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Calif. Man Admits Stabbing Sea Lion

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A fisherman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stabbing a sea lion that apparently stole his bait....

San Fran OKs ID Card for Immigrants

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The mayor signed legislation Wednesday requiring the city to issue identification cards to undocumented immigrants and other residents who can't or won't apply for driver's licenses....

Chicago Trucker Guilty in Deadly Wreck

WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) -- A Chicago truck driver was convicted Wednesday of reckless homicide charges for crashing his semitrailer into a tour bus in 2003, killing eight women....

Flight Attendant Retires After 50 Years

HONOLULU (AP) -- When Patti Smart was hired as an Aloha Airlines stewardess 50 years ago, it was a different job for a different time....

Fire at Major US Oil Pipeline Kills 2

CLEARBROOK, Minn. (AP) -- A deadly fire at a pipeline from Canada that feeds oil to the United States sent oil prices soaring Thursday....

Rock Center's Eco-Friendly Tree Is Lit

NEW YORK (AP) -- This year, all the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lights are green....

NY Man Fights for Anti-Osama Plates

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- A retired police officer is seeking a court order to force the state Department of Motor Vehicles to drop its demand that he return vanity license plates calling for the capture or death of Osama bin Laden....

O.J. Simpson's Hearing a Quiet Affair

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The "Special Event" signs placed around courthouse parking lots suggesting O.J. Simpson's court appearance might cause a frenzy of activity were hardly necessary....

Tobacco-Deal Lawyer Indicted in Miss.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An attorney who helped negotiate a multibillion-dollar settlement against tobacco companies in the 1990s and has sued insurers over unpaid Hurricane Katrina claims was indicted Wednesday in a suspected scheme to bribe a Mississippi judge....

Roberts Says God Forced His Resignation

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University that he did not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but that he did so because God insisted....