NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) -- The 13-year-old surfing
star who lost her left arm in a shark attack
last week off Kauai remained in stable condition
Monday night after a second surgery.
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HARBISON CANYON (AP) -- Joined by the winner
and loser in California's recall election,
President Bush witnessed firsthand Tuesday
a state devastated by fires that left over
20 dead and left a trail
of burnt-out houses and blackened hills.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Voters here must decide
whether employers should have to pay their
workers a minimum wage that mirrors the
cost of living in one of the nation's most
expensive cities.
•
LONG BEACH (AP) -- An 3-year-old boy was
killed and his mother and four others were
injured when their car was rear-ended by
a pickup truck whose driver fled, police
said.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Donna Arduin, a budget
official known for cutting billions in social
services in Florida under Gov. Jeb Bush,
has been named California's new finance
director.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- The incoming Schwarzenegger
administration is considering borrowing
up to $20 billion to wipe out a mounting
deficit amid growing costs from fighting
the wildfires, key
advisers said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Voting rights advocates
and computer scientists declared a major
victory Monday, after an advisory panel
to California's secretary of state postponed
certification of a
paperless voting system.
•
LONG BEACH (AP) -- California State University
trustees on Monday appointed Paul Zingg,
the provost and vice president for academic
affairs at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, as
the new president of
Chico State University.
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MODESTO (AP) -- The big fight over a little
hair found in Scott Peterson's boat continued
Monday with a defense expert criticizing
the DNA techniques used by the FBI to link
Laci Peterson to the boat
her husband said he took fishing the day
she vanished.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A jury ruled Monday
that the California Highway Patrol did not
discriminate against blacks and other minorities
in hiring and promotions, settling part
of a lawsuit that has
dragged on for nearly a decade.
•
SANTA ANA (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court
on Monday declined to overturn an appeals
court decision allowing Suzuki Motor Corp.
to take the nonprofit Consumers Union to
court over its ''not
acceptable'' safety rating for the Samurai
sport utility vehicle.
National:
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Gov. Kenny Guinn's
request that all 17 Nevada counties be designated
disaster areas due to farmers' losses caused
by drought and insect infestations has been
granted by federal Agriculture Secretary
Ann Veneman.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Air Force leaders are
warning Congress that training might be
crimped at Nellis Air Force Base if radioactive
waste is shipped across the bombing range
to a nuclear dump in the
Nevada desert.
•
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Senate has approved
tapping profits from Clark County federal
land sales to spend a record $50 million
for Lake Tahoe conservation.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The FBI used the USA Patriot
Act to obtain financial information about
key figures in a political corruption probe
centered on striptease club owner Michael
Galardi, an agent said.
•
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Air Force
Academy cadets are taking more responsibility
despite a new round of problems with sexual
assaults, drugs and alcohol, Air Force Secretary
James
Roche said Monday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A legal foundation
has sued the National Park Service on behalf
of a family that wants road access to its
backcountry property within Wrangell-St.
Elias National Park and
Preserve.
International:
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MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's embattled Yukos
oil giant said Tuesday it appointed a U.S.
citizen as new chief executive to replace
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who has been jailed
on charges of fraud and tax
evasion in what some see as a politically
driven probe.
•
BUKIT LAWANG, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers
were searching through branches, mud and
boulders Tuesday for survivors after flash
floods swept through a resort village near
a reserve for
endangered orangutans on Sumatra island,
killing at least 85 people.
•
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Guerrillas mounted
fresh attacks on occupation forces, killing
an American soldier in a roadside bombing
Tuesday in Baghdad, hours after firing mortar
shells in the heart of
the Iraqi capital.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's government
was plunged into crisis and its peace process
imperiled Tuesday when the president deployed
troops around the capital and fired three
key
ministers who were trying to coax Tamil
rebels back into talks to end a 20-year
civil war.
•
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Police clashed
with suspected al-Qaida sympathizers in
the streets of the sacred city of Mecca
on Monday, killing two militants and uncovering
a cache of weapons,
including Kalashnikov rifles, grenades and
bomb-making materials.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear
chief called Monday for the United Nations
to consider putting all production of weapons-usable
uranium and plutonium around the world under
international control to limit ''the increasing
threat'' posed by countries and terrorists.
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