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Police in the South Bay say they set up a suspected burglar on a “first date” he likely regrets. Marianne Favro reports.Police on the Peninsula say they set up a suspected burglar on a “first date” he likely regrets. Keveen Quintanilla, 31, of Burlingame, is accused of burglarizing Curry Up Now, a restaurant in the 100 block of South B Street in San Mateo. San Mateo police say he was caught in the act by employees in the early hours of Saturday morning, but he fled the scene before police could arrive. One of those employees, 22-year-old bartender Ashleigh Cullen,...

<p>Hispanic activist Carlos Quintanilla was arrested in Irving on an accusation of driving with an invalid license and other charges Thursday, the same day he was organizing an immigration rally.</p> <p>Mr. Quintanilla said Accion America was holding its latest rally to urge police to not take people into custody for minor traffic violations just because they don't have a state-issued identification card or driver's license.</p>

This morning, NBC and ABC each promoted radical left-wing film-maker Michael Moore's "rock star reception" in Boston and his gimmicky trip to President Bush's hometown of Crawford, Texas, to show his anti-Bush movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. ABC's Jake Tapper did call Moore "liberal" and "polarizing," but NBC's Carl Quintanilla wouldn't go beyond "fiery." On Good Morning America, MRC's Jessica Anderson noted, ABC's Charles Gibson promoted Moore: "We do start this half-hour, Diane, with someone who is here at the convention getting an enormous amount of attention and he's not a politician, he's not a delegate, he's Michael Moore, who so injected...

Media Reality Check. "The TV Elite Downplays Kerry vs. Russert: Papers Highlight Kerry Backing Away from Vietnam ‘Atrocity' Claims, But TV Networks Stay Quiet" Below is the text of a Media Reality Check, by the MRC's Director of Media Analysis, Tim Graham, which was distributed by fax earlier today. For the Adobe Acrobat PDF version:http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2004/pdf/fax0421.pdf Now, the text of the April 21 Media Reality Check On Monday, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz presented results of a Post study of cable news coverage from March 3 to April 16. The main finding: President Bush received three times as much live...