Woman found dead in fire was stabbed
AP - Police said a young mother found dead after her apartment burned died of stab wounds before the blaze started.
Police announced the day after the Jan. 12 fire they were investigating the deaths of Latauque Tashi Glenn, 22, and her 18-month-old son, Izaiah Sanchez, as homicides.
After extinguishing the early-morning blaze, firefighters pulled Glen's blood-covered body from the apartment, then picked up Izaiah from his crib in a separate room. Paramedics were unable to resuscitate him.
Police said no arrests have been made.
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Housing, meal plans going up at NMSU
LAS CRUCES, NM (AP) - Dormitories and meal plans will cost more next year at New Mexico State University.
Regents on Monday approved increases for campus housing ranging from 5 percent to 20 percent for 2004-2005, depending on the dorm and type of room.
Rates will increase 5 percent from the current $1,220 to $1,281 for the least expensive rooms. They will go up 20 percent, from $1,220 to $1,463 for certain double rooms, and 7 percent, from $1,726 to $1,847 for the most expensive two-bedroom dorms.
The cost of an efficiency - $1,836 - will not change. Family housing will go up 7 percent, from $458 to $490 a month.
All NMSU meal plans will go up $30, ranging from $1,090 for an unlimited plan to $590 for a plan called "dining express."
Howard Dean replaces his campaign manager
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Democrat Howard Dean shook up his faltering bid for the White House on Wednesday, replacing his campaign manager with a longtime associate of former Vice President Al Gore. In a further sign of distress, the one-time front-runner implemented cost-cutting measures as he looked ahead to a series of costly primaries and caucuses, asking staff to defer their paychecks for two weeks.
New offensive planned against al Qaeda
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is planning a new offensive in the 2-year-old Afghanistan campaign to stop remnants of the Taliban regime and the al-Qaeda terror network, officials said Wednesday, even as a second suicide assault on foreign troops in Kabul in as many days killed one British soldier and injured four. The attack on international peacekeepers in Kabul, the Afghan capital, drew new attention to a worsening security situation in a country where American and other Western troops have been stationed since the fall of the Taliban's leadership in early 2002.
Republicans put blame on weak intelligence
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former weapons inspector David Kay said Wednesday "we were almost all wrong" about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs, as Congress pressed a high-stakes struggle to pinpoint why that happened and who was responsible. Republicans say the nation's intelligence agencies were the problem. Democrats point to the White House, questioning possible pressure put on intelligence analysts and noting Vice President Dick Cheney's continued assertions that weapons of mass destruction existed.
