1.   And in Washington State, a prison fight erupted when one prisoner uttered a racial slur while inmates were viewing news broadcasts.

2.   After investigating, Williams found that Howard did not utter the slur that the co-worker thought he heard.

3.   He uttered the slur in a matter-of-fact way without any indication that he intended it as a joke.

4.   Also left to be decided by Ito was whether the defense may say in opening statements that Detective Mark Fuhrman once allegedly uttered a slur against blacks.

5.   The league said there was insufficient evidence to support charges that gestures by Sandy McCarthy and Darcy Tucker were of a racial nature or that slurs were uttered.