LA PUSH, Washington — A hiker who fell from a 25-foot-high cliff and broke her leg was spotted on the beach below after she spent three days there without food or water, Coast Guard officials said. Dana Crane, 19, of Brunswick, Maine, was found Monday by an Olympic National Park volunteer who was hiking below the park's cliffs, about 110 miles west of Seattle, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jason Wilder said.Crane, a student at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., was severely dehydrated but conscious, he said.She was listed in stable condition after being flown by Coast Guard helicopter to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles, where she was being treated for a broken leg and injuries to the pelvis, sternum and lower vertebrae....
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The former manager of the heavy-metal band Great White was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison -- well short of the maximum -- for his role in a pyrotechnics fire that killed 100 concertgoers. Daniel Biechele gazed downward and choked back tears as he apologized for the Feb. 20, 2003, blaze at the Station nightclub in West Warwick. "I don't know that I'll ever forgive myself for what happened that night, so I can't expect anyone else to," he said, his lip quivering. "I never wanted anyone to be hurt in any way. I never imagined that anyone ever would be." Biechele, 29, could have gotten as many as 10 years behind bars under a deal he struck with prosecutors in February, when he pleaded guilty to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter. "The greatest sentence that can be imposed upon you has been imposed upon you by yourself," Superior Court Judge Francis Darigan Jr. told Biechele, drawing sobs and groans from some of those in the courtroom...
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| Division over Bush migrant plan |
President Bush's latest plan to counter the flow of illegal migrants entering the United States has drawn varied reactions from the US and Mexico. In a prime-time TV address Mr Bush said he would send up to 6,000 National Guard soldiers to the US-Mexico border. He also pledged to bring in a temporary guest-worker scheme, and allow some illegal immigrants to become citizens. Democrats vowed to support "reasonable plans" but some conservatives said Mr Bush had not gone far enough. Monday night's speech from the Oval Office was the first time in his presidency that Mr Bush had addressed a mainly domestic issue in a live prime time television appearance. And he acknowledged the immigration issue had stirred "intense emotions". ...
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| EU3 to offer Iran nuclear reactor: diplomats |
The EU's three biggest powers plan to offer Iran a light-water nuclear reactor as part of a package of incentives if Tehran agrees to freeze its uranium enrichment program, EU diplomats said on Tuesday."The EU3 and Solana are planning an offer of a European light-water reactor to Iran in return for a suspension of its enrichment program," a European Union diplomat familiar with the negotiations on Iran told Reuters on condition of anonymity. ...
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| Saudi king cracks down on photos of women Monarch warns media not to print pictures in effort to appease Islamists |
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, under pressure from Islamists to curb reforms, has warned local media against showing pictures of Saudi women, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.Many Saudis have said they hope the king, who came to power last year, will loosen strict political and social mores in the ultra-conservative kingdom which imposes an austere version of Islam called Wahhabism.Newspapers have broken with tradition and have more frequently begun printing photographs of Saudi women beside stories, usually with hair covered but faces showing, which many Wahhabi Islamists consider morally wrong. They have also printed debate about other issues concerning women, such as whether bans on women driving and working in some retail stores could be reversed, issues which have raised the ire of many religious conservatives....
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| Pentagon hands over all Guantanamo names List gives basic data on 759 detainees held since Cuba facility opened in ’02 |
The Pentagon gave The Associated Press on Monday the first list of everyone who has been held at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba.None of the most notorious terrorist suspects was included on the list, however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held.A total 201 names of prisoners had never been disclosed by the Defense Department before. Officials say 759 detainees have been held at the detention center. The handover marks the first time that everyone who has been held by the Defense Department at Guantanamo Bay in the Bush administration's war on terror has been identified, according to Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler....
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