National News
A move to keep National Guard general from getting award
By DAN BROWNING
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Retired senior military officers have rallied behind an effort to block a high-level award for an outgoing Minnesota Air National Guard general, citing an investigation that substantiated several findings of misconduct.
The National Guard Bureau in Virginia notified Minnesota last week that it would not approve a Legion of Merit award for Brig.
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.
Jaws of the bay
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
A California sea lion has forced us to update our list of worrisome things that tend to bite us from behind.
What a shame. Those playful, Falstaffian creatures _ the ones with the barking voices, the ones our tourists love to point at and our children love to pet, are now ranked with death, taxes and the Taliban, to name a few.
Pay-grade inflation at California State University
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The chancellor of the California State University system sure seems to have a low regard for the intelligence of taxpayers who pay his salary. How else to explain Charles Reed's plan, approved by the CSU trustees this week, that will tighten the issuance of golden parachutes to departing administrations _ starting with his successor.
Mile high couple arrrested for overly friendly skies
By ANDREA WEIGL
Friday, November 17, 2006
A California couple whose in-flight friskiness on the way to North Carolina was a bit much for the other passengers are facing federal charges for harassing the flight attendant who asked them to stop.
