The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Redwood City, Calif. - Scott Peterson was sentenced to death Wednesday for the double murder of his pregnant wife Laci and her unborn son. A jury convicted the 32-year-old former fertilizer salesman in November of both the first-degree murder of his wife and second-degree murder of her fetus. Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi called Peterson "cruel, uncaring, heartless and callous." Washington - The U.S. Senate gave President George W. Bush a major energy policy victory on Wednesday by voting to allow oil drilling in the Alaska wildlife refuge. By a vote of 51-49, senators rejected a motion by Democratic and moderate Republicans to remove a refuge drilling provision from next year's budget. The oil industry has been trying for more than 20 years to get permission to drill for what are thought to be huge reserves of oil beneath the coastal plain in the northeastern corner of Alaska. Supporters of the drilling suggest the refuge could supply as much as 1 million barrels a day at peak production. Moscow - Russia's secret service says it paid $10 million US to informers to track down Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov. Russian forces killed Maskhadov last week in Chechnya, when troops found him in a bunker where he was hiding. Moscow had blamed Maskhadov for a series of deadly attacks in Russia, including the one last September in which more than 350 hostages, half of them children, died.
