2008年9月19日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Texas a grim tableau nearly a week after Ike (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 02:48 AM CDT

Residents walk home at a flooded street after Hurricane Ike hit in Galveston, Texas September 14, 2008. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)AP - It's been nearly a week since Hurricane Ike bulled ashore, and the images of once-bustling coastal Texas communities reduced to only a faint shadow of their old selves are no less staggering.

Detroit's new mayor takes oath of office (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 04:54 AM CDT

Ken Cockrel Jr., right, who becomes mayor Friday, introduces James Barren, center, as his appointment as chief of police as Saul Green, appointed Deputy Mayor, left, listens in Detroit, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. Cockrel will replace Kwame Kilpatrick, whose last day is Thursday, after being forced out of office in a plea bargain that will send him to jail for obstruction of justice. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Ken Cockrel Jr. became the city's new mayor Friday, vaulted into office by a sex scandal that destroyed the reign of Kwame Kilpatrick and threw Detroit's government into chaos for months.

Chicago outlines plan to slash greenhouse gases (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 03:31 AM CDT

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announces a plan to dramatically slash emissions of heat-trapping gases to three-fourths of 1990 levels by 2020 and to one-fifth of 1990 levels by 2050 as part of an effort to become one of the greenest cities in the nation at a press conference Thursday Sept. 18, 2008 in Chicago. The plan calls for making buildings more energy efficient, finding clean and renewable energy sources, improving transportation and reducing industrial pollution. Daley was one of 800 mayors who agreed in late 2006 to cut emissions in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Mayor Richard M. Daley has announced a plan to dramatically slash emissions of heat-trapping gases, part of an effort to fight global warming and become one of the greenest cities in the nation.

Mo. scraps private financing for bridge project (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 04:05 AM CDT

AP - Credit market troubles have forced officials to scrap an innovative plan to fix hundreds of Missouri's worst bridges, thwarting what was to serve as a national roadmap for quickly renovating aging infrastructure.

O.J. jury to hear more recordings Friday in Vegas (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 04:58 AM CDT

O.J. Simpson signs an autograph as he leaves the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. Simpson faces 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy. (AP Photo/John Locher, Pool)AP - Jurors in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case are plowing through hours of secret recordings made by a collectibles broker who says a plan to recover a cache of the former football star's personal property at a hotel room worked well, until a gun was displayed.

Rhode Island unemployment rate hits 8.5 percent (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 04:43 AM CDT

AP - A record number of Rhode Island workers were searching for a job in August as the unemployment rate rose to 8.5 percent, its worst showing in 15 years and more than 2 percentage points above the national rate, according to state data.

Calif. regulators ban cell use by train operators (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 01:56 AM CDT

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton presents the flag that covered the casked to Sha Moran, mother of Officer Spree DeSha, who was killed in the Metrolink train collision, at a police honor ceremony following the funeral the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. DaSha's father Allan Moran is at left. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - California regulators reacting to the deadly wreck of a commuter train issued an emergency order Thursday banning train operators from using cell phones on duty.

No more plea deals for NJ teen drivers (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 02:57 AM CDT

New Jersey Governor and former Goldman Sachs chairman Jon S. Corzine stands in a state check printing facility Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, in West Trenton, N.J., as he talks about the effect that the demise of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, along with other Wall Street woes, will have on New Jersey's economy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - New Jersey's attorney general has slammed the brakes on plea bargains for teenagers ticketed for driving offenses.

Crews work to keep flood waters out of Texas town (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 05:28 AM CDT

Water flows over a levee from the Rio Grande flooding a golf course and some ranch land in Presidio, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. No homes appeared immediately threatened by the flow. (AP Photo/Carmen Rubner)AP - As crews spent the night working to build a makeshift dam along a railroad line, residents of this normally dusty West Texas border town waited and watched as flood waters from the Rio Grande inched closer to homes.

Mother to ask Congress to award son Medal of Honor (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 01:53 AM CDT

This undated photo released by the U.S. Marines, shows Sgt. Rafael Peralta, 25. Peralta was being considered for a posthumous Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military award. Peralta was shot during a house-to-house search in Fallujah. Lying wounded on the floor of a home, he grabbed a grenade that had been lobbed in by an insurgent. The blast killed him. 'If he wouldn't have scooped up the grenade, the other three of us in the room that day would have been killed,' said former Cpl. Robert Reynolds, who was in Peralta's squad. Reynolds said Peralta sacrificed himself because 'he wanted to make sure we all went home.' A committee reviewing the nomination could not agree on the award, citing questions over whether friendly fire from a comrade might have contributed to her son's death, Rosa Peralta, told the North County Times for its Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 edition. (AP Photo/U.S. Marines)AP - The mother of a Marine who witnesses say covered a grenade with his body to save comrades in Iraq plans to appeal to Congress to award her son the nation's highest military honor after learning it was denied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates because of questions about his final act.

Some Ike victims may not be allowed to rebuild (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 05:46 PM CDT

Sea birds fly past a home in an area hit by heavy beach erosion caused by Hurricane Ike in the West End section of Galveston, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008.(AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - Hundreds of people whose beachfront homes were wrecked by Hurricane Ike may be barred from rebuilding under a little-noticed Texas law. And even those whose houses were spared could end up seeing them condemned by the state.

Too many hurricanes threaten La. bayou way of life (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 11:25 AM CDT

Jacob Lirette pulls his boat to deeper water as heads to house down a flooded street after Hurricane Ike in Chauvin, La., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. Three monster hurricanes in three years have walloped this Cajun town, which like many others in south Louisiana, barely rises above the waterline of the bayous and fragile wetlands leading to the Gulf. First there was Katrina, then Rita and now Ike. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - After four big hurricanes in three years, residents of the Cajun towns along the fast-eroding coast of Louisiana are wondering just how much more they can take.

Trial begins in NYC for mother of abused girl (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 07:20 PM CDT

AP - A mother provoked her husband to abuse her 7-year-old daughter and did nothing to help as the battered, naked girl lay dying on their apartment floor, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday.

New CEO of raided meatpacker says change is coming (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 07:03 PM CDT

Agriprocessors, Inc., attorney Clemens Erdahl speaks during a court hearing, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 in Waukon, Iowa. Agriprocessors officials entered not guilty pleas Wednesday to thousands of charges of child labor law violations. None of the five people charged, including plant owner Aaron Rubashkin or former plant manager Sholom Rubashkin, appeared in person in Allamakee County District Court. They all entered written pleas requesting jury trials. (AP Photo/Doug Wells, Pool)AP - The new chief executive officer of Agriprocessors, the kosher meatpacker targeted in an immigration raid and accused of child-labor violations, said Thursday that his company will make fundamental changes.

Federal officials: No charges likely against Foley (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 03:01 AM CDT

In this March 16, 2004 file photo, Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. speaks at a news conference in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Coale, File)AP - After an exhaustive two-year investigation, former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges for sending salacious messages to underage pages, two federal law enforcement officials have told The Associated Press.

Train fans fear LA crash will derail their hobby (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 04:55 PM CDT

Passengers board a Metrolink train for the Los Angeles-bound Monday morning commute as service partially resumes for the first time with a freight train September 15, 2008 in Chatsworth, California. The conductor of a train involved in a rail crash that left 25 people dead was sending text messages on his mobile phone during working hours, authorities said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)AP - They stand within feet of speeding locomotives, climb signal poles to photograph passing trains and try to befriend conductors and engineers.

Congress promises quick action on bailout package (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 05:30 AM CDT

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson talks with reporters after meeting with Congressional leaders on the current economic crisis Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 on Capitol Hill in Washington. At right is Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, 2nd right is Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and second left is Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox. Paulson says the government is crafting a plan to rescue banks from bad debts that are at the heart of Wall Street's worst financial crisis in decades. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - Congress promised quick action on a plan to buy up toxic assets, such as bad mortgages, held by troubled banks and other institutions, hoping to lift the nation out of its worst financial crisis in decades.

Calls for more monitoring of drugs and chemicals (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 05:12 PM CDT

AP - Pollution experts pressed a congressional panel Thursday for a new national approach that monitors the country's waters more broadly for the presence and impact of hundreds of recently detected contaminants from pharmaceuticals to fire retardants.

Home of 'Lackawanna 6' also home to terror victim (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 06:06 PM CDT

In this photo released by Ahmed Elbaneh is Susan Elbaneh in Lackawanna, N.Y., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. A sophisticated bombing plot carried out against the U.S. Embassy in Yemen brings increased urgency to fears that Muslim extremists are gathering strength in that nation and could make it a headquarters for terrorism. Family members said Susan Elbaneh was killed in the bombing. (AP Photo/Ahmed Elbaneh)AP - Yemeni-Americans in this upstate New York city have seen terrorism from two sides.

NASA extends Mars lander mission again (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 04:01 PM CDT

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached a depth about three times greater than in any trench Phoenix has excavated in this image taken on August 23, 2008 and released by NASA August 25. The deep trench, informally called AP - NASA is extending the Phoenix Mars mission again. The three-legged spacecraft has been digging trenches near the Martian north pole since landing on May 25 and its work was supposed to end this month. Phoenix is studying whether the site could have been favorable for microbial life to emerge.

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