NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 9-year-old boy who
was badly burned while warming his hands
over a stove in an unheated Hollywood apartment
was awarded $3.3 million Wednesday in a
negligence lawsuit against the landlord.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- The number of students
at the state's community colleges dropped
for the second semester in a row, a survey
shows.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Three people were killed
and two others injured in a high-speed collision
on the Ronald Reagan Freeway early Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Voters in one of the
nation's most expensive cities decided overwhelmingly
Tuesday that employers should have to pay
their workers a minimum wage that mirrors
the cost of living.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A California firm will
be the first U.S. company to participate
in a joint commercial venture in one of
Russia's closed nuclear cities, eventually
providing jobs for as many as 400 former
Russian nuclear weapons scientists and engineers,
the two countries announced Wednesday.
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FONTANA, Calif. (AP) -- A former Superior
Court clerk was arrested on charges of taking
bribes to dismiss traffic tickets using
the court computer.
National:
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Legal experts say the plea
bargain with the Green River Killer raises
a troubling question: If the state of Washington
is not going to execute someone who has
confessed to murdering 48 people, how can
it ever again put anyone to death?
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Forty percent
of Nevada's public schools are on a list
of schools that didn't make adequate progress
or are in need of improvement, state schools
chief Jack McLaughlin said Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Wednesday
rejected a proposal, growing out of the
Enron scandal, to strengthen federal controls
over energy trading and crack down on market
fraud and manipulation.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada's mental
health agency chief says Congress should
provide more money to help the states deliver
a coordinated system of services to people
with mental problems.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Mexican President
Vicente Fox appealed to state leaders Wednesday
to tackle immigration problems, including
better access to health care and education
for Mexicans who come to New Mexico.
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DENVER (AP) -- Water experts attending a
national conference in Denver say more than
75 percent of the regions in the American
West still are deep in a drought.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The government's
bribery case against two Salt Lake City
Olympic bid executives suffered a setback
Wednesday when a judge threw out what prosecutors
considered their strongest piece of evidence.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Gov. Mike Leavitt
resigned Wednesday to head the federal Environmental
Protection Agency in a pomp-filled ceremony
that also saw his lieutenant, Olene Walker,
sworn in as Utah's first female governor.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management
says it may suspend a wild horse adoption
program that has been criticized as costly
and ineffective.
International:
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A senior Iranian
envoy acknowledged on Wednesday that his
country made ''mistakes'' in reporting past
nuclear activities but insisted suspicions
that his country is trying to make atomic
arms are unfounded.
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MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Insurgents attacked
three American military convoys in this
northern city with rocket-propelled grenades
and roadside bombs Wednesday, killing three
Iraqi civilians and wounding five Americans,
the U.S. military and hospital officials
said.
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