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BAKERSFIELD - A woman defending her home shot a trespasser after two warning shots Wednesday afternoon. It happened on O Street around 2 p.m. Police said a man who may have been on PCP was attacking two pitbulls outside the woman’s back yard. The assailant was allegedly beating the dogs with a belt when he awakened a couple sleeping inside. The woman, who is said to be in her 40’s, came to the back yard and asked the suspect to leave. Police said he then came at the couple and pushed the elderly man to the ground. The woman fired...

<p>BRAINERD, Minn. -- Roger Awsumb, star of the ''Casey Jones'' children's shows on Twin Cities television from the 1950s into the early 70s, died today. He was 74.</p> <p>Awsumb, who lived on Bass Lake in Merrifield, near Brainerd, had complained of having chest pains and was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph's Medical Center around 5 a.m. He had been in poor health and was recently diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.</p>