News
in a few
STATE:
• Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor
Tuesday in the historic recall election
that deposed Gov. Davis.
• A Malibu pair who lived among bears was
found dead Monday in Alaska, victims of
a bear mauling.
• The trial for the Orange County man who
accidentally shot off his 9-year-old daughter's
arm began Tuesday.
• A 53-year-old woman was struck and killed
by an MTA bus Tuesday while crossing the
street in downtown Los Angeles.
• Mexican authorities are demanding more
notice from the United States when it dumps
Mexican ex-convicts on their side of the
border after serving out their sentences.
• A magnitude 3.6 earthquake rocked the
San Diego metropolitan area Tuesday morning.
• The Supreme Court upheld President Clinton's
creation of California's Giant Sequoia National
Monument Monday signaling a victory against
the last legal challenge brought by Tulare
County and logging groups.
• Drug authorities on Monday finished destroying
possibly the largest marijuana crop ever
found in the state in the Tule River Indian
Reservation.
• A Mexican woman who fled to the United
States after her husband brutally beat her
is entitled to stay under a law protecting
immigrant women who have been abused, the
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
Tuesday.
NATIONAL:
• An asthma study by U.S. researchers reported
Tuesday children with severe asthma suffer
even when air is at an acceptable pollution
level.
• A man set fire to the pulpit and bishop's
chair in a historic Roman Catholic cathedral
in Savannah because he said he was "disturbed
about the world's religions."
• WASHINGTON -- A downtown street beside
a major hospital was set ablaze by a gas
fire Tuesday, snarling traffic for blocks
and leading to a partial evacuation of the
medical facility.
• WASHINGTON -- President Bush, facing growing
doubts about his handling of postwar Iraq,
launched a new public relations campaign
to convince Americans his course is the
correct one. His national security adviser
insisted Wednesday that Saddam Hussein harbored
ambitions to use unconventional weapons
-- even though none has been found.
• WASHINGTON -- The national do-not-call
list will resume accepting phone numbers
Thursday from people who do not want to
be bothered by telemarketers.
• PHILADELPHIA -- The discovery of a listening
device in Mayor John F. Street's City Hall
office has touched off a political furor
just weeks before Election Day and raised
strong suspicions that the bug was planted
by the FBI as part of a criminal investigation.
INTERNATIONAL:
• JERUSALEM -- Trying to prevent another
terror attack during the Jewish holidays,
Israel enforced an open-ended lockdown of
Palestinian towns Wednesday and ordered
two more battalions into the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
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