2008年11月14日星期五

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Fire destroys some 70 homes, hurts 4 in SoCal town (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 03:13 AM CST

Folks watch a home burn burn in the hills above Santa Barbara, Calif., on Thursday Nov. 13, 2008. A wind-driven brush fire destroyed dozens of homes Thursday in the tony enclave of Montecito, forcing residents to evacuate what has long been a hideaway for the rich and famous. (AP Photo/Phil Klein)AP - An explosive wildfire destroyed about 70 homes in the ritzy community of Montecito, injured four people and forced thousands to flee wind-whipped flames in the longtime hideaway for celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Rob Lowe.

Report: Illegal immigrant minors mistreated by US (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 02:26 AM CST

AP - Federal authorities have compromised the rights and safety of some unaccompanied illegal immigrant children they have detained, and inadequate government guidelines are partly to blame, according to a Texas-based research group.

Blast flattens Colo. restaurant; 1 dead, 7 hurt (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 12:14 AM CST

Firefighters search through the rubble of a restaurant that collapsed after an explosion in the old town part of Pueblo, Colo., on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. Crews from neighboring cities were called in to help in the search of the structure. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - An explosion laid waste to a restaurant and a shop Thursday in downtown Pueblo, killing one person, injuring at least seven and forcing several blocks to evacuate. Crews pulled a survivor from the rubble more than four hours after the blast.

Neb. parents rush to leave kids before law changes (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 08:36 PM CST

The mother of an 18 year-old daughter, who asked not to be named to protect the identity of her child, holds her daughter's pet cat, Patches, as she stands in her daughter's room, in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. After a recent spate of her daughters' bad behavior, the mother said she felt like she had no other choice but to leave her daughter at a hospital, where she thought she would get help through Nebraska's safe haven law. She says she worried that if the law was changed, she would not have a way to get help for her daughter. Nebraska lawmakers meet Friday to begin tightening the state's open-ended safe-haven law. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - The mother was running out of more than patience when she abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital over the weekend under Nebraska's safe-haven law. She was also running out of time: She knew that state lawmakers would soon meet in a special session to amend the ill-fated law so that it would apply to newborns only.

Gunshot report at Virginia Tech is a false alarm (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 06:12 PM CST

AP - An exploded cartridge from a nail gun produced sounds similar to gunfire near a Virginia Tech dormitory Thursday, briefly scaring a campus still scarred from mass shootings last year.

White powder sent to Mormon temples in Utah, LA (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 09:08 PM CST

Thousands of people protest in front of the Salt Lake Temple against the Mormon Church's role in the passage of proposition 8 in California, in this Nov. 7, 2008 photo. The rally included a march around the two city blocks surrounding Temple Square and the Church Office Building. (Photo and caption submitted by John Langford)AP - Letters containing a suspicious white powder were sent Thursday to Mormon temples in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City that were the sites of protests against the church's support of California's gay marriage ban.

SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 05:33 PM CST

AP - A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."

Special prosecutor to handle Texas dragging case (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 06:08 PM CST

These photos released by the Lamar County Sheriff's Office show Charles Costley, left, and Shannon Finley, both 27, who face murder charges in the dragging death of Brandon McClelland in Lamar County, Texas. His torn-apart body was found on a rural Texas road on Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Lamar County Sheriff's Office)AP - Under pressure from the victim's family, the district attorney prosecuting the death of a black man who was run over and dragged about 70 feet has recused himself because he once represented one of the murder suspects.

Suits claim election-night abuse by Chicago police (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 05:50 PM CST

AP - A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that while a huge Chicago crowd celebrated the election of the first black U.S. president, some white city police officers committed hate crimes against a black family cheering Barack Obama's victory from home.

Cast of millions puts on Calif. earthquake drill (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 07:27 PM CST

Emily Loren, 17, is assisted by a Los Angeles fireman during an earthquake drill at Bishop Alemany H.S. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. Southern Californians dropped to the ground, covered their heads and held onto the furniture Thursday for a mock 'Big One,' an earthquake drill billed as the largest in U.S. history and aimed at testing everyone from state leaders to students who donned fake blood to play victim. At exactly 10 a.m., television news programs announced there was an earthquake disaster drill, then cut to cameras in school classrooms showing children ducking under their desks and holding onto them. A full day of mock post-earthquake exercises such as rescues, emergency medical care and news conferences was planned. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - People across Southern California on Thursday looked like they had stepped out of a disaster movie. Children ducked under their desks. Victims with fake blood lay on the ground. First responders sprang into action to treat the "wounded."

Mormon aid on gay marriage ban generates complaint (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 09:23 PM CST

AP - A California gay rights activist filed a complaint Thursday accusing the Mormon church of failing to report the full value of the work it did to support the state's new ban on same-sex marriage.

King family seeks to cash in on MLK-Obama items (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 07:04 PM CST

T-shirts featuring President-elect Barack Obama and civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., are for sale on an Atlanta street, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. The King family is scrambling to get a share of the proceeds from the wave of unauthorized T-shirts, posters and other merchandise depicting the civil rights leader alongside Obama. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Zealous guardians of his words and his likeness, the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is demanding a share of the proceeds from the sudden wave of T-shirts, posters and other merchandise depicting the civil rights leader alongside Barack Obama.

In bad economy, boat owners abandon their vessels (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 04:08 PM CST

An abandoned commercial vessel sits on its side in Fisherman's Cut near Bethel Island, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. From Southern California to Maine, the foundering economy, high fuel prices and poor fishing have driven boat owners to abandon perhaps thousands of vessels on the waterfront, where they are beginning to break up and sink, leaking oil and other pollutants. Boats have long been a barometer of consumer confidence, disposable income and the state of the economy. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - From Southern California to Maine, the foundering economy, high fuel prices and poor fishing have driven boat owners to abandon perhaps thousands of vessels on the waterfront, where they are beginning to break up and sink, leaking oil and other pollutants.

7 rescued as floods wash out Oregon road, culvert (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:43 PM CST

AP - A woman and two young children were rescued from the top of their SUV as floodwaters swept over the vehicle's roof on a coastal Oregon road.

Death on Mount Hood: A widow's quest for answers (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 03:48 PM CST

In this photo provided by the Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit, the Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit searches the north side of Mount Hood, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006, in Oregon. Rescue teams headed up the flanks of treacherous Mount Hood on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, to search for three climbers reported missing in heavy snow. No real break in the weather came until Dec. 16. Searchers found the cave with Kelly James' body in it the next day. The search for his companions was called off four days later. (AP Photo/Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit, Dr. Lindsay Clunes)AP - Shivering, weak and injured in a snow cave, on a mountain he and two climbing companions had tried to conquer, Kelly James managed to reach his wife on his cell phone.

Man charged in Obama plot says grand jury skewed (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 05:17 PM CST

Mike Schlesselman, the father of Paul Schlesselman, one of the skinheads accused of plotting to murder presidential candidate Sen. Barrack Obama, leaves the Clifford Davis-Odell Horton Federal Building in Memphis, Tenn. without comment, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 after a federal magistrate granted a defense requested delay in the hearing. Schlesselman's sister, Kayla Schlesselman, is over the left shoulder of her father. (AP Photo/Greg Campbell)AP - One of two white supremacists charged with plotting to kill President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people argued Thursday that a federal grand jury was racially stacked against him.

UN: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 05:25 PM CST

Cars drive through thick smog on a street in Beijing in September 2008. Enormous brown clouds of pollution hanging over Asia are killing hundreds of thousands of people, melting glaciers, changing weather patterns and damaging crops, the United Nations said Thursday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AP - A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the U.N. reported Thursday.

Wisconsin court says 1985 killer should be freed (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 01:31 PM CST

AP - A Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday that a man who killed a Catholic priest and two others in a church 23 years ago should be released from a mental hospital.

NASA releases first images of planets outside our solar system (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 05:21 PM CST

In this image released by NASA, a dust ring, seen in red, surround the star Fomalhaut, that resides at the center of the image, and not visible to the human eye in this image. The Hubble Telescope discovered the fuzzy image of the planet, known as Fomalhaut b, which is no more that a white speck in the lower right portion of the dust ring that surrounds the star. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, nearly indecipherable except to the most eagle-eyed experts. All are trillions of miles away — three of them orbiting the same star, and the fourth circling a different star.

Study: Calif dirty air kills more than car crashes (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 05:02 AM CST

This Tuesday, July 15, 2003 file photo shows the Los Angeles skyline being obscured by a heavy layer of smog and fog . Decreasing air pollution in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley would save more lives annually than ending all motor vehicle fatalities in the two regions, according to a study. (AP Photo/Jerome T. Nakagawa, file)AP - Lowering air pollution in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley would save more lives annually than ending all motor vehicle fatalities in the two regions, according to a new study.

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