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Schwarzenegger's budget includes proposed college fee hikes
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Fees could be going up for California's public university students under the budget proposed Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Mexican military convoy rolls into Pacific resort of Acapulco
ACAPULCO, Mexico -- More than 1,000 Mexican army troops amassed in this Pacific resort community and two other cities in the western state of Guerrero on Wednesday in preparation for the third widespread federal crackdown on drugs and crime ordered by President Felipe Calderon in less than two months in office.

Business News in Brief: Genentech 4Q earnings soar 75 percent
SAN FRANCISCO -- Genentech Inc. said Wednesday that strong demand for its cancer-fighting drugs fueled a 75 percent profit increase in the fourth quarter as company executives shook off doubts that the biotechnology bellwether could maintain its phenomenal growth rate.

Kodak to sell its health imaging division to unit of Canada's Onex for up to 2.55 billion
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Eastman Kodak Co. is selling its health-imaging business, created after the discovery of X-rays in 1895, to Canadian investment firm Onex Corp. for up to 2.55 billion as the picture-taking pioneer bets its future on digital photography and commercial printing.

Russian oil resumes flowing through Belarusia
MINSK, Belarus -- Russian oil began flowing again through a Belarusian pipeline late Wednesday, a top Belarusian oil official said, resolving a dispute between the countries that had disrupted supplies to Eastern Europe as well to the former Soviet Republic.

Couple pleads guilty in SoCal tiger escape case
LOS ANGELES -- The owners of a tiger that was shot and killed as it roamed the hills near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library two years ago have pleaded guilty to several federal charges related to the animal's escape.

Yale singing group attacked in San Francisco, says attackers uttered anti-gay slurs
SAN FRANCISCO -- Members of an all-male singing group from Yale University say they were taunted with anti-gay slurs, attacked and beaten after singing "The Star Stangled Banner" at a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco.

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