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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- British tourist Michael Baugh and his wife said water had only trickled for days as they brushed their teeth, showered and drank from the taps at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, but they could not have imagined the disturbing reason.
• The body of a Canadian woman was later discovered at the bottom of one of four cisterns on the roof of the historic hotel near Skid Row. The tanks provide water for hotel taps and would have been used by guests for washing and drinking.
• "The moment we found out, we felt a bit sick to the stomach, quite literally," Baugh said.
• Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials were expected to release the results of tests on the water on Thursday.
• When the body was discovered on Tuesday, they issued a do-not-drink order while a lab analyzes the water, said Terrance Powell, a director coordinating the department's response. The disclosure contradicts a previous police statement that the water had been deemed safe.
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• ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- For nearly 40 years, Sen. Pete Domenici's reputation was that of a well-respected -- some might say staid -- conservative Republican and honorable family man.
• But the 80-year-old New Mexico political giant's persona was shaken Wednesday with the revelation that he had an out-of-wedlock child in the 1970s and became embroiled in what might be described as an inside-the-Beltway soap opera.
• While his wife Nancy was raising their eight children, Domenici had the affair and secret child with a woman about half his age -- and who happened to be the daughter of one of his Senate colleagues. The woman raised the child on her own, became a prominent lobbyist, Republican activist and political commentator, and their 30-something son has since gone on to build an impressive Washington resume himself.
• The saga shocked people in New Mexico who viewed Domenici as a man of

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