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LOS ANGELES (AP) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for four counties, as eight wildfires burn in the state. One huge fire has nearly doubled in size overnight. It's threatening 12,000 homes, and communications and astronomy centers atop Mount Wilson. Another fire has burned at least 18 homes.

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) - Forecasters say Hurricane Jimena (hee-MAY'-nah) could lash Mexico's Baja California Peninsula by tomorrow evening. The mayor of Cabo San Lucas says poor people living in shacks may be forced to leave their homes. Jimena is a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds near 145 miles an hour.

LONDON (AP) - A Scottish minister says the decision to free the Lockerbie bomber was based on legal principles, not commercial reasons. A British newspaper had reported government officials allowed Abdel Baset al-Megrahi (AHB'-dehl BAH'-seht AH'-lee ahl-meh-GRAH'-hee) to be included in a prisoner transfer agreement as a major oil deal with Libya was being negotiated.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is seeking to deport an 88-year-old Michigan man accused of helping the Nazis kill Jews during World War II. John Kalymon has been under investigation for years. He says he's done nothing wrong. U.S. officials have not said where they want to send him.

LONDON (AP) - British police will examine new documents received from an investigative journalist in the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. His 1969 drowning was ruled an accident but there has been speculation that it was murder. Two 1994 books claimed that a London builder confessed to killing Jones.

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