2008年10月9日星期四

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Man charged in Tenn. mall shooting that killed 1 (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:26 AM CDT

Two unmarked police cars sit outside Knoxville Center Mall Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 where a shooting took place inside. A clothing store employee was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at he scene. The suspect was injured and was taken into custody by the Knoxville Police Department. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - A customer opened fire in a crowded shopping mall Wednesday afternoon, killing a clothing store employee before he was shot and wounded by police officers, authorities said. Witnesses said the gunfire sent people "stampeding" for cover.

Report: Minority college attainment up, but stalls (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:25 AM CDT

AP - The number of minorities in college has increased substantially in recent years, but not fast enough to keep up with demographic changes.

Down market hits 1-year mark with no clear bottom (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:47 PM CDT

In this Sept. 30, 2008 file photo, trader Bryan Cooley watches the markets in the S&P 500 futures trading pit at the CME Group in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - The bear market that is ravaging investor portfolios is now one of the worst in modern U.S. history and has wiped out more than $7 trillion in shareholder value, with no bottom clearly in sight.

Yosemite National Park rock slide destroys cabins (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 11:10 PM CDT

Damage to trees and the side of a cabin remain at lodging facilities in Curry Village in Yosemite National Park following a rock slide Wed., Oct. 8, 2008. It was the second rock fall in the area in two days. (AP Photo/Tom Trujillo)AP - Chunks of granite crashed to the Yosemite Valley floor in a cloud of dust Wednesday, injuring at least three people and destroying several cabins and trees at one of the park's most popular lodging areas, officials said.

Neb. fears child abandonments from other states (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:27 PM CDT

The Creighton Medical Center, where nine siblings were abandoned by their father on Wednesday, is seen 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 - More than a dozen children have been abandoned under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law, which allows children as old as 18 to be abandoned without fear of prosecution. But the case of a 14-year-old girl from Iowa has stoked fears of an influx of unwanted out-of-state children.

Fatal crash highlights lure of casinos for seniors (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:19 PM CDT

Pa Phang, left, and her husband Chu Vang, second from left, talk with relatives during a wake in honor of Vang's father Xee Hue Vang in Sacramento, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Xee Hue Vang, 83, was one of seven killed when a tour bus crashed on it's way to a casino north of Sacramento on Sunday night. His wife Maolee Yang, 75, who was also on the bus, remains in critical condition at a local hospital.(AP Photo/Steve Yeater)AP - The casinos run by American Indian tribes in Northern California work to attract lonely seniors on fixed incomes by offering cheap transportation on charter buses like the one that crashed over the weekend, killing eight people and injuring dozens.

Chicago's Cook County won't evict in foreclosures (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:30 PM CDT

AP - The sheriff here said Wednesday that he's ordering his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties because many people his office has helped throw out on the street are renters who did nothing wrong.

'Pregnancy pact' school to give out contraceptives (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:49 PM CDT

AP - Schools in the Massachusetts city where girls reportedly made a "pregnancy pact" will allow contraceptives to be distributed — with parental consent.

Man convicted of murder in Mo. 'Precious Doe' case (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:16 PM CDT

AP - A man who kicked his girlfriend's daughter in the head and dumped her body in the woods was convicted Wednesday, resolving a case that haunted the Kansas City area during the four years the 3-year-old was known only as "Precious Doe."

Wildfire burns at Marine ordnance disposal area (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 12:58 AM CDT

AP - A wildfire burned more than 1,000 acres Wednesday on a Marine Corps range used to train Marines in explosives disposal, forcing firefighters to work late into the night as flames spread on the massive base 40 miles north of San Diego.

Galveston scrambles to heal beaches after Ike (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:37 PM CDT

A row of geotubes line the beach in front of houses in Pirates Beach as heavy trucks clean up debris Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 in Galveston, Texas. The geotubes, used to help prevent beach erosion, had been covered by grassy sand dunes before Hurricane Ike struck last month. Like many other parts of the city, stretches of the beach were washed away, remain littered with debris and are not ready to host the southeast Texas crowds that usually flock to them. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - The coast here doesn't have the whitest sand or the clearest water, but to millions of Houstonians and other Texans, this is the beach. And thanks to Hurricane Ike, it's also a mess.

Woman accused of threatening teen daughter's ex (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:24 PM CDT

AP - A woman is accused of badgering her daughter's teenage ex-boyfriend with hundreds of e-mails and text messages and threatening to post nude images of him on the Internet unless he started seeing the girl again, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Burned! Washington state woman shot by stove (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:50 PM CDT

AP - A woman in Washington state says her cast-iron stove shot her in the leg.

Appeals court: Search violated NY woman's rights (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:29 PM CDT

AP - A federal appeals court said Wednesday that police violated the rights of a woman who claims her strip search was broadcast in a police station in glitzy Southampton.

NYC National Debt Clock runs out of digits (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:03 PM CDT

The National Debt Clock is shown near Times Square in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The clock has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a temporary fix, the dollar sign has been switched to a figure--the '1' in $10 trillion. The clock is marking the current national debt at about $10.2 trillion. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.

FBI: Body of missing NYC mobster found in NY field (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:12 PM CDT

Members of the FBI evidence response team search for possible victims of mob violence after a discovery earlier this week of the remains of a Colombo family associate inEast Farmingdale, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. Authorities have been digging for nearly a week at the site where they believe as many as three bodies may be buried. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)AP - William "Wild Bill" Cutolo was a feared mobster who vanished nearly a decade ago during a bloody struggle for control of the Colombo crime family. It had been widely believed that after rival gangsters killed him, his body was dumped off the side of a boat in the Atlantic Ocean.

Judge seeks $250M down payment for Calif. prisons (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:00 PM CDT

AP - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration to say whether California has the $250 million needed to start an $8 billion overhaul of the prison health care system.

Customer opens fire at Tenn. mall, killing worker (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:16 PM CDT

Two unmarked police cars sit outside Knoxville Center Mall Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 where a shooting took place inside. A clothing store employee was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at he scene. The suspect was injured and was taken into custody by the Knoxville Police Department. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - A customer opened fire in a crowded shopping mall Wednesday afternoon, killing a clothing store employee before he was shot and wounded by police officers, authorities said. Witnesses said the gunfire sent people "stampeding" for cover.

NYC mayor clears hurdle to changing term-limit law (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:54 PM CDT

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attends a meeting with Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit in Berlin, October 5, 2008. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday secured a fellow billionaire's once-wavering support to change the city's term-limits law, even as other obstacles formed to the politician's attempt to extend his tenure.

Ohio teen charged for sending nude phone photos (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:02 PM CDT

AP - Police in Newark, Ohio, have arrested a 15-year-old girl on juvenile child pornography charges for allegedly sending nude cell phone photos of herself to classmates.

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