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ALLEGATIONS: They

are accused of living

in a guest house

without permission.

By The Associated Press

SANTA BARBARA ActorRandy Quaid and his wife arefacing burglary charges in Cali-fornia after the owner of thecouples old house reportedtheyhad beenliving there with-out permission.

A representative of the prop-erty owner called Santa Bar-

bara County sheriffs deputiesSaturday afternoon to reportthatsquattershad been stayingin the guest house illegally.

When deputies arrived at thehouse that evening, they foundRandy and Evi Quaid, who saidthey had owned the propertysince the 1990s.

The property owners repre-sentative provided documentsthat showed his client had

bought the home in 2007 froma man who had purchased itfrom the Quaids several yearsearlier. A contractor showedpolice more than $5,000 in

damage to the guest house thathe believed was caused by theQuaids.

Police arrested the Quaidson charges of felony residential

burglary and entering a non-commercial building withoutconsent, a misdemeanor.Police also charged Evi Quaid,47, with resisting arrest.

Bail was set at $50,000 each.Messages left with Quaidsattorney and agent were notimmediately returned Sunday.

Last September, the couple was charged with defraudingan innkeeper of more than$10,000 as well as conspiracyand burglary after an invalid

credit card was used at SanYsidro Ranch in Montecito.Senior Deputy District Attor-

ney Arnie Tolks had said aninvalid card also was used atThe Biltmore,a luxury resort inSanta Barbara.

Felony charges were laterdropped against Randy Quaid,59. Evi Quaid pleaded no con-test to a misdemeanor count ofdefrauding an innkeeper and

was sentenced to three yearsprobation. She was alsoordered to perform 240 hoursof community service.

Randy Quaid,wife arrested

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By Kelly Puente Staff Writer

LONG BEACH Thestands rang with deafeningshrieks when boy band heart-throbs the Jonas Brotherseach went up to bat in Blair

ield on Sunday.

Why does he have to be socute? sighed 15-year-old Lau-ren Harting of San Diego asshe caught a glimpse of NickJonas in his blue and whiteuniform. Hes just so ... Idont know!

Hundreds of screamingyoung girls flocked to CalState Long Beachs Blair

ield near Wilson HighSchool to see music sensa-tions Joe, 21; Kevin, 22; andNick, 18, play softball withtheir team the Road Dogs.

he game against the Mar-quis JetFlyers was part of thebrothers 12-city softball tourthis year in support of All-state insurances X the TXT

campaign to educate teens

about the dangers of texting while driving. Long Beachwas the last stop on the trip.

More than 1,200 free tick-ets to the game were givenaway in less two hours on

Wednesday to lucky fans who

lined up outside the Cal State

Long Beach box office.

Decked out in Jonas Broth-ers T-shirts and holding upsigns saying, I love you Joe!and Nick, we have the same

birthday! fans screamed asNick Jonas hit a ground ball

and pulled in safe on first.

They booed as the Marquispitcher caught Kevin Jonasfly ball.

During the game, morethan a thousand fans joinedthe brothers in pledging notto text while driving by add-ingtheir thumbprint to a ban-ner.

The brothers said theychose to support the cam-paign to help raise aware-ness.

Even if youre not oldenough to drive, you canspread the message to yourfriends and family, JoeJonas said. We want every-one to be safe on the roads.

kelly.puente@presstelegram.com

Senior funSeniors 50 and older are invited to participate inconversation, chair exercises, Mahjong and card games,9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Thursday, Mason Park,gym, 10500 Mason Ave., Chatsworth. Bring your ownlunch. 818-534-7100.

Neil Sedaka

The singer-songwriter will sign his childrens book

Waking Up is Hard to Do, 6 p.m. today, Borders, 14651Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks. 818-728-6593.

Native Indian talkGraywolf will discuss the history and culture of theChumash at a meeting of the Santa Susana MountainPark Association, 7:15 p.m. today, Rockpointe Clubhouse,22300 Devonshire St., Chatsworth. 818-998-3196.www.ssmpa.com.

TODAYS ROUNDUP

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David Crane Staff Photographer

MESSAGES OF PEACEGiant peace dove puppets are paraded at the Santa Monica

Pier on Sunday as part of International Day of Peace.

RESEARCH: Firms decision

o not donate medicine

increases cost of study.

By Alicia Chang The Associated Press

Researchers in Los Angeles saytheyve found a possible new treat-ment for adults with hard-to-controlasthma. Their discovery, however,came at a price.

Scientists of a U.S. government-funded asthma study had to spendnearly $1 million of taxpayers moneyafter British drugmaker GlaxoSmith-Kline PLC declined to donate itsasthma drug and look-alike dummy

medicine for the study, which com-pared two other treatments.

Editors of the New England Jour-nal of Medicine, which published thestudy, chastised Glaxo, saying its

actions made the research harder andmore expensive to do. Drug compa-nies arent required to supply theirmedicines for study, but they oftendo.

In the end, the study results pro- vided the truth the drug, Spiriva,was as good as Glaxos Serevent, they wrote. The study was publishedonline Sunday to coincide with a pre-sentation at a medical meeting in Bar-celona, Spain.

About 300 million people world-wide suffer from asthma. In the U.S.,22 million Americans have asthma,

which kills about 4,000 a year. Forpeople who cant control their asthma

with inhaled steroid medicine, cur-

rent guidelines call for doubling thedose or adding a different drug thatrelaxes the muscles to help patients

breathe.Researchers tested three inhaled

treatments: doubling the steroid dose,

adding Glaxos Serevent or addingBoehringer Ingelheims Spiriva,

which is approved for emphysemaand other chronic lung conditions,

but not asthma.The study involved 210 people

whose asthma was not well con-trolled. They took each drug for 14

weeks with two-week breaks inbetween treatment.

Researchers found Spiriva workedbetter than a double steroid dose andwas as effective as Serevent. When thestudy first began, patients on averagehad 77 asthma-free days a year daysin which they had no symptoms anddid not have to use their rescueinhaler.

Doubling the steroid medicine gavepatients an extra 19 asthma-free days;taking Spiriva gave them an addi-tional 48 days with no symptoms, andtaking Serevent gave them an extra 51days.

Spiriva is a promising alternativeasthma treatment and some doctorsare already using it in people whodont respond to steroid medicine, butmore study on drug safety is needed,Dr. Lewis Smith of Northwestern Uni-

versity wrote in an accompanying edi-torial.

Two years ago, safety concernswere raised with Spiriva inhalers. Butthe Food and Drug Administrationearlier this year said recent data donot show a connection between theinhaler and previously reported risksof stroke, heart attack and death.

The $5.3 million study was funded by the National Heart, Lung andBlood Institute. Teva Pharmaceutical

Industries supplied the inhaled ste-roid medicine and Boehringer Ingel-heim provided Spiriva. Both compa-nies also donated matching placebos.Researchers bought Glaxos Serevent.

Glaxo declined to participate

because Spiriva is not approved fortreating asthma. The company alsolacked adequate information in thiscase to understand what the impac

would be on patients in the trial, saidcompany spokeswoman Mary AnneRhyne.

The studys leader, Dr. StephenPeters of Wake Forest University Bap-tist Medical Center in North Carolina,said that since his team did not haveaccess to Glaxos drug, they bought ifrom a third-party supplier and hiredanother company to make the placebo at a cost of $900,000.

Peters said its harder to get drugcompanies to donate their medicinefor research compared with a decade

ago.Now more drug companies aremore likely to ponder whether a trialcould help them in the marketplaceand decline to provide their productsfor studies, Peter said.

Scientists forced to pay for asthma drug

SENDING AMESSAGEJonas Brothers play in softball tour promoting driver safety

Jeff Gritchen Staff Photographer

Nick, left, Kevin and Joe Jonas, on the Road Dogs team, pose before their softball game at Blair Field in Long Beach.

Jennifer Haro, left, and Andrea Delrayo show off theirblue thumbs after pledging not to text while driving.

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