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STUDENTS INVESTIGATE LEVY SLAYING: A student project to investigate the 2001 death of Chandra Levy is receiving attention from CNN.com, which has created a Web site to track the project's progress. Criminal justice students at Bauder College in Atlanta are looking at Levy's case as well as the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, an Alabama teen who vanished during a trip to Aruba. On June 11, CNN.com rolled out a special Web section detailing the investigation. The students are pursuing the cases as members of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, an extracurricular crime club directed by Sheryl McCollum. The project will be featured on CNN's site through December. For more information, go to http://edition.cnn.com and search for "Bauder College." McCollum said tips about either case can be sent to ColdCaseTips@USACops.com.

FIREFIGHTING HELP: Firefighters in Stanislaus County left this weekend to help beat back blazes in Humboldt, Santa Clara and Monterey counties. Five engines from the Modesto, Salida, Denair, Oakdale Rural and Turlock Rural fire departments left Saturday to help with the June Lightning fire in Redway, about five hours northwest of Modesto on Highway 101, said Stanislaus County Office of Emergency Services Division Chief Bill Houk. Three Office of Emergency Services engines that are owned by the state but stationed in Oakdale, Patterson and with the Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District in Waterford were dispatched Sunday to Santa Clara and Monterey counties. One engine went to target the Hummingbird fire east of Gilroy, Houk said. Another left for Carmel Valley and a third left for Big Sur. Houk did not know when the firefighters would return.

FIRES SPEW SMOKE IN VALLEY: The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported heavy smoke in low-lying areas of Tuolumne, Calaveras and Mariposa counties Sunday because of 337 fires in Northern California over the weekend. The fires were caused by heavy lightning, according to Cal Fire. The department's Tuolumne-Calaveras unit responded to 16 fires, all of which started about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Eight fires in Tuolumne had been contained and were in the mop-up stage Sunday. Three fires continued to burn Sunday around Arnold; five in that area had been controlled. Cal Fire was fighting four wildland fires Sunday in Mariposa County, which also were caused by lightning strikes. The heavy smoke caused by the fires will create air quality issues, said Cal Fire spokeswoman Lisa Williams. People with respiratory health issues are urged to stay inside. Cal Fire suggests that people use fans and air conditioning to ventilate their homes.