2008年10月14日星期二

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

California battered by 3 wind-whipped wildfires (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:21 AM CDT

Traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes during a fast moving, wind driven brush fire in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. Intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California Monday morning and whipped up a 3,000-acre wildfire, forcing the closure of a major freeway during rush hour and burning mobile homes and industrial buildings. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP - Powerful gusts stoked three major wildfires in Southern California early Tuesday that have charred nearly 12,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate neighborhoods in suburban Los Angeles and northern San Diego County.

Inmate who says he's too fat to die to be executed (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:37 AM CDT

This undated file photo provided by Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Richard Cooey. Lawyers for an Ohio death row inmate who has unsuccessfully argued that his obesity prevents humane lethal injection have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to halt Tuesday's execution. (AP Photo/Department of Rehabilitation and Correction)AP - A double murderer who says he's too fat to be executed humanely has passed a pre-execution exam and is cleared to receive a lethal injection Tuesday.

Second out-of-state teen abandoned at Omaha hospital (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 11:56 PM CDT

Todd Landry with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services speaks at a news conference in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 after a Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law. 'I certainly recognize and can commiserate and empathize with families across our state and across the country who are obviously struggling with parenting issues, but this is not the appropriate way of dealing with them, whether you're in Nebraska or whether you're in another state,' said Landry. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - A Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under the state's unique safe-haven law, Nebraska officials said Monday.

Officials: Financial crisis can lead to violence (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 09:44 PM CDT

RETRANSMISSION of a graphic that moved Oct. 7, 2008; graphic shows poll results of AmericansÂ' satisfaction with the way nation is heading since 1979; three sizes;AP - An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years.

Gay couples rush to wed ahead of Calif. election (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 04:59 PM CDT

From left, chef and co-owner Traci Des Jardins goes over a menu for a wedding reception with Chloe Harris and Frankie Frankeny at Jardiniere restaurant in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Gay couples from across California and the nation are feverishly planning to tie the knot before Election Day to avoid possible passage of a California ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Gay couples from around California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage.

Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 01:50 PM CDT

AP - On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows.

New law meant to improve stability for foster care (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:59 PM CDT

AP - For many thousands of America's foster children, prospects for a permanent home and stronger support will be brighter under a new law that bridged Washington's partisan divide and is touted as the most significant child-welfare reform in decades.

Cops: Texas teacher offered better grade for sex (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 08:12 PM CDT

AP - A teacher initially placed on leave over a book controversy has been charged with trying to have sexual contact with three students, allegedly even asking one girl what she would do for a better grade.

Bush critic Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:54 PM CDT

Paul Krugman, Princeton University professor of economics and international affairs, listens to his introduction at a gathering in Princeton, after he was announced the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns.

Wis. shooting victims sue law enforcement leaders (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 06:36 PM CDT

AP - The parents of four young people killed by a sheriff's deputy and the lone survivor of his shooting spree last year claim in a lawsuit that the gunman's law-enforcement superiors were negligent in supervising him and giving him access to weapons.

Atlanta Jews remember 'bomb that healed' (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 09:04 AM CDT

In this on Oct. 13, 1958 file photo, Det. Supt. I. G. Cowan, right, and Det. W. K. Perry examine dynamited ruins at the Jewish Temple for clues in the explosion that did damage estimated at $200,000 in Atlanta. The bombing claimed no lives, but the community outrage that it prompted helped galvanize the city's nervous Jewish community to embrace the civil rights movement. (AP Photo, File)AP - The bombing of a prominent Atlanta synagogue in 1958 claimed no lives, but the community outrage that it prompted helped galvanize the city's nervous Jewish community to embrace the civil rights movement.

Fire marshals: NY blaze likely caused by fire play (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 02:45 PM CDT

Five people — including three children — died after a fire swept through this top floor apartment in New York early Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - A blaze that claimed the lives of a couple and their three children in a Manhattan apartment was likely caused by a child playing with a lighter or matches, authorities said Monday.

ATF director's confirmation blocked by GOP (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 12:46 PM CDT

In this May 12, 2008, file photo, acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Michael Sullivan gestures during an interview with The Associated Press at the ATF headquarters in Washington. Sullivan has spent the four days each week during the past two years in the role of ATF chief, but hasn't been paid yet to do it. But the U.S. Attorney job he's paid to do, he does by phone and e-mail plus one day a week in the office in Boston. Now that congress is out of session he won't be confirmed as ATF director, blocked by opponents in his own Republican party. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - For more than two years, U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan has been consumed by the latest entry on his resume: acting chief of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Houston TV station helicopter crashes, 2 dead (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:31 PM CDT

State troopers investigate the scene of a helicopter crash in a heavily wooded area in the W.G. Jones State Forest on Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, in Conroe. Texas. A pilot and television photographer died when their helicopter crashed on its way to cover a story. KTRK, an affiliate of ABC, reported Monday that the two were on their way to a shooting scene in Montgomery County, north of Houston, when the news station's helicopter crashed in a forested area. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)AP - A pilot and television camera operator died Monday when their helicopter crashed near Houston on the way to cover a news story.

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