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SACRAMENTO (AP) - One of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's picks for the state Board of Education has resigned a week before a Senate committee was scheduled to vote on her confirmation. Jeannine Martineau, who was named to the board in January 2004, said Wednesday that she reluctantly withdrew her name because she was offered another "phenomenal" position in education. She declined to say what her new job would be, but said it was a "once in a lifetime" opportunity that would conflict with her duties on the Board of Education. "I really had to debate about this choice," she said Wednesday....

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Skeeter Davis, who hit the top of the pop charts with "The End of the World" in 1963 and sang on the Grand Ole Opry radio show for more than 40 years, died Sunday of cancer. She was 72. Davis died at a Nashville hospice, said Grand Ole Opry publicist Jessie Schmidt. Davis had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988 and had a recurrence in 1996.

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CHOWCHILLA, Calif. - A one-time member of the radical group that kidnapped Patricia Hearst had her sentence reduced by one year in the 1975 attempted bombings of two Los Angeles police cars. The 13-year sentence given Tuesday to Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, replaces the one handed down two years ago by the state Board of Prison Terms, which cited the potential violence and harm in the crime. A judge dismissed the term in July, saying the board "abused its discretion" by simply following a recommendation from prosecutors. Olson has already served more than...

PHILADELPHIA - Mark W. Potter, Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Patrick Meehan, United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced that Dwight Grant, known throughout the rap music industry as Beanie Sigel, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to violating the federal firearms and narcotics laws. ATF agents and officers of the Philadelphia Police Department arrested Sigel in July 2003, and charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The arrest stemmed from an incident that occurred in April 2003, when...

<p>SACRAMENTO - A key Assembly committee is investigating complaints by at least five legislative staffers to Assembly member Rebecca Cohn, including two sparked by a photo shoot for San Jose Magazine in which Cohn allegedly asked aides to handle her bras and underwear.</p>

Bush Country just received a rather disturbing email from one of our regular site visitors, Reverend Austin Miles.  In it, Rev Miles discloses that Michael Newdow (the atheist behind the Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit) is now a member of the State Bar of California and is apparently using that authority as an officer of the court to not only further his atheistic agenda but to harass Christians as well. Bush Country ask that you forward this information to major media outlets and those on your email list, so they can report on what is going on. Here are the...

A Russian man who claims to be in possession of Hitler's mummified penis is to put it up for sale. Ivan Zudropov says he's prepared to allow a DNA test on it to confirm its origins. Mr Zudropov claims his father, Vasiliy, was a Red Army soldier who saw action in Berlin and was one of the troops who was first into the Nazi's command bunker, where he found Hitler's body. Mr Zudropov said the Russian soldiers had stripped the body of clothing, then kicked and punched it before hacking it up, and that his dad had decided to keep...

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court has ruled that New York City was justified in dismissing a high school teacher who was found to be a member of the North American Man/Boy Love Association. The former teacher, Peter Melzer, had the constitutional freedom-of-association right to be a member of the organization, but his membership caused sufficient disruption to the school to warrant the firing, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found. Melzer, who had been a science teacher at the Bronx High School of Science for more than 25 years, was dismissed in 2000 by the Board of...

Member of Air Academy Rape Panel Resigns Thu Jun 19,10:54 AM ET DENVER - A woman appointed to an independent panel investigating the Air Force Academy sex abuse scandal resigned after questioning the truth of some of the rape allegations. Amy McCarthy cited intense criticism of her views and said perceptions of her "generated by the press" were not good for the congressionally mandated panel, the Rocky Mountain News reported Thursday. McCarthy, a 1982 academy graduate and United Airlines pilot, was one of seven people appointed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to look into claims by dozens of female...

Farrakhan says sniper suspect was a member of Nation of Islam Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan says suspected sniper John Allen Muhammad is a member of the religious group. But Farrakhan says Muhammed will be thrown out of the group if he is convicted of the series of shootings that left 10 people dead and three wounded. The Nation of Islam leader says he "grieves for the senseless loss of life" caused by the sniper shootings. Farrakhan said: "He has not formally been kicked out of the Nation of Islam, but certainly if he's found guilty of something like...

Latinos, Asians, gays gain in a Legislature looking more like California By Jim WassermanASSOCIATED PRESS March 6, 2002 LOS ANGELES – Latinos, Asian-Americans and gays continued 1990s gains in state Senate and Assembly primaries, setting the stage for a Legislature that looks more like California's increasingly diverse population. Women, too, boosted chances to expand their legislative presence. Asian-Americans, approximately 11 percent of the state's population, could raise their representation from four to six members in the Nov. 5 election. Gay men and women are almost certain to hold five seats later this year. And Latinos, representing one-third of California's 35...

China Subject to Most Restriction by US Trade Barriers Media reported recently that at the beginning of this year, the EU stopped importing China's honey in excuse of excessive antibiotic in it. Currently Japan, Canada and the United States also have intensified checks on China's honey. China's agricultural and animal products have been plagued by "green trade barriers" since the country entered into the WTO. This January Zhejiang Zhoushan's frozen shrimp meat was returned by the European countries; This February the export of bulk agricultural products, like frozen chicken, peanut and vegetable in Shandong province, dropped sharply; in the...