NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Artisan, the independent
studio best known for distributing the 1999
hit ''The Blair Witch Project,'' is being
purchased by Canada-based Lions Gate Entertainment
for $160
million cash.
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MANHATTAN BEACH (AP) -- The Los Angeles
Kings' Ziggy Palffy was arrested for investigation
of domestic battery after a confrontation
with his girlfriend, authorities said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Japanese businessman
ordered to stay away from Britney Spears
is suing the city of Los Angeles for allegedly
taking away his dignity during a search
of his hotel room last year.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Opponents of a city
ordinance banning lap dancing at strip clubs,
bikini bars and adult bookstores have collected
more than 106,000 signatures opposing the
"no-touch" rule that would require
dancers to remain at least six feet from
customers.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federal judge ruled
Monday that prosecutors can not use child
porn images found on the work computer of
a former Orange County judge in their case
against him, eliminating the prosecution's
remaining major evidence that could be presented
at trial.
National:
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt
won Senate confirmation Tuesday to become
head of the Environmental Protection Agency
after Senate Democrats sharply critical
of the Bush administration backed down in
the face of an overwhelming Republican show
of force.
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DENVER (AP) -- As snow fell Tuesday on the
Colorado Rockies, Loveland became the first
ski area in the country to open for the
season after a two-week delay caused by
dry, unseasonably warm weather.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Federal officials have
presented competing views to a science panel
studying acceptable levels of the rocket
fuel ingredient perchlorate in the nation's
drinking water.
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SPARKS, Nev. (AP) -- The Sparks City Council
has approved a $50,000 settlement with the
family of a man who was shot and killed
as he sped away from Sparks Municipal Court.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A man accused of escaping
from the Washoe County jail pleaded guilty
to the charge moments before his trial was
to begin.
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GARDNERVILE, Nev. (AP) -- A man who killed
himself after holding two people hostage
at a Gardnerville pharmacy tried to check
into a state hospital but was turned down,
his wife said.
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DENVER (AP) -- Health officials from across
Colorado will meet next week to map next
summer's battle against the West Nile virus,
which struck nearly 2,500 Coloradans this
year and killed 46.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- Scientists at the
Grand Canyon will study how the breeding
habits of a parasitic bird affect the Southwestern
Willow Flycatcher, an endangered songbird.
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RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Workers at the Hanford
nuclear reservation have begun a large-scale
effort to retrieve thousands of barrels
of hazardous and radioactive nuclear waste
from burial grounds.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
on Monday received top honors at the 2003
Radio Music Awards.
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HONOLULU (AP) -- The Navy's last carrier
strike group from the combat phase of Operation
Iraqi Freedom arrived Monday at Pearl Harbor.
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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- When pressed by
prosecutors Monday, New York millionaire
Robert Durst testified he couldn't remember
cutting up the body of his elderly neighbor
after his shooting
death or making a plane reservation to flee
the area just hours after he dumped the
remains.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional negotiators
agreed Monday to spend almost $3 billion
in the coming year to combat and prevent
wildfires, making history's largest one-time
firefighting allocation in history as a
series of devastating blazes tore through
California.
International:
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Texaco knew it was
damaging the environment when it launched
operations in the Amazon jungle three decades
ago, a former energy minister testified
Monday in a civil trial against California-based
ChevronTexaco.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) -- A car bomb exploded
Tuesday near a police station on a major
street in the tense city of Fallujah, killing
at least four people, police said. The attack
came a day after a series of suicide bombings
in Baghdad left about three dozen dead.
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LONDON (AP) -- Prince William will meet
his mother's former butler, Paul Burrell,
to discuss the royal family's anger over
revelations Burrell's new book makes about
Princess Diana and her in-laws, William's
office said Tuesday.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan (AP) -- A Soyuz space
capsule carrying an American, a Russian
and a Spaniard to Earth from the International
Space Station landed smoothly and on target
in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S.-led coalition
troops and Afghan militia killed 18 rebel
fighters during a six-hour firefight in
eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border,
calling in airstrikes to help repel the
attackers, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
* TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese electronics and
entertainment giant Sony Corp. is trimming
20,000 jobs, or about 13 percent of its
global work force, in the next three years
as part of a turnaround strategy announced
Tuesday.
* BEIJING (AP) -- Citing his ''repentant
behavior,'' China deported a Chinese-born
American citizen convicted of obtaining
state secrets and put him on a plane to
the United States on Monday, less than two
years before his prison sentence expires.
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