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Utah officials trying to ban hookah smoking

Last updated Monday, June 6, 2011 - 7:37am

SALT LAKE CITY — A proposed rule by Utah health officials would prohibit hookah smoking in popular bars and other public places.

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Delta, after flight diversion, bans passenger for life

Jody Callahan, Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Friday, May 27, 2011 - 2:23pm

MEMPHIS -- It started with five whiskey and Cokes -- doubles -- in an airport bar in Texas.

It ended in handcuffs, a three-day stint in the Shelby County Jail, being stripped "buck naked" twice and a lifetime ban from Delta Air Lines for Bryan Sisco, 40.

In between is the odd story of a flight diverted to Memphis last Friday after Sisco bragged to a young woman that he had a gas canister that could put everyone onboard to sleep.

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Another Calif. city considers banning circumcisions

Los Angeles Times, Martha Groves

Last updated Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 10:09am

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Performing a circumcision on a boy under age 18 -- even for religious reasons -- would be illegal under a measure that a San Diego group hopes to place on Santa Monica's November 2012 ballot.

A similar initiative this month from the anti-circumcision group known as MGM Bill garnered enough signatures in San Francisco to place it on that city's November ballot. MGM stands for "male genital mutilation."

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Hasan Jamali/The Associated Press
Bahraini women wait outside a hospital in Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, where victims of the confrontation between anti-government protestors and riot police were being treated. Armed patrols prowled neighborhoods and tanks appeared in the streets for the first time after riot police with tear gas and clubs drove protesters from a main square where they had demanded sweeping political change.

Bahrain official: Crackdown was 'regrettable'

Hadeel Al-Shalchi, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 3:08pm

MANAMA, Bahrain -- Troops and tanks locked down the capital of this tiny Gulf kingdom after riot police swinging clubs and firing tear gas smashed into demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in a pre-dawn assault Thursday that uprooted their protest camp demanding political change. Medical officials said four people were killed.

Hours after the attack on Manama's main Pearl Square, the military announced a ban on gatherings, saying on state TV that it had "key parts" of the capital under its control.

Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa justified the crackdown as necessary because the demonstrators were "polarizing the country and" pushing it to the "brink of the sectarian abyss."

Speaking to reporters after meeting with his Gulf counterparts, he also said the violence was "regrettable."

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Interior plan bans mining claims near Grand Canyon

Felicia Fonseca, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 2:37pm

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The U.S. Department of Interior is proposing to bar the filing of any new mining claims on 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar had temporarily withdrawn the acreage in 2009. Under the preferred alternative in a draft environmental study obtained by The Associated Press, new claims would be prohibited for 20 years.

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