Richardson meets with California governor
SANTA FE (AP) - Gov. Bill Richardson traveled to California Monday for a speech and a meeting with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Richardson was on the schedule for the annual human relations conference of the International Association of Fire Fighters in Santa Monica. The association represents more than 260,000 professional firefighters, including hundreds in New Mexico.
Richardson and Schwarzenegger met for what was billed as a briefing on the Western Governors Association and the Border Governors Association, both of which Richardson chairs. The two also planned to discuss economic development and Richardson was to discuss the expansion of New Mexico's film industry incentive program.
Authorities remain silent on lab employees' theft
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LOS ALAMOS, N.M (AP) - Members of Congress reacted with outrage last year to photos of items investigators told them were illegally purchased over about a year and a half by a pair of Los Alamos National Laboratory workers.
But the case has not been resolved more than 15 months after FBI agents searched the homes of Scott Alexander and Peter Bussolini and found thousands of dollars worth of goods. The two men were terminated by the lab.
No charges have been filed and authorities refuse to say whether the pair remain under investigation - or if they ever were, despite the detailed search warrants filed in November 2002.
Bush defends war: Iraq posed threat to U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Tuesday that Iraq undoubtedly posed a threat to America last year and the U.S.-led invasion was justified, despite his outgoing arms inspector's conclusion that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. But Bush and his aides backed away from often-stated predictions that such weapons will eventually be found in Iraq. The president deflected questions about the discrepancies between his dire warnings on Iraq and former chief inspector David Kay's findings.
Prosecutor: Stewart sold stock on tip, then lied
NEW YORK (AP) - Martha Stewart sold stock based on "a secret tip" that no one else had, then told an avalanche of lies to save her reputation and enormous fortune, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in laying out the case against the homemaking queen. Stewart's attorney insisted the case was based on "speculation, surmise and guesswork."
Bombings kill 6 soldiers,UN to send team to Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The United Nations agreed Tuesday to send a team to Iraq to help break the impasse over electing a new government, as the deaths of six more American soldiers in roadside bombings underscored concerns about security in the volatile nation. A bomb that exploded south of Baghdad killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded three others Tuesday night, hours after another bombing west of the capital killed three U.S. paratroopers and wounded one, the military said. In addition, two employees of Cable News Network died in a shooting south of Baghdad.
Suicide bombing kills soldier, Afgan civilian
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber killed a Canadian soldier and an Afghan civilian Tuesday in an attack on a convoy of the NATO-led security force patrolling Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
The soldier was the first foreign victim of a fresh wave of violence that has claimed more than 60 lives this month. The attack came a day after Afghanistan's president signed the country's first post-Taliban constitution into law.
Three other Canadian troops and eight civilians, including a Frenchman, were wounded in the attack on a three-jeep convoy on a main road in the west of the city.
