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RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A lawyer who specialized in defending drug suspects was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for manufacturing methamphetamine at a lab in his Mead Valley home. Edward Holland Horowitz, 52, was convicted last month of six felony counts and two enhancements, Deputy District Attorney Mark Davison said. Superior Court Judge Judith C. Clark on Thursday sentenced Horowitz to 16 years and four months in prison. "This is one of the more egregious lab cases that we've seen with regard to the position of the defendant," Davison said. "When you look at the case as a...

Time Reporter to Testify in CIA Leak Case WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating the Bush administration's leak of an undercover CIA operative's name.

The Iraq oil-for-food inquiry is reviewing new information about the UN secretary-general's alleged links with a firm hired to monitor the programme. A memo by Swiss firm Cotecna published this week describes a meeting between Kofi Annan and its executives in 1998, weeks before the contract was awarded. Mr Annan has denied prior knowledge of Cotecna's bid for the contract, though his son worked there as a consultant. A previous inquiry report found that the UN head had not helped Cotecna.