2008年10月10日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

AP IMPACT: GPS could save airlines time and fuel (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 10:35 PM CDT

Air traffic controllers, from left to right: Karl Haynes, Jr.; Danika Dry-Rodriguez, and Stephen Boyd, work in the control tower at Washington's Reagan National Airport, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - A World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes is costing U.S. airlines billions of dollars in wasted fuel while an upgrade to a satellite-based system has languished in the planning stages for more than a decade.

States cut spending, put projects on hold (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 10:33 PM CDT

Map shows states with a general fund budget gap for the current fiscal year;AP - With the economy in a slide and the credit markets seized up, states are slashing budgets, eliminating jobs, putting major construction projects on hold and nervously waiting to see whether their shriveled pension funds recover.

D.C. Uighurs wait to take in Gitmo detainees (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 02:50 AM CDT

Nury Turkel, a leader in the Uighur-American community, is photographed in his office on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, in Washington. With no Dalai Lama to promote their cause, Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs have waged a largely anonymous bid for autonomy and cultural survival in their Central Asian homeland north of Tibet. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - For centuries, hospitality to weary travelers has been part of the Uighur culture. The Uighur land in what is now the far western province of China carried merchants traversing the famed Silk Road.

Sheriff who halted evictions not typical lawman (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 02:52 AM CDT

AP - Diane Limas was already planning a protest as she walked out of Cook County Sheriff's office.

Western group petitions for species protection (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 02:53 AM CDT

This undated photo provided by the New Mexico Game and Fish Department shows a New Mexican meadow jumping mouse at a marsh near Espanola, N.M. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse is among 13 species listed in petitions filed by WildEarth Guardians on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The conservation group is seeking protections for the species under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, Joan L. Morrison)AP - A tortoise, a hare, a mouse and a half-dozen mussels are some of the creatures that a conservation group hopes to save through a "Western Ark" project aimed at petitioning the government for federal protection.

Police: Murder-suicide at heart of Ky. house fire (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:13 PM CDT

A police officer points to an object as he investigates on the second floor of a home where three people were found dead in Independence, Ky., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. A 22-year-old daughter and her parents were found inside the burning home, and police said all three suffered gunshot wounds. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - A man found dead this week after a gasoline-fueled blaze at his Kentucky house shot and killed his wife and daughter before turning the gun on himself, police said Thursday.

Police: Mall shooting suspect upset over purchase (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:17 PM CDT

Knoxville Police Department public information officer Darrell DeBusk talks to reporters 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 the scene. The suspect was injured and was taken into custody by the Knoxville Police Department. Behind left is Deputy Chief Bill Roehl.(AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - The fatal shooting of a store employee and gun battle with police in a Knoxville shopping mall began as a complaint over a clothing purchase, authorities said Thursday.

Elections officials deny illegally purging voters (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 11:22 PM CDT

Randy Anderson, from left, Nancy Ports, and Tyler Parker process voter registrations at the board of elections in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The nationwide boom in voter registration that propelled Sen. Barack Obama to his party's presidential nomination has carried over into the general election, resulting in more than 9 million newly registered voters who are overwhelmingly Democrats and creating the potential for an Election Day landslide. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - A newspaper report Thursday said tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states. Election officials lined up to defend their registration procedures and said they had done nothing wrong.

Scandal rocks nation's largest commuter railroad (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 09:27 PM CDT

AP - Like many commuters, Ron Marino is incredulous about revelations that nearly every employee who asked for disability benefits after retiring from the nation's largest commuter railroad was granted them.

Calif. firefighters brace for predicted Santa Anas (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 09:09 PM CDT

AP - Federal officials moved heavy firefighting equipment into Southern California on Thursday ahead of predicted Santa Ana winds, as a large wildfire at a Marine base was contained with little damage and no injuries.

Calif. measure would require more space for hens (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:59 PM CDT

AP - At the J.S. West and Cos. poultry farm, half a million chickens are squeezed six at a time into wire cages where they must share 2 square feet of space.

Bodies of US reps' brother, his girlfriend found (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:06 PM CDT

The wreackage of a 26-foot Bayliner pleasure boat is covered with a tarp after being recovered from the ocean floor in the Los Angeles harbor by the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Coast Guard and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials confirmed that the bodies also recovered by divers are 51-year-old Henry Sanchez and 48-year-old Penny Avila, the missing brother of two Southern California congresswomen and his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The bodies of the brother of two Southern California congresswomen and his girlfriend have been recovered from the waters off Los Angeles, days after the couple disappeared during a boat trip, authorities said Thursday.

Ark. plans to drop unmarried foster parent ban (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 09:13 PM CDT

Holly Dickson, legal director for the Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, listens to testimony at a hearing on foster care at the Department of Human Services in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Arkansas plans to reverse course and allow unmarried or same-sex couples to take on foster children on a case-by-case basis, even as voters prepare to decide the issue in November, the state Department of Human Services said Thursday.

Immigrant death defendant complains about school (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:15 PM CDT

AP - A Pennsylvania teen charged with killing a Mexican man has lost a bid to be sent to private school on the taxpayers' dime.

Bus packed with Amish clips semi in Mich.; 14 hurt (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:36 PM CDT

Two Amish men and emergency personnel view the scene of a crash on U.S. 23 in Northfield Township, about 40 miles west of Detroit Thursday Oct. 9, 2008. A semitrailer clipped the back of a bus overloaded with members of an Amish church group Thursday, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 14 people to the hospital, including several children, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Lisa Carolin)AP - A bus overloaded with members of an Amish church group clipped a semitrailer Thursday, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 14 people to the hospital, including several children, authorities said.

Killer of 5 apparently hangs self in Ind. prison (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:30 PM CDT

AP - An illegal immigrant serving five life terms for the strangling deaths of his wife, three young daughters and a neighborhood girl apparently took his own life Thursday by hanging himself, authorities said.

Dow plunges 679 for 6th triple-digit loss in a row (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:35 PM CDT

Specialist Justin Bohan holds his head as he works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday Oct. 9, 2008. Stocks plunged in the final minutes of trading Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down more than 675 points, or more than 7 percent, to their lowest level in five years after a major credit ratings agency said it was considering cutting its rating on General Motors Corp. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - A runaway train of a sell-off turned the anniversary of the stock market peak into one of the darkest days in Wall Street history Thursday, driving the Dow Jones industrials down a breathtaking 679 points and deepening a financial crisis that has defied all efforts to stop it.

1 in 4 US teen girls got cervical cancer shot (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:54 PM CDT

AP - One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday.

U. of Texas ends fight over dorm-room Obama signs (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:42 PM CDT

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) casts a shadow on his sign during a campaign rally in Dayton Dragon Stadium in Dayton, Ohio October 9, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - Facing a free-speech uproar, the University of Texas backed down Thursday from punishing two students who refused to remove political signs from their dormitory window.

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