2008年10月12日星期日

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 08:27 PM CDT

In this photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Game, two five gallon backpack sprayers used to spray pesticides directly on the buds of marijuana plants to keep the insects down are shown on Monday, July 28, 2008 at Longmeadow Creek in Tulare County near Johnsondale, Calif. (AP Photo/California Department of Fish and Game)AP - National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

About 2,500 flee chemical leak in western Pa. (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 12:18 AM CDT

AP - A corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant in western Pennsylvania on Saturday, evaporating into a toxic cloud that snaked along the ground and forced about 2,500 people to flee. At least three residents were believed to suffer respiratory problems.

All that money you've lost — where did it go? (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 11:41 AM CDT

In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 file photo, artist Laura Gilbert displays her 'Zero Dollar' artwork in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. If you're looking to track down your missing money — figure out who has it now, maybe ask to have it back — you might be disappointed to learn that is was never really money in the first place. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.

Wildfire destroys home, barn in Napa Valley (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 03:14 AM CDT

AP - Authorities say a rock struck by a car ignited a wildfire in California's Napa Valley that destroyed a home and a barn and threatened several wineries.

Attorney: Marine fighting extradition from Mexico (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 11:33 PM CDT

AP - The attorney for a Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague says his client is fighting extradition to the United States.

Washington weighs lethal meds for terminally ill (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 12:56 PM CDT

In this still frame from a TV advertisement produced by supporters of Washington state's assisted suicide ballot initiative, Nancy Niedzielski, who lost her husband Randy to brain cancer, is shown. The emotionally charged battle over end-of-life decisions has taken to the airwaves as Washington state voters decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients. (AP Photo/Courtesy Yes on I-1000)AP - The emotionally charged battle over end-of-life decisions has taken to the airwaves as Washington state voters decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients.

Counting cards: NY collection includes 6,356 decks (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 02:11 PM CDT

A set of playing cards featuring the Kennedy family is displayed at Columbia University in New York, Tuesday, May 20, 2008. The university has a playing card collection that spans four centuries and 50 countries and is among the biggest of its kind in the world. Scholars say cards can be useful records of social history, depicting how political figures and historical events were seen in their times. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The collection spans 50 countries and four centuries and touches on subjects ranging from beer marketing to 19th-century Portuguese politics.

Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 10:44 AM CDT

In this Wednesday, June 4, 2008 file photo, Antoin 'Tony' Rezko returns to the Federal Courthouse where a jury found him guilty on 16 counts of a 24-count indictment in his corruption trail in Chicago. Federal prosecutors moved Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

Endangered Miss. frogs get a break in the weather (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 12:47 PM CDT

Two gopher frogs are shown at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. For the first time in 10 years, a pond in south Mississippi got enough rain this year to let gopher frogs, one of the nation's most endangered animals, turn from tadpole to frog without human help. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Pick up a Mississippi gopher frog and it covers its eyes with its forefeet, like someone afraid to see what's coming next. And for at least a decade, it's had a good reason not to look.

Lost manatee headed to Fla. after Mass. rescue (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 11:59 AM CDT

AP - A wayward manatee is headed home to Florida after being pulled from frigid Cape Cod waters in an early morning rescue.

5 killed in Manhattan blaze, including 3 children (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 02:54 PM CDT

Neighbors point to an apartment on the top floor of a building in New York where five people — including three children — died in an early morning fire Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - A family of five, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze Saturday that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door, fire officials said.

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