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State budget gap could reach $41.8 billion by 2010
Los Angeles Times - 59 minutes ago
Unless legislators take control, gap could become the largest in modern California history, analysts say. But a solution seems unlikely as Gov.
Budget shortfall mushrooms to $14.8 billion Ventura County Star
Schwarzenegger: State heading to 'financial Armageddon San Jose Mercury News
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Supreme Court is asked to dismiss top officials from 9/11 lawsuit
Los Angeles Times -
4 hours ago
A Bush administration lawyer urged justices today to throw out a lawsuit in which former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, at left, and former FBI director Robert Mueller are accused of ordering the jailing of hundreds of Muslim men after the attacks of Sept.
Supreme Court wary in case against Ashcroft, Mueller USA Today
Justices Hear a Case Weighted by 9/11 New York Times
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Owner: Bobcat that clawed Santa Claus rabies-free
Newsday -
1 hour ago
AP An exotic cat that drew blood after biting a volunteer Santa Claus at a charity event in Atlantic County has been vaccinated. The cat's owner, Christine Haughey, identified herself and produced the records after learning Jonathan Bebbington might ...
Ho, Ho, OW! Exotic cat nips into store Santa Chicago Tribune
Pet-store Santa won't need rabies shots Press of Atlantic City
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Cleaning Firm Used Illegal Workers at Chertoff Home
Washington Post -
32 minutes ago
By Spencer S. Hsu Every few weeks for nearly four years, the Secret Service screened the IDs of employees for a Maryland cleaning company before they entered the house of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the nation's top immigration ...
Chertoff cleaner had illegal workers Chicago Tribune
Who said irony was dead? Illegal immigrants cleaned DHS Secretary ... Michigan Messenger
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State could get tough on dirty diesels
Los Angeles Times -
5 hours ago
Ana Gomez, 23, helps her son Julio, 2, use his inhaler. Mira Loma children have among the lowest lung capacity and highest asthma rates in the country because of the dirty air from diesel trucks and locomotives.
Calif. set to adopt sweeping global warming plan The Associated Press
Last-minute appeals flood into Air Board Ventura County Star
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Death sentences, executions drop in 2008
CNN -
5 hours ago
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The number of executions in US prisons hit a 14-year-low in 2008, continuing a downward trend and coinciding with a drop in juries handing out death sentences, according to a year-end report.
Death row executions drop to 14-year low USA Today
Executions at 14-year low as costs rise Reuters
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