2008年10月1日星期三

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AP source: New York mayor wants a 3rd term (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2008 04:10 AM CDT

In this Thursday, Sept 25, 2008 file photo, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg participates in a panel discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York. Bloomberg has decided to try to reverse the term-limits law he had long supported so he can seek a third term next year and help the city emerge from financial turmoil, a person close to the mayor told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - For a long time, Mayor Michael Bloomberg seemed to despise the very notion of changing a voter-approved law restricting elected officeholders to two terms in office.

Voting for president begins in pivotal Ohio (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2008 01:16 AM CDT

Poll worker Tony Dedeschi helps voter Richard Adams with his absentee ballot at the Franklin County Veterans Memorial polling place in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. Voters in this crucial swing state began casting absentee ballots Tuesday, a day after the Ohio Supreme Court and two separate federal judges cleared the way for a disputed early voting law. (AP Photo/David Smith)AP - In the state that may again determine the presidency, voters started casting ballots Tuesday as Barack Obama struggles to thwart a John McCain victory in Ohio four years after it tipped the election to President Bush.

Soldiers headed to Iraq worry about economy (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2008 03:14 AM CDT

AP - Soldiers and families who deal with enough stress during 12-month deployment to Iraq say they're now keeping a little closer eye on their finances.

East L.A seeks to become a city of its own (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 03:22 PM CDT

Pedestrians cross Whittier Blvd. in unincorporated East Los Angeles Saturday, July 19, 2008. A group of residents has launched a campaign to make the area a municipality governed by its own elected officials and ordinances, instead of by the county of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - East L.A. — birthplace of the lowrider, Los Lobos and Oscar de la Hoya — is to Mexican-Americans what Harlem is to the black community. Now it wants to become its own city. Commonly mistaken for a part of Los Angeles, East L.A. is actually an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, with more than 130,000 people — 96 percent of them Latino — packed into 7.4 square miles.

$28M settlement reached in Big Dig death lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 10:10 PM CDT

This July 11, 2006 file photo taken by the Massachusetts State Police and originally released Tuesday, July 10, 2007, by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the car that was crushed by falling ceiling panels, killing passenger Milena Del Valle in a Big Dig Tunnel in Boston. The family of a woman killed when a Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapsed has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for more than $28 million, attorneys told The Associated Press Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/National Transportation Safety Board)AP - The family of a woman killed when a Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapsed has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for more than $28 million, attorneys told The Associated Press.

Robber convicted of infamous KFC murders in Texas (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 08:26 PM CDT

This photo provided by the Texas Attorney General's office show Darnell Hartsfield, who was convicted of capital murder Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008 in Bryan, Texas, for the fatal shootings of five people abducted from a Kilgore, Texas, Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant 25 years ago. He received an automatic life sentence after prosecutors chose not to seek the death penalty. (AP Photo/Texas Attorney General, File)AP - A robber who had been convicted of perjury in the long-unsolved killings of five people abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant 25 years ago was convicted of murder Tuesday.

Oregon school says 4 confessed to Obama effigy (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 07:56 PM CDT

AP - A Christian university in Oregon said Tuesday it has punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus.

Utah's endangered list: fruity alcoholic beverages (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 08:51 PM CDT

Only a few bottles of malt beverages are left on the shelves of a state store Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, in Salt Lake City. As part of a new law, the drinks must contain new labels approved by the alcoholic beverage control department on the front of the product and contain capitalized letters in bold type telling consumers the drinks contain alcohol and at what percentage. The department won't reorder any more of the flavored malt beverages it has in stock until manufacturers comply with new labeling requirements. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - Utah's supply of flavored malt beverages will likely be exhausted in a few weeks as manufacturers decide whether to comply with labeling rules intended to make it clear the products contain alcohol.

Jury watches video of suspect hit by SC trooper (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 08:17 PM CDT

This July 25, 2008, file photo shows South Carolina Trooper, Steven C. Garren , as he leaves Federal Court in Columbia, S.C. Garren is accused of using his patrol car to ram a fleeing suspect. The civil rights violation trial started Tuesday Sept. 30, 2008 in Greenville, S.C.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain,File)AP - A federal jury that must decide whether a South Carolina state trooper deliberately rammed a fleeing suspect with his patrol car watched a video of the incident Tuesday, and heard the officer bragging about the collision.

Judge will release Simpson jury's questionnaires (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 07:09 PM CDT

O.J. Simpson stands in court during a break in his trial at the Clark County Regional Justice in Las Vegas, Nevada. Prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson trial rested their case Monday with testimony from a gunman who claimed the sports star asked him to bring a weapon to a confrontation with two memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel last year.(AFP/Getty Images/Ethan Miller)AP - The judge in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery-kidnapping case plans to release redacted jury questionnaires once the trial ends and is defending her decision not to release the full surveys immediately.

State rail projects get boost as driving declines (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 04:26 PM CDT

AP - The federal government is chipping in nearly $30 million for 15 passenger rail projects across the country as Americans continue to drive less and take the train more, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Tuesday.

Money meltdown creates identity crises for venues (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 05:04 PM CDT

Shown is the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. The meltdown on Wall Street is extending into the worlds of sports and entertainment. Teams, venues and arenas have received millions of dollars from banks in return for splashing their names across their buildings; buildings which now face an uncertain future.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - First the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the 1990s, then the accounting scandals earlier this decade, forced ballparks and arenas around the country to change their names. Enron Field became Minute Maid Park, and names like PSINet Stadium and CMGI Field vanished.

Slain patrolman was 'Philly through and through' (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 07:06 PM CDT

The casket of Philadelphia police Officer Sgt. Patrick McDonald, 30, is taken from Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul after funeral services in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. McDonald was fatally shot as he chased a man on foot after a traffic stop last week. An officer responding to McDonald's distress call killed the gunman in a shootout a short time later. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Before leaving home each morning to patrol the city's streets, Officer Patrick McDonald would crank up Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" and hit the weights in his elaborate basement gym.

Feds propose listing 48 Hawaiian species at once (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 06:52 PM CDT

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, before a House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The federal government took a new, ecosystem-based approach to the endangered species list on Tuesday, proposing an all-at-once addition of 48 species, including plants, two birds and a fly, that live only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

Court upholds legality of SanFran health care plan (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 06:25 PM CDT

AP - San Francisco's landmark universal health care program can continue to operate, after an appeals court ruled Tuesday that it does not violate federal law.

Reports warn of problems at ground zero hub in NYC (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 05:55 AM CDT

In this Thursday, April 24, 2003 file photo, workers are onsite at the PATH rail lines at ground zero in New York. The construction of the World Trade Center rail station is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget and five years behind schedule — delays that are slowing the building of the Sept. 11 memorial and most other projects on the 16-acre site. (AP Photo/Nicole Bengiveno, Pool)AP - The glittering, steel and glass domed rail hub had seemed for years to be the only thing that was going right at ground zero.

Lawsuit seeks Species Act protection for wolverine (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 05:57 PM CDT

AP - Environmental groups sued the federal government Tuesday to protect wolverines under the Endangered Species Act, saying the Interior Department disregarded scientific conclusions that the species was in jeopardy.

35 years for man who offered speakers for grenades (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 04:57 PM CDT

AP - A one-time admirer of Osama bin Laden who plotted a hand-grenade attack at a mall jammed with Christmas shoppers — and tried to trade two stereo speakers for the weapons — was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday.

2 threats to dog racing: Mass. vote, low interest (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 02:29 PM CDT

In this is a June 21, 2005, file photo, greyhounds compete during a race at Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere, Mass. In the upcoming November 2008 election, Massachusetts voters will decide if greyhound racing will be retained or eliminated in the state. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - Voters in Massachusetts will soon decide whether greyhound racing should continue there, though the real question might be whether the once-popular sport dies a quick death or a slow one.

NY judge: PLO can't disguise terror as war (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 03:43 PM CDT

AP - The Palestine Liberation Organization can't win dismissal of a lawsuit by victims of bombings in Israel by claiming the attacks were acts of war rather than terrorism, a judge ruled Tuesday.

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