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$20M payment OK’d for Jaycee Dugard

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday signed a $20-million settlement for Jaycee Dugard, a woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist who had been under the supervision of the state. [...]

6 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan

An Australian soldier was killed in a bombing in southern Afghanistan late Friday, the 17th service member from that nation to die in the conflict, Australia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday. [...]

Saving nature’s unborn from disaster

One by one, with a hand as steady as a surgeon’s, Lorna Patrick removes eggs from a sea turtle’s nest on a Florida beach. [...]

BP plans to put new cap on well

BP plans to start replacing the cap on its ruptured underwater well Saturday with a better cover that could stop oil from gushing into the Gulf, a company spokesman said. [...]

Ex-officer convicted in BART fatal shooting apologizes

The former transit officer writes of his killing of an unarmed man: “I will live, breathe, sleep, and not sleep with the memory of Mr. Grant screaming ‘you shot me.’ ” [...]