VENTURA, Calif. (AP) – A police sergeant says a Southern California junior high school student made threats about a gay classmate a day before he allegedly shot him.

Sgt. Kevin Baysinger testified Monday at the preliminary hearing for 15-year-old Brandon McInerney of Oxnard.

Baysinger says he interviewed students at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard who talked about a feud between the teen and victim Larry King, who was killed in a classroom in February 2008.

McInerney, who is charged as an adult, has plead not guilty to murder and a hate crime.

The police sergeant says McInerney bragged he had guns at home and told one of the victim’s friends the day before the shooting, “Tell Larry goodbye because you’re not going to see him again.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) – An AIDS advocacy group is taking legal steps to make Los Angeles health officials enforce health and safety rules on pornography film sets to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a petition in Superior Court July 16. In it, the group claims that in the month since an actress tested positive for HIV, the county Department of Public Health has done little to address what it considers to be a serious health threat.

The group is asking the court to order health officials to enforce rules about condom use during porn film shoots.

The department said in a statement that it is committed to preventing the spread of STDs, but does not believe that a lawsuit is the best way to deal with the issue.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) – A Grand Junction man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for infecting his son with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Prosecutors say 34-year-old Shad Skov had not disclosed his infection to his fiancée. During sentencing July 17, Shov apologized to the woman and his 1-year-old son, and in a plea agreement plead guilty to felony child abuse.

Skov’s fiancée had tested negative for HIV two months into her pregnancy.

Doctors later discovered that both the woman and Skov’s son were infected with HIV when the boy, who was significantly underweight, came down with pneumonia when he was 4 months old.

Two other women have told authorities they had sex with Skov after he had met his son’s mother.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – An annual event in Colorado Springs organized by gays and lesbians has the ceremonial support of a city leader for the first time in years.

Vice Mayor Larry Small has issued a personal letter of support for PrideFest, which included a parade and interfaith religious service Sunday.

Mayor Lionel Rivera often issues proclamations for city events, but has withheld his support for PrideFest because the event hosts same-sex commitment ceremonies and he opposes gay marriage.

Small, a self-described conservative Republican, says gays and lesbians are members of the community who pay taxes and own businesses.

Colorado Springs is the home of Wil Perkins, author of a 1992 ballot issue that barred Colorado cities from passing laws to protect gays from discrimination. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law.

MIAMI (AP) – A Miami-Dade circuit court judge who ruled Florida’s gay adoption ban is unconstitutional has been demoted.

Judge Cindy Lederman has been removed from her 15-year post as top administrative judge over Miami-Dade’s juvenile courts. The new chief justice over Miami courts says he wanted new perspectives and leadership.

Lederman ruled in November 2008 that Florida’s gay adoption ban was unconstitutional, a case now on appeal. She also oversaw numerous juvenile justice programs in Miami and publicly scolded state officials in 2002 following the disappearance of 5-year-old foster child Rilya Wilson.

The new top judge in Miami’s juvenile courts is Orlando Prescott. Lederman will remain a juvenile court judge and says she respects the decision.

NEW YORK (AP) – The former Miss California who was stripped of her title last month has a book deal.

Carrie Prejean will publish a memoir called “Still Standing.” Conservative book house Regnery Publishing said July 20 that it will release the book.

Prejean believes her crown was taken because she said she opposed same-sex marriage. California pageant executive director Keith Lewis has said that Prejean was skipping Miss California USA events while speaking out against same-sex marriage at unsanctioned appearances.

Prejean was replaced by the Miss California pageant’s first runner-up, Tami Farrell. Farrell has also said she believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Last month’s gay Pride festival in Portland ended not just in violence but with a damaged relationship between gay activists and Portland police.

The activists allege police failed to protect them from homophobic attacks.

The two sides scheduled a meeting Tuesday to discuss how the festival ended. Activists met on their own last week but asked police not to attend.

Detective Michele Michaels, who runs the Police Bureau’s bias crimes unit, says, “If we really did do something wrong, tell us about it.”

According to police reports, videos and eyewitness accounts, the trouble that started late on the night of June 13 outside a bar in Portland’s Old Town included fistfights and several obscenity-laden shouting matches.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Fort Worth’s mayor says an apology he issued at a City Council meeting wasn’t for law enforcement’s raid on a Texas gay bar, but for the fact that a man was seriously injured.

Mayor Mike Moncrief made an impromptu apology during the July 14 meeting where officials and residents commented on last month’s raid on the Rainbow Lounge, which left one man hospitalized with a serious head injury.

Moncrief had told the crowd: “If you want an apology from your mayor: I am sorry about what happened in Fort Worth.”

City spokesperson Bill Begley said the mayor and council are always sorry if someone is hurt in the city.

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and Fort Worth Police Department are investigating the raid.

Many questions remain over the timing of the gay bar raid, which left one man seriously injured.

A Fort Worth police report obtained by WFAA-TV indicates officers arrested an intoxicated man leaving the Rainbow Lounge two days before the June 28 raid.

Another report said officers inspected the Rainbow Lounge and two other bars that routinely serve too much alcohol to drunk customers.

Police declined to comment about whether the previous public intoxication arrest prompted the joint raid by its officers and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents. Police cited its ongoing investigation.

But police previously said the inspection almost occurred two days earlier, when an officer and TABC agent went to the newly opened bar because it had not been inspected.

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission administrator says two agents committed “clear violations” of agency policy during a recent raid on a Fort Worth gay bar.

TABC Administrator Alan Steen made the comments in an interview published in this week’s edition of the Dallas Voice, a weekly newspaper serving the North Texas gay community.

Steen also apologized for his agents’ actions in the June 28 raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth that sent one patron to the hospital with a severe head injury. The raid came on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, the days of unrest that followed a police raid on a New York gay bar. The rebellion is marked as the start of the gay rights movement.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Sponsors of a campaign to overturn the state’s recent “everything but marriage” domestic partnership law have set an appointment to turn in their petition signatures this weekend.

Secretary of State Sam Reed says supporters of Referendum 71 made an appointment to turn in the signatures Saturday.

To qualify for the November ballot, they must have 120,577 valid voter signatures, and election officials have suggested that referendum sponsors turn in about 150,000 as a buffer.

The new expanded domestic partnership law is scheduled to take effect Sunday, but will be delayed if the referendum seekers turn in their petitions Saturday afternoon. If they have enough signatures, the law will be delayed until the outcome of the election.