NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Construction crews
unearthed two World War II-era bomb casings
Monday at the base of the Westchester Bluffs,
triggering the temporary evacuation of about
2,000 people from the nearby Playa Vista
development and a portion of the Loyola
Marymount University campus.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man convicted
of killing an Oscar-winning actor who appeared
in the movie ‘‘The Killing Fields’’
has had his conviction overturned by a federal
judge, courts documents showed Monday.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spring heat wave
blistered the state with record-shattering
temperatures Monday as firefighters kept
close eye on withering brush, power grid
officials monitored electricity use and
Californians sought refuge at beaches and
in swimming pools.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — An Orange
County school district has hindered students
learning English by favoring Spanish bilingual
education programs over English instruction,
a grand jury reported Monday.
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POMONA, Calif. (AP) — A Claremont
McKenna College psychology professor who
claimed someone vandalized her car with
racist and anti-Semitic slurs was charged
Monday with filing a false police report
and insurance fraud.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — Dynegy Inc. and
NRG Energy Inc. struck a deal to wipe out
more than $280 million in unpaid electricity
bills during California’s energy crisis,
state officials said Monday.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — A Senate panel approved
a bill Monday that would ban the production
and sale of foie gras, a delicacy derived
from the livers of force-fed geese and ducks
— a practice that animal rights groups
decried as inhumane.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An initiative that
would bar undocumented immigrants from obtaining
driver’s licenses and most public
services failed to qualify for the ballot.
National:
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservation
groups filed suit Monday to stop a natural
gas survey alongside eastern Utah’s
Nine Mile Canyon, which contains a bounty
of ancient Indian art panels.
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FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Rescuers searched
a thickly wooded swamp Tuesday for an Army
helicopter that vanished during a training
flight with three soldiers aboard.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two soldiers
who were given the choice of returning to
combat in Iraq after their sister was killed
in a Baghdad ambush have decided not to
go back, a National Guard spokesman said
Tuesday.
International:
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BEIJING (AP) — Victims of a North
Korean train explosion, their skin charred
and faces blackened by chemical burns, are
wasting away in hospitals with little medicine,
aid workers said Tuesday in a plea for more
help.
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Gunmen attacked
a former United Nations office in a diplomatic
quarter of Damascus, setting off a battle
with police that pelted nearby buildings
with bullets and grenades.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) — U.S. warplanes
and artillery attacked Sunni insurgents
holed up in a slum in a thunderous show
of force that rocked Fallujah Tuesday, sending
huge plumes of black smoke into the night
sky. The assault came after American troops
killed 64 gunmen near the southern city
of Najaf.
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