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  • Judge: Calif. must pay for prison health care

    By DON THOMPSON

    A federal judge has scolded California officials for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health care system.

  • Arctic quake sends waves through Nevada

    Scientists say what appeared to be an earthquake in northeastern Nevada was actually a seismograph picking up waves from an earlier quake in the Arctic Ocean.

 

NATIONAL NEWS FROM THE HERALD-LEADER

  • Sen. Stevens curses, denies wrongdoing on tape

    By Richard Mauerand Erika Bolstad

    WASHINGTON — In secretly recorded telephone conversations played in court Monday, an occasionally profane Sen. Ted Stevens denied any suggestion of wrongdoing and cursed about federal agents raiding homes and offices in Alaska as part of a corruption investigation.

  • Justices look at lawsuit over smoking ads

    By Michael Doyle

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court returned to the stage Monday as justices weighed whether state laws can be used to challenge deceptive cigarette advertising.

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