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...young boy who started one of the worst of Southern California's wildfires last month will not be criminally charged, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said Tuesday. The 10-year-old boy had admitted to police that he had started the fire accidentally while playing with matches Oct. 21. Had he been charged with arson, he could have been made a ward of the state under California...
...leads the room in a hyperactive, sing-along dance sequence and then the whole gang tries to eat floating origami hummingbirds. Who could ask for more? For us Americans, this is probably what heaven is like. For our lucky Canadian neighbors however, it’s probably just another Tuesday night. —Nayeli E. Rodriguez
...currently pending bill, congressional leaders set on Tuesday the provisional cap on indirect expenses—including administration, building upkeep, and utility costs—at 35 percent, marking an end to a nearly half-century-old tradition of negotiating these rates on an institution-by-institution basis, said Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations...
...three of four pro-pot measures passed: legalizing medical marijuana and decriminalizing both marijuana itself and industrial hemp. (The only measure that failed asked for a straight-out legalization of marijuana.) A town of 8,500, Hailey is 12 miles from the Sun Valley ski area. When Spinelli worked Tuesday's election, he says he saw a lot of older affluent voters and young people from the service sector. In Idaho, being under the influence of pot in public draws a six-month sentence and $1,000 fine. At least in Hailey, if the local police - as opposed...
...Spain's Supreme Court to work out the fine points over the next year or so. In the meantime, hostile debate of the Madrid bombings - who was involved; who blamed whom for what; should investigations carry on or not - continues to be the favorite sport of Spanish politicians. On Tuesday, the Congress of Deputies debated whether the opposition Popular Party had mounted a "media jihad" in its efforts to prove that ETA was indeed involved in the attacks. The uncertainty surrounding Osman's sentence will just give them one more thing to argue about...