Monday, September 12, 2005

A tape delivered to ABC News in Pakistan this weekend
contains threats against Los Angeles and Melbourne,
Australia.

On the tape, a masked man says, "Yesterday, London and
Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne".

ABC News says the man is believed to be an Americana
name Adam Gadahn from Orange County with some ties to
Fresno. Gadahn is purported to be an al-Qaida member
and wanted by the FBI. His family says they haven't
spoken to him in several years and declined to
comment.

Then a widespread power outage hit Los Angeles,
knocking out electricity to thousands of customers,
snarling traffic and stranding high-rise office workers
in elevators or trains as officials scrambled to determine
the cause.

The family of a teenage girl has won a six figure
judgment against the Sanger Unified School District
over a hazing attack.

The girl was a freshman on the Sanger soccer team when
the attack happened.

She says her teammates duct taped her hands and feet,
dragged her down a hotel hallway, piled on top of her
and touched her inappropriately.

Late Friday afternoon, a jury awarded the girl
$110,000.

Sanger Unified had claimed the students and coaches
didn't do anything wrong, that the kids were just
playing around.

But, the jury ruled the school district bears much of
the blame for allowing the attack and not doing
anything about it.

The teenage girl is now enrolled in another school
district.

A San Jose hiker who was missing for three days after
getting lost in the wilderness emerged from a trail
with a minor ankle injury, Leon Zheng, 27, set out on
a solo hike from White Wolf to Seavey Pass.

He lost his way near the Cathedral Creek drainage and
injured his ankle. It healed enough so he could walk
out, but delayed his return.

Some are speculating he was tracking the Watts Valley
Wolf Ape.