News
in a few
State:
• Southern California's first supermarket
strike in 25 years began late Saturday after
leaders of the grocery workers union called
on its members to walk off the job because
of failures in the negotiation process.
• Two Long Beach women were discovered
dead Friday at a Big Sur resort in Monterey
County, the county's sheriff's department
said.
• A 20-year-old Santa Ana man died
Saturday after being shot in a Costa Mesa
alley.
• Sierra Nevada glaciers are dramatically
shrinking and, in some cases, disappearing
in recent years, a new survey of glaciers
reported.
• Every city in Orange County voted
to recall Gov. Grey Davis in the recent
gubernatorial election.
• The National League of Cities' highest
honor will be awarded Monday to the Pasadena
Police Department for the development and
implementation of the Youth Accountability
Board.
National:
• Democrats have been asking the Justice
Department to allow a special council to
investigate allegations the White House
purposefully leaked a CIA agent's name in
retaliation for government criticism.
• LAS VEGAS -- The group People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals held a
rally Saturday outside the Mirage hotel-casino
to urge entertainers Siegfried & Roy
to retire their felines after Roy Horn was
nearly killed by a tiger during a performance.
• WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- Authorities
launched a massive manhunt Saturday for
a murder suspect who officials say escaped
from prison by climbing 60 feet down a rope
made of bedsheets.
• OMAHA, Neb. -- Scientists hope DNA
analysis will reveal the origins of large
apes discovered in the heart of Africa by
an Atlanta primatologist.
• DALLAS -- A team of 18 doctors began
a complicated separation surgery Saturday
in an attempt to give 2-year-old conjoined
twins from Egypt a chance at independent
lives.
International:
• Iran's first Nobel Peace Prize was
awarded to a woman Friday, Ebadi, 56, a
human rights lawyer.
• Two candidates in Columbia's upcoming
state and mayoral elections were gunned
down by suspected rebels Sunday. So far,
at least 23 mayoral candidates have been
killed and eight others kidnapped since
the bid for the office began.
• Thirty people were killed and 17
injured when a passenger bus drove off a
1,000-foot cliff in the Andes mountains
in Peru.
• KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Forty-one
Taliban militants escaped from a southern
Afghanistan prison by digging a 30-foot-long
tunnel with apparent help from prison workers,
regional officials said Saturday.
• Six Iraqi security guards were killed
and 35 other people were wounded early Sunday
outside a hotel used by Iraq's governing
council and by Americans.
• MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Police
reported killing a top bombmaker for an
al-Qaida-linked terrorist group in a shootout
Sunday, ending a massive three-month manhunt
launched after his stunning escape from
Philippine police headquarters.
• Seven people were killed and 12
injured in the Southern Afghan province
of Zabul Sunday by suspected Taliban fighters
attempting an attack on a government district
office.
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