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A Caltech graduate physics student pleaded innocent today to firebombing and vandalizing more than 100 sports utility vehicles in a suspected protest attack by a radical environmentalist movement against the gas-guzzling vehicles. William Cottrell, 23, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., pleaded not guilty to the charges laid out in a nine-count indictment. Cottrell could face more than 30 years in prison if he is convicted. According to the indictment, Cottrell and "other known and unknown co-conspirators" went on a spree of firebombing and vandalizing sports utility vehicles in the Los Angeles area in...

(snip)... Cabarrus County - [David Nelson] Judy was released from the Cabarrus County jail Monday on $40,000 bond. In Saturday's incident, the 5-year-old boy had been traveling from Tampa, Fla., with his mother and her boyfriend to their home in Newport News, Va., when they stopped at the northbound rest area at about 3:30 p.m. The boy and his two older brothers, ages 10 and 6, went to use the bathroom while their mother waited in the hall and her boyfriend cleaned out the car, police said. The 5-year-old entered a restroom stall, the boyfriend said. When the 10-year-old boy...