2008年9月26日星期五

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AP IMPACT: Nuclear waste piles up at hospitals (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 01:11 AM CDT

Waste is secured inside steel drums, encased in concrete vaults in an uncapped trench at Energy Solutions in Barnwell, S.C. Friday, Sept. 19, 2008.  A South Carolina law that took effect July 1 ended nearly all disposal of radioactive material at the landfill, leaving 36 states with no place to throw out such stuff. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic)AP - Tubes, capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and research installations around the country, stoking fears they could get lost or, worse, stolen by terrorists and turned into dirty bombs.


Evangelist Alamo faces charges in child sex probe (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:26 AM CDT

This undated file photo made available by Tony Alamo Christian Ministries shows Tony Alamo and his wife Susan. The FBI says evangelist Tony Alamo has been arrested in Arizona on suspicion of transporting minors across state lines for sexual purposes.  (AP Photo/Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, file)AP - Evangelist and convicted tax evader Tony Alamo says when it comes to sex, "consent is puberty" and there's a mandate in the Bible for girls marrying young.


Storm off Southeast coast heads for Carolinas (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 02:59 AM CDT

A couple walks along the beach as heavy surf comes ashore in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. A low pressure system off the Carolina coast created some wind and rain along with heavy surf. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - A strong low-pressure system bringing strong winds that pushed inland for miles, waterfront flooding and high surf promised to dominate the weather along the mid-Atlantic coast into the weekend.


California voters to consider bullet train project (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:47 AM CDT

AP - A century and a half after California built its first railroad, the Golden State may be about to launch the most ambitious rail project undertaken by any state — a nearly 800-mile system of bullet trains that can top 200 mph.

Report: FDA lax in oversight of produce industry (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:31 PM CDT

AP - The Food and Drug Administration's efforts to combat food-borne illness are hampered by infrequent inspections, not enough staff and the failure to implement a program devoted to the safety of fresh produce, according to congressional investigators.

Alleged victim testifies he and O.J. were set up (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:22 PM CDT

O.J. Simpson, right, stands during a break in his trial in District Court at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. At left is Simpson's attorney Yale Galanter.  Simpson is standing trial on 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy related to a 2007 confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, Pool)AP - One of the alleged victims in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping trial testified Thursday that he didn't want to be on the witness stand as he provided key evidence undermining the prosecution case.


Okla. executes polygamist who killed young niece (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:09 PM CDT

AP - A polygamist convicted of fatally stabbing his 11-year-old niece and dumping her body in rural Oklahoma was executed Thursday.

Error-prone Detroit police crime lab shut down (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 09:29 PM CDT

AP - The Detroit police crime lab was shut down by the city's new mayor and police chief after an outside audit found errors in some evidence used to prosecute cases involving murder and other crimes, officials said Thursday.

NM GOP official quits over remarks about blacks (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:24 PM CDT

AP - The chairman of the Republican Party in New Mexico's most populous county resigned Thursday, nearly a week after saying "Hispanics consider themselves above blacks" and won't vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Neighbors defend Texan accused of murdering teen (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 05:06 PM CDT

AP - The trial of a man accused of executing a teen who broke into his home with friends looking for snacks has many in this border city outraged. Not because of the crime, but because the man is facing a murder charge.

Web post inflames post-shooting emotions in Wash. (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:51 PM CDT

Jeffrey N. Gargaro, charged with felony harassment for comments he posted on a local newspaper's web site, stands inside the Whatcom County Courthouse Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008, in Bellingham, Wash. When a mentally disturbed man went on a shooting spree earlier this month that left six people dead, The Bellingham Herald's Web site quickly filled with comments--some thoughtful, some vitriolic-- from readers trying to make sense of the carnage. A county prosecutor says Gargaro's comments went too far and he faces possible jail time. His lawyer is fighting the charge on free-speech grounds. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - A Washington state man who wrote on a newspaper Web site that he was going to shoot up a shopping mall says he was just making a point after a mentally disturbed man went on a shooting spree. But prosecutors say he was making a threat.


9 siblings among 11 kids abandoned under Neb. law (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:44 PM CDT

A statue of St. Joseph holding the infant Jesus, stands outside of Creighton Medical Center, where nine siblings were abandoned by their father on Wednesday, in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. Eleven children ranging in age from 1 to 17 were left at hospitals Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008, under Nebraska's unique safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon not only infants but also teenagers without fear of prosecution. Nine of the children came from one family. The five boys and four girls were left by their father, who was not identified, at Creighton University Medical Center's emergency room.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Nine siblings are among 11 children as old as 17 who were left at Omaha hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska's unique and new safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon babies and teenagers alike at hospitals without fear of prosecution.


Iran's president: Nation must control nuclear fuel (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:05 PM CDT

Protesters gather across the street from the Grand Hyatt Hotel for a rally protesting the World Council of Churches for hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a dinner in New York Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008.  (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - Iran needs the ability to produce nuclear fuel because it cannot rely on other nations to supply enriched uranium to the Islamic regime's planned reactors, the Iranian president said Thursday.


Ky. man claims penis amputated without consent (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 02:16 PM CDT

AP - A Kentucky man who claims his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to be a circumcision has sued the doctor who performed the surgery.

Government probes chelation-heart disease study (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 05:38 PM CDT

AP - The largest alternative medicine study the government has ever launched has stopped enrolling people while officials investigate whether participants were fully informed of the risks and are being adequately protected, The Associated Press has learned.

A face from ears: Palin is carved into cornfield (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 05:25 PM CDT

This undated photo released by Duke Wheeler shows a corn maze rendering of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at Wheeler Farms in Whitehouse near Toledo, Ohio. The 16-acre cornfield has been carved up in the likeness of the candidate. (AP Photo/Duke Wheeler, HO)AP - An Ohio farmer would like to invite you to get lost inside the head of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.


Calif. lawmakers get free gasoline (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:52 PM CDT

Assemblyman Guy Houston, R- Pleasanton, left, is seen at the Capitol, Monday Aug. 25, 2008 in Sacramento, Calif. From January through July of 2008, taxpayers have paid $5,139.84 for gasoline used by Houston. California is unique in giving legislators free reign on transportation spending and this year taxpayers have reimbursed state lawmakers nearly $220, 000 for fuel through July. Houston, who spent the most of any legislator on gasoline, uses a Toyota Highlander hybrid to commute about 90 miles most days from his East Bay home to Sacramento.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California lawmakers enjoy a perk not available to their colleagues in any other state: unchecked use of gasoline charge cards that stick taxpayers with the bill.


Court: Relatives who assist in suicide can inherit (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:10 PM CDT

AP - The wife and daughter of a man who committed suicide can inherit his estate even if they assisted him in the act, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

Carbon goes on the auction block in Northeast (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:32 PM CDT

Exhaust fumes coming out of a car's tailpipe. An EU environment panel resisted pressure on Thursday from Europe's powerful car-making industry to water down plans to force automakers to slash carbon dioxide emissions.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AP - Greenhouse gases went on sale Thursday as 10 Northeastern states held the nation's first auction of pollution credits aimed at curbing global warming.


Pa. Marine sues Rep. Murtha over Haditha comments (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:51 PM CDT

AP - A former Marine sued Rep. John Murtha for slander on Thursday, saying the congressman damaged his reputation by saying he and his comrades killed women and children "in cold blood" in Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005.
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