2008年9月7日星期日

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New England braces for Hanna's drenching rains (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:19 AM CDT

A lone boatman heads into a protective cove in Bridgport, Conn. Saturday, Sept. 5, 2008 as sailboats are secured for Tropical Storm Hanna. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)AP - Southern New England is bracing for drenching rain and gusts near 50 mph as Tropical Storm Hanna runs up the Eastern Seaboard.

Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:26 AM CDT

In this satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Ike is seen moving across the Atlantic Ocean as Tropical Storm Hanna bears down on the US on September 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna barreled across the southeastern United States, battering the coast with waves, rain and wind and prompting thousands of people to seek refuge inland.(AFP/NOAA/File)AP - Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike.

SF Bay area officer, 2 others killed in gun fight (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 10:40 PM CDT

AP - Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday.

Kentucky works to keep embattled institution open (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 12:09 PM CDT

AP - Physically, Deron Dickerson was a 38-year-old man. Mentally, he was a toddler who needed constant supervision.

4th Pa. teen charged in killing of immigrant (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 11:15 AM CDT

Crystal Dillman, the fiancee Luis Ramirez, is moved to tears as members of Latina show their support for the couple outside the Schuylkill County Courthouse, in Pottsville, Pa., Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. A preliminary hearings was held for three suspects charged in the beating death of Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old Mexican immigrant who was severely beaten on July 12, in Shenandoah, Pa. Latina is a Chicago-based grass roots organization working to defend Latino immigrant rights. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.

Democrats post big gains in voter registration (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:13 AM CDT

Linda Graham , right, holds the clipboard as Florence Dziamniski, 82, fills out the voter registration form outside the senior citizen's home in Clairton, Pa. Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. Five days a week, Graham trolls southwest Pennsylvania for unregistered voters, working to add to the big gains Democrats have posted this election cycle. Graham, 45, has taken three months unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh's Central Blood Bank to volunteer with Service Employees International Union. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.

FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 02:23 PM CDT

This undated file photo shows civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, left, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, right, who disappeared near Philadelphia, Miss., June 21,1964. The three civil rights workers were abducted, killed and buried in an earthen dam in rural Neshoba County. In 2005, Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of three counts of manslaughter for orchestrating the killings. (AP Photo/FBI,File)AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.

Don't take it off — end near for NYC smut palace (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 01:12 PM CDT

A homeless man occupies the doorway of the vacant 'Scores' gentleman's club on New York City's West Side, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. New York State authorities closed the club in the spring of 2008 after a police raid resulted in several dancers working at the club being charged with prostitution and it's unlikely that the state liquor board will allow the remaining 'Scores' on Manhattan's East Side to continue operating. (AP Photo/Cameron Bloch)AP - The end may be near for Scores, the legendary strip club that has attracted celebrities while withstanding Mafia infiltration, FBI raids and ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's crusade against smut.

Crash with suspect's SUV kills Philly officer (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 05:29 PM CDT

AP - A 16-year-old in a stolen vehicle smashed into a police car during a chase, killing one of two officers in the cruiser, authorities said Saturday.

40 years after capture, USS Pueblo crew reunites (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 05:52 PM CDT

Ralph McClintock holds news clippings in Jericho, Vt., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. When McClintock boarded the USS Pueblo in early January 1968, he was planning for a three-week mission collecting electronic intelligence off the coast of North Korea in the Sea of Japan. Instead, the 24-year-old communications technician from Milton, Mass., found himself a prisoner of war and a pawn in the Cold War sideshow. Next week, 40 of the 69 surviving crew members of the Pueblo will hold their every-other year reunion at the Inn at Essex. There will be exhibits and speakers by experts on U.S.-Korean relations.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968.

House explosion kills 2 in Chicago suburb (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 05:08 PM CDT

AP - An explosion destroyed a house early Saturday and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home were found in the wreckage, authorities said. Seven other homes were destroyed.

Hanna dumps rain on mid-Atlantic, heads north (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 09:23 PM CDT

In this satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Ike is seen moving across the Atlantic Ocean as Tropical Storm Hanna bears down on the US on September 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna barreled across the southeastern United States, battering the coast with waves, rain and wind and prompting thousands of people to seek refuge inland.(AFP/NOAA/File)AP - Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.

7 years on, Sept. 11 is so far and yet so close (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 01:47 PM CDT

AP - It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history.

High-resolution satellite launched in California (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 03:30 PM CDT

AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.

Ex-NJ politician headed to trial on fraud charges (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 02:10 PM CDT

AP - A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a way to boost his income and increase his pension benefits — from $28,000 a year to $81,000.

2nd trial starting for infamous Texas KFC murders (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 06:10 AM CDT

These file photos provided by the Texas Attorney General's office show Darnell Hartsfield, left, and Romeo Pinkerton, who were indicted Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005, on capital murder charges in the 1983 murders of five people abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Kilgore, Texas. This week, Hartsfield, 47, goes on trial for his part in the notorious slayings. Hartsfield's cousin and co-defendant, Pinkerton, took a plea deal last year midway through his capital murder trial, accepting five life prison terms. (AP Photo/Texas Attorney General's Office)AP - When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed the previous year. But prosecutors contend the Tyler man was involved in a far more heinous crime just three days before his arrest for that September 1983 robbery.

Yellowstone RV park full despite fuel costs (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 05:50 AM CDT

Leyman and Jane Williams, of Georgia, pose outside their RV and primary home Wednesday, June 18, 2008, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The couple sold their house and bought the vehicle to live in. Despite high fuel prices and a sputtering economy that have hurt RV sales and caused many people to put the brakes on vacation plans, there have been plenty of the lumbering, gas-guzzling rigs looking for a spot to temporarily set down roots this year. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - In the heart of the park here on a recent warm day, all 358 spaces at the Fishing Bridge Recreational Vehicle Park were jammed with RVs and camping equipment.

Life goes on but fears remain at shooting campus (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 01:07 PM CDT

Miraynda Castro, right, a freshman at Northern Illinois University, returns to her dorm after morning classes Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008 in DeKalb, Ill. As students return to campus nearly seven months after former NIU student opened fire in Cole Hall killing five students before turning the gun on himself, life goes on for many at NIU. But for other, beginning classes brings constant reminders of the Feb. 14 horrors. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Her first week of classes at Northern Illinois University made it clear to freshman Miraynda Castro that she wasn't beginning her college career at just any campus.

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