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BRENTWOOD: A daytime activity camp for children is being laid onat Brentwood County High School.

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'Medical condition' allows Paris Hilton to trade Los Angeles County jail for home confinement

LOS ANGELES - After only three days behind bars, Paris Hilton traded a 12-by-8-foot cell for her 2,700-square-foot Hollywood Hills home on Thursday when she was released because of an unspecified medical condition.

Hilton will be under home confinement, wearing an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, for the remaining 40 days of her sentence for violating probation in a reckless driving case.

The celebrity inmate was sent home from the L.A. County jail's Lynwood lockup shortly after 2 a.m., a stunning reduction to a sentence that already had been cut from 45 to 23 days because of "good behavior." Another two days were lopped off the original 45 since she checked in late …

UK lawmaker will not be charged over leaks

A British opposition lawmaker who received leaked government information will not be charged with any offense, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Thursday.

Damian Green, a legislator with the main opposition Conservative Party, was arrested in November over a series of leaks from the Home Office, the country's interior ministry.

The case sparked outrage among lawmakers after police made a rare raid inside Britain's House of Commons to search Green's office. Police are usually forbidden from entering Parliament without the consent of legislators.

The Crown Prosecution Service said there wasn't sufficient evidence to lay charges against …

5 from area win grants for study in Britain

Andrew Lewin began his space career in his Palatine home bybuilding a Lego model of a space shuttle orbiter with operationalpayload doors.

He has gone on to the Massachussets Institute of Technology tomajor in aeronautics and astronautics, helped build a space rocketand worked on a project that flew on a space shuttle mission thisyear.

Lewin is one of five Chicago area scholars and 40 nationwide whohave been awarded the British Marshall Scholarships for 1992. Asixth area student is a native of Maryland.

The scholarships were initiated in 1953 by the Britishgovernment to show appreciation to the United States for the aidreceived after World War II under …

Ex-offender accuses organization of being a con

Gerald Whitehead, a former gang member and ex-offender, thought he had finally found a place in society where he could shine.

Fresh out of prison and no longer affiliated with street gangs, Whitehead was striving in bis new trade-thanks to Sweet Beginnings, 3726 N. Floumoy, a non-profit organization on the West Side that assists ex-offenders with job training and placement. Sweet Beginnings is an entity of the North Lawndale Employment Network, a non-profit organization, which operates out of the same West Side location.

But Whitehead, 49, aUeges that the organization used him and other exoffenders as bait to secure grants.

"I went from working 40 hours per week to …

Finance ministers from euro area meet as currency nears high against dollar

Finance ministers from the euro currency zone's 15 nations are meeting Monday, days after the euro hit an all-time high against the U.S. dollar while inflation stands at record levels.

The euro purchased as much as US$1.5237 in early European trading _ making German cars and French champagne more expensive for the European Union's major trading partner, the United States _ coming close to the US$1.5238 high it hit on Friday on speculation of a U.S. interest rate this month.

The strong euro and high inflation in the euro area _ 3.2 percent in both January and February _ risk weakening the two main drivers of Europe's recent growth: an export boom abroad and …

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Sharon Osbourne says she will be watching her language when hernew talk show starts on US television later this year.

Her and her Birmingham rocker husband Ozzy are known for theirsalty remarks on the hit …