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Reality is setting in among President-elect Joe Biden's allies that the transition leading up to his inauguration may be more difficult than many inside Biden-world had assumed, two officials said, with a legal fight now a possibility

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has dropped the fight against one of his most vocal critics, deciding to stop battling the California Nurses Association over hospital staffing ratios. Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a motion late Thursday on behalf of the governor's office that withdrew the state's appeal of an earlier court ruling. In June, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled that the administration erred when it issued an emergency order a year ago seeking to delay a first-in-the-nation law requiring hospitals to provide more nurses. The governor's office filed an appeal shortly after with the state 3rd...

Three battling for unburied treasure Workers claim antique coins; landowner says he put them in yard 12/02/2002 Associated Press CORPUS CHRISTI - Serafin Trevino and Connie Moseley were working to remove a sewer pipe on a particularly murky plot of land in October when they unearthed quite a bounty. Amid the mud and sludge were 422 antique gold and silver coins, worth about $500,000, on property owned by the man who hired them, Alejandro Lopez Jr. The workers' discovery has brought about a question: Who has a right to the buried treasures? Mr. Trevino and Ms. Moseley, his wife,...