CALIFORNIA . . . SPENDING OVER THE TOP

The California Senate race is officially the most expensive in history. GOP Senate candidateMichael Huffingtondisclosed he's spent $25.2 million in his effort to oust Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein -- more than98 percent of it his own. With Feinstein's $10.7 million thrown in, the tab for the contest eclipses that of Sen. Jesse Helms' (R-NC) 1990 campaign against Harvey Gantt ($25.6 million). A Los Angeles Times poll has Feinstein ahead, 48-45 percent.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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