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Conservationists are rushing to vaccinate critically endangered California condors against deadly avian flu. Ashleigh Blackford of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is overseeing the effort.

police officers and firefighters to increase their representation and rank on the city's police and fire departments. While some black and Hispanic applicants have been hired, they remain a disproportonately small percentage of hires and promotions in both departments. Minority officers have sued the city, arguing that the examinations for promotion discriminate against minority applicants.

from a series of ethical controversies. His support in public opinion polls remains relatively high, despite repeated, negative news stories about Whitewater and White House handling of confidential FBI files. Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole has yet to benefit significantly from basing his campaign on the 'character issue.'

and Senator Dole over the issue of welfare reform. The President says he will sign Senator Dole's new welfare reform proposal, if a provision is removed that would end the Medicaid entitlement. Keeping welfare reform from passing may be in the interest of the Dole Presidential campaign. But a number of Republicans in Congress may want to see it pass, as they run for reelection.

about their series on slavery in Sudan which ran earlier this week in the Baltimore Sun. The two of them traveled to the southern part of Sudan to investigate whether slavery actually exists there. To prove that it does,they bought two African boys from an Arab slave trader and then freed them. Sudan's fundamentalist Islamic government denies that slavery is practiced there.

to the business world by helping them become student entrepreneurs. He profiles a high-school senior who earns extra money as a D.J. When the student got involved in the University of California at Berkeley's entrepreneur program, he went from making 25-dollars a gig, to earning thousands of dollars a month.

that would create the world's largest freight company. The merger between CSX and Conrail, two train shipping companies, was announced yesterday. The companies say the merger would make shipping more efficient and less expensive, but manufacturers and labor unions are worried about costs, competition, and the loss of jobs. The controversial merger must first be approved by federal regulators.

which is attracting national attention. Incumbent Democrat Ronnie Earle has been targeted by Republicans for trying unsuccessfully to prosecute Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison two years ago. Earle failed in his attempt to convict Hutchison of misusing the office of state treasurer during her campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Eastern Kentucky residents have access to more mental health providers than the rest of the state, but proportionately, there are fewer primary physicians…

of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. Searchers and divers have found 195 of the 230 people onboard the Paris-bound flight. Investigators are trying to reassemble the plane from the wreckage they've recovered...but after almost three weeks, there's still no word on what caused the explosion.