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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Jurors recommended death by lethal injection for Roderick Byrd for his capital murder convictions in a Thanksgiving Day triple slaying at a Birmingham motel.

The dead included 42-year-old truck driver John Aylesworth of Sulphur Springs. Also dead were 28-year-old motel clerk Kim Olney 58-year-old hotel guest Dorothy Smith.

Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Bill Cole set sentencing for August Sixth for the 23-year-old Byrd.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) -- A former city worker has filed a $4 million lawsuit claiming she was unfairly fired last year in retaliation for reporting problems she identified and that officials have blocked her from finding a new job. Kim Kagelaris claims she was wrongly dismissed from the Springfield Public Works Department's Environmental Services Division last June after she uncovered and reported to supervisors numerous deficiencies in the city's industrial wastewater monitoring program. S...

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Schwarzenegger, who is fond of set-piece media events, staged one in Sacramento to tout his plan to provide health insurance to the 6.5 million Californians who lack it, but sidestepped reporters questions about the schemes legality.

The Legislatures legal office opined recently that the self-described fees that the governors plan would impose on employers and health care providers would be taxes under the state constitution and therefore would require two-thirds legislative votes. That would give conservative Republicans opposed to health care mandates a decisive political role.

The governor, however, simply ignored the issue Thursday, saying that he is involved in the big picture of expanding health care and would leave the legalities and details to others — which is a strangely aloof attitude. Were two-thirds votes required, his scheme could

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You always use your turn signal and observe the speed limit. The only ticket you've ever received was for an expired parking meter. You should be eligible for lower car-insurance premiums than that bozo who cut you off this morning is, right?

Not necessarily.

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When Dave Duerson, the former Chicago Bears safety who won Super Bowl rings with the Bears and the New York Giants, showed up in downtown Waukegan on June 14, it wasn't to sign autographs or meet with fans.

Instead, a judge at the Lake County courthouse ruled against Duerson in a foreclosure proceeding, finding that he owed nearly $550,000 on his 17-room Highland Park home, and that it would be sold by the court or sheriff if the money wasn't repaid by Oct. 1.

"It sucks," Duerson said later in the living room of his custom-built home, which features a vanity driveway pillar carved with "NFL22" and a for-sale sign out front. The house, where he has lived since 1987, is listed at nearly $1.6 million.

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