1 .San Francisco police said yesterday that a 23-year-old Ohio man bled to death early Friday after a brawl in a Tenderloin bar.

2. There was a report out Friday that identity thieves have stolen more than 40 million credit card accounts in perhaps the single largest case of consumer data theft ever.

3. Nevada City resident Harriet Swank suffered serious injuries Sunday when she triggered a methane explosion by lighting a match in a portable toilet.

4. A state prosecutor was asked by Gov. Jeb Bush on Friday to explore the circumstances of a dead woman's collapse 15 years ago.

5. In their fourth such action since last month's disappearance of an Alabama teen, Aruban police arrested a party boat disc jockey on Friday.

6. In Kyrgistan on Monday, police battled protesters who swarmed into government buildings in the nation's biggest unrest since the ouster of its president in March.

7. Roughly 1,000 U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers backed by American fighter jets attacked insurgent strongholds in the western Iraqi town of Karabilah on Friday and pushed along the banks of the Euphrates River valley looking for terrorists and "terrorist-support" systems that have taken advantage of Syria's porous border.

8. Mount Clemens police arrested a former parking meter attendant last week after finding thousands of dollars in coins in his home.

“Insider Reporting,” Tim Harrower, http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073526142/student_view0/chapter3/exercise_3-2_2.html