Bodies California

FBI agents investigating the disappearance of a 13-year-old girl were called in Wednesday after a decomposed female body was found in rural hills. But Undersheriff Curtis J. Hill of the San Benito Sheriff's Department later said the body did not appear to be that of Christina Williams, who disappeared more than a week ago about 30 miles away.

Bin Laden's death Re "Bin Laden photo withheld," May 5 No matter what President Obama does about the pictures of Osama bin Laden's body, there will always be some skeptics who will insist it never happened. I'm sure there are plenty of Obama haters who will take the other side of whatever he does. So why not take a middle-of-the-road approach? Invite several of the more levelheaded leaders of both political parties (not the crazies like Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump)

Bin Laden's death Re "Bin Laden photo withheld," May 5 No matter what President Obama does about the pictures of Osama bin Laden's body, there will always be some skeptics who will insist it never happened. I'm sure there are plenty of Obama haters who will take the other side of whatever he does. So why not take a middle-of-the-road approach? Invite several of the more levelheaded leaders of both political parties (not the crazies like Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump)

Despite the midnight hour, Jim Kohn decided to top off a night at the opera with a visit to a museum. So -- decked out in a tuxedo -- the 41-year-old Los Angeles man very early Sunday caught the last act of the California Science Center's "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies." Drawing more than 650,000 spectators since it opened in July, the collection of "plastinated" cadavers proved so popular that museum officials kept the doors open for the final 41 hours.

Despite the midnight hour, Jim Kohn decided to top off a night at the opera with a visit to a museum. So -- decked out in a tuxedo -- the 41-year-old Los Angeles man very early Sunday caught the last act of the California Science Center's "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies." Drawing more than 650,000 spectators since it opened in July, the collection of "plastinated" cadavers proved so popular that museum officials kept the doors open for the final 41 hours.

On a sodden Tuesday afternoon, the remains of Richard Nixon were returned to California for burial today in a plot beside his boyhood home. After simple ceremonies at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station and at the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, a slow-moving, miles-long line of mourners--the people the former President called the Silent Majority--began filing past the flag-draped mahogany coffin. Some had been waiting six hours.

Serial killer Wayne Adam Ford had few public admirers when Victoria Redstall, a former spokesmodel for breast enhancement supplements, breezed through the doors at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga determined to meet him. Redstall, a British-born actress from Studio City, admits to a lifelong fixation on serial killers and said meeting Ford in April -- to interview him for a documentary -- was "the dream of a lifetime."

The California First Amendment Coalition challenged city officials to admit that they violated the Ralph M. Brown Act, which regulates open meetings for public agencies and local governing bodies in California. City Council members and other officials received a letter, sent by the coalition last week, City Manager Thomas Mauk said.

Six people were killed Thursday and six more injured when a tractor-trailer loaded with furniture crashed into a Toyota Corolla and then plowed through the center divider on the Long Beach Freeway at Olympic Boulevard, crushing a black Mercedes-Benz and causing a chain reaction that eventually involved seven vehicles.

Leaders of the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)--two major participants in the modern ecumenical movement--are proposing a new "ecumenical partnership" between the denominations. A report to be presented to the two churches' highest deliberative bodies this summer calls for a commitment to a common mission, theological work and worship.

FBI agents investigating the disappearance of a 13-year-old girl were called in Wednesday after a decomposed female body was found in rural hills. But Undersheriff Curtis J. Hill of the San Benito Sheriff's Department later said the body did not appear to be that of Christina Williams, who disappeared more than a week ago about 30 miles away.

On a sodden Tuesday afternoon, the remains of Richard Nixon were returned to California for burial today in a plot beside his boyhood home. After simple ceremonies at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station and at the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, a slow-moving, miles-long line of mourners--the people the former President called the Silent Majority--began filing past the flag-draped mahogany coffin. Some had been waiting six hours.

Glenn E. Stallings, a 68-year resident of Ventura whose handmade gavels rang out in local city hall meetings as well as the U.S. Supreme Court, died Saturday after a brief illness. He was 84. Stallings was born June 10, 1913, in Smith County, Tenn. When he was 17, Stallings and a friend drove 2,400 miles to California in a Model A. With gas prices a dime a gallon, the trip cost the pair $31. Once in Ventura, the youths took a $7.

A federal appeals court Wednesday agreed to consider whether to overturn the death penalty for "Freeway Killer" William Bonin, who was convicted of killing 14 boys and young men. If he loses the appeal and final reviews by the U.S. Supreme Court, Bonin could be the next person executed in California. Several other federal appeals have failed for Bonin, who is on Death Row in San Quentin. On Wednesday, the U.S.