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- "Profile:
Rep. Richard Pombo." ... "Congressman [Richard Pombo,
California Republican] finds fault with federal environmental rules." ...
"He chairs the House Resources Committee, which drafts many of the nation's
most important environmental laws and oversees 700 million acres of public
land. The budgets of the Forest Service, the National Park Service and
other land management agencies must be vetted by his panel. In Washington,
he's as powerful a player on environmental issues as the Interior Secretary
or the Environmental Protection Agency administrator." ... "Last week,
his committee began the first of several hearings on proposed changes to
the Endangered Species Act. For the last 12 years, Pombo has been on a
mission to rewrite the law, which he argues saves few species and tramples
on the rights of farmers, ranchers and other landowners." ... "Pombo's
selection as Resources Committee chairman last year frightened the nation's
largest environmental groups, which have long clashed with the congressman.
Now those groups are gearing up to challenge Pombo and block his effort
to rewrite the Endangered Species Act." ... ""He doesn't believe in the
Endangered Species Act," said Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra
Club. "He doesn't believe we should protect our wildlife heritage."" -By
Zachary Coile -SFGate.com
- "Santa
Cruz group wins court OK to grow pot: Ruling allows
medical marijuana distribution." ... "A Santa Cruz medical marijuana collective
shut down by federal agents two years ago can grow and distribute marijuana
for its patients while its civil lawsuit against the federal government
is decided by the courts, a federal judge ruled Wednesday." ... "The ruling
by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose marks the first time a
court has granted a medical marijuana organization the right to grow the
federally outlawed herb without interference from federal drug agents."
... "The ruling clears the way for the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
in Santa Cruz to challenge the federal government's authority to raid medical
marijuana gardens operating within the boundaries of California law." -By
Maria Alicia Gaura -SFGate.com
- "Calif.
Court Halts San Francisco Gay Weddings." ... "California's
Supreme Court on Thursday ordered San Francisco to halt the same-sex marriages
that have sparked a passionate nationwide debate on whether gay couples
can wed legally." ... "The decision, which will be reviewed again in May
or June, comes exactly one month after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
gave the green light to gay marriages, resulting in more than 4,000 homosexual
pairings since then." ... "In its order, the state's top court referred
to the California family code that defines marriage as a union of man and
woman and told San Francisco "to refrain from issuing marriage licenses
or certificates not authorized by such provisions."" (1, 2)
-By Adam Tanner -Reuters
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- "UCLA
Denies Role in Cadaver Case: Probe Targets Director
of Willed-Body Program, Suspected Middleman." ... "The University of California
at Los Angeles denied involvement Monday in the sale of cadaver body parts
for profit after the arrest of the head of its medical school's cadaver
program and a second man over the weekend. Authorities are investigating
whether about 800 bodies donated to the program over the past six years
were illegally sawed into pieces and sold to medical research companies."
... "Henry Reid, 54, director of the university's program that makes donated
bodies available for medical education, was arrested Saturday for investigation
of grand theft for allegedly selling corpses and body parts. Ernest Nelson,
the suspected middleman, was arrested at his home in Alta Loma, Calif.,
on Sunday night on suspicion of receiving stolen property." -By
Kimberly Edds -WashingtonPost
- "As
court mulls, gays wed: A judge may decide as soon
as Friday whether to stop San Francisco's rush of gay marriages." ... "For
the past week, the broad granite steps of San Francisco's City Hall have
stood like a finish line to gay and lesbian couples from every corner of
the United States." ... "They have come by the thousands to line up in
the rain of a raw northern California winter - in a blocks-long gathering
that is part street festival, part civic protest. All in the hope of exchanging
wedding vows beneath the hall's gilded dome - and in defiance of state
law." -By Mark Sappenfield
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- "Groundbreaking
ruling in Peterson case Tracking device evidence can be presented."
... "The judge in Scott Peterson's double-murder trial broke new legal
ground Tuesday and ruled that for the first time in a California courtroom,
evidence gleaned from a high-tech tracking device can be presented to a
jury." ... "From January to April of 2003, Modesto police secretly attached
GPS devices to a number of Peterson's vehicles so the police could spy
on his travels, including several trips to the Berkeley marina. The bodies
of Peterson's 27-year-old wife, Laci, and the couple's fetus washed ashore
not far away." -By Stacy Finz, Diana Walsh and Kelly
St. John
-SFGate.com
- "Military
Copter Crash Kills 4 in Calif." ... "A military helicopter
crashed during a training mission at this [Camp Pendleton] base north of
San Diego, killing all four people aboard, officials said." ... "The UH-1
Huey, a cargo-type helicopter, crashed about 7 p.m. Thursday, Maj. T.V.
Johnson said." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Chicago
topped USA in homicides in 2003." ... "Despite a
sharp drop in homicides, Chicago has regained a title it didn't want: America's
murder capital." ... "The city finished 2003 with 599 homicides, police
said Thursday. That was down from 648 a year earlier and the first time
since 1967 that the total dipped below 600." ... "Still, the nation's third-largest
city outpaced all others for the second time in three years. New York,
with about three times the population, ended the year with 596 homicides.
Los Angeles, which had the most murders in 2002 at 658, wound up 2003 with
an estimated total just under 500." -AP
via -USATODAY
