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Arizona woman creates parties for Taser practice
GILBERT, Ariz. – Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share.
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Mom apologizes for essay
A Garland, Texas, woman apologized yesterday for a “bad decision” in helping her 6-year-old daughter win tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay that falsely claimed the girl's father died in Iraq.
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- Huge storm hits region with wind, rain, heavy snow
SACRAMENTO – Howling winds, pelting rain and heavy snow pummeled much of California yesterday, flipping trucks, cutting power to more than a million people and forcing the evacuation of 1,000 homes in Orange County.
- Blu-ray format may win battle for DVDs
LOS ANGELES – The high-definition DVD war may be over. Warner Bros. Entertainment said yesterday it will release movie discs only in the Blu-ray format, becoming the latest studio to reject the rival HD DVD technology.
- Citing al-Qaeda threat, officials cancel 16-day Dakar Rally race
PARIS – The Dakar Rally, the epic motorcycle, car and truck race across the Sahara Desert, was canceled yesterday by organizers citing direct threats of terrorism from al-Qaeda-linked militants.
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- 'Texan of the Year' nod rankles readers
DALLAS – When editorial writers at The Dallas Morning News chose the illegal immigrant as the newspaper's “Texan of the Year,” they expected some criticism. But not this: 800 blog postings and more than 150 letters to the editor blasting the decision.
- Top court to decide if death penalty OK in child rape cases
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether a state can execute someone convicted of raping a child, one of the few remaining crimes that does not require the death of the victim to result in capital punishment.
- Ex-director spent Indian museum funds on his portrait
WASHINGTON – The recently retired director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself and selected a non-Indian artist to create it, a newspaper reported yesterday.
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Puerto Rico's import ban halts cockfights
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A ban on bird imports to Puerto Rico has forced the cancellation of more than 100 cockfights, dealing a blow to a lucrative industry in the U.S. territory, an official said yesterday.
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Opposition in Kenya calls for new election
NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya's opposition called for new presidential elections yesterday as thousands of hungry slum dwellers swamped aid workers after days of deadly riots over the disputed vote cutting supplies of groceries and water.
- Bush signs order to raise pay for military and federal workers
WASHINGTON – President Bush signed an executive order yesterday that provides pay raises this year for federal employees, military personnel, Cabinet officers and members of Congress.
- Test proves foster child is Colombia hostage's son
BOGOTA, Colombia – Results of a DNA test yesterday showed why leftist rebels failed to deliver on their promise to free a 3-year-old boy born in captivity: Little Emmanuel has spent the past two years not in a jungle rebel camp but in a Bogota foster home.
- N. Korea insists it is cooperating on nuclear disclosure
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea said yesterday that it had already explained enough about its nuclear programs to meet a deadline for declaring its nuclear activities, saying the information was in a declaration it prepared in November and gave to the United States.
- British team joins inquiry into slaying of Bhutto
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – British anti-terror police joined the inquiry into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto yesterday, invited by Pakistan's president in an effort to dispel accusations of government involvement.
- Pro-Sadr clerics urge keeping cease-fire
BAGHDAD – Clerics loyal to radical Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers yesterday to respect a cease-fire and try to make peace with rival factions.
- Attacks by women may signal militants' growing desperation
BAGHDAD – It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in fighting, but recent suicide bombings carried out by women could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate.
- Many Marines, soldiers have missed combat
WASHINGTON – This time last year, the Marine Corps scrubbed its personnel rosters and found more than 66,000 leathernecks who had not yet done a tour in Iraq or Afghanistan. The top brass put them at the front of the line.
- Daily developments
Staff Sgt. Ryan D. Maseth, 24, of Pittsburgh died Wednesday of injuries suffered in a noncombat incident in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Ky.
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