NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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ALHAMBRA (AP) -- A Toyota dealership that
caters to Chinese speakers has reached a
settlement with 11 customers who claimed
sales people took advantage of their limited
English to sell them cars at exorbitant
interest rates, an attorney for the plaintiffs
said Tuesday.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- State and federal energy
laws and regulations are stacked against
California officials who are seeking refunds
for overpriced electricity during the energy
crisis, a report by the California attorney
general released Tuesday concluded.
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PASADENA (AP) -- NASA said Tuesday it has
uploaded new software to its twin Mars rovers
that should allow the six-wheeled robots
to travel farther, sleep better and avoid
the type of computer glitches that temporarily
paralyzed one of the pair.
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LAGUNA HILLS (AP) -- A 2-year-old girl drowned
in a swimming pool without a lifeguard while
her 16-year-old stepsister talked with a
security guard, authorities said.
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PASADENA (AP) -- The Sheriff's SWAT team
ended an attempted robbery at a Blockbuster
video store early Tuesday, capturing three
suspects who held 10 people hostage, deputies
said.
National:
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- An alliance of ranchers,
politicians and environmentalists on Tuesday
rolled out a plan to preserve a half-million
acres of wilderness in southwest Idaho's
lonely but spectacular high desert.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A postage stamp honoring
composer Henry Mancini premiered Tuesday.
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HOUSTON (AP) -- Charges have been dismissed
against a Marine reservist who was accused
of negligent homicide in the death last
year of an Iraqi prisoner in his custody,
according to the Marine's attorney.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The U.S. Bureau
of Indian Affairs allowed an employee with
a drinking problem to drive government vehicles
for 15 years until he killed four vacationers
from Nebraska in a drunken-driving crash,
an attorney argued Tuesday.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, the
government will stockpile flu shots and
will target them toward children to avoid
the vaccine shortages that caught health
officials off-guard this past winter.
International:
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Three teenagers were
injured and 60 homes damaged when hail and
strong winds swept through central Vietnam,
an official said Tuesday.
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The United States
asked for access to a volatile area in Vietnam's
Central Highlands where police arrested
scores of people during protests by ethnic
minority Christians over Easter weekend,
an official said Tuesday.
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NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- A 2,500-strong U.S.
force, backed by tanks and artillery, massed
Tuesday on the outskirts of Najaf for a
showdown with a radical cleric whose militia
led a bloody uprising across the south,
raising fears of an American assault on
the holiest Shiite city.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Hungarian police
arrested a man of Palestinian descent Tuesday
and suggested he was planning to bomb the
country's new Holocaust museum during a
visit by Israeli President Moshe Katsav.
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PARIS (AP) -- A New Jersey man who fled
to France after allegedly killing his lover
in the United States committed suicide by
hanging himself with a bedsheet from a drainage
pipe in his French jail cell, his lawyer
said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW (AP) -- Eight kidnapped employees
of a Russian energy company were freed in
Iraq on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry
said.
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BEIJING (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney
praises China for its efforts to prod North
Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions and
promised Tuesday to ''do good work together''
on a range of issues
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