2008年10月19日星期日

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Abducted boy found alive in Las Vegas (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 02:57 AM CDT

This undated photo released by the Las Vegas Police, shows six-year-old Cole Puffinburger. Las Vegas police said the boy, a first-grader at Stanford Elementary School, was kidnapped at gunpoint from his northeast valley home Wednesday morning, Oct. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Policevia The Las Vegas Review-Journal)AP - A 6-year-old boy kidnapped from a Las Vegas home by alleged drug dealers posing as policemen has been found alive in a neighborhood northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, police said.

'Joe the Plumber' strikes back at media (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 03:25 AM CDT

Joe Wurzelbacher, right, or as Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain dubbed him during Wednesday's presidential debate, 'Joe The Pumber', chats with members of the news media outside of his home in Holland, Ohio, Thursday Oct. 16, 2008. Wurzelbacher was cited by the GOP presidential candidate as an example of someone who wants to buy a plumbing business but would be hurt by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's tax plans. In Toledo on Sunday, Wurzelbacher told Obama that he was preparing to buy the plumbing company, which earns more than $250,000 a year, and said: 'Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?' Obama said that under his proposal taxes on any revenue from $250,000 on down would stay the same, but that amounts above that level would be subject to a 39 percent tax, instead of the current 36 percent rate. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero)AP - "Joe the Plumber" is lashing out at the media for analyzing his personal life since he suddenly became a focal point of the presidential race last week.

AP Exclusive: MLK siblings try to justify suit (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 03:26 AM CDT

Rev. Bernice King, left, and Martin Luther King III, right, smile at a interview discussing the lawsuit between the King siblings in Atlanta Saturday Oct. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/W.A. Harewood)AP - The Rev. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III haven't spoken to their brother in months, and their painful family feud has kept Dexter King from meeting his only niece, his two remaining siblings said Saturday.

Abortion ban returns to ballot in South Dakota (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 10:00 PM CDT

In this March 9, 2006 file photo, Leslee Unruh, founder of Alpha Health Services, gestures in her office in Sioux Falls, S. D. Two years after South Dakotans rejected a nearly total ban on abortion, voters on Nov. 4, 2008, will decide another sweeping but less restrictive ballot measure that would probably send a legal challenge of Roe v. Wade to the U.S. Supreme Court. Unruh, whose organization councils women contemplating an abortion, supports the proposed anti-abortion measure. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP - Two years after South Dakotans rejected a nearly total ban on abortion, voters on Nov. 4 will decide another sweeping but less restrictive ballot measure that would probably send a legal challenge of Roe v. Wade to the U.S. Supreme Court.

ACLU picks Brooklyn law professor as president (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 07:19 PM CDT

AP - The American Civil Liberties Union elected a new president on Saturday, choosing a constitutional law scholar who said she would reach out to African-Americans and to religious communities where the group has often been viewed more as foe than friend.

Some investors grow leery of stocks in grim market (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 02:59 PM CDT

AP - Judy Katz reached her breaking point with stocks when the Dow collapsed at the start of this month, free-falling as much as 2,400 points and taking a big chunk of her life's savings with it before she hastily cashed out all of her funds.

Army to probe 5 slayings linked to Colo. brigade (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 01:23 AM CDT

One of the entrance signs to Fort Carson is seen in the Feb. 2007 photo. Fort Carson soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq are suspects in at least five slayings, and officials want to know why. Commander Maj. Gen. Mark Graham announced Friday Oct. 17, 2008 a task force will examine any commonalities in the five killings, all committed in Colorado, allegedly by soldiers from the post's 4th Brigade Combat Team in the past 14 months. A sixth BCT soldier faces an attempted murder charge. (AP Photo)AP - Fort Carson soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq are suspects in at least five slayings, and officials want to know why.

3 injured when airplane hits maintenance truck (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 12:11 PM CDT

AP - Authorities say three people are injured after a small regional jet struck a maintenance truck on a runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

Congress reacts warily to RI Medicaid overhaul (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 12:07 PM CDT

Dorris Lalime, 85, knits a slipper in a common area at the nursing home she lives in in North Smithfield, R.I.,Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Rhode Island has proposed an unprecedented Medicaid overhaul that Gov. Don Carcieri believes will save this state millions of dollars while offering new services, such as allowing elders to stay home with care instead of moving to nursing homes. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Rhode Island is proposing an unprecedented overhaul of its Medicaid program that Gov. Don Carcieri says will save this cash-starved state millions of dollars — but could risk leaving the poor and elderly with fewer services should the plan not work.

Across country, Joe Plumbers awash in publicity (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 02:50 PM CDT

AP - Turns out that Joe Plumbers are sprinkled all over the country.

Wildfire fully contained in northern Los Angeles (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 03:30 PM CDT

Robert Hiller, a 44-year-old former Ventura County Sheriff's deputy, checks on a smoldering telephone pole, as he returns 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 - A wildfire in northern Los Angeles that destroyed 15 homes has been surrounded.

Billions of fish, fish eggs die in power plants (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 12:06 PM CDT

Jerry Nappi, spokesperson for Entergy Nuclear Northeast, owner of Indian Point nuclear power plant, talks about the rotating screen mechanism used to help free up fish caught in the plant's water intake system, and return them to the Hudson River Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 in Buchanan, N.Y. Indian Point, a nuclear power plant, uses water from the Hudson River for its cooling systems just like other power plants around the country. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - For a newly hatched striped bass in the Hudson River, a clutch of trout eggs in Lake Michigan or a baby salmon in San Francisco Bay, drifting a little too close to a power plant can mean a quick and turbulent death.

Farrakhan says 'new beginning' for Nation of Islam (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 06:37 AM CDT

Mosque Maryam, headquarters of the Nation of Islam, is seen in this Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 file photo in Chicago. The Nation of Islam, a secretive movement generally closed to outsiders, has planned a rare open-to-the public event at its Chicago-based headquarters, in what the Minister Louis Farrakhan deemed a 'new beginning' for the group. The event is planned for Sunday Oct. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, FILE)AP - The Nation of Islam, a secretive movement generally closed to outsiders, has planned a rare open-to-the public event at its Chicago-based headquarters in what the Minister Louis Farrakhan deemed a "new beginning" for the group.

ACORN controversy: Voter fraud or mudslinging? (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 11:37 AM CDT

ACORN spokesperson Kevin Whelan speaks at a press conference in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. Behind him is Maryland ACORN president, Rev. Gloria Swierenga. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The stories are almost comical: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, registered to vote on Nov. 4. The entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team, signed up to go the polls — in Nevada.

Running for my life: 1 woman's race against time (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 11:38 AM CDT

AP - The routine was the same as always — the exact way I have grown accustomed to dealing with the hours before a big race. But on that November morning last year, everything else was different.

Hawaii tourism rejoices over S. Korea visa waiver (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 04:36 AM CDT

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stands in front of the South Korean flag as President Bush, not pictured, speaks about the the Visa Waiver Program in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. Bush announced that visa requirements to visit the U.S. have been removed for citizens of Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and South Korea. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Hawaii tourism officials rejoiced upon hearing President Bush has decided to lift visa requirements for South Korean tourists.

Missing climber found alive on Wash. mountain (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 04:12 AM CDT

AP - A 27-year-old Oregon climber who survived five days on southern Washington's Mount Adams with a broken ankle told rescuers he ate centipedes and drank water from creeks as he tried to crawl to safety.

LA public transit faces dilemma due to AIG demise (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 04:35 AM CDT

AP - Two public transportation agencies in Southern California are facing a financial dilemma and possible service cuts after a major lender fell victim to the nationwide economic crisis.

Lily Tomlin wants Dallas elephant relocated (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 06:38 AM CDT

Comedian Lily Tomlin talks while visiting Jenny the elephant, background, at the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. Tomlin is pushing for Jenny to be retired to a animal sanctuary in Tennessee. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - Comedian and animal rights advocate Lily Tomlin says Jenny the elephant has worked 22 years for the Dallas Zoo and it's time for the aging pachyderm to retire.

NY governor's aide failed to pay taxes for 5 years (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 02:37 PM CDT

AP - Gov. David Paterson's chief of staff, who blamed clinical depression on the more than $200,000 he had to repay in five years of back taxes, has the full confidence of his boss, the governor's spokeswoman said Saturday.

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