2008年9月1日星期一

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Forecasters: Gustav unlikely to get stronger (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 04:02 AM CDT

A view of New Orleans as the first storm clouds of Hurricane Gustav swept over the city August 31, 2008. Nearly 2 million people fled the Louisiana coast on Sunday as Hurricane Gustav moved within hours of striking land, possibly with a weaker punch than 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina. (Matthew Bigg/Reuters)AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Gustav is no longer expected to gain strength before it slams into the Louisiana coast around midday.

FEMA head works to restore agency's image (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 02:29 AM CDT

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Paulison, talks with reporters during a news conference, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, in Washington. Hurricane Gustav is growing into a monster Category 5 storm, the government's disaster relief chief said Saturday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - David Paulison was having trouble with the little things — an agency phone number, remembering what day it was.

New Orleans leaders confident police won't bolt (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 05:59 PM CDT

New Orleans Police Officer Carolyn Dalton talks with a teen who was refusing to evacuate the city with her mother on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 in New Orleans. Officers were trying to keep order as residents fled ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Dalton, who stood by her post during Katrina, took her two sons to her mother's house in the days leading up to that storm. This past weekend, she made the journey again, leaving 15-year-old son Lace with a hug and some money, then returning to New Orleans for her 7 a.m. shift. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)AP - More than a week ago, at the first hint Gustav could be a threat to New Orleans, police Superintendent Warren Riley issued an unusual order — he gave all the city's 1,485 officers paid time off to get their families to safety.

Chicago students to skip first day, lobby for cash (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 04:02 AM CDT

AP - Maurisha Gaiter didn't raise her two daughters to be honor roll students by letting them skip class.

NAACP board approves contract for new president (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 05:00 PM CDT

AP - The NAACP's national board of directors has approved a three-year contract for new president Ben Jealous, the youngest leader in the civil rights organization's history.

Gustav gives Nagin a second change to get it right (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 04:54 PM CDT

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, center, with other city officials, holds a news conference at City Hall in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. Nagin briefed media on preparations for the possible arrival of Hurricane Gustav, which became a Category 4 storm as it crossed over Cuba. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Ray Nagin's rhetoric was tough — calling Hurricane Gustav "the mother of all storms" — but his demeanor was confident and cool as he ordered the second evacuation of his city in three years.

Report: Detroit mayor's lawyers offered plea deal (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 10:34 AM CDT

Attorney Dan Webb appears before Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Robert Ziolkowski during hearing on his client Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's removal in Detroit, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Gary Malerba)AP - Lawyers for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick have proposed a deal in which he would plead guilty to two felonies, make restitution and serve five years' probation in exchange for avoiding jail time, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Burning Man festival nears end in Nevada desert (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 10:14 PM CDT

'The Man' burns during the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev., on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Brad Horn)AP - The party is drawing to a close at the annual Burning Man festival on the northern Nevada desert.

8 sickened by chemical exposure at plant in Ill. (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 05:32 PM CDT

Police officers and firefighters park outside of DePaul Health Center's emergency department during it's lockdown on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, in Bridgeton, Mo. The lockdown was established after three patients contaminated with P-Nitroaniline came into the emergency department for respiratory problems. Seventeen people were exposed and subsequently decontaminated by the fire department. (AP Photo/Kyle Ericson)AP - One of two Missouri hospital emergency rooms reopened Sunday, a day after being shut down under quarantine when eight people sickened by a dangerous chemical's release sought treatment.

Service union vice president steps down amid probe (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 01:18 PM CDT

AP - The executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union has stepped aside while under investigation for allegations she paid thousands of dollars in union funds to a former boyfriend, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

New search starts for missing adventurer Fossett (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 03:14 PM CDT

From left to right, search team members Lew Toulmin, Dick Sale, Deb Atwood and Robert Hyman update maps, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, at a base camp just west of Hawthorne, Nev., displaying exact areas where searchers had been looking over the weekend for famed aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared Labor Day 2007. (AP Photo/Brendan Riley)AP - A year after aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett vanished on a Labor Day solo flight over western Nevada, friends and admirers are waging a new search for some sign of him in an area of rugged mountains.

Giant panda cub born at Zoo Atlanta (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 11:06 PM CDT

This video still shows mother giant panda Dan Dan looking at her baby (bottom) at Oji Zoo in Kobe, western Japan, on August 26, 2008. The cub, whose rare birth by artificial insemination led to rejoicing in Japan, died on Friday after just three days, zoo officials said.(AFP/Jiji Press/File/Str)AP - Zoo Atlanta's giant panda family just got larger.

Some garment factories scheme to evade monitors (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 02:19 PM CDT

AP - Like other garment factories in New York, Jin Shun Inc. was a small enterprise on the city's margins, staffed by Chinese-speaking immigrants and tucked away in an industrial corner that few outsiders see.

Ali attends Chicago memorial for longtime manager (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 09:54 PM CDT

AP - Muhammad Ali and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan were among those paying respects Saturday to Ali's former manager and the son of a former minister of the Nation of Islam.

Powerful Gustav leaves Cuba; New Orleans evacuates (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 05:26 PM CDT

Residents make their way through a street damaged after the Hurricane Gustav hit in the area Consolacion del Sur, Cuba, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.

Fire at Oregon state Capitol investigated as arson (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 07:24 PM CDT

AP - A fire broke out early Saturday at the Oregon state Capitol, leaving the building with smoke, water and fire damage, including to the governor's ceremonial office and the offices of some of his high-ranking staff members.

Antique plane makes soft landing in tree top (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 12:32 PM CDT

AP - A 1930s biplane glided to a crash landing in the tops of a stand of trees on Sunday, stranding the pilot and his passenger amid the branches for several hours.

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