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California's top court rules on online libel
By BOB EGELKO
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
People who claim they were libeled on line can't sue the Internet service providers that carried the messages, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
California budget shortfall has stink of reality
By DANIEL WEINTRAUB
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Working from cramped quarters on the upper floors of a plain concrete-clad office building catty-corner from the state Capitol, California's nonpartisan legislative analyst is all but unknown to state residents.
An intensified effort to curb college-student suicides
By BRITTANY ANAS
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Family photo albums and living-room frames hold pictures of Tieg Baker: a blond boy with a golden tan, playing in the sand; No. 27 on the Boulder (Colo.) High football team, black paint under his eyes; a college sophomore on a camping trip, smiling with a visor turned backward and mountains behind him.
One of the last photos of the 22-year-old shows him hugging his golden retriever outside his family's Boulder home, a picture taken for Christmas cards.
Authorities search legal defense investigator's home
By PETER HECHT
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
California state authorities have searched the San Francisco apartment of a legal defense investigator accused of falsifying juror statements to help legal efforts to spare death row inmates from execution.
The state Attorney General's office announced Friday that agents executed a warrant Thursday to search the apartment of Kathleen Marie Culhane, 39, a former investigator for the state-funded Habeas Corpus Resource Center in San Francisco.
State prosecutors initiated a probe of Culhane in February after she submitted five signed declarations from jurors disavowing votes they made in sentencing convicted murderer Michael A.
Inmate stuck in van for hours died in desert heat
By MARK MARTIN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Confined in a van without air conditioning, a quadriplegic inmate died this summer after guards transporting him to a state prison in a remote desert area of Southern California became lost and spent hours finding their way.
Tsunami-wary town wants to know why it wasn't warned
By PETER FIMRITE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Earl Hensel rushed to the Crescent City Harbor just in time to see water gushing in from the sea, sweeping away everything in its path. The most devastating tidal wave to hit the California coast in four decades washed away docks, damaged boats and spread debris all over the harbor.
No notice over hauling of radioactive waste worries Vegas
By MARK HANSEL
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Motorists traveling along Interstate 15 might want to give that tractor-trailer in the next lane a little extra room. Especially if they notice it sporting a diamond-shaped placard saying "Radioactive 7."
There's a good chance it's hauling one of the roughly 1,200 annual shipments of low-level radioactive waste that travels near, and occasionally through, the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
Checks of migratory birds show no avian flu in U.S.
By SABIN RUSSELL
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
A multimillion dollar national effort to screen North American migratory birds for potentially deadly strains of avian influenza has so far come up empty _ and if the United States is lucky, things will stay that way.
Reservor's death count continues to rise
By JASON BERGREEN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
About 90 feet below the surface of Strawberry Reservoir, cold, dark waters hide a macabre display of drowned boaters.
The dead have been resting there as long as 10 years.
