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New poll shows Californians widely favor recall, Schwarzenegger\nSANTA MARIA, Calif. -- With the campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis entering its final full week, a poll released Sunday showed the Democrat could lose office by a wide margin and put Arnold Schwarzenegger way ahead of everyone else trying to become governor of California.\nSchwarzenegger barnstormed around California on Sunday, talking to invited crowds in airport hangars, while all the other major candidates seeking to replace Davis gathered for a public forum in Sacramento.\nSome of California's major newspapers made endorsements Sunday, most urging voters to reject the recall on Oct. 7 and recommending nobody to replace Davis. "Davis is lucky: there are no replacement candidates worth a recommendation," wrote the San Jose Mercury-News.\nFirst major trials in Wall Street's white-collar scandals to open Monday\nNEW YORK -- Former Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski and banker Frank Quattrone go on trial Monday less than a block apart in lower Manhattan in the first major trials since white-collar corruption erupted in the headlines last year.\nAnd while the charges against each man are different -- Kozlowski is accused of grand larceny, Quattrone of obstruction of justice -- both trials will be watched closely by the financial community.\nKozlowski and former Tyco financial chief Mark Swartz, who will be tried with him, are accused of turning the conglomerate into their personal piggy bank, looting it to the tune of $600 million.\n4-year-old shoots sister, older male sibling tries to protect them\nLANDOVER, Md. -- A 4-year-old boy found a loaded gun in his family's house and fired it through the front door, killing his 5-year-old sister and seriously wounding another boy, authorities said.\nAn older sister had seen the child pick up the semi-automatic handgun in the house Saturday night and had rushed the other children outside to try to protect them, but the bullet went through the door, hitting them, said Prince George's County police spokeswoman Cpl. Diane Richardson.\nThe two wounded children stumbled across the street and collapsed in a neighbor's driveway, she said. Kimberly Brice was pronounced dead after arrival at a hospital.\nThe bullet had hit the boy, age 7, in the back and then hit Kimberly, Richardson said. The injured boy was expected to survive, she said. Police believe he is the other children's half-brother\nDepartment seeks possible White House connections to leak of CIA name\nWASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is investigating allegations that White House officials revealed the identity of a CIA agent whose husband had questioned President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Africa.\nThe matter has been referred to the department, which "will now take appropriate action, whatever that is," National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."\nShe said she was unaware of any White House involvement in the matter and pledged White House cooperation in the inquiry.\nThe department and the FBI now are trying to determine whether there was a violation of the law and, if so, whether a full-blown criminal investigation is warranted, the official said.\nThe flap began in January when Bush said in his State of the Union address that British intelligence officials had learned that Iraq had attempted to purchase yellowcake uranium in Africa.