Critics want Sandia landfill excavated, moved
(AP) - Critics are contending Sandia National Laboratories has not done an adequate job of monitoring for leaks and doing an analysis of risks posed by an old mixed waste landfill.
Sandia has proposed putting a permanent cap over the landfill, leaving the radioactive and chemical wastes in place.
Critics want the landfill to be excavated and the waste moved to a safer place.
The hearing on the dispute continues next week, and the state Environment Department is expected to make a decision next spring.
Employment numbers not as high as expected
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WASHINGTON (AP) - For a while, it looked as if the conclusion to the 2004 election would prove to be a rejuvenating tonic for the nation's economy. Then, as has happened so often over the past three years, news on the jobs front fell short of expectations.
The latest disappointment came Friday with a government report that payrolls grew by just 112,000 workers in November, far below the 200,000-job gain many economists had expected. As if that wasn't enough, the government revised significantly downward the job gains for the two previous months.
Gays file lawsuit against 'don't ask, don't tell'
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy is being challenged by 12 gays who have been separated from the military because of their homosexuality.
They planned to file a federal lawsuit Monday in Boston that would cite last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling that overturned state laws making gay sex a crime as ground for overturning the policy.
Other courts have upheld the 11-year-old policy, but C. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, which is advising the plaintiffs, said those decisions came prior to the 2003 Supreme Court ruling.
Attack north of Baghdad kills 17, wounds dozens
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a U.S. ammo dump near Tikrit on Sunday, killing 17 and raising the toll from three days of intensified and bloody insurgent attacks to at least 70 Iraqi dead and dozens more wounded.
The attacks, focused in Baghdad and several cities to the north, appeared to be aimed at scaring off those who cooperate with the American military.
