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President Bush is one of the biggest gas guzzlers in the country and his first stop to sell the idea of breaking the nation's oil addiction burned up thousands of gallons of jet fuel and hundreds of gallons of gasoline. The White House, Air Force and Secret Service keep a tight hold on the President's travel and mileage, but government and industry figures show that the Air Force One 747 jet gets less than the equivalent of a mile per gallon. The President usually travels with a backup 747 as well as a huge C-17 aircraft packed with the presidential...

Girlfriend says 'Sausage King' wanted to grind up inspectors Bay City News Monday, May 17, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The former girlfriend of San Leandro sausage factory owner Stuart Alexander testified in his murder trial today that Alexander said several times he wanted to kill several meat inspectors, put them in a meat grinder and make sausages out of them. Charlotte Knapp is a dental assistant who said she had an "on-again, off-again'' relationship with Alexander for three years before he was arrested for the deaths of three inspectors on June 21, 2000. She said Alexander, now 43, frequently used profanities to...