2008年8月30日星期六

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

McCain's choice of running mate is hardly known (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 03:33 AM CDT

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks after being chosen the Republican vice presidential running mate for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain at a campaign event in Dayton, Ohio August 29, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)AP - In two short years, Sarah Palin moved from small-town mayor with a taste for mooseburgers to the governor's office and now — making history — to John McCain's side as the first female running mate on a Republican presidential ticket.

Some leave Gulf Coast ahead of likely evacutaions (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 02:26 AM CDT

Residents of Ormond Nursing and Care Center line the hall with belongings in paper sacks as they wait to evacuate in preparation for Hurricane Gustav, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, in Destrehan Friday, La. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)AP - As city officials detailed plans for an evacuation that could be called over the weekend, some residents weren't waiting to be told to leave.

Hurricane Gustav plows through Cayman Islands (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 01:46 AM CDT

Rain clouds form off Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman Island seen from Westin Casuarina Resort and Spa at sunset as the Gustav storm system approaches, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Gustav swelled to a Category 2 hurricane early Saturday with winds near 100 mph after plowing through the Cayman Islands toward Cuba, gathering strength on a journey that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category 3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.

In New Orleans, no shelter for those who stay (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 10:17 PM CDT

Bill Lister (R) holds a support for window covering while Tyler Malejko saws in New Orleans in preparation for Hurricane Gustav. Exactly three years after deadly Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans, authorities on Friday begin bussing people out of the city ahead of the possible landfall of Gustav, forecast to hit the area early Tuesday as a powerful Category Three hurricane.(AFP/Matthew Hinton)AP - Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street this weekend with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort. The doors to the Superdome will be locked. Those who stay will be on their own.

Katrina's unclaimed dead entombed, Gustav looms (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 05:35 PM CDT

Residents and city officials pray during a memorial ceremony on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. New Orleans braces for Tropical Storm Gustav as it enters the Gulf of Mexico.(AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)AP - At 9:38 a.m. on Friday, about 200 mourners rang handbells to mark the moment three years ago when New Orleans' levees were breached by high waters from Hurricane Katrina, flooding most of the city and leading to the deaths of about 1,600 people.

Police: DNA links man to slaying of Kutcher's ex (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 09:05 PM CDT

AP - DNA evidence has linked an air conditioning repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, police said Friday.

Maine artist creates HOPE image decades after LOVE (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 02:51 AM CDT

Artist Robert Indiana poses Thursday, Aug. 29, 2008 at his studio in Vinalhaven, Maine. Indiana, who in the 1960s created the pop icon LOVE, now has created a similar image with HOPE, with proceeds going to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Joel Page)AP - The Maine artist who brought LOVE to the world is doing the same with HOPE.

Demand for military bomb techs at all-time high (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 03:12 PM CDT

A remote-operated robotic bomb defuser picks up a rocket during Iraqi military explosive ordinance training at Lions military camp in Anbar province August 27, 2008. REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ)AP - Many things have gone wrong for Navy Senior Chief Tommy Gura while disarming nearly 200 improvised explosive devices in Iraq. He's been shot at and targeted for mortar attacks. His robots have blown up and he's lost communication to call for backup.

Hurricane-force winds, heavy rain hit Phoenix area (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 03:49 PM CDT

AP - A series of fast-moving thunderstorms packing winds of up to 100 mph plowed through the Phoenix area, leaving tens of thousands without power, damaging several airliners and collapsing a brand-new college football facility.

2 airliners nearly collide over Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 09:39 PM CDT

AP - Two airliners were one minute from colliding when at least one of the planes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean this week, federal authorities said Friday.

Report: NASA studies extending shuttle to 2015 (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 08:53 PM CDT

AP - NASA's staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week.

Gustav headed for current that fuels big storms (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 02:57 PM CDT

A vintage car drives through a flooded street in Havana August 26, 2008. Torrential rains hit the city as weather forecasters predicted on Tuesday that Hurricane Gustav would skirt the western coast of Cuba and enter the Gulf of Mexico as a powerful Category 3 hurricane with winds in excess of 100 mph by Sunday. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)AP - The difference between a monster and a wimp for Gulf of Mexico hurricanes often comes down to a small patch of warm deep water that's easy to miss. It's called the Loop Current, and hurricane trackers say Gustav is headed right for it, reminiscent of Katrina.

Ohio jury convicts mom in microwaved-baby case (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 03:05 PM CDT

In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, China Arnold sits in a Montgomery County courtroom during a break in jury selection in Dayton, Ohio. A mother intentionally put her month-old daughter in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death, a prosecutor said Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, during closing arguments of the woman's retrial. 'She could have stopped it with one finger, but she didn't,' Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Daniel Brandt said. (AP Photo/Ron Alvey, Pool)AP - A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney's claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.

Radar used to search for couple missing since '85 (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 04:18 PM CDT

This is an aerial view of the former home of a couple, who went missing in 1985, where investigators, near the pool, are using ground-penetrating radar, searching for evidence in their disappearance Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, in San Marino, Calif. Newlyweds Jonathan and Linda Sohus, who are presumed dead, lived in the home but vanished in 1985. Nine years later, workers building a pool for the new owners unearthed a man's bones, but they remain unidentified. German Christian Gerhartsreiter, who was known as Christopher Chichester to the couple and in recent years called himself Clark Rockefeller, is accused of kidnapping his daughter on a Boston street last month after losing custody of her in his divorce. His arrest has investigators re-examining the Sohuses' property. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Homicide investigators used ground-penetrating radar Friday to determine if the bones of a long-vanished couple were buried in the backyard.

Lawyer: Guilty plea coming in Pa. collar-bomb case (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 03:29 PM CDT

AP - A defense attorney says his client will plead guilty to conspiracy in a bizarre 2003 bank robbery that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man.

Calif. farmers use guns, poison to safeguard crops (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 02:15 PM CDT

AP - Farmers in "America's Salad Bowl" are turning into hunters — stalking wild pigs, rabbits and deer — to keep E. coli and other harmful bacteria out of their fields.

Hurricane victims rebuild fortress-like homes (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 04:04 PM CDT

A vintage car drives through a flooded street in Havana August 26, 2008. Torrential rains hit the city as weather forecasters predicted on Tuesday that Hurricane Gustav would skirt the western coast of Cuba and enter the Gulf of Mexico as a powerful Category 3 hurricane with winds in excess of 100 mph by Sunday. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)AP - Floodwaters 5 feet deep filled sculptor and retired Navy Cmdr. Robert Noguere's bayfront home when Hurricane Ivan made landfall in 2004.

Army Experience Center offers simulations at mall (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 02:59 AM CDT

Maj. Larry Dillard of the U.S Army, right, and chief marketing officer Edward Walters of the U.S. Army, far right, talks to the Associated Press about the Army Experience Center, while sitting in the Black Hawk simulator, which is a model helicopter that takes particpants on a virtual flight through of a remote mountain village, allowing them to shoot at enemies as they protect a U.S. convoy headed to a medical facility, in Philadelphia, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Staffed by soldiers eager to share their experiences and stocked with high-tech simulators, video gaming stations and interactive exhibits, the Army Experience Center is a new frontier in marketing for Army officials who hope to give the public a better understanding of today's military. (AP Photo/Justin Maxon)AP - "Heads up! Enemy helicopter inbound!"

Small plane crashes near Calif. airport; 3 injured (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 02:43 AM CDT

AP - A small plane overshot a runway and crashed into some power lines near Bob Hope Airport. Three people inside the aircraft were injured, authorities said.

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