2008年9月17日星期三

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Miserable post-Ike Texas won't change anytime soon (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 03:09 AM CDT

Three days after Hurricane Ike made a direct hit on Galveston, Thomas Grazier uses bottled water, dish soap and a plastic cup on Monday, Sept. 15, 2008 to take his first 'shower' since the disaster on the Texas coastal island. Grazier and several others rode the storm out on boats in the PayCo Marina. Some were forced to jump from their boats to unoccupied boats that had broken free from docks, floating and crashing around them. Grazier, an Amarillo native, had been living at the marina for about a year and-a-half, working to restore two older boats. 'I just got done fixing both of them and now they're all tore up,' he said. 'I'm tired, man.' (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, G.J. McCarthy)AP - Life after Ike has come to mean misery by degree for many along the Texas coast.

Sleep-related crash prompts fed call for research (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 03:18 AM CDT

AP - Trucking companies should work harder to enforce that their drivers get rest, and the government should move toward mandating the use of alarm systems to alert exhausted truckers, a federal board recommended.

Ike leaves Midwest in the dark after rain, winds (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 03:57 AM CDT

AP - Facing a third straight day without power, residents across the Midwest snapped up batteries, generators and coolers as they waited for crews to restore electricity knocked out by the remnants of Hurricane Ike.

O.J. jurors to get video, audio evidence in Vegas (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:39 AM CDT

O.J Simpson, center, leaves the Clark County Regional Justice Center after his trial in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Simpson faces 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)AP - A key character is waiting to testify in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery-kidnapping trial.

Elizabeth Edwards discouraged by health care focus (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:46 PM CDT

Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Sen. John Edwards, speaks to the audience at the National Constitution Center about health care in the upcoming presidential election, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, in Philadelphia. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said in June that he would partner with Elizabeth Edwards on a health care plan. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)AP - Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday she is discouraged that health care is falling on the nation's list of priorities and critiqued the plans of both leading presidential candidates.

Ohio killer: Weight gain isn't to avoid execution (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:54 PM CDT

AP - A double murderer scheduled to be executed next month in Ohio said Tuesday he has not deliberately gained weight to rule out his death by lethal injection.

Flood threatens West Texas border town (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:02 AM CDT

The Rio Grande river is seen at the Big Bend State Park in Texas, Sunday, July 27, 2008. The Rio Grande takes a wide southern detour when it hits West Texas, as if unwilling to draw too straight a line between the U.S. and Mexico. Locals along this remote 630-mile stretch of shallow river share the feeling. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A levee holding back the swelling Rio Grande near this West Texas border town is in danger of bursting as the river continues to rise.

Schwarzenegger says he will veto Calif. budget (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:15 PM CDT

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gestures while discussing his decision to veto a state budget plan that was approved by the Legislature, during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Schwarzenegger said that the budget passed hours earlier failed to meet his reform demands and solve California's persistent fiscal problems. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an extraordinary pledge Tuesday to veto the state budget because he said the long-overdue spending plan lawmakers approved hours earlier lacked long-term fiscal reforms and would burden taxpayers.

Riding out Ike on an island, with a lion (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:07 PM CDT

Korkie Smith looks at the devastation of her neighbor Renee Napier's house in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Baytown, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Many years from now, a small group of Hurricane Ike survivors will probably still be telling the story of how, on the night the storm flattened their island, they took sanctuary in a church — with a lion.

Engineer in wreck: Warm to some, recluse to others (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:08 PM CDT

This photo released Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, by the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Robert Sanchez, the engineer of the Metrolink commuter train that collided with a freight train on Friday near Chatsworth, Calif. (AP Photo/California Department of Motor Vehicles)AP - Around his neighborhood, Metrolink engineer Robert Sanchez was considered a recluse with four miniature greyhounds and a poorly kept yard. But among young train fans, he was something of a celebrity.

Nevada game wardens seize illegal African frogs (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 06:57 PM CDT

AP - Authorities who seized scores of illegal African clawed frogs from Nevada residents say they have traced the creatures — banned because of their potential for ecological damage — to a company that sells tadpoles over the Internet.

NTSB: Engineer didn't hit brakes before crash (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 01:32 AM CDT

A Metrolink engineer walks past a rose left near the track at the Mertrolink Moorpark station, on the first day that the train service was restored after Friday's train accident that left 25 people dead, in Moorpark, Calif. on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The engineer whose commuter train struck an oncoming freight train in Los Angeles last week didn't hit the brakes moments before the crash and was in the midst of an 11 1/2-hour split shift when he ran a red light that could have prevented the wreck, federal investigators said Tuesday.

Sour economy hits paper mills, small-town workers (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 05:35 AM CDT

NewPage Corp., the local paper plant, closed Monday, Sept. 8, 2008, after more than century of supplying jobs to Kimberly, Wisc., that sits on the Fox River 25 miles southwest of Green Bay. People in the rural community broke down in the dawn hours as the final paper sheets rolled off the mill's machines, nicknamed Sweet Lorraine and Gingerbelle for the wives of former owners. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)AP - Earlier this month, workers dabbed their eyes with tissue as sheets of paper rolled out of two massive milling machines for the last time.

Tryst turns into $50K robbery for RNC delegate (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:58 PM CDT

AP - Police are trying to find a woman who apparently drugged a Republican National Convention delegate and robbed him of about $50,000 worth of jewelry, cash and other items in his hotel room.

Dallas DA to examine all death row cases in county (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 07:31 PM CDT

AP - A Texas district attorney known for his willingness to examine cases of possible wrongful convictions now plans to investigate all death row cases prosecuted in his county.

Signal appears to be from border officials' plane (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:39 PM CDT

AP - The Federal Aviation Administration says an emergency signal has been detected that appears to be from the plane that disappeared while carrying the Mexican and U.S. heads of the International Water and Boundary Commission.

Ohio Wal-Mart closed amid methane-gas concerns (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:19 PM CDT

A sign marks Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas June 1, 2007. REUTERS/Jessica RinaldiAP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has closed one of its stores in the Cleveland area built atop a landfill amid concerns about potentially explosive methane gas.

Judge: Woman in Iraqi spy case unfit for trial (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:17 PM CDT

Susan Lindauer speaks to journalists as she departs Federal Court in New York on March 15, 2004. REUTERS/Chip EastAP - A former congressional aide accused of helping an Iraqi spy agency while Saddam Hussein was in power is mentally unfit for trial, a judge ruled.

Attorney: NY swindler who fled still not competent (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 02:02 PM CDT

AP - A hedge-fund swindler accused of faking his own death is not yet competent to enter his long-expected guilty plea for skipping out on a 20-year prison term, his attorney said Tuesday.

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