2008年10月15日星期三

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Firefighters gain on LA-area blaze amid calm winds (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 05:43 AM CDT

Residents keep watch on flames burning close to their home at the top of Louise Avenue in Los Angeles' Granada Hills area as efforts to control wildfires in Southern California continue Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - A respite in Santa Ana winds allowed firefighters to beat back flames that continued to whirl dangerously close to homes Wednesday morning along the city's northwestern suburbs.

Missing Fla. girl's mom indicted on murder charge (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 05:11 AM CDT

This undated file photo released by the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Orlando, Fla. on Friday, July 18, 2008, shows Caylee Marie Anthony , 2, who has been missing more than four months. On Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, a grand jury indicted Casey Anthony on a count of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee. (AP Photo/Orange County Sheriff's Office, file)AP - The mother of a missing Florida 3-year-old wept as her attorney told reporters she is innocent and going through a "nightmare."

Ohio executes inmate who argued was too fat to die (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 09:12 PM 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 - The first inmate to die by lethal injection in Ohio in more than a year argued to the end that his obesity would make it difficult for prison staff to find suitable veins in his arms to deliver the deadly chemicals.

18 candidates seek run in Detroit mayor election (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 09:48 PM CDT

AP - Eighteen people, including a state representative, NBA Hall of Famer, former assistant federal prosecutor and ex-city council president, answered a call for candidates to run the city of 900,000 after its disgraced mayor resigned.

DA: Driver in deadly bus crash wasn't intoxicated (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 08:06 PM CDT

A tour bus lies in a water filled ditch after crashing on a rural two lane road near Williams, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. At least 8 people died and several were injured when the bus crashed while carrying passengers to a casino resort 60 miles north of Sacramento. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)AP - Toxicology tests show that the driver of a charter bus that crashed on a rural Northern California road, killing nine, was not drunk or on drugs at the time, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Suit: Pregnant Detroit police forced to take leave (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 06:34 PM CDT

AP - Five Detroit police officers are suing the city, saying they were forced to go on sick leave when their bosses learned they were pregnant, even if they could perform other duties.

Gun-toting Pa. mom gets back concealed gun permit (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 06:11 PM CDT

AP - A mother who angered fellow parents when she openly carried a pistol to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game got her concealed weapons permit back Tuesday after a Pennsylvania judge overruled a sheriff's decision to revoke it.

Texas sheriff indicted on drug smuggling charges (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 05:32 PM CDT

AP - The sheriff of a rural Texas county next to the Mexican border was arrested at his office Tuesday after being indicted on charges alleging he was involved in a large-scale cocaine and marijuana smuggling operation.

Judge OKs $24M for cats, dogs sickened by pet food (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:11 PM CDT

In this March 21, 2007 file photo, Pebbles, the Yorkshire terrier that became a symbol of the national pet food scare is shown in this, at Collett Veterinary Clinic in Los Angeles. A federal judge is due to hear oral arguments on a proposal that would bring to $32 million the amount pet food makers and distributors would pay to settle hundreds of lawsuits over contaminated pet food. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)AP - A federal judge Tuesday approved a $24 million settlement for owners of dogs and cats who were sickened or died after eating pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical.

Man accused of 9 Ohio fire deaths claims innocence (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:54 PM CDT

This undated photo released by the Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Antun Lewis who has been indicted by a federal grand jury for the 2005 house fire in Cleveland that killed nine people. (AP Photo/ho, Ohio DRC)AP - A man indicted this month on charges of setting a fire that killed a woman and eight children at a birthday sleepover said he would never do anything to harm a child, and that he felt the same pain as relatives of the victims.

As economy swoons, parents fret over college costs (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:29 PM CDT

Erin O'Connell, center, and her mother Rosemary O'Connell, left, follow a group tour through Elon University, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, in Elon, N.C. It's college-visiting season for the high school class of 2009, which will send the most ever graduates on to college next fall. But the souring economy and dramatic slump on Wall Street are providing a cold dose of financial reality for many families. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP - Erin O'Connell took the tour this week at Elon University, a handsome, up-and-coming college with a $31,000-a-year price tag. That's hefty — but $20,000 less than some "uppity" schools she may have to cross off her list.

Not-guilty plea in Calif. campaign mailers case (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:30 PM CDT

Xavier Rivas, a Republican activist working on John McCain's Nevada Leadership Team, shows a card featuring a photo of Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, walking past an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008, in Henderson, Nev. The man who once risked his career on an immigration reform bill that was embraced by Hispanics is now struggling to win these same voters, and falling perilously below the level of support that helped lift President Bush to the White House. The candidate who won nearly 70 percent of Hispanic voters in his last bid for Senate in border-state Arizona is watching a first-term Illinois senator run away with those voters. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - A former congressional candidate in Southern California has pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice in the probe of a letter his campaign sent to 14,000 registered voters with Hispanic surnames.

Feds say NY parole board member sought child sex (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:02 PM CDT

AP - A state parole board member who served 20 years in the Legislature appeared in court Tuesday on a federal charge that he used the Internet to solicit sex with minors.

High court turns down Ga. death row inmate (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 01:54 PM CDT

This photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Troy Davis. The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, forDavis to be put to death for killing a police officer, two weeks after it halted his execution to consider his appeal. (AP Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections, File)AP - The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for a Georgia man to be put to death for killing a police officer, despite calls from his supporters to reconsider the case because seven of nine key witnesses against him have recanted their testimony.

King children in court with book deal on the line (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 06:18 PM CDT

Martin Luther King in a 1964 photo. (File/Reuters)AP - The children of Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. faced off in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday in a dispute over their mother's personal papers that could derail a lucrative book deal.

2002 GOP phone jamming in NH leads to new charges (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:59 PM CDT

AP - A former Republican official accused of taking part in a plot to jam Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire on Election Day 2002 is facing new charges.

IRS promises fix to stimulus check problem (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 02:17 PM CDT

AP - The Internal Revenue Service says overdue economic stimulus checks will soon be mailed to about a quarter of a million married couples who had been denied the money because a spouse's married name and Social Security number didn't match.

Parents of boy who shot himself plead not guilty (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:18 PM CDT

AP - The parents of a 2-year-old boy who died after accidentally shooting himself with a gun he found at home pleaded not guilty to charges related to the death.

Ore. law requiring majority to vote could change (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 02:45 PM CDT

AP - In three elections, three out of every four people who bothered to vote supported giving more funds to a fire district in central Oregon's high desert. That wasn't enough, because in this state, not bothering has about the same effect as voting no.

NYC child death trial expected to go to jury (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 05:22 AM CDT

AP - A jury must decide whether a New York City woman is guilty of murder for allegedly standing by as her husband abused and beat her 7-year-old daughter to death.

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