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CALIFORNIA

Firefighters quit over porn talk

KEYES — Seventeen firefighters in a small volunteer department resigned last week to protest the pornography career of a colleague who reportedly discussed her work at the firehouse.

Firefighters in Keyes, a town of 4,500 south of Modesto, walked off the job to protest Alexa Jones’ pornography career, which they said she discussed while on the job with her husband, Assistant Fire Chief Roger Jones.

Mrs. Jones has a Web site that promotes her pornographic material but does not mention her job as a firefighter.

HAWAII

Lawmakers fight Interior over funds

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s congressional delegation and the Interior Department are at odds over the divvying up of nearly $30 million in federal funds intended to help provide social services for immigrants from the tiny Pacific nations of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.

Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton planned to announce the state’s $10.5 million share at a ceremony today in Honolulu, but the event was canceled after the delegation learned of the figure on Thursday, the Honolulu Advertiser reported Saturday.

The U.S. territory of Guam was awarded $14.2 million and the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth, received $5.1 million.

ILLINOIS

Northwestern to test damage assertions

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