Last Known Wild Condor Taken To Animal Park
Biologists moved AC-9 the last wild California condor to San Diego Wild Animal Park to join 13 others in quarantine as part of a captive breeding effort to restore North America’s largest land bird. Condor numbers rose with captive breeding after lead poisoning and low wild births.
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San Diego
California
Kern County
North America
San Diego Wild Animal Park
Los Angeles Zoo
Bill Toone
San Diego Park
Toone
Pete Bloom
Campbell Faces Critics as He Pushes Job Growth
Gov. Carroll Campbell defends his early reform agenda and vows to prioritize economic development. In a State interview he calls critics little people with little minds and highlights direct outreach to CEOs, progress on budgets, and reforms like the Board of Economic Advisors. He cites prison crowding and staff gaps as frustrations while praising bipartisan legislative cooperation and efforts on a math science school and competitiveness council.
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Columbia
Carroll Campbell
South Carolina
Campbell
Sunday
Chris Verenes
Democratic Party
Verenes
General Assembly
Sen
Rembert Dennis
D-Berkeley
House
Robert Sheheen
D-Kershaw
Sheheen
Joe Wilson
Lexington
Dick Riley
Board of Economic Advisors
Council On Competitiveness
Senate
McMartin Trial Set After Three Years of Delay
After a three year delay the McMartin Pre School case moves toward trial with jury selection to begin before Superior Court Judge William Pounders. Prosecutors say the process could take nine weeks and the actual trial up to two years. The case, costing taxpayers about $6 million, centers on two defendants Raymond Buckey and Peggy McMartin Buckey facing 100 counts of molestation and conspiracy.
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Los Angeles
McMartin
Superior Court
William Pounders
Andy Reynolds
Lael Rubin
Raymond Buckey
Danny Davis
Manhattan Beach
Peggy McMartin Buckey
Ms. Rubin
Buckeys
Hleard
Pounders
Opponents See Turn in Death Penalty Debate in Connecticut
Hartford AP report notes rising challenges to capital punishment as bills in Connecticut move through the legislature with broad Democratic support. Opponents cite costs, potential for wrongful executions, and alleged bias while supporters argue deterrence and just punishment amid a national tide.
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Hartford
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
Connecticut
Nebraska
Illinois
Joint Judiciary Committee
House
Cessor
Hugh Carey
Indiana
Maryland
Alaska
Michigan
Diana Rust-Tierney
American Civil Liberties Union
Washington, D.C
William L. Wollenberg
Wollenberg
Beachgoers Keep Texas Beaches Open After Shark Attack
In Port Aransas, officials kept beaches open after 16 year old April Dawn Voglino lost an arm in a shark attack off Mustang Island. She remained in serious but stable condition after surgery in Corpus Christi. Her father and a Texas A&M expert called the incident freak and not a beach-wide danger.
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Port Aransas
Texas
Dawn Voglino
Kingsland
Memorial Medical Center
Corpus Christi
Nueces County
J.P. Luby
Luby
Mustang Island
Robert Voglino
Voglino
Andre Landry
Texas A&m University At
Galveston
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Joseph Dowhan
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Condor Research Center
Ventura
Audubon Society
Ventura County
Greg Sanders
National Audubon Society
Bitter Creek National Wildlife Reserve
Calif
Gov. Campbell
Aviva K. Bobb
Ira Reiner
William A. O’neill
New Mexico
Toney Anaya
Kansas Senate
John Carlin
Mario Cuomo
Cuomo
Northeastern University
New York State
New York State Defenders Association
Joseph Green Brown
Brown
Florida
Richard Blumenthal
U.S
Landry
International Fabricate Institute
Aiken
Newberry
Dial
Don Cis
Porky Bradberry
Aiken High School
Horticulture Dept
FFA
Aiken Flute Value Home Center
York St
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