1.   As the hottest days of summer loom, energy experts say California has marshaled enough resources to stave off the blackouts that plagued the state earlier this year.

2.   But if the current state of the movie business is plagued by unhappiness, several power brokers voice a qualified, if nervous, confidence about the future.

3.   La Nina could bring Florida a dry spring, potentially kindling a new rash of forest fires like those that plagued the state earlier this summer.

4.   Showers with embedded thunder will plague the state of Maine with more widely separated showers across the rest of eastern New England.

5.   The massacre brought to the surface growing tensions in Chiapas, where political and religious disputes have plagued the state for the past four years.

6.   The showers will not be widespread enough, however, to provide relief from the drought plaguing the state.

7.   While welcoming these developments, physicians warn that Orlaam will do nothing to address the drastic shortage of treatment slots that has long plagued the state.

8.   Electricity shortages are plaguing the state.

9.   Guerrero state has been plagued by political violence, drug trafficking and sporadic attacks by leftist guerrillas.

10.   Low voter turnout plagued both states.