NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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ALHAMBRA (AP) — Legendary record producer
Phil Spector was charged Thursday with one
count of murder in the shooting death of
an actress at his Alhambra home.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Michael
Jackson returned to California on Thursday
to face child-molestation allegations that
could send the ‘‘King of Pop’’
to prison for years if he is charged and
convicted.
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PALO ALTO (AP) — Democratic presidential
candidate Joe Lieberman attacked several
key figures in the Bush administration Thursday,
accusing 17 officials appointed to regulatory
positions of protecting the corporate interests
that once employed them.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — Voters in March
should be asked to approve a carrot-and-stick
approach to breaking the state’s cycle
of enacting fat budgets in good times that
can’t be sustained during economic
downturns, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
finance director told state lawmakers.
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FRESNO (AP) — A woman is suing Fresno
County, alleging that her 10-year-old grandson
was sexually assaulted by another boy in
foster care.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury awarded
a Miami surgeon $33 million for injuries
sustained when he was mistakenly handcuffed
by Los Angeles Police Department officers.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Turmoil over California’s
budget crisis spilled into the meeting of
the University of California’s governing
Board of Regents as students demanded more
say in how the system addresses its $1 billion
shortfall.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have arrested
22 people as part of the continuing investigation
into a shootout last weekend that left one
rookie Burbank officer dead and a veteran
lawman wounded, officials said early Thursday.
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CHOWCHILLA (AP) — Fire destroyed a
Madera County railroad trestle Wednesday,
disrupting service for Amtrak passengers
and delaying freight deliveries, officials
said.
National:
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s
quality of life is among the nation’s
worst, with high rates of child abuse and
elderly suicide and low rates of high school
completion and health insurance coverage,
a study says.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The nation’s
syphilis rate has climbed for the second
year in a row, mostly because of an increase
in cases among gay and bisexual men, the
government said Thursday.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The nation’s
largest and oldest American Indian organization
on Thursday asked the Senate to kill the
massive energy bill expected to be voted
on soon.
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DENVER (AP) — The FBI improperly forced
an American Indian medicine man to discuss
what he was told in confidence by a murder
suspect, the suspect’s attorney contends
in a case before a federal judge.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge
said he may wait until the Bush administration
issues a final rule allowing snowmobiling
to continue in Yellowstone National Park
before he answers a legal challenge to it.
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HAYS, Kan. (AP) — Two San Diego County
men are among five people who have been
arrested in connection with fight last week
that led to the death of a Fort Hays State
University student.
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DAYTON, Wyo. (AP) — Hundreds of residents
were evacuated overnight when a wind-driven
wildfire rushed down a tree-lined river
that runs through town.
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DENVER (AP) — Kobe Bryant’s
defense team ridiculed the prosecution’s
request for an investigation of media leaks,
saying even the judge in the Oklahoma City
bombing trial considered such a probe a
waste of time.
International:
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — State agents
arrested four Tijuana police officers in
connection with the rape of an American
tourist as she and her family were walking
back across the border into San Diego, authorities
said.
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KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) — A suicide truck
bomb exploded at the office of a U.S.-allied
Kurdish political party in this northern
oil center Thursday, killing four bystanders
and wounding about 30.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Trucks packed
with explosives blew up at a London-based
bank and the British consulate Thursday,
killing at least 27 people and wounding
nearly 450.
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) — The International
Atomic Energy Agency has identified Russia,
China and Pakistan as probable suppliers
of some of the technology Iran used to enrich
uranium in its suspect nuclear programs,
diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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LONDON (AP) — Welcomed to Britain
with royal pageantry and a smattering of
anti-war protesters, President Bush on Wednesday
defended the war in Iraq, saying military
might must at times be used to confront
the continuing, global danger of terrorism.
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