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.