2008年9月14日星期日

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Rescuing Ike stalwarts a race against the clock (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 02:14 AM CDT

Matt Wells, left, and his brother, Mark, clear debris from Highway 146 as they try to cross a causeway with their truck after Hurricane Ike passed through Clear Lake Shores, Texas, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to rescue those who faced a second harrowing night trapped amid flattened houses, strewn debris and downed power lines.

Calif. rail agency: Engineer's error caused wreck (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 02:19 AM CDT

Firefighters continue to work on the wreckage of a Metrolink commuter train, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 in Chatsworth, Calif. Emergency crews found more victims early Saturday in the mangled wreckage of a commuter train that smashed head-on into a freight train, raising the death toll to 17 in the deadliest U.S. passenger train accident in 15 years. (AP Photo/ Hector Mata)AP - A commuter train engineer who ran a stop signal was blamed Saturday for the nation's deadliest rail disaster in 15 years, a wreck that killed 25 people and left such a mass of smoldering, twisted metal that it took nearly a day to recover all the bodies.

In harm's way: Ike floods force rescue of holdouts (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 11:02 PM CDT

Joe Rodriguez wades through floodwaters caused by Hurricane Ike as he abandons his stalled truck Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - Even as they plucked people from rooftops and wrecked neighborhoods on Saturday, emergency responders grumbled over how many brushed off dire warnings and tried to ride out Hurricane Ike.

At 13 1/2 feet, Ike's storm surge less than predicted (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 11:41 PM CDT

A cemetery flooded by storm surge from Hurricane Ike is shown, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008, in Galveston, Texas. Howling ashore with 110 mph winds, Hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas coast Saturday, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, shattering windows in Houston's skyscrapers and knocking out power to millions of people. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - Forecasters warned of "certain death," a possible 25-foot surge of water that would wash across the Texas and Louisiana coast, wiping away towns in a white-capped, churning mess of debris.

Milwaukee gives a holler to favorite bowling alley (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 12:29 AM CDT

AP - The walls that line the pair of lanes in this tiny bowling alley seem close enough to make a bowler feel claustrophobic. But at a 100th anniversary party Saturday, the walls of Holler House felt like the wide-open arms of family.

Novelist David Foster Wallace found dead (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 11:07 PM CDT

AP - David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46.

Homeless 90210: Slumming time and the livin's easy (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 01:17 PM CDT

Michele Brown, 58, who has been homeless living on the streets in Beverly Hills since 2000, reads on a park bench where she sleeps Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The homeless in Beverly Hills present an incongruous sight amid the shows of superfluous wealth, but they've become fixtures of city life, underscoring the pervasiveness of the huge homeless population in Los Angeles County. Some 88,000 people live on the streets or in shelters, making the county the nation's capital of homelessness. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - Being homeless in this upper crust enclave is not exactly like living on the street in other places. There are handouts of $2,000 and bottles of Dom Perignon, lucky finds of Gucci shoes and diamond-encrusted bracelets, a chance to rub shoulders with rich and famous locals such as Mark Wahlberg and Master P, even empty houses to live in.

Wheelchair-accessible mountain trail opens in Vt. (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 11:16 PM CDT

AP - This isn't just any wheelchair-accessible path — it's part of the Appalachian Trail.

Suspect in Spokane rapes facing civil trial (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 01:10 PM CDT

AP - A jogger grabbed Julie Harmia as she was walking home from a bus stop, shoved his hand into her mouth, dragged her to a vacant lot and raped her.

Ike causes 'devastating' floods in southeast Texas (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 11:07 AM CDT

Flood waters from Hurricane Ike inundate the town of Clear Lake Shores, Texas, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Officials in one southeast Texas county say they are trying to rescue families trapped by devastating floods from Hurricane Ike.

Texas reporter apologizes for maternity ward probe (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 07:43 PM CDT

AP - No charges will be pursued in the case of a Lubbock television station reporter arrested last year after trying to gauge security at two Amarillo hospitals, according to an agreement announced Saturday.

VA head: Surgeries at Illinois hospital months off (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 04:53 PM CDT

AP - The head of the nation's Veterans Affairs system said Saturday it still could be months before inpatient surgeries resume at a southern Illinois hospital. But rehabbing the site's image after a surge in patient deaths last year may take far longer.

Suspect in 4 NJ slayings surrenders to police (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 03:00 PM CDT

A man reacts at the scene of a house fire 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 - A man accused of shooting four women and then setting their house on fire to cover up the crime surrendered to police Saturday.

Olympic Bird's Nest architects design NY high-rise (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 02:12 PM CDT

AP - The Swiss architects of the iconic Bird's Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics are bringing their innovative style to New York City with a translucent glass skyscraper designed to look like houses stacked in the sky.

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