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Oregon man gets 43 years for DUI deaths

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man convicted of causing an accident that killed four people while driving drunk was sentenced to 43 years in prison Friday.

John C. Carlgren, 47, of Carlton had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit when his pickup struck a car from behind on Interstate 84 east of Pendleton, killing all four inside, according to court records.

Carlgren had four previous convictions for driving under the influence of intoxicants.

"Carlgren's sentence is a just one," Umatilla County District Attorney Dean Gushwa said. "The families of his victims are still shattered by their loss."

The crash occurred as Carlgren, a pipefitter, was driving home to western Oregon from a work assignment in Utah. He had a cooler in the pickup and was drinking beer while driving, prosecutors said. Carl?gren's pickup left the freeway and slammed into the back of a car that was on the shoulder either stopped or moving at a slow speed.

L.A. County probing leaks on Jackson

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators have begun an inquiry into whether coroner's employees illegally leaked or sold private information related to the investigation of Michael Jackson's death.

Investigators spoke to the coroner's office Friday and will handle the inquiry with the district attorney's office, according to sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore. The department was asked to conduct the probe by county supervisors, he said.

On Wednesday, the coroner's office said Jackson's death certificate was improperly viewed by at least a half-dozen employees who had no role in investigating the cause of his death.

Philadelphia fire kills 2, injures 5

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fire that ripped through a northeastern Philadelphia row house has killed a woman and a young boy and injured five other people, three of them critically.

Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers called the Saturday morning fire "horrific" and "fast-moving."

He says the woman and child were trapped on the second floor of the Frankford neighborhood home and died despite efforts by firefighters to reach them in the flames.

Ayers says four adults were taken to Temple Hospital, where two of the women were in critical condition. He says a child taken to St. Christopher's Hospital was also in critical condition. Ayers says investigators haven't been able to find any smoke detectors in the home.