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- 3 dead, 2 wounded in shooting in college town
MOSCOW, Idaho – A gunman went on a shooting rampage in this quiet college town Saturday night, killing a police officer and wounding a sheriff's deputy and a civilian before taking refuge in a church.
- Spector says Gonzales might quit before vote
WASHINGTON – The top Republican on the Senate committee investigating Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said yesterday that he believes Gonzales could resign before a no-confidence vote sought this week by Senate Democrats.
- Environmentalists, ranchers unlikely allies
SACRAMENTO – On a golden morning in the hills of Yolo County, Scott and Casey Stone sort cattle for shipment to summer pasture.
- REGION UPDATE
2 whales turn back toward the Pacific
SACRAMENTO – Two whales that took a wrong turn and swam 90 miles inland to California's capital were heading back toward the Pacific Ocean yesterday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
- Police response at rally puts brakes on L.A. chief's reappointment
LOS ANGELES – Only three weeks ago, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton was coasting toward an appointment to a rare second term atop the Los Angeles Police Department, his success at lowering the crime rate and reforming the department's culture muting nearly all opposition.
- 'Freedom Rock' a Memorial Day fixture
MENLO, Iowa – Ray “Bubba” Sorensen wanted to quit years ago, but there he was, turning up again and again at a 56-ton boulder to paint murals of the sacrifices of America's service members.
- Ex-military inmates more likely to be sex offenders
WASHINGTON – Military veterans in prison are more than twice as likely to have been convicted for sex offenses than nonveteran inmates, the government reports. Federal researchers cannot say why.
- Boy at heart of medical and legal battle dies
AUSTIN, Texas – A 19-month-old boy whose terminal illness started a contentious legal and ethical debate over who decides when life-sustaining treatment should cease has died.
- NATION UPDATE
White House calls Carter 'irrelevant'
CRAWFORD, Texas – In a biting rebuke, the White House yesterday dismissed former President Jimmy Carter as “increasingly irrelevant” after his harsh criticism of President Bush.
- U.S. funnels billions to anti-terror ally
WASHINGTON – The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion a year to Pakistan for what it calls reimbursements to the country's military for conducting counterterrorism efforts along the border with Afghanistan, even though Pakistan's president decided eight months ago to slash patrols through the area where al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are most active.
- Israel steps up offensive in Gaza, killing 8 in missile attack
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel's air force fired a missile at a house in Gaza City late yesterday, killing at least eight people, residents and hospital officials said. The strike followed a decision to step up attacks against Islamic militants in response to rocket fire from Gaza.
- 14 die in suicide blast at Afghan market
GARDEZ, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber apparently targeting a U.S. convoy killed 14 people and wounded 31 in an eastern market yesterday, witnesses and officials said.
- Fisherman nets rare catch once thought extinct
JAKARTA, Indonesia – An Indonesian fisherman hooked a rare coelacanth, a species once thought as extinct as dinosaurs, and briefly kept the “living fossil” alive in a quarantined pool.
- WORLD UPDATE
3 police officers shot dead in Mexico
MEXICO CITY – Assailants gunned down three police officers within 24 hours around the northern industrial city of Monterrey, the latest in a wave of killings of law enforcement officials across Mexico.
- Two blasts kill 7 U.S. soldiers; May toll hits 71
BAGHDAD – Six U.S. soldiers and an interpreter were killed Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded near their position in western Baghdad, the U.S. military reported yesterday, underscoring the heightened vulnerability of U.S. forces as they increase their presence in the capital.
- Searchers won't quit until men are found
MAHMUDIYA, Iraq – Sweat-drenched U.S. and Iraqi soldiers sprawled on the muddy farmhouse floor, taking a break from the grueling search for three kidnapped comrades. A report of a soldier shot by a sniper came over the radio.
- Al-Sadr's movement making tactical shift
NAJAF, Iraq – The movement of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has embarked on one of its most dramatic tactical shifts since the beginning of the war.
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