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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators working for Chandra Levy's parents discovered a human leg bone and twisted wire Wednesday near the site where her remains were found in a Washington park. Dr. Jonathan Arden, Washington's medical examiner, has determined it is probably Levy's left shin bone, people familiar with the investigation said. But the bone yielded no clues about how Levy died, they said.</p>

Parents Were Asleep In Bedroom SALT LAKE CITY -- A gunman forced his way into a house and abducted a 14-year-old girl Wednesday while her parents slept in their bedroom, police said. Police said the man also threatened Elizabeth Smart's 9-year-old sister and said he would harm the teen if her sister said anything. The two girls share a bedroom in the home in the affluent Federal Heights neighborhood. Her sister waited several hours before alerting her parents because of the threat, said Duane Baird, a Salt Lake City police spokesman. "A two-hour window gives anyone the opportunity to be...

<p>Southwest's travelers won't have to wait for boarding passes. Travelers on Southwest Airlines weary of standing in long lines to get their boarding passes will see relief soon.</p> <p>Late this month, Southwest, the dominant carrier at Sacramento International Airport with 70 flights a day, will begin distributing boarding passes at curbside check-in and at the ticket counter as well as at the boarding gate.</p>

<p>The goal is to improve voter turnout and shorten the campaign season. Don't mark your election calendars just yet. California's primary may be on the move again.</p> <p>On the heels of record-low voter turnout in the March primary, the state Senate last week voted to shift future statewide primaries to August to boost interest among the electorate.</p>

<p>Matthew Jacob Garcia will never know his mother, a young woman who loved the sea, country music and her soul mate -- her junior high school sweetheart and husband of just one year.</p> <p>But perhaps one day he will understand that his mother's death, only three hours after his premature birth, helped four other people who now have a second chance at life thanks to her healthy kidneys, liver and heart.</p>

<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Public libraries can't be forced to use Internet filters designed to block pornography, three federal judges said Friday in overturning a new federal law. In a 195-page decision, the judges said the Children's Internet Protection Act went too far because the filters also can block access to sites that contain protected speech.</p>

<p>SAN DIEGO (AP) - Eight men considered to be the kingpins of immigrant smuggling between Mexico and the United States are part of the U.S. Border Patrol's first "Most Wanted" list in California. Border Patrol agents revealed the list Wednesday, hoping that they publicity will lead to the arrest of the fugitives.</p>

<p>Legislation to make California the first state in the nation to prohibit public schools or mascots from being named after American Indian tribes was rejected Tuesday by the Assembly.</p> <p>AB 2115 received support from 29 legislators and opposition from 35. Forty-one votes were needed for passage.</p>

<p>Published 9:03 a.m. PDT [Updated 12:10 p.m. May 28] MODESTO -- Hours after learning that Chandra Levy was murdered, Robert and Susan Levy tried to focus on the positive at a memorial service celebrating their daughter's short life.</p> <p>In Washington, medical examiner Jonathan L. Arden told reporters that the death had been classified as a homicide but the cause of death could not be determined.</p>

KOVR-13 news item From MyDogDaisy | 2002-05-24 18:37:22 replied Forgive me for sending this note to you, but I note you posted an item about KCRA. I want to alert FR to something that happened that was reported on KOVR-13 on Thursday 5/23/02 but don't know how to post here. Maybe you saw the item on the news. It concerned the Navy SEAL, Niel Roberts, who was killed in Operation Anaconda. He is from Woodland, CA. Well, they are building a new high school there. Some of the citizens wanted to name this new school after him. They came to...

<p>"Judge Cudahy's apology is corrective action," Posner said in response to the request for an investigation made by the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C.</p> <p>Posner and Cudahy are members of the Chicago-based U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Cudahy is also a member of the special division of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.</p>

KCRA TV channel 3, "Where the News Comes First", Sodomento, announced on 11 pm news that stripper mom has 3-week job on radio. FM 107.9 KDND The Rave-- "morning Rave"-- morning talk radio. 107.9 The End is proud to welcome Christina Silvas as the newest member of the Morning Rave. You've seen her on the news and you've read about her in the paper. Now you can listen to her every weekday morning!

<p>A contractor hired to work on a hot tub in the back yard of an East San Jose home found a decomposed body floating face down under a tightly closed hardcover, police said.</p> <p>The resident was in such disbelief that he poked the body with a shovel to make sure it wasn't part of a prank. Even more strange is how police officers think the body got there.</p>

NBC KCRA-3 just gave the most biased report on proposed sex-ed changes in the SJUSD. They said it was approved by committee, and did NOT mention there were objections by two committee members and growing dissent from parents in the district. EVERYONE they showed in the interview, from adults to STUDENTS, gave approval for teaching explicit condom use. I've never seen a more biased report. They interviewed Deidre Powell-- SJUSD public affairs, who said kids need this. Kids need a fair abstinance education-- not the Making Safer Choices full-of holes theory that Planned Parenthood and its shadow organizations foist on...

<p>A San Juan district proposal to add lessons on condoms in high schools angers some. The San Juan Unified School District's curriculum and standards committee voted to adopt material from a sex education textbook despite the objections of some parents who felt it is too explicit.</p>

<p>Exemptions allow 9,000 to join the rolls even as the deficit grows. More than 9,000 new workers joined the state payroll under a hiring freeze imposed by Gov. Gray Davis as state finances hit the skids last fall.</p> <p>In the five months after the freeze began in October, state hiring was down just 29 percent compared with the same period the previous year, a Bee analysis found.</p>

<p>Two possible tornadoes were indicated by radar near Woodland around noon Monday, moving north, the National Weather Service warned.</p> <p>At about 12:11 p.m., weather service radar showed a possible tornado about 13 miles north of Woodland, moving northeast at 20 mph.</p>

<p>A 5-year-old Rancho Cordova girl will return to kindergarten at the Capital Christian School after being expelled last week because administrators discovered her mother works as a nude dancer.</p> <p>Christina Silvas, 24, agreed to stop working at Gold Club Centerfolds off Highway 50 for at least the next three weeks so her daughter can graduate from kindergarten and attend the end-of-the-year pool party she had been looking forward to.</p>

<p>Aide who took donation for Davis resigns By Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Gov. Gray Davis' director of e-government personally accepted a $25,000 political contribution from a lobbyist for the Oracle Corp. last year, shortly after the state signed a controversial long-term software contract with the company, The Bee learned Thursday.</p>