2008年9月12日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Houston decides to stare down Ike instead of leave (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:08 AM CDT

A line of 14 buses with Hurricane Ike evacuees from Beaumont, Texas arrive at the Faulkner Park reception center in Tyler, Texas, Thursday night, Sept. 11, 2008. Nearly 1 million people along the Texas coast were ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm, which was expected to strike late Friday or early Saturday. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)AP - As a gigantic Hurricane Ike steamed through the Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas coast, officials in America's fourth-largest city made a bold decision: Instead of fleeing, residents here would stare down the storm.

Survey finds holes in US disaster preparedness (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:12 AM CDT

Next to nearly 40 others evacuees, Zaylan Shaffer, 4, sleeps on a cot in the Killeen Community Center in Killeen, Texas, on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 11, 2008. Shaffer, from Ontario, Canada, was on vacation with his family in Bay City, Texas, when residents were asked to evacuate the area. Precautions for Hurricane Ike has displaced evacuees all over Central Texas with Killeen at over 100 evacuees so far and numbers are expected to increase by the weekend. (AP Photo/Killeen Daily Herald, Sarah Moore Kuschell)AP - In a disaster such as an earthquake or terrorist attack, nearly two-thirds of U.S. parents would disregard orders to evacuate and would rush to pick up their kids from school, according to a new survey.

Judge swears in all-white jury for O.J. trial (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 03:20 AM CDT

O.J. Simpson arrives at the Clark County Regional Justice Center as jury selection process for his trial continues in Las Vegas, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. Simpson faces 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - An all-white jury will judge O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant on kidnapping and robbery charges after defense lawyers lost a contentious courtroom battle to include two African-American women on the panel.

Solemn rituals mark seventh anniversary of 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 01:07 AM CDT

Cazzandra Peterson (C) and her mother Robin leave flowers at Ground Zero in memory of her father and husband William Peterson during the ceremony marking the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2008. REUTERS/Chad Rachman/Pool (UNITED STATES)AP - Familiar rituals of grief marked the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11 on Thursday as thousands paid tribute at the attack sites, the presidential candidates laid flowers at ground zero and children mourned parents they can barely remember.

Colorado ranch owner accused in deaths of 32 bison (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 03:16 AM CDT

A herd of buffalo graze on a ranch near Hartsel, Colo., on Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Thirty-two buffalo were killed on a ranch nearby in March and Jeff Hawn, a software developer, has been accused in the deaths. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Jeff Hawn, a software executive who owns a luxury home outside this old mining town, warned his neighbor, rancher Monte Downare, to keep his bison from roaming onto his property or risk having them hunted. Hawn later sued Downare, alleging the buffalo had turned his land into a feedlot.

AP Enterprise: Drugs affect more drinking water (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 03:26 AM CDT

Map locates cites in the U.S. where pharmaceuticals have been detected in drinking water supplies;AP - Testing prompted by an Associated Press story that revealed trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in drinking water supplies has shown that more Americans are affected by the problem than previously thought — at least 46 million.

Hurricanes deplete Red Cross relief fund (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 03:03 PM CDT

AP - The wave of storms battering the U.S. has plunged the American Red Cross deep into debt as it rushes to prepare for Hurricane Ike, prompting a searching look at how to stabilize its finances.

With Ike, size matters for killer storm surge (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 06:59 PM CDT

Dawson Voris, 9, of Corpus Christi, Texas, walks through storm surge water from Hurricane Ike as the water pushes over the Padre Balli Park beach in Padre Island, Texas, and into the parking lot Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller-Times,Todd Yates)AP - Hurricane Ike's gargantuan size — not its strength — will likely push an extra large storm surge inland in a region already prone to it, experts said Thursday.

NY judge drops steroid case against Fla. pharmacy (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 05:02 PM CDT

Natalie du Toit of South Africa swims in the women's 100m butterfly final during the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games in Beijing. Du Toit was set to go for her third gold of the Paralympics on yet another day tarnished by drug scandals with two more athletes kicked out for doping.(AFP/Liu Jin)AP - A New York judge threw out an indictment against five operators of a Florida pharmacy targeted almost two years ago in an investigation of illegal steroid sales over the Internet and by phone.

Fire injures 16 at complex for elderly, disabled (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 04:19 PM CDT

Officials look over the scene of a fire in a Waterbury, Conn., apartment building Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. A fire at an apartment building for the elderly and disabled injured 16 people early Thursday and forced firefighters to use a ladder truck to rescue some residents from upper floors, officials said. (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - A fire broke out early Thursday at an apartment building for the elderly and disabled, forcing firefighters to use a ladder truck to rescue residents from upper floors and leaving 16 people injured, authorities said.

Woman pleads guilty in 1999 Michigan State arson (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 07:32 PM CDT

AP - A Detroit woman pleaded guilty Thursday to setting a New Year's Eve 1999 fire at Michigan State University, an act of eco-terrorism, and also admitted roles in 12 other incidents.

Lawyers seek reputed Miss. Klansman's release (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 02:33 PM CDT

In this Jan. 29, 2007 picture, James Ford Seale is escorted to a waiting prison van at the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 overturned the conviction of the reputed Ku Klux Klan member serving three life sentences for his role in the 1964 abduction and killing of two black teenagers, Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - A man acquitted this week on federal charges of abducting two black teenagers slain in 1964 is sick, has no criminal record and should be released from prison immediately, his attorneys said Thursday.

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