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Study raises questions about changing police lineups
The police lineup is a staple of crime solving, not to mention of countless cop movies and television shows like “Law and Order.” Each year, experts estimate, 77,000 people nationwide are put on trial because witnesses picked them out of a lineup.
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Melissa Etheridge's partner is pregnant with twins
Melissa Etheridge's partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, is pregnant with twins, the couple has announced on the singer's Web site.
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100th Anniversary: San Francisco Earthquake
One of the worst natural disasters in the nation's history devastated San Francisco on April 18, 1906. At 5:12 a.m., the Great San Francisco Earthquake struck, followed by a series of fires that burned for three days and destroyed more than 500 blocks in the heart of the city.
- Two lacrosse players booked
DURHAM, N.C. – Two Duke University lacrosse players were arrested on rape charges yesterday in a scandal that has rocked one of America's elite campuses and raised questions of race, class and the privileged status of college athletes.
- City revels in its rebirth on solemn quake centennial
SAN FRANCISCO – With bells, sirens and a moment of silence, San Franciscans turned out before dawn yesterday, mixing a mournful tone with a colorful, costumed carnival spirit to commemorate the centennial of the earthquake that devastated the city.
- Mercury fillings safe in two dental studies
CHICAGO – Two long-awaited, government-funded studies found no evidence that dental fillings containing mercury can cause IQ-lowering brain damage or other neurological problems in children.
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- FIELD POLL
Preschool access initiative backed by 52% of voters
The majority of California voters continue to support the preschool initiative on the June ballot, but there has been slippage in Proposition 82's support over the past two months, according to a new Field Poll.
- Plan would give L.A. mayor control of school district
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will ask the California legislature to grant him control of the state's largest school district by the beginning of 2007 without bringing the switch before local voters, under a plan unveiled yesterday in his first State of the City address.
- Senate panel backs driver's license measure
SACRAMENTO – Sen. Gil Cedillo's maneuvering to broaden the appeal of his ongoing campaign to grant undocumented immigrants the legal right to drive may cost him traditional allies.
- REGION UPDATE
Lawmakers disclose bond deal in works
SAN JOSE – Legislative leaders said yesterday that they have reached a key compromise over an infrastructure bond plan for California, with Republicans giving up their demand for surface water storage projects and Democrats relenting on their insistence that the package include money for urban parks and natural resource protections.
- Bush picks insider to be budget director
WASHINGTON – President Bush continued the gradual overhaul of his staff yesterday, turning to a trusted insider, Rob Portman, the U.S. trade representative, to be his budget director.
- FBI wants to review late columnist's files for classified papers
WASHINGTON – The FBI is seeking to review the files of Jack Anderson, the late newspaper columnist, to remove classified material he may have accumulated in four decades of muckraking Washington journalism.
- Opening of Nazi Holocaust archives nearer
WASHINGTON – After decades of delays, Germany took a major step yesterday toward opening Nazi records on 17 million Jews, slave laborers and other Holocaust victims to historians and relatives long eager for conclusive information about the fate of those victims.
- NATION UPDATE
Moussaoui described as schizophrenic
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A defense psychologist yesterday told the jury considering whether to sentence Zacarias Moussaoui to death that the defendant is a paranoid schizophrenic who holds firmly to the delusions that President Bush will soon set him free and that his court-appointed lawyers are engaged in a plot to kill him.
- Greeks investigate possible antiquities smuggling
ATHENS, Greece – Greek authorities said yesterday that they were investigating a suspected conspiracy to smuggle antiquities hidden on a remote island to major museums and other buyers abroad.
- WORLD UPDATE
Australian police hurt during rioting
CANBERRA, Australia – Australia will send up to 110 troops to the Solomon Islands to help restore calm after the election of a new prime minister in the South Pacific nation sparked rioting, a government official said.
- Israel to use political pressure on Palestinians after bombing
JERUSALEM – Israel said yesterday that it would increase political pressure on the Palestinian government in response to a suicide bombing Monday, but gave no hint of planning a major military response or singling out members of the Hamas-dominated government for arrest or assassination.
- Afghan civilians in harm's way as fighting escalates
KABUL, Afghanistan – More than 20 Afghan civilians have been reported killed or wounded in the past three days by Afghan and U.S. security forces as the troops have fought an outbreak of insurgent activity in the warm spring weather, Afghan officials said yesterday.
- Closed hearing held for Holloway figure
ORANJESTAD, Aruba – A 19-year-old man arrested in the disappearance of a young Alabama woman appeared before a judge yesterday, but authorities declined to reveal the outcome of the closed hearing.
- Iraqi forces, militiamen fight for second day
BAGHDAD, Iraq – For a second day, fighting continued yesterday in a Sunni district of Baghdad between Iraqi forces and what appeared to be local militiamen who feared Shiite death squads had infiltrated the community.
- Shiites abandoning neighborhood in face of threats by Sunnis
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The man strapping the air conditioner to the top of a taxi paused to explain: His family was packing up and fleeing the Baghdad neighborhood because of threats against Shiites.
- Daily developments
Photographs of the wives of two Kenyan engineers kidnapped in Baghdad three months ago appeared on the front pages of several Iraqi newspapers yesterday in an appeal for the hostages' release.
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