2008年9月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Afghan president to address UN General Assembly (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:14 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, left, meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - Afghanistan's president, who addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, is urging the next American leader to send money, planes and equipment to strengthen the Afghan army.


Ga. cop killer gets last-minute execution reprieve (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 06:54 PM CDT

This undated photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows death-row inmate Troy Davis.  More than 17 years after Davis was convicted of gunning down a Savannah, Ga. police officer, supporters say disturbing questions remain about his guilt. Still, unless the courts intervene, Davis is facing execution Tuesday night, September 23, 2008.   (AP Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections)AP - The U.S. Supreme Court gave a reprieve to a Georgia inmate less than two hours before his scheduled execution Tuesday for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer.


NYC buys new security for Va. gun shop, ends suit (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 07:14 PM CDT

AP - New York City will pay to install a better security camera system in a Virginia gun store that will make other changes to its sales practices, resolving a lawsuit the city filed two years ago.

Deja vu is devastating for town hit by Rita, Ike (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 05:49 PM CDT

Sabine Pass resident and school principal Kristi Heid stands in what used to be the garage of her home Monday, Sept. 22, 2008 in Sabine Pass, Texas. Rita made landfall here as a Category 3 hurricane on Sept. 24, 2005, unleashing 120 mph winds that tore through East Texas and western parts of Louisiana. Ike came ashore Sept. 13, some 70 miles to the west at Galveston as a Category 2 storm with winds of 110 mph, but no one in Sabine Pass sees Ike as a lesser storm. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Fred Forsythe finally is out of the FEMA trailer he's called home since Hurricane Rita ripped apart his own place three years ago.


Witness against O.J. Simpson admits foggy memory (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 09:30 PM CDT

O.J. Simpson, left, appears in court with his attorney Yale Galanter as his trial continues Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, in Las Vegas. Simpson faces 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, POOL)AP - A witness who acknowledged saving himself from a potential life sentence by testifying against O.J. Simpson conceded Tuesday that his memory of the hotel room confrontation at the center of the case hasn't been the same since he suffered two heart attacks.


Democrats sue over how Gregoire's opponent is ID'd (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 11:19 PM CDT

AP - Washington state Democrats sued a state official Tuesday to get a Republican listed on the ballot, arguing a candidate is obscuring his party identity by ballot language that says he "prefers GOP party."

Schwarzenegger signs Calif. budget 85 days late (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 08:30 PM CDT

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, holds up a copy ot the 2008-2009  state budget  after signing it during a small ceremony in his office at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. Representatives from California counties stand behind the governor.(AP Photo/Steve Yeater)AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the most overdue state budget in California history Tuesday, skipping the usual fanfare because he said the Legislature's efforts on the $144.5 billion spending plan were nothing to celebrate.


Man charged after gun found in car near Obama home (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 08:27 PM CDT

A photo released Tuesaday, Sept. 23, 2008 by the Chicago Police Department shows Omhari Sengstacke. Police charged Sengstacke, a relative of a prominent Chicago family on Tuesday with possession of a firearm by a felon after he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama's home, though the U.S. Secret Service insisted he never posed a threat to the Democratic presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department)AP - A member of a prominent Chicago family faces a felony gun charge after being arrested Tuesday when he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama's home. The U.S. Secret Service insisted he never posed a threat to the Democratic presidential candidate.


Main Street voices irritation with Wall Street (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 07:40 PM CDT

Brian Piper says, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008 in Doral, Fla., that the government should help homeowners who have good reasons (health issues, emergency expenses) if they fall behind in their mortgage payments but not investors. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)AP - Mark Endres has 19 years left to pay on his mortgage and the Philadelphia barber is not expecting anyone to cut him any slack. So what's all this talk about the government writing a $700 billion check to Wall Street?


Pa. mom admits helping son build weapons cache (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 05:05 PM CDT

In this Friday, Oct. 12, 2007 picture, Dillon Cossey, 14, is lead in shackles into the courtroom at the Montgomery County Courthouse for his hearing in Norristown, Pa. The mother of the bullied boy admitted she purchased weapons and gunpowder for Dillon, who was planning a deadly attack on a suburban Philadelphia high school. Investigators are unsure whether Michele Cossey, 46, knew about her son's planned assault. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower)AP - A woman admitted she helped her troubled, bullied 14-year-old son build a weapons cache by buying a rifle and gunpowder, but investigators still don't know if she was aware her son was planning a deadly school attack.


Muslim group seeks probe of 'radical Islam' DVD (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 07:18 PM CDT

AP - A U.S. Muslim advocacy group Tuesday asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate whether a nonprofit group that distributed a controversial DVD about Islam in newspapers nationwide is a "front" for an Israel-based group with a stealth goal of helping Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

1 Philadelphia officer killed, 1 wounded on duty (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 09:47 PM CDT

Officers salute as the procession carrying the body of Philadelphia Police Officer Patrick McDonald, 30, leave Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. The city police officer pursuing an armed suspect Tuesday afternoon was fatally shot, the fourth city officer to die in the line of duty in the last year. Another officer was wounded and the suspect was killed.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A city police officer pursuing an armed suspect Tuesday afternoon was fatally shot, the fourth Philadelphia officer to die in the line of duty in the last year, authorities said. Another officer was wounded and the suspect was killed.


3 more polygamist-sect members indicted in Texas (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:29 PM CDT

In this May 19, 2008 file photo members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, left, follow a group of attorneys into the Tom Green County Courthouse, in San Angelo, Texas. Texas authorities are acknowledging that many of the children seized during the raid on a polygamist sect's ranch can safely live with their parents or guardians. The children were the subject of one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history, taken into state custody from their ranch in a tiny west Texas town because child welfare authorities said girls were being forced into underage marriages and boys were being raised to be perpetrators. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, file)AP - A west Texas grand jury investigating allegations that members of a polygamist sect sexually abused girls indicted three more people Tuesday, raising the number of defendants in the case to nine.


Drivers in the South still scrambling for a tank (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 03:30 PM CDT

A line of cars forms for gas Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, in Atlanta. Some gasoline stations in parts of the Southeast are out of fuel and shortages could persist for days as refiners continue to recover from the one-two punch of hurricanes Ike and Gustav. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)AP - More than a week after Hurricane Ike's strike, drivers across the Southeast are still bouncing between dry pumps and shuttered stations in a frustrating hunt for a fill-up — and they're starting to get angry.


Afghan tribal leader convicted on NY drug charges (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 06:32 PM CDT

Bashir Noorzai is pictured in his undated handout image. (Handout/Reuters)AP - A former Afghan tribal leader was convicted Tuesday of smuggling $50 million worth of heroin into the United States.


NYC cutting its budget to weather Wall Street woes (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 06:31 PM CDT

In this Sept. 15, 2008 file photo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks about the New York City economy in light of the Lehman Brother's bankruptcy filing, in New York. Bloomberg is the subject of speculation about his future — stay four more years and spare the city from financial ruin or leave now and save the nation from a similar fate.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered all city agencies to slash spending this year and plan to do so the next to weather the significant local impact of the Wall Street meltdown.


Western initiative proposes emissions-trading plan (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:49 PM CDT

AP - Seven western states and four Canadian provinces on Tuesday proposed a comprehensive program to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, manufacturers and vehicles.

Sun's wind and output on extended dimmer switch (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:28 PM CDT

AP - The sun has dialed back its furnace to the lowest levels seen in the space age, new measurements from a space probe show.

Horrific football hazing case shakes NM town (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 03:16 PM CDT

Rick Romero, superintendent of Las Vegas Public Schools in Las Vegas, N.M., stands at Robertson High School's Cardinal Stadium in Las Vegas, N.M. on Tuesday, Sept., 23, 2008. Six high school football players were accused of sodomizing six younger teammates with a broomstick during training camp, but the scandal was raised to a whole new level when the coaches were accused of turning a blind eye to the hazing. Since then, Robertson High's head football coach and all five assistants have resigned, and prosecutors are considering charges against adults and youngsters alike. The scandal unfolded at a four-day, mid-August preseason training camp in the mountains west of the town. (AP Photo/Jeff Geissler)AP - It was shocking enough when six high school football players were accused of sodomizing six younger teammates with a broomstick during training camp. But the scandal was raised to a whole new level when the coaches were accused of turning a blind eye to the hazing.


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