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In a hearing rife with partisan disagreement, Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, threatened to eliminate the National Labor Relations Board at his committee's hearing today in response to a lawsuit the board has filed against Boeing. "We could eliminate the NLRB or take the premise and statutorily change it," said Issa, R-Calif. "This [lawsuit] could lead to repercussions in America's competitiveness." The airplane manufacturer is being investigated for "transferring" the production of its 787 Dreamliner airplane from union-friendly Washington to South Carolina, where union influence is not as strong. The word...

<p>TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A fire destroyed a museum founded by a Holocaust survivor early Tuesday and arson is suspected, a museum official said.</p> <p>The fire was reported at the CANDLES Museum (search) just after midnight and gutted the building, a former printing plant along U.S. 41 south of the city's downtown.</p>

<p>FRESNO -- A jail inmate here says Scott Peterson, during a November meeting with two members of a neo-Nazi gang, broached the idea of kidnapping his wife. Laci Peterson, 27 and pregnant, disappeared from her Modesto home just before Christmas, and her remains washed ashore in San Francisco Bay in mid-April. Her 30-year-old husband is charged with the murders of his wife and their unborn son.</p>

Bizarre new twist in Laci Peterson murder investigation An inmate has come forward with accusations of a kidnapping plot that puts a new slant on the Laci Peterson murder investigation. ABC13 Eyewitness News (9/22/03 - HOUSTON) — A bizzare twist has emerged in the Laci Peterson murder case. A prison inmate named Cory Carroll says he and two other members of a neo-Nazi gang allegedly spoke with Scott Peterson about kidnapping his wife. Carroll says he met Peterson at a strip club and arranged a second meeting with two gang members known as "Dirty" and "Skeeter." Caroll's attorney says he...

Slaying theories involve devil, Nazis, artPosted on Mon, Oct. 06, 2003 Slaying theories involve devil, Nazis, art HEARING OCT. 20 IN CASE OF MODESTO HOMEMAKER By Julia Prodis Sulek Mercury News MODESTO - Nazi Low Riders named Dirty and Skeeter, an old Satanic cult called the Order of Lion, and bizarre paintings of decapitated women and floating fetuses. These are the latest surreal elements in the Laci Peterson murder case. Who could have guessed that the death of this pregnant homemaker who watched ``Martha Stewart Living'' each morning and had a wine-of-the-month club membership would be intertwined with such seamy...

Theories unfold as hearing nears in Peterson case Posted on Sun, Oct. 12, 2003 Theories unfold as hearing nears in Peterson case By Julia Prodis Sulek SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS MODESTO - Nazi Low Riders named Dirty and Skeeter, an old Satanic cult called the Order of the Lion, and bizarre paintings of decapitated women and floating fetuses. These are the latest surreal elements in the Laci Peterson slaying case. Who could have guessed that the death of this pregnant homemaker who watched "Martha Stewart Living" each morning and had a wine-of-the-month club membership would be intertwined with such seamy...