One of California's most wanted parolees has been arrested on suspicion of killing another man in 2007 in Georgia.

Mark Rudolph Reed, 42, was arrested July 10 in the killing of Marlon Greene in DeDalb County.

The day before his arrest, LAPD Detective Venus Mason was contacted by some people who frequent a Starbucks at 3722 Crenshaw Blvd., and they gave her information on how to find Reed, police said...

Licenses for same-sex marriages were supposed to be issued in Iowa starting this Friday. But because of a crimped state budget, court employees will be on mandatory furlough that day and the courts will be closed. Gay couples cannot start filing for their licenses until Monday.

As they try to cope with gaping budget deficits, at least 15 states from every region — like Alabama and Georgia in the South; Arizona, California and Washington in the West; and Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York in the Northeast — are in various stages of considering or carrying out furloughs.

"This may very well be the most widespread use, or consideration of use, at least since the emergence of the post-World War II economic boom," Robert Bruno, professor of labor relations at the University of Illinois, Chicago, said of furloughs…

HIV rates are declining in prison, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, but AIDS activists paint a different picture of the disease's prevalence both in and out of prison.

Laura M. Maruschak, a statistician for the bureau, studied statewide HIV rates for 2005 and 2006, and found that the number of HIV positive prisoners decreased by a little more than three percent (from 22,676 to 21,980). Despite this drop, the overall AIDS rate among prisoners was 0.46 percent compared to 0.17 percent for the U.S. general population.

The report, "HIV in Prisons 2006," further indicated that the number of AIDS-related deaths in state and federal prisons dropped to 167 from 203; and the states with the largest numbers of AIDS related deaths were Florida (28), New York (14), Pennsylvania (13), Georgia (10) and Louisiana (10).

The data does not include information on the flow of HIV positive inmates in and out of prisons, and the Justice Department has no idea of where inmates go when released, but is exploring ways to get that data. There are also times when some states fail to submit year-end data—mostly because states do not have the facilities to track the numbers…