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An anti-war march against the U.S. policy on Iraq by about 500 Canoga Park High School students turned ugly Wednesday when some in the crowd started looting a gas station convenience store and disrupting traffic. A group of students who skipped class to participate in the lunchtime protests stole candy bars and knocked over displays at the Mobil gas station at the corner of Topanga Canyon and Victory boulevards, officials said. Five of them were detained on suspicion of vandalism and theft, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman.

Posted on Thu, Mar. 06, 2003 Boxer calls for investigation into California gas price spike ANDREW BRIDGES Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Sen. Barbara Boxer called Thursday for a federal investigation into California's soaring gasoline prices amid concerns the market is being manipulated in ways reminiscent of the power crisis that convulsed the state two years ago. In a letter to U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker, the California Democrat asked the General Accounting Office to look at news reports that oil companies are taking more refineries than normal off line for maintenance. Such a move presumably would curtail the...

LONDON (AP) - Some of the peace activists who went to Iraq to serve as human shields in the event of war returned home, fearing for their safety, a spokesman said Sunday. The human shields are mostly European activists who drove from London to Baghdad in two double-decker buses last month, intending to guard civilian sites from a U.S.-led military attack.