NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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ORINDA, Calif. (AP) -- An earthquake with
a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 surprised
San Francisco Bay area residents Monday
morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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LOMA LINDA, Calif. (AP) -- A gunman was
shot to death by a sheriff's deputy during
a street confrontation shortly after three
men robbed a bank early Monday, authorities
said.
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YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) -- Three brothers
were awarded $4.3 million -- and stand to
win more in punitive damages -- after accusing
X10 Wireless Technology of trying to bully
them out of business.
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) --
A Titan II rocket thundered into space carrying
a military weather satellite, bringing to
a close a 15-year program that recycled
13 of the nation's stockpile of old Cold
War intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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OAKLEY, Calif. (AP) -- A 15-year-old girl
who proposed starting a Caucasian Club at
her high school now says she may transfer
to a new school to avoid what she calls
harassment from other students.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Commuters will face
clogged streets and freeways Monday as a
strike against the nation's third-largest
transit system continues and pickets also
will persist at more than 850 grocery stores
from San Luis Obispo to San Diego.
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SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (AP) -- Supporters of
Hawaiian independence wearing bright floral
shirts marched through town Sunday, shouting
''Aloha'' and distributing flyers, hoping
to gather support for their cause.
National:
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The first known survey
of Montana's officially ''fishless'' prairie
streams has discovered they are teeming
with numbers and varieties that surprised
state fisheries experts.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Environmental officials
are calling southern Nevada a model for
protecting the endangered desert tortoise,
but say efforts in California are moving
as slowly as the creatures themselves.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Conservationist Margaret
''Mardy'' Murie, considered by many the
mother of the modern conservation movement,
has died. She was 101.
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PHOENIX (AP) -- A part-time wildlands firefighter
accused of starting half of the largest
wildfire in Arizona history pleaded guilty
Monday to two counts of intentionally setting
a fire.
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DENVER (AP) -- Basketball superstar Kobe
Bryant could learn this week whether he
will be tried on charges he raped a 19-year-old
hotel worker.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Robert Daugherty, who
stepped down as dean of the University of
Nevada School of Medicine five years ago,
has been asked to resign as dean of the
medical school at the University of South
Florida.
International:
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli warplanes
and helicopters hit Palestinian targets
in five separate strikes Monday, a day of
intense air assaults that killed nine people
and reportedly wounded more than 100 others,
including four children who had just been
let out of school for the day.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Bolivia's new president
urged the nation's Indians to be patient
Monday, pledging to fulfill many of their
demands if they give him time to address
the problems facing the country after weeks
of fierce demonstrations.
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LONDON (AP) -- A letter reportedly written
by Princess Diana expressing fears that
someone was plotting to eliminate her by
tampering with the brakes of her car brought
the painful story of her death back to the
front pages Monday and prompted a call for
a public inquiry.
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- President Bush
on Monday pushed for Asian support on a
new overture to peacefully end a North Korean
nuclear standoff that has cast a shadow
over the region for more than a year. A
North Korean missile test added to the tensions.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope John Paul II welcomed
hundreds of nuns of the Missionaries of
Charity
order to the Vatican on Monday, telling
them at a special audience a day after beatifying
Mother Teresa that a life of charity was
the true life of a Christian.
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LONDON (AP) -- New York magician David Blaine
has emerged from his plastic box after 44
days dangling near the River Thames, 50
pounds lighter and hungry.
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MOSCOW (AP) -- A three-man crew docked with
the International Space Station on Monday,
the second time a Russian Soyuz has visited
since the U.S. shuttle program was grounded
after disintegration of the Columbia.
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- President Bush
conferred with the leader of South Korea
on Monday and said ''we're making good progress
on peacefully solving'' a crisis with North
Korea by offering Pyongyang written security
assurances in exchange for a commitment
to scrap its nuclear weapons program.
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Cornered in a cave
somewhere in the wilderness where Pakistan
and Afghanistan meet, Osama bin Laden and
his top generals may be cut off from fighters
and money, yet they can still strike with
angry words and ideas.
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan is preparing to send
non-combat troops to Iraq by the end of
the year to help with reconstruction, a
top government official said Sunday.
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