bacteria in storm drains carrying urban
runoff, is the cause behind the 1999 contamination
scare that resulted in the closure of miles
of coastline.
• A confidential report revealed that
the University of California, Berkely admitted
hundreds of underqualified applicants while
turning students who scored higher on SATs
down.
NATIONAL:
• Thousands of people gathered Saturday
in New York for the reburial of 419 Colonial-era
salves and free blacks.
• A New York man was taken into custody
Saturday after authorities discovered a
tiger and an alligator in his Manhattan
apartment. The man is recovering from lacerations
inflicted by the tiger.
• A woman shot and killed her mother
and a minister at an Atlanta church Sunday
morning before committing suicide.
• Roy Horn, of the Siegfried &
Roy illusion show in Las Vegas was attacked
by one of his performing tigers Friday during
a performance at the MGM Mirage Casino.
Horn is in critical condition on a ventilator.
• The nation's oldest person, Elena
Slough, died Sunday in New Jersey at 114
or 115 years old.
INTERNATIONAL:
• A Saudi woman become the first female
dean at a university in the conservative
Islamic nation.
• A suicide bomber killed 19 people
Saturday at an Israeli beachfront restaurant.
• Hurricane Nora and another tropical
storm, Olaf, plagued Mexico with rain Saturday
and Sunday, forcing the closure of two oil
rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
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