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Documents shed new light on Trayvon Martin killing

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and KYLE HIGHTOWER - Updated: 6:40 pm

Trayvon Martin was shot through the heart at close range. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts on the back of his head.

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Twin Rivers trustee accused of accepting employee loans denies violating rules

By Melody Gutierrez - Updated: 5:31 pm

Twin Rivers Unified School District trustee Cortez Quinn released a brief statement Thursday in response to allegations he illegally took a substantial loan from a district employee, who later filed a paternity suit against him.

Comcast to start charging heavy downloaders extra

By PETER SVENSSON - Published: 6:31 pm

Comcast Corp., the country's largest Internet service provider, is going to start charging extra when customers go over a certain monthly data limit.

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Merced Sun-Star: Chowchilla bus driver in 1976 kidnapping dies

Updated: 6:21 pm

In his last days, Frank Edward Ray was visited by many of the schoolchildren he helped to save in the Chowchilla school bus kidnapping 35 years before.

Chowchilla Kidnapping Bus Driver, Ed Ray, Dies

Reports: HP poised to eliminate up to 30,000 jobs

The Associated Press - Updated: 6:34 pm

Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.

Fired whistle-blower Kathy Carroll loses personnel board appeal

By Jim Sanders - Published: 2:25 pm

A whistle-blower fired while cooperating with a state probe of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing about 18 months ago has lost her appeal before the State Personnel Board.

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Don Hatfield plays with his grandchildren, Alex, now 11 months, and Eva, 5, at their home in Napa in March. On Wednesday, May 16, 2012, a mediation session in El Dorado Superior Court decided Hatfield could keep custody of the two children, plus a third sibling, Ariel, 3. Their mom was slain in February and their father charged. View a photo gallery.
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Donna Summer is seen in this 1979 file photo. The Queen of Disco died May 17, 2012 in Florida after a battle with cancer. She was 63. View a photo gallery.
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A Magellanic penguin swims in the June Keyes Penguin Habitat exhibit at The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif., Wednesday, May 16, 2012.
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Sri Lankan army soldiers march during rehearsals of a military parade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, May 17, 2012. Sri Lanka will commemorate the government's victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels in an annual military parade scheduled for May 19. In 2009, the Tamil Tigers admitted defeat in their 25-year war with the Sri Lankan government that left more than 70,000 people dead.
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Riot police detain a student during a protest for education reform in downtown Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Despite more than a year of mass protests that raised hopes across Chile for education reform, few students have seen any real benefits. Politicians and students have hardened their positions, but the system is still failing families with poor quality public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and banks that still make huge profits on loans that most Chileans can ill afford.