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ANAHEIM — More than 30 pickets were arrested outside Disneyland as they protested in a labor dispute between Disney and its hotel workers.

The protesters were taken away in handcuffs Thursday after sitting in a busy intersection outside the amusement park, many of them dressed as Disney characters such as Cinderella and Peter Pan.

The arrests followed a march by hundreds of maids, cooks and dishwashers from three Disney hotels who are complaining about a contract dispute.

The workers' contract expired in February, and their union says Disney's latest offer would make health care unaffordable and create an unfair two-tier wage system.

A Disney spokeswoman says negotiations are ongoing.

LOS ANGELES — Warner Bros. says it's bumping "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" from its planned November release into next summer.

The sixth installment in the blockbuster franchise about boy wizard Harry now will open July 17 rather than Nov. 21, the studio said Thursday.

SILVER CITY — Searchers have found three adults and 14 children 19 hours after they were reported missing during a school outing in southwestern New Mexico.

A handful of four-wheel-drive vehicles traveled muddy, mountainous roads to pick up the group in the Gila National Forest and bring them back to base camp.

Twelve search and rescue teams, some on horseback, and National Guard quick-response teams were looking for the hikers.

The group was from a charter school in Silver City. They were found at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Stevens accused the Justice Department of trampling on the independence of Congress, arguing Thursday that the corruption case against him should be thrown out.

That legal argument will test the limits of a court ruling that prosecutors fear could limit their ability to investigate corruption on Capitol Hill. Stevens said FBI agents went too far when they questioned his Senate aides.

The Alaska Republican is scheduled to go on trial next month on charges that he lied on Senate disclosure records about hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and services he received from a powerful oil services contractor, VECO Corp.

Stevens said the FBI's long-running corruption probe intruded on his Senate affairs. He cited the Constitution's speech-or-debate clause, which prohibits the executive branch from using its law-enforcement authority to interfere with legislative business. Anticipating Stevens' argument, the Justice Department filed its own court documents Thursday night, saying legislative speech issues were irrelevant.

NASHVILLE — A woman who made headlines by having five pups cloned and was linked to an abduction case in England is also wanted in Tennessee on charges she tried to plan a burglary in 2004, a defense attorney and prosecutors there said.

Joyce Bernann McKinney was charged in Carter County with criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and failure to appear in court, said attorney David Crockett, who represented her in the Tennessee case. Authorities there said she instructed a 15-year-old boy to break into a house, and Crockett said she needed the money to buy a false leg for a beloved horse.

Crockett said Thursday that he hasn't heard from her since she skipped a court date, but after seeing television coverage of the cloning case, he's certain she's the same person known to the world as dog lover Bernann McKinney.

Prosecutors are reviewing charges against the 58-year-old McKinney to decide whether to pursue the case, said Melanie Widener, an assistant district attorney for the county in the northeast part of the state near the North Carolina state line.

NEW YORK — A pregnant New York City traffic agent was struck by a van, run over by a bus and killed on Thursday, but doctors were able to save her baby.

Police said Donnette Sanz, 33, was seven months pregnant when she was struck by a van in the Bronx and pushed in front of a bus, which ran her over.

Doctors at a nearby hospital saved Sanz's 3-pound son by doing an emergency Caesarean section. The boy was in critical condition.

Police arrested the 72-year-old van driver, and said charges were pending. They did not identify the driver or say what charges he would face.

CHAPPAQUA — Westchester County wildlife control agents have evicted a neighbor of the Clintons — a 3-foot alligator fished from a pond in the tony New York suburb where the couple live.

An animal-control field manager says police thought it was a joke at first when someone reported seeing a gator in Chappaqua, 30 miles northeast of New York City.

Trappers put chicken out to lure the alligator on Tuesday, but a raccoon ate the bait.

They returned to Pine Cliff Sanctuary on Wednesday with a deep-sea fishing pole. The gator became tangled in the fishing line.

Animal control officers say the alligator may have been a pet. They're trying to find it a new home in a sanctuary.