National
More homes lost in Calif., fire fighters exhausted
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Flames raged along a vast front in devastated San Diego County on Tuesday as one chief warned that firefighters were being forced off the lines by exhaustion, even if it meant that more homes would be destroyed. At least 17 deaths were blamed on the fires, 15 in Southern California and two in Mexico, as separate blazes were scattered along an arc from the suburbs northwest of Los Angeles to Ensenada, Mexico, about 60 miles south of the border. At least 1,552 homes have been destroyed in California.
Suspect in Dennehy murder to face hearing
WACO, Texas (AP) - Former Baylor University basketball player Carlton Dotson was taken back to Waco on Tuesday, three months after he was arrested in Maryland in the shooting death of a former teammate, an official said.
Dotson, 21, will face another arraignment and bail review hearing in Waco. He was flown to Austin on Tuesday afternoon from Maryland and was driven to Waco.
Dotson was indicted in August in the slaying of Patrick Dennehy, 21, who had been missing six weeks when his body was found July 25 in a field near a rock quarry south of Waco. The 6-foot-10 player, who shared his apartment with Dotson since April, had been shot twice in the head.
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Dotson had been fighting extradition since his July 21 arrest in his home state, where he returned in June after leaving Baylor.
International
Insurgents feared to be targeting collaborators
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded Tuesday west of Baghdad, killing at least four people a day after three dozen people died in a wave of suicide bombings in the Iraqi capital.
U.S. officials said one of Baghdad's three deputy mayors was killed in a hit-and-run shooting. The latest attacks, including the killing Sunday of Deputy Mayor Faris Abdul Razzaq al-Assam, raised fears that a strengthened insurgency is increasingly targeting Iraqis who work with the U.S.-led coalition as well as international groups that had considered themselves at less risk than U.S. soldiers.
