NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A museum meant to honor
Korean-American pioneers and the man some
regard as the community's founding father
has revealed deep fissures within the city's
diverse Korean culture, a rift that threatens
the museum's future.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Federal agents raided
Hells Angels motorcycle gang hangouts across
the West Wednesday and made 38 arrests after
a two-year undercover investigation into
alleged violations of gun and drug laws.
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SANTA CLARA (AP) -- The divorced mother
of three children slain by their father
over the weekend says the children feared
their dad, an out-of-work truck driver who
apparently was about to break up with his
second wife.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Labor negotiations between
grocery companies and picketing Southern
California grocery workers have broken off
and no new talks are scheduled, officials
said.
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CHINO HILLS (AP) -- Sheriff's deputies found
the wreckage of a missing plane early Monday
in Chino Hills State Park and reported that
two people died in the crash.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Bush administration's
director of homelessness has pledged to
work with San Francisco's new mayor to end
chronic homelessness, a newspaper reported.
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY (AP) -- Two people were
killed and a third was critically injured
in a fiery crash Sunday that set several
trees ablaze.
National:
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Randy ''Duke'' Cunningham
used a spending bill to deliver a public
scolding to San Diego's airport authority
for the way it is choosing sites for a new
airport.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) -- More out-of-state doctors
are qualifying to practice in Nevada under
new regulations adopted by the state Board
of Medical Examiners.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man who once ran for
Nevada state Assembly is facing felony charges
after he was accused of posing as a doctor
and supervising patients getting injections.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The national YMCA is
considering banning cell phones from locker
rooms -- not because of the annoying rings,
but because of new video technology. Officials
are concerned that phones with camera capability
could be used voyeuristically to take candid
photos in locker rooms or other private
places and is recommending that local clubs
bar the phones.
International:
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Pickets
went up and the number of sailings dropped
on major British Columbia ferry routes Monday
as ferry workers began a strike.
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FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) -- A Muslim chaplain
accused of mishandling classified information
from the U.S. prison for terror suspects
at Guantanamo, Cuba, was detained after
he was found with a paper about Syria and
two pocket-sized notebooks in his backpack,
a U.S. Customs agent testified Monday.
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- The
U.S. national basketball team will play
reigning world champions Serbia-Montenegro
in the warmup for the 2004 Olympics, the
two countries' basketball associations announced
Monday.
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- A military court upheld
a guilty verdict and death sentence for
the third time Monday against a Jordanian-American
convicted of conspiring to carry out poison
gas attacks on American and Israeli targets
in Jordan three years ago.
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PARIS (AP) -- Jim Morrison's former band
mates burned candles, a rose and a poem
at his grave in Paris on Monday, a tribute
to the "Light My Fire" singer
and cult figure on what would have been
his 60th birthday.
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