2008年9月9日星期二

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Hurricane Ike kills 4 in Cuba, takes aim at Havana (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:35 AM CDT

Residents in Key West, Fla., who didn't adhere to the resident evacuation orders for Hurricane Ike, celebrate the cancellation of a hurricane watch for the Florida Keys on the island's Duval Street Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Ike's devastating core is expected to pass well south and west of Key West, sparing the Keys island chain of hurricane force winds and major impact. (AP Photo/Andy Newman)AP - The Gulf Coast watched anxiously as Hurricane Ike trudged toward areas still cleaning up after Gustav, with disasters pre-declared in much of eastern Texas and Louisianans urged to stock up — again — on supplies.

KFC shoring up security for secret recipe (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:03 AM CDT

A commemorative representation of the 11 secret herbs and spices Colonel Harland Sanders made famous in his recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken is shown Monday, Sept. 8, 2008 at KFC Headquarters in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)AP - Pssst. The secret's out at KFC. Well, sort of. Colonel Harland Sanders' handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC's corporate offices for the first time in decades. The temporary relocation is allowing KFC to revamp security around a yellowing sheet of paper that contains one of the country's most famous corporate secrets.

Auto safety group: States should raise driving age (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:11 AM CDT

REMOVES GUIDE LAYER; map shows legal driving age in the U.S. by state;AP - Taking aim at a longstanding rite of passage for 16-year-olds, an influential auto safety group is calling on states to raise the age for getting a driver's license to 17 or even 18.

Jury selection continues in O.J. Simpson trial (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:22 AM CDT

O.J. Simpson appears in court during the first day of jury selection for his trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Simpson is appearing in court on charges which include burglary, robbery and assault following an attempted robbery at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino in September, 2007. (AP Photo/John Locher, Pool)AP - Defense lawyers in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping and armed robbery trial are fighting to seat a racially diverse panel that hasn't prejudged whether the former pro football star and his golfing buddy should go to prison.

Army units honing their conventional war skills (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 08:15 PM CDT

AP - Army units spending 18 months or more at home are being asked to spend part of that time honing conventional warfare tactics, Gen. George Casey said Monday.

Study: Houston police used Tasers more on blacks (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 09:05 PM CDT

AP - Houston police officers have used Tasers more on black suspects than any other group of individuals, according to a city study released Monday.

Police: Montana mom kept dead son in car trunk (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 11:55 PM CDT

This undated photo provided by the Montana Department of Corrections shows Summer ManyWhiteHorses. Police say the body of a toddler recently found in the trunk of his mother's car may have been there for months — even as she drove around town and evaded questions about the child's whereabouts. (AP Photo/Montana Department of Corrections)AP - The body of a toddler found in the trunk of his mother's car may have been there for months as she drove around town, evaded questions about him and was even arrested, police said.

Prison guards threaten Schwarzenegger with recall (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 08:46 PM CDT

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tells reporters that he would not be intimidated by the threat of a recall, outside his Capitol office in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. The California Correctional Peace Officers Association announced Monday in a petition that they would begin take action to seek a recall of Schwarzenegger for 'catastrophic leadership failings and inept management'. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - The union representing California's prison guards said Monday it was starting a recall attempt against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who took office after the previous governor was recalled in 2003.

Husband admitted shooting wife's teen lover (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 08:58 PM CDT

During cross-examination of investigator Andrew Boatman, top, Bruce Poston, Eric McLean's attorney, ask questions trying to match up the direction of the fatal bullet with the wounds on Sean Powell, Knoxville, Tenn., Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Eric McLean is charged with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Sean Powell outside the McLean home on March 10, 2007. McLean suspected Powell was having an affair with his wife, Erin, who taught at West High School, Powell's school. (AP Photo/Michael Patrick, Pool)AP - A teacher's husband accused of killing his wife's teen lover told interrogators in a videotape that was played in court Monday that he had only a hazy recollection of killing the teen.

DA, judge ordered to testify about romance claims (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 07:48 PM CDT

This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Charles Hood who is scheduled for execution at the Texas prison in Huntsville, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Lawyers representing Hood claim the judge and prosecutor were having an affair during his murder trial asked the state's highest appeals court Monday to halt this week's execution, saying the judge's extensive history of recusing herself from the prosecutor's cases shows a relationship between the two. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)AP - The judge and prosecutor from a condemned man's murder trial were ordered Monday to testify under oath about allegations they were romantically involved during the case.

Police say Fort Hood soldier killed his lieutenant (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 06:24 PM CDT

Killeen Police Officer Maurice Jones secures the perimeter of a crime scene where police officers investigate the shooting deaths of two soldiers on Monday, Sept. 8, 2008, in Killeen, Texas. A Fort Hood soldier shot his commanding officer during a confrontation at his apartment early Monday, police said. The soldier then turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/Killeen Daily Herald, David Morris)AP - A Fort Hood soldier shot to death his lieutenant during a confrontation at his off-base apartment Monday, then killed himself, police said.

Welcome to Key West: Have a beer, watch the storm (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 04:07 PM CDT

A kite surfer takes advantage of gusting winds in Key West, Fla. Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Authorities called off evacuation orders for the Florida Keys as Hurricane Ike shifted south over Cuba and appeared on track to miss the low-lying island chain. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - KEY WEST, Fla. — This beautiful small island is like its own country: People don't like to be ordered around, especially when it disrupts commerce. And business here is all about tourism, fishing and drinking.

Ohio mom gets life for killing baby in microwave (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 06:41 PM CDT

In this Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, China Arnold enters the Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom for her trial sentencing phase in Dayton, Ohio. Arnold, 28, was sentenced Monday, Sept. 8, 2008 to life in prison without the chance for parole for burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave after fighting with her boyfriend. (AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Jim Witmer)AP - A woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the chance for parole for burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave after fighting with her boyfriend. Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman lashed out at 28-year-old China Arnold, who opted to watch her sentencing from a side room on a monitor.

4 dead in shooting-arson in NJ apartment building (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 06:34 PM CDT

A fire investigator takes photographs inside a burned out house where three people died in Irvington, N.J., Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Three bodies were found after the house fire Monday morning, and the Essex County prosecutor said it appears the fire was set to conceal a homicide. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)AP - Authorities who rushed to a burning home Monday morning found three people dead and a fourth fatally wounded, and said the fire apparently was set to cover up a shooting.

Group offering $50K for Jews who move to Alabama town (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 04:08 PM CDT

One of dozens of decorated peanuts is pictured outside the Dothan Civic Center in Dothan, Ala., Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Dothan is the home of the Blumberg Family Relocation Fund, which is offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 people that calls itself the 'Peanut Capital of the World.' (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his corner of the Bible Belt. Blumberg is chairman of an organization offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to Dothan, an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 that calls itself the Peanut Capital of the World. Get involved at Temple Emanu-El and stay at least five years, the group's leaders say, and the money doesn't have to be repaid.

Ohio ministers challenge political pulpit plan (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 06:18 PM CDT

AP - A group of ministers filed a complaint Monday with the Internal Revenue Service to stop a conservative organization from encouraging pastors to endorse or oppose political candidates.

2 arrested in SC deputy's shooting death (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 03:34 PM CDT

AP - Two people have been arrested and charged in the slaying of a sheriff's deputy who was gunned down while responding to an early morning burglary last month, authorities said Monday.

Final defendants settle RI nightclub fire lawsuits (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 06:25 PM CDT

In this file photo taken Sept. 29, 2006, Michael Derderian, second from left, and Jeffrey Derderian, second from right, stand with their attorneys Richard Egbert, left, and Kathleen Hagerty, right, in Kent County Superior Court in Warwick, R.I. The brothers, owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire killed 100 people, have reached an $813,000 settlement with survivors and relatives of those killed, according to court papers revealed Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Bob Breidenbach, Pool, File)AP - The final defendants to settle lawsuits over a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay survivors and victims' relatives more than $250,000, according to court papers filed Monday.

Judge: Pa. mass killer too unstable to be executed (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 06:38 PM CDT

AP - A man who killed 13 people in a 1982 shooting rampage in northeastern Pennsylvania can't be executed because he suffers from a major mental illness, a judge ruled Monday.

NY Gov likens legislators to Count Dracula (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 03:33 PM CDT

New York Governor David Paterson speaks at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado August 26, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention on August 28. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - Gov. David Paterson said Monday that some New York state lawmakers are like Count Dracula, showing pleasant faces to lull citizens' advocates but becoming bloodsuckers when the sun sets.

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