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CRESCENT CITY, Calif. – Coastal dwellers in far northern California and southern Oregon knew to take it seriously when tsunami (search) sirens sounded after a 7.2-magnitude offshore earthquake, and thousands of people were safely evacuated within minutes. Many here still remember the 1964 tsunami that killed 15 people along this …

LOS ANGELES – George Lucas (search), the cruel taskmaster who made Harrison Ford hang with snakes and rats, required Robert Duvall to shave his head and turned Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill into Pez dispensers, was presented with The American Film Institute’s annual lifetime achievement award Thursday night. He was …

WASHINGTON – The Labor Department (search) kept secret for more than a year government studies that supported Democratic opponents of the Bush administration’s new Central American trade deal, internal documents show. The studies, paid for by the department, concluded that several countries the administration wants to be granted free-trade status …