News
in a few
STATE:
• WASHINGTON -- A collision between
trains that killed two people and seriously
injured 22 in California last year was caused
by a freight train that missed a signal,
federal investigators said today.
• Delays in freeway construction in
the San Fernando Valley and more than $1
million in extra costs resulting from mistakes
made at an engineering laboratory run by
the city of Los Angeles are reported by
the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's
inspector general.
• The body of a young woman found
buried near a Redlands citrus grove is suspected
to be that of 18-year-old Kelly Laurel Bullwinkle
who disappeared after work three weeks ago.
NATIONAL:
• The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine was awarded Monday to American
chemist, Paul C. Lauterbur, and British
physicist, Sir Peter Mansfield, who converted
a chemist's lab tool into a breakthrough
in medical imaging.
• The Supreme Court turned down an
appeal Monday from a South Carolina woman
convicted on homicide for taking cocaine
during her pregnancy.
• University of California scientists
warn that oil and gas drilling is responsible
for far more emissions linked to global
warming than previously realized in much
of the Southwest.
• A West Virginia joint task force
is offering $50,000 for information leading
to the identification of the sniper who
killed three Kanawha County residents.
• Doctors say Roy Horn of Siegfried
& Roy is improving and communicating,
but is still in critical condition after
one of his performing tigers attacked him.
• A Connecticut woman was found guilty
of risk of injury to a minor for failing
to provide a means for her 12-year-old son,
who hanged himself after repeated teasing
for bad breath and body odor, to improve
his hygiene.
• MANASSAS, Va. -- Prosecutors temporarily
withdrew their motion Tuesday to summon
sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo to testify
in the case against fellow suspect John
Allen Muhammad.
INTERNATIONAL:
• BEIJING -- South Korea's embassy
in the Chinese capital is overrun by North
Korean asylum-seekers and is halting consular
operations until it can clear out some of
them, a South Korean diplomat said Monday.
• HONG KONG -- Conservationists hoping
to stop a government project to fill in
part of Hong Kong's famed Victoria Harbor
were defeated Monday when a judge ruled
that they hadn't proved the work would cause
permanent damage.
• President Bush backed Israel Monday
after it fired across the Israeli-Lebanese
border.
• Chechnya elected Akhmad Kadyrov
president Monday by an 87 percent victory.
• NATO agreed Monday to expand troops
beyond the Kabul area for the first time.
• U.S. authorities Monday reinstated
a police chief chosen by local tribe leaders
who had been fired in an effort stop rioting
in Iraq.
• Lotfi Raissi, the Algerian pilot
falsely accused of a Sept.11 link, won an
undisclosed amount of damages against Associated
Newspapers. He also has pending claims against
the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department.
• Congo U.N. peacekeepers discovered
the bodies of 23 villagers of the Hema ethnic
group in what may be part of a series of
civilian massacres.
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