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(01-31) 20:04 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's re-election campaign manager resigned today after confronting the mayor about an affair Newsom had with his wife while she worked in the mayor's office, City Hall sources said.

San Francisco public officials and leaders of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community are demanding that a prominent radio host and television news anchor apologize for comments he made on the air about nontraditional families. Pete Wilson, the anchor of ABC's local evening news and host of a radio show on KGO 810 AM, criticized Supervisor Bevan Dufty and his friend Rebecca Goldfader, who are sharing a home and co-parenting a newborn, during a radio broadcast Tuesday.

(09-06) 14:30 PDT PHOENIX (AP) -- Charles Barkley insists he's serious about running for governor of Alabama, but he's got to move back there first. "I can't run until 2014," he said. "I have to live there for seven years, so I'm looking for a house there as we speak."

(10-13) 13:44 PDT McCook, Neb. (AP) -- A prisoner who slipped away from the McCook Community Hospital soon was running loose wearing little more than her underwear. Hitchcock County Sheriff D. Bryan Leggott said the 34-year-old inmate had been taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment. He would not release her name. After it arrived, she asked to use a bathroom. Then, somehow, she made her way out of the bathroom and the hospital. McCook police and Red Willow County deputies started an area search in the rainy, foggy, 49-degree weather shortly before noon Tuesday. Her ex-husband, who had...

A series of ugly run-ins between girls soccer teams in San Francisco's high schools has prompted a ban on that proverbial act of good sportsmanship -- the post-game handshake. Not only that, but "all soccer players will be barred from saying a single word to their opponents, opposing coaches

Iraqi refugee says world hasn't seen Saddam's cruelty Even with access to 35 Arabic language TV channels, not to mention American cable news shows, the most vivid images Jawad Al-Mamori sees of Iraq are not on the screen. They are in his mind. Pointing at the television images of American troops trudging toward Baghdad, the Iraqi refugee cannot contain his frustration that cameras can't show Saddam Hussein's grim tactics. ``They cannot see behind the picture,'' said Al-Mamori, 36, who now lives in Santa Clara. ``We were there.''

Thursday February 1 6:24 PM ET Clinton May Be Asked to Testify About Pardon Clinton May Be Asked to Testify About Pardon Reuters Photo By Adam EntousWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Senate Republican on Thursday threatened to call former President Clinton (news - web sites) to testify about his pardon of fugitive billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich, increasing pressure on Clinton to explain one of his final acts in office.Barely two weeks after Clinton left the White House, Sen. Arlen Specter (news - bio - voting record) of Pennsylvania scheduled a Judiciary Committee hearing for Feb. 7 on the Rich ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Andrew Card is the chief of an unusually complicated staff, the top aide in a White House pulsing with powerbrokers - from a vice president with a sprawling agenda to longtime Bush confidants carting overstuffed portfolios from Texas. "That's part of my responsibility, to make sure all the egos are understood and used constructively to counsel the president," Card said in an interview Wednesday. There will be plenty of egos for him to stroke at the Bush White House. Vice President Dick Cheney, a former presidential chief of staff himself, ran Bush's transition and was put in ...