2008年10月17日星期五

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Experts question benefit of school time-out rooms (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 02:38 AM CDT

Isabel Loeffler, 12, poses in the hallway of her home, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, in the Calabasas section of Los Angeles. After failing to finish a reading assignment, Isabel Loeffler was sent to the school's time-out room, a converted storage area under a staircase, where she was left alone for three hours. Some educators say time-out rooms are being used with increased frequency to discipline children with behavioral disorders. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - After failing to finish a reading assignment, 8-year-old Isabel Loeffler was sent to the school's time-out room — a converted storage area under a staircase — where she was left alone for three hours.

Investigation turns to tower in Ill. copter crash (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 03:51 AM CDT

This undated photo provided Thursday Oct. 16, 2008 by Robert and Brooke Blockinger shows their daughter Kirstin Blockinger. Kirstin was killed along with three others in a helicopter crash in Aurora, Il. on Thursday. (AP Photo/Robert and Brooke Blockinger)AP - An investigation into a medical helicopter crash that killed a desperately ill 1-year-old girl and three crew members will include whether a radio tower's lights were on when the aircraft clipped the structure's wire and went down in a suburban Chicago field, authorities said.

Caretaker recounts saving 'home' from LA wildfire (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 03:52 AM CDT

Robert Hiller, a 44-year-old former Ventura County Sheriff's deputy, and his dog Rosco return to his former home, in front of the abandoned hillside missile site where he's lived for nearly two decades in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008. Hiller was in the path of the biggest of the wildfires that ravaged the San Fernando Valley this week, and used water hoses to help contain the flames. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Robert Hiller walked up to the ridge in front of the abandoned hillside missile site where he's lived for nearly two decades, looking for some sign of a wildfire he thought was miles away.

Prosecutors: Afghan girl enslaved in Seattle area (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 03:01 AM CDT

AP - Five Seattle-area immigrants from Afghanistan enslaved a teenage girl they brought to the U.S., with some forcing her to do chores and one — her 37-year-old husband — beating and sexually assaulting her, according to a federal indictment unsealed this week.

Guards' union drops Schwarzenegger recall effort (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 03:08 AM CDT

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, joined by state and local officials, talks to reporters after viewing the Twin Lakes area of Los Angeles County that burned in the Sesnon Fire, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, Pool)AP - A powerful union representing California prison guards on Thursday dropped its recall campaign against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying it will instead focus on ballot questions and pointing out that he doesn't have much time left in office anyway.

Hawaii ending universal child health care (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 02:55 AM CDT

AP - Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.

Ailing Democratic donor obtains experimental drug (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 03:58 AM CDT

AP - An ailing Democratic fundraiser has obtained an experimental cancer-fighting drug through the Mayo Clinic, according to his son, despite the drug maker's refusal to sanction the treatment.

Texas executes killer in 2002 triple slaying (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 04:02 AM CDT

This photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Kevin Watts who was set for lethal injection Thursday, Oct 16, 2008 for the execution-style slayings of three people during a robbery at a Korean restaurant in San Antonio more than six years ago. The wife of one of the shooting victims also was abducted and raped. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)AP - Condemned killer Kevin Watts quietly went to his death as the criminal justice system he said he detested executed him for a triple slaying in San Antonio 6 1/2 years ago.

Is 'Joe the Plumber' a plumber? That's debatable (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 11:36 PM CDT

Joe Wurzelbacher walks to a neighbor's home followed by reporters in Holland, Ohio on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 16, 2008. Wurzelbacher is better known as 'Joe the Plumber,' the nickname Republican John McCain bestowed on him during Wednesday's presidential debate with Democrat Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero)AP - Joe the Plumber's story sprang a few leaks Thursday. Turns out that the man who was held up by John McCain as the typical, hard-working American taxpayer isn't really a licensed plumber. And court documents show he owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes.

LAPD blames fingerprint errors for false arrests (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 02:25 AM CDT

AP - Police have arrested innocent people due to faulty fingerprint analysis but have not determined how many cases were affected by such errors, police officials said.

Shooting near Detroit high school kills 1 student (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 10:04 PM CDT

AP - A gunman stepped out of a sport utility vehicle and shot four teenagers on a primary-school lawn near their Detroit high school shortly after class let out Thursday, killing one of them, police said.

Georgia woman with 5 dead spouses leaves jail (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 11:44 PM CDT

In this June 10, 2008 file photo provided by the Augusta, Ga., Police Dept. Betty Johnson Neumar is shown at her booking in Augusta, Ga. Neumar charged in the death of one of her five dead husbands has been released from a North Carolina jail. (AP Photo/ Augusta Police Dept., file)AP - A Georgia grandmother who came under suspicion because all five of her husbands had died was released Thursday from a North Carolina jail where she had been held on charges in one of their deaths.

Renters in foreclosed homes get help (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 04:32 PM CDT

AP - Tita Mendoza and her husband moved into their Miami Beach condo in June and have been dutifully paying the $1,800 rent on time every month. And yet, they could be evicted any day now.

National search for boy taken by police impostors (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 07:41 PM CDT

This undated picture made available by police shows six-year-old Cole Puffinburger. Las Vegas police said the boy was kidnapped at gunpoint from his northeast valley home Wednesday morning, Oct. 15, 2008. Puffinburger, a first-grader at Stanford Elementary School, was taken by three Hispanic men after they tied up his mother and her fiance at gunpoint, authorities said. (AP Photo/Police via The Las Vegas Review-Journal)AP - Two men posing as police officers kidnapped a 6-year-old boy in a drug dispute after entering his family's home and tying up his mother and her boyfriend, police said Thursday.

Pa. man chews through belly-busting, 15-lb. burger (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 11:51 PM CDT

In this Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 photo released by Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, Brad Sciullo of Uniontown, Pa., is seen before attempting to eat a 15-pound cheese burger with five-pounds of toppings including bun, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, mild banana peppers and a cup each of ketchup, mustard, relish, and mayonnaise at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pa., Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. Sciullo finished the concoction in 4 hours and 39 minutes. (AP Photo/Logan Cramer, Denny's Beer Barrel Pub)AP - It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds.

Ohioan: Cross-burning was for Halloween (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 11:22 PM CDT

AP - A man who burned a cross in front of his home says he was arrested in a misunderstanding over his Halloween decorations.

NJ flu-shot mandate for preschoolers draws outcry (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 04:33 PM CDT

Hilary Downing, left, of Readington, N.J., holds a sign as she stands in a large crowd in front of the statehouse Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, in Trenton, N.J., during a rally for vaccination choice. As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that small children must get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. The decision should be the parents', not the state's, they contend.

Man with pipe bomb, weapons arrested at NY airport (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 06:59 PM CDT

AP - A man trying to board a flight was arrested Thursday after a pipe bomb, knife, fireworks and suspicious electronics were found in his luggage at a Long Island airport, authorities said.

CPR study suggests 'Stayin Alive' lives up to name (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 10:08 PM CDT

In this 1977 file photo originally released by Paramount Pictures, John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney are shown in a scene from, 'Saturday Night Fever.' Doctors have revived the old disco song 'Stayin' Alive' and found that it might actually live up to its name. At 103 beats per minute, the Bee Gees' sung-in-falsetto tune has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures)AP - "Stayin' Alive" might be more true to its name than the Bee Gees ever could have guessed: At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart.

Lawmakers profit from company with state contracts (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 06:13 PM CDT

Rep. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, a member of the House General Investigations Committee, speaks after the committee meeting Thursday, May 22, 2008, in Austin, Texas. WatchGuard CEO Robert Vanman has confirmed that Rep. Paxton is one of three state representatives and a city judge who are part of an 'influential shareholder group' that has invested in the company based in Plano, Texas. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)AP - A company that became a national leader in providing patrol cameras to police was built on the strength of a Texas contract obtained while two state lawmakers were shareholders in the firm — a possible violation of state ethics laws.

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