The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays, for February 10, 2004 - 6:00pm

• A suicide bomber blows up a truckload of explosives outside a police station south of Baghdad killing more than 50 people and wounding up to 100 - amoung the dead are Iraqis lined up for a job on the police force - asked about the bombing Defense Secretary Rumsfeld says there are murders in every major city in the world because human beings are human beings
• Two grassroots groups launch a nationwide campaign to get Congress to censure President Bush for manipulating intelligence to justify the attack on Iraq
• The 11th hour reprieve granted San Quentin death row inmate Kevin Cooper should keep his effort to exonerate himself going well into next year - the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene last night and let the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court stay of execution stand
• Democratic Presidential front-runner John Kerry wins primaries in Virginia and Tennessee - the sweep gives Kerry 12 wins in the 14 Democratic contests thus far
• State Democrats come out backing Governor Schwarzenegger's 15 billion dollar bond to deal with the State's fiscal crisis - both Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and the leaders of both houses of the State Legislature announce their support today
• San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano with a resolution for a moratorium on sending youthful offenders to facilities of the California Youth Authority

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