NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
• PASADENA (AP) -- NASA said Monday
it has successfully focused a $1.2 billion
telescope it recently launched into space.
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SANTA MONICA (AP) -- The Navy will limit
the peacetime use of a new sonar system,
designed to detect quiet enemy submarines,
under an agreement announced Monday by environmentalists
who had sued over the risk it may pose to
whales and other marine mammals.
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FRESNO (AP) -- A massive search was set
for Monday for the body of a missing 10-year-old
girl who police believe is buried in a Fresno
County landfill.
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SAN BERNADINO (AP) -- A man who had his
car stolen saw his luck turn from bad to
worse when the suspected thief crashed into
a gasoline pump and set the vehicle on fire
Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Bush administration
is under attack from one of the world's
most prominent environmentalists, who says
the president's policies could lead to more
African animals being killed or captured
for profit. Primatologist Jane Goodall said
Sunday that the White House is leading an
"onslaught" against the Endangered
Species Act.
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CAMARILLO (AP) -- Retail gasoline prices
continued to fall across the nation over
the last two weeks, but may not continue
to descend, according to a national industry
report Sunday.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Admissions to treatment
programs in five major California counties
climbed sharply since voters decided three
years ago that first-time nonviolent drug
offenders should not go to prison, according
to a tracking study being released Tuesday.
•
PASADENA (AP) -- NASA said Monday it has
successfully focused a $1.2 billion telescope
it recently launched into space.
National:
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Conjoined two-year-old twin brothers from
Egypt were reported to be in stable condition
Monday after they underwent 30 hours of
separation surgery Sunday that required
a medical team of over 60 people at Children's
Medical Center in Dallas.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's
union representing its mechanics announced
it will strike Tuesday if negotiations do
not pick up again.
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BILLINGS (AP) -- Tourism officials who fear
new rules for snowmobiles in Yellowstone
National Park are confusing and discouraging
winter tourists by launching an ad campaign
in the Midwest next month, hoping to show
snowmobilers there is still plenty of room
to ride in the park.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Authorities have captured
a 21-year-old man accused of killing his
stepfather and beating his mother last week
in their Wonder Valley home, the San Bernadino
County Sheriff's Department said.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The number of Utah
hunters taking to the field for the annual
general deer hunt has dropped by more than
two-thirds over the last two decades, despite
an increase of more than 40 percent in the
state's population.
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PHOENIX (AP) -- One of the country's most
recognizable brands -- Smith & Wesson
-- is taking aim at consumers' love of the
American West by going into the catalog
business selling cowboy boot lamps and studded
velvet jackets.
International:
• INSK, Belarus, Oct. 12 (AP) -- A
fire believed to have been set by a psychiatric
patient engulfed a Belarussian mental hospital
on Sunday, killing 30 patients and reducing
much of the century-old wooden building
to ashes.
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ANILA, Oct. 12 (AP) -- An escaped major
member of a militant group linked to Al
Qaeda was believed to have been killed Sunday
in a shootout with Philippine troops and
the police, the military said.
•
The new Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed
Qureij, said Sunday he was planning to quit
less than a week since taking office.
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Five people were killed in Bolivia in an
attack by the military Sunday after the
president ordered troops backed by tanks
into the streets of La Paz to combat popular
opposition.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- A delegation
of U.S. lawmakers on Sunday toured sites
where police found some of the victims of
more than 90 sexually motivated killings
committed against women since 1993 in this
rough border city.
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