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On the day that its former coach, Juergen Klinsmann, was named technical advisor to Major League Soccer's Toronto FC, Bayern Munich on Wednesday powered its way into the last 16 of the European Champions League. The German club, a four-time European champion and runner-up behind Inter Milan in last season's tournament, brushed aside CFR Cluj, 4-0, in Romania and is the first team to reach the knockout stage. Joining it in the final 16 a little later Wednesday night was Chelsea, the runner-up to Manchester United in 2008.

Soccer's European Champions League is up and running again, and that means coaches suddenly have rediscovered the art of the memorable quotation. On Wednesday, it was Domingos Paciencia, the coach of Portugal's Braga, who emerged as the clear winner in that regard with his post-match comments after Braga had been thrashed, 6-0, by Arsenal in London. "We made so many mistakes," Paciencia said. "It's very hard to play the game as badly as we have done tonight . . . even finishing at halftime would have been a bad experience.

The state Senate approved a package of bills Tuesday in response to the rapes and murders of San Diego County teenagers Chelsea King and Amber Dubois, including a measure that would keep violent sexual offenders behind bars longer and require closer supervision for those paroled. Lawmakers dubbed one bill Chelsea's Law in memory of King, who was killed by a previously convicted sex offender after she disappeared while jogging near her home. King's parents actively supported the legislation.

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On a breezy summer night, behind the stone walls of a 106-year-old estate, hundreds of celebrities, dignitaries, family and friends gathered Saturday to witness Chelsea Clinton make Marc Mezvinsky the newest member of the Clinton political clan. Clinton and Mezvinsky wed just before sunset on the secluded Astor Courts estate after frenzied days of anticipation among a nation of wedding-watchers. On Saturday, townspeople and media hordes converged on sidewalks of this community north of New York City hoping for a glimpse of the festivities.

As far as this village is concerned, this weekend is a chance to celebrate what may be as close to a royal wedding as it gets in a country that lacks an aristocracy of its own. Sometime Saturday, Chelsea Clinton, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to marry investment banker Marc Mezvinsky at a 50-acre estate along the Hudson River with the mountains a distant backdrop....

Reporting from San Diego Convicted killer and rapist John Albert Gardner III is being investigated as a suspect in assaults against women and teenage girls in San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, law enforcement officials said Monday. "We believe he's involved in other cases, not necessarily murder," said Lt. Dennis Brugos, head of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department homicide detail. A multiagency "Gardner task force" is at work, he said. Brugos said investigators talked to Gardner for two hours Friday after he was sentenced for the murders of Chelsea King, 17, and Amber Dubois, 14, in northern San Diego County.

Amid anguished and angry comments from the parents of his victims, registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III was formally sentenced Friday to life in prison without the chance of parole for the murder and rape of two teenage girls in northern San Diego County. The families of Amber Dubois, 14, and Chelsea King, 17, spoke in court of the bright, hopeful, innocent lives that were violently destroyed by Gardner and of how their broken bodies were discarded like trash. The courtroom in San Diego County Superior Court was packed with family members, investigators and reporters — many of whom had tears in their eyes.

A 31-year-old registered sex offender pleaded guilty Friday to murdering two teenage girls in northern San Diego County in a deal that spares him from the death penalty. John Albert Gardner III, who previously served five years in prison for beating and molesting a 13-year-old girl, pleaded guilty to the murders of Chelsea King, 17, and Amber Dubois, 14, both during rape attempts. In exchange for his plea at the hastily arranged hearing, Gardner will be returned to prison for life, without the possibility of parole.

People convicted of sex crimes against minors would face longer prison sentences and more time on parole under a proposal made Monday in response to the slaying of 17-year-old Chelsea King in San Diego County. The man charged with killing the Poway High School student had been on parole until 2008, after serving five years in prison for molesting a 13-year-old girl. "These offenders cannot be rehabilitated," said Brent King, Chelsea's father, at an emotional Capitol news conference.