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• CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) -- Booming production of oil and natural gas has exacted a little-known price on some of the nation's roads, contributing to a spike in traffic fatalities in states where many streets and highways are choked with large trucks and heavy drilling equipment.
• An Associated Press analysis of traffic deaths and U.S. census data in six drilling states shows that in some places, fatalities have more than quadrupled since 2004 -- a period when most American roads have become much safer even as the population has grown.
• "We are just so swamped," said Sheriff Dwayne Villanueva of Karnes County, Texas, where authorities have been overwhelmed by the surge in serious accidents.
• The industry acknowledges the problem, and traffic agencies and oil companies say they are taking steps to improve safety. But no one imagines that the risks will be eliminated quickly or easily.
• "I don't see it slowing down anytime soon," Villanueva said.
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• BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities have detained a well-known rights lawyer in an apparent bid to deter activists from marking the upcoming 25th anniversary of a brutal military suppression of pro-democracy protesters.
• Pu Zhiqiang was criminally detained by Beijing police in the early hours of Tuesday, according to Qu Zhenhong, an associate at Pu's firm in Beijing who has been in contact with his family.
• Pu enjoys mainstream prominence that is unusual for most dissidents and news of his detention was circulating widely on Chinese microblogs. Despite his outspoken criticism of the government, Pu has been featured in magazines and interviewed about labor camps, against which he led high-profile campaigns.
• He has represented both high-profile dissidents such as the artist Ai Weiwei as well as the family members of Communist Party members who died in custody of the party's anti-graft investigators after being tortured.
• Two of Pu's close friends, Beijing activist Hu Jia and Shanghai lawyer Si Weiji

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