2008年9月11日星期四

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Houston-Galveston could face major damage from Ike (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 04:18 AM CDT

Senior citizens and people with special needs prepare to board a bus and be evacuated at the Oveal Williams Senior Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. The city began evacuation of people with special needs as Hurricane Ike moves closer to the Texas coast. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center lie in areas that could be vulnerable to wind and damaging floodwaters if Hurricane Ike crashes ashore as a major hurricane.

Feds set fish shipment rules for Great Lakes (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 03:45 AM CDT

AP - Federal regulators trying to contain a fish-killing virus in the Great Lakes region have issued rules for shipping live fish across state lines that some wholesalers say will be financially devastating.

Stolen guns used in fatal Wash. shooting rampage (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 04:08 AM CDT

Judge David Svaren listens as Isaac Zamora appears in Skagit County District Court Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Authorities said the man accused of a shooting rampage that left six people dead in northwest Washington stole the guns used in the attacks as well as a pickup truck involved in a high-speed chase.

US oilfield deaths rise sharply as drilling boom continues (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 11:22 PM CDT

Oil worker lay pipe into an oil well in Talpa, Texas, Friday, May 23, 2008. Many experienced oilfield workers left the industry in the mid-1980s during the oil bust, when a barrel sold for less than $10. Now, with prices over $100 a barrel, many drilling companies are hiring workers with little or no experience. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - Less than two months into the job in the oilfields of West Texas, Brandon Garrett was sliced in half by a motorized spool of steel cable as he and other roughnecks struggled to get a drilling rig up and running.

Simpson trial judge say jury will be seated soon (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 11:55 PM CDT

O.J. Simpsonm, center left, arrives at the Clark County Regional Justice Center on the third day of jury selection for his trial in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Simpson faces 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - After a contentious day of lawyers sparring with prospective jurors in O.J. Simpson's kidnapping-robbery trial Wednesday, the judge said it appeared a jury would be seated by Friday or earlier.

Crews pull body from collapsed Va. building rubble (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 08:01 PM CDT

A fireman walks past a building under construction that collapsed at Chester Village Green, a mixed-used development being built in Chester, Va.,, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. A construction worker was killed Wednesday when a partially built retail and residential building collapsed in a Richmond suburb, officials said. Because it wasn't clear how many people were actually in the building, Chesterfield County Fire Battalion Chief Robby Dawson said the search would continue through the night. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)AP - A construction worker was killed Wednesday when a partially built retail and residential building collapsed in a Richmond suburb, officials said.

Sex offender who posed as child pleads guilty (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 08:43 PM CDT

This is an undated file photo originally released by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office showing Neil Havens Rodreick II. The sex offender who posed as 12-year-old boy while enrolling in charter schools has pleaded guilty to seven charges, including four felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. Rodreick signed a plea agreement Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 in Yavapai County Superior Court, pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor -- stemming from child pornography found on his computer -- fraud, failure to register as a sex offender and simple assault. (AP Photo/Yavapai County Sheriff)AP - A sex offender who posed as a 12-year-old boy to enroll in Arizona schools has pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges, two stemming from the charade he pulled for two years, and will go to prison for more than 70 years, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Bill Clinton concerned about 9/11 scholarship fund (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 05:59 PM CDT

AP - Former President Clinton has been in talks with the directors of a huge college scholarship fund for families of Sept. 11 victims to address complaints that the program has given out too little money.

NYC suspends school visits to UN over fire safety (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 07:14 PM CDT

AP - The city and the United Nations, which have tussled for years over parking tickets and property taxes, are now squabbling over schoolchildren — specifically, whether it's safe for them to visit U.N. headquarters.

Chertoff: Aviation still vulnerable to terror (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 10:38 PM CDT

On the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The nation's top domestic security official said Wednesday aviation remains vulnerable to terrorist attack seven years after 9/11.

Pa. town where Flight 93 crashed looks to tourism (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 03:13 PM CDT

Members of the New York Fire Department and Somerset Volunteer Fire Department, right, unveil a cross made of steel from the north tower of the Word Trade Center during a dedication ceremony at the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Co. in Shanksville, Pa. Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Searching for an economic boost and home to perhaps the most compelling story of 9/11, rural Somerset County is trying to pull off a balancing act: Remembering the victims of United Airlines Flight 93 in a way that encourages development and job growth without devolving into tackiness and disrespect.

Evacuations begin in Texas ahead of Hurricane Ike (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 11:14 PM CDT

Nicole Duggan of Corpus Christi, Texas, helps load up her family's car with food, water and other supplies they'll need to get through Hurricane Ike Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, in Corpus Christ. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Michael Zamora)AP - The frail and elderly were put aboard buses Wednesday and authorities warned 1 million others to flee inland as Hurricane Ike steamed toward a swath of the Texas coast that includes the nation's largest concentration of refineries and chemical plants.

Autopsy: Mohammed died of heart disease, diabetes (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 06:49 PM CDT

AP - Heart disease and diabetes caused the sudden death of Imam W.D. Mohammed, the former Nation of Islam leader who abandoned some of its teachings decades ago to embrace mainstream Islam, authorities said Wednesday.

Teen arrested for 4 slayings in burned SoCal home (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 06:26 PM CDT

Enisha Clark, 22, left, whose mother and younger sisters were killed at the scene of this fire, is comforted by Dawn Thomas, 23, a family friend Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, in Lancaster, Calif. A teenager was arrested for investigation of four counts of murder Wednesday in the killings of a woman and three girls whose bodies were found in a burning house, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - A teenager was arrested for investigation of four counts of murder Wednesday in the killings of a woman and three girls whose bodies were found in a burning house, authorities said.

Police charge man in Philly subway hammer attack (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 11:08 AM CDT

AP - Police have arrested a man suspected of brutally attacking a dozing subway passenger with a hammer while other riders did nothing to stop the assault, the city's police commissioner said Wednesday.

Anne Hathaway's ex pleads guilty to real-estate fraud (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 01:46 PM CDT

In this Feb. 3, 2008 file photo, Raffaello Follieri is seen at Fashion Week in New York. The smooth-talking Italian businessman who once dated actress Anne Hathaway and claimed to have friends in high places at the Vatican pleaded guilty Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, in federal court in New York in a multimillion-dollar real estate fraud case. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)AP - A smooth-talking Italian businessman who once dated actress Anne Hathaway and claimed to have friends in high places at the Vatican pleaded guilty Wednesday in a multimillion-dollar real estate fraud case.

Freshwater fish in N. America in peril, study says (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:43 PM CDT

AP - About four out of 10 freshwater fish species in North America are in peril, according to a major study by U.S., Canadian and Mexican scientists.

Another Fossett search winding up in Nevada (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 01:59 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 - The biggest search this year for Steve Fossett has ground to a halt with team members leaving a rugged mountain area without finding any sign of the aviator-adventurer who has been missing for a year.

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