2008年9月13日星期六

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Devastating Ike roars ashore in Galveston (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 03:15 AM CDT

Evan Norcom looks at a wave from Hurricane Ike while standing on the sea wall in Galveston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Ike's eye was forecast to strike somewhere near Galveston late Friday or early Saturday then head inland for Houston. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - A massive Hurricane Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and ferocious wind gusts as residents who decided too late they should have heeded calls to evacuate made futile calls for rescue.

At least 12 dead in LA commuter train wreck (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 03:17 AM CDT

A Los Angeles City Fire Department firefighter rescues a victim from the wreckage of a Metrolink commuter train after a train crash in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008.(AP Photo/Ryan Ling)AP - Los Angeles fire officials say at least 12 people have been killed in the collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train in the San Fernando Valley.

Ex-Antioch teachers launch school without campus (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 03:54 AM CDT

From the left, student Derrick Lane, professor Don Wallis, and students Dennie Eagleson, Ben Stringer, and Brooke Bryan, listen to a speaker during a journalism class being held in the basement of a home, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The unconventional classes are taught by former Antioch College teachers, who hope to keep the spirit of the financially strapped school alive until it reopens. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - In a wood-paneled basement filled with boxes of nuts, bolts and screws, a college journalism class is under way.

LA serial killer could be connected to other cases (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 03:30 AM CDT

AP - Investigators are reviewing at least 30 unsolved murder cases for possible links to an unidentified serial killer suspected in at least 11 slayings since 1985.

Woman who slashed Mo. mom, took baby gets 30 years (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 10:32 PM CDT

Shannon Torrez is led from the Franklin County Sheriff's Department by Deputy Karen Burns right, and Lieutenant Dave Boehm, center, to a van which will take her to her sentencing in Union, Mo., on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Torrez entered an Alford plea in May to one count each of child kidnapping, armed criminal action and first-degree assault. She did not admit guilt with her plea but conceded there was enough evidence for a guilty verdict. (AP Photo/ Sarah Conard)AP - A woman who slashed a young mother's throat and kidnapped her newborn in rural eastern Missouri, setting off a frantic search that drew national attention, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.

Hundreds of homes flood as Ike passes Louisiana (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 10:15 PM CDT

Parish workers use sandbags to add to the top of a levee as water is forced over by the winds from Hurricane Ike in Scarsdale, La., Friday, Sept. 12, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Storm surge driven by Hurricane Ike breached levees in coastal Louisiana Friday and flooded hundreds of homes in areas along the Gulf of Mexico still recovering from Gustav.

US court reviews ruling in teen's terrorism death (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 02:55 AM CDT

A Dec. 8, 2004 file photo shows Joyce and Stanley Boim outside federal court in Chicago. The Boims 17-year-old son, David, was shot and killed by terrorists on Israel's West Bank in 1996. A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December 2007 threw out a lower court's order that requiring a number of U.S.-based Islamic activists to pay a whopping $156 million, but now the appeals court is second-guessing itself and revisiting the emotionally charged case. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - David Boim was standing at a bus stop in a West Bank town near Jerusalem 12 years ago when terrorists opened fire, fatally shooting the 17-year-old American teenager.

1900 hurricane changed Galveston — and forecasting (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 05:31 PM CDT

In this September 1900 file photo, a large part of the city of Galveston, Texas, is reduced to rubble after being hit by a surprise hurricane Sept. 8, 1900. More than 6,000 people were killed and 10,000 left homeless from the storm, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Hurricane Ike's eye was forecast to strike somewhere near Galveston late Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, or early Saturday, then head inland for Houston. (AP Photo/File)AP - The storm came without a name — without warning — and it shaped the future of weather forecasting.

Judge halts immigrant rental ban in Dallas suburb (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 10:19 PM CDT

A metal border fence stretches across a valley separating the US and Mexico, near Campo, California on March 17, 2008. (Fred Greaves/Reuters)AP - A federal judge on Friday stopped a Dallas suburb's latest attempt to drive away illegal immigrants, ruling that Farmers Branch cannot enforce a ban on apartment rentals to those who can't prove they live legally in the country.

O.J. Simpson jury neither his dream nor nightmare (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 07:29 PM CDT

Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 9. A jury of 12 has been chosen to decide the fate of OJ Simpson who faces trial on kidnapping and armed robbery charges that could see the former football star jailed for life 13 years after he was aquitted of killing his former wife and her friend(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AP - It is not the jury of O.J. Simpson's dreams, but neither does it shape up to be his nightmare.

Citing faith and fate, some choose to ride out Ike (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:05 PM CDT

Bobby Taylor uses a kayak to evacuate as his neighborhood was overtaken by water in Surfside Beach, Texas, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Taylor had planned to remain at his home despite Hurricane Ike, but later changed his mind. A massive Hurricane Ike sent white waves crashing over a seawall and tossed a disabled 584-foot freighter in rough water as it steamed toward Texas Friday, threatening to devastate coastal towns and batter America's fourth-largest city. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - At first, even the threat of "certain death" was not enough to persuade Bobby Taylor to flee this small town directly in the path of Hurricane Ike.

LA prosecutor: Fashion designer was sex predator (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 11:26 PM CDT

In this April 29, 2004 file photo, Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander is shown in New York. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)AP - Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander ditched his profession and turned into a serial predator, hunting for girls and young women to have humiliating and painful sex with him, a prosecutor said Friday during opening statements of his trial.

Ex-neighbor of Clintons on trial in wife's death (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 02:49 PM CDT

AP - A disbarred lawyer who lived three doors down from the Clintons and was down to $300 in his bank account executed his wife of 30 years to collect her nearly $900,000 life insurance policy, a prosecutor said Friday.

Calif. man charged with killing 4, burning house (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 05:36 PM CDT

AP - An 18-year-old man was charged Friday with murdering a woman and her three young daughters, then setting fire to their home, and authorities say they consider the man a "person of interest" in the death of a 90-year-old woman whose body was found in her burned home in May.

Hurricane Ike puts Houston's mayor in spotlight (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 03:17 PM CDT

AP - Houston's quiet-spoken mayor is hardly one for bold moves. But there was Bill White, telling Houstonians to ride out Hurricane Ike because it was too late to escape.

Authorities: Many stayed behind on Texas coast (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 05:10 PM CDT

This image taken Tuesday Sept. 9, 2008 from the International Space Station and provided by NASA shows Hurricane Ike in the Gulf of Mexico closing in on the Texas coast. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Authorities say tens of thousands have ignored evacuation orders and are staying behind as Hurricane Ike takes aim at the Texas coast.

3 die in Neb. trench collapse trying to save 4th (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 06:12 PM CDT

AP - Four construction workers in northeast Nebraska died in a collapsed trench after one of them fell in and his co-workers tried to rescue him, officials said Friday.

Schwarzenegger facing criticism from all sides (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 02:50 PM CDT

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, is surrounded by reporters outside his Capitol office in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2008. The celebrity governor has spent the summer being bombarded by near-constant criticism from all sides for failing to lead the state out of the same kind of fiscal disaster he promised to solve after he replaced former Gov. Gray Davis. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - The summer's been a bummer for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Although he still likes to say being governor of California is the best job he's ever had, Schwarzenegger has faced near-constant criticism from all sides in the state's drawn-out fiscal crisis.

As Ike nears, chain asks for limit on gas buys (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 07:28 AM CDT

AP - A North Carolina-based convenience store chain is asking customers in 11 states — mostly across the Southeast — to limit gasoline purchases to 10 gallons as Hurricane Ike shuts down some refineries on the Gulf coast.

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