Airline disciplines two in race case

DENVER - Denver-based Frontier Airlines says it has disciplined two employees who allegedly made a noose and showed it to a black co-worker. Denver police have cited one of the workers for an alleged "bias-motivated crime." Police say that man showed the noose to the co-worker and asked "are you ready" in a break room at Denver International Airport on April 15. Frontier spokesman Steve Snyder says the man who was ticketed by police and another employee accused of making the noose have both been disciplined. (AP)

SAN DIEGO - A shark specialist says an autopsy has confirmed a great white killed a triathlete in the waters off San Diego County last week. An investigator from the Medical Examiner's Office says two shark's tooth fragments were recovered from David Martin's body. Los Angeles-area shark specialist Ralph Collier assisted with the autopsy. He said Monday that the fragments indicate the shark was a great white 15 to 16 feet long. (AP)

LOS ANGELES - A former administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center has been indicted by a federal grand jury for snooping into the medical records of celebrity patients and selling information to a national media outlet, according to documents unsealed yesterday. Lawanda Jackson, 49, was indicted April 9 on a charge of obtaining individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage. Representatives for actress Farrah Fawcett allege that Jackson leaked personal information about her battle with cancer to the National Enquirer. (Los Angeles Times)

TIBURON - The highest court of the Presbyterian Church has found that a Northern California minister did not violate denominational law when she officiated at the weddings of two lesbian couples. The ruling announced yesterday by the Louisville, Ky.-based court overturns a decision against the Rev. Jane Spahr last year. A regional judicial committee had found Spahr guilty of misconduct and gave her a rebuke. (AP)