21.  Deputy District Attorney Lauren Weis said some parents refused to cooperate with investigators, but she declined to elaborate.

22.  Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark said Hodgman could return to the case as early as Monday.

23.  Deputy Elsa Avila, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, said it takes a little while for the jail to update information.

24.  Deputy Emmett Huschke shot Bourda in the head with a .45-caliber pistol, Sheriff Weldon Lucas said.

25.  Deputy Finance Minister Kyosuke Shinozawa said at a press conference today the ministry will not comment on a private company's ratings.

26.  Deputy finance minister Manuel Conthe said Spain's inflation rate could end the year below the government's 3.5 percent target for 1996.

27.  Deputy Fire Chief Bob Khan said there have been 139 heat-related calls as of the beginning of June.

28.  Deputy Fire Commissioner Francis X. Gribbon said that during the incident on Oct. 8, Emergency Medical Service workers responded to a 911 call from the club.

29.  Deputy human services commissioner Irma Bermea said her office has only made projections of welfare recipients.

30.  Deputy INS general counsel Dea Carpenter said the government lawyers are spread too thin.