2008年10月25日星期六

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother slain in Chicago (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:33 AM CDT

Chicago Police remove a dog from the home belonging to the family of actress Jennifer Hudson in Chicago, Friday Oct. 25, 2008. Hudson's mother and brother were found shot dead Friday at a South Side Chicago home, and police were seeking a missing child who is the nephew of the singer and Oscar-winning actress. (AP Photo/David Banks)AP - The mother and brother of Jennifer Hudson were found shot dead Friday at a South Side home, and police were looking for a missing child who is the nephew of the singer and Oscar-winning actress.

Chicago police head outlines anti-gang plan (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:40 AM CDT

New Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis speaks with members of the Chicago City Council police and fire committee to address concerns about the city's crime rate in this Tuesday, July 15, 2008 file photo. Weis told aldermen Friday Oct. 24, 2008 that he was setting up the Mobile Strike Force to attack the city's gangs. The unit will be comprised of roughly 150 veteran officers divided into about a dozen teams and will 'disrupt gang crimes through physical arrests, search warrants and gun seizures,' Weis said. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, FILE)AP - The head of the nation's second-largest police department says he is establishing a new unit to deal with gang slayings, which he blames for a murder rate that eclipses that of New York and Los Angeles.

Researchers: 7 orcas missing from Puget Sound (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:36 AM CDT

In this Oct. 22, 2002 file photo provided by the Center for Whale Research, a new baby killer whale, swims in Haro Strait near Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Seven Puget Sound killer whales are missing and presumed dead in what could be the biggest decline among the sound's orcas in nearly a decade, say scientists who carefully track the endangered animals. (AP Photo/Center for Whale Research, Dave Ellifrit)AP - Seven Puget Sound killer whales are missing and presumed dead in what could be the biggest decline among the sound's orcas in nearly a decade, say scientists who carefully track the endangered animals.

Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 10:54 PM CDT

Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, right, is buckled into a police car by a detective in Pittsburgh, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. Todd, who had told police that she was robbed at knife point, knocked to the ground by an assailant who scratched a backward letter 'B' into her face with a dull knife, told investigators on Friday she had made up the story, police said. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in what she had said was a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.

Another dragging death in Texas raises tensions (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 11:41 PM CDT

Jacquline McClelland poses with a photo of her son Brandon McClelland, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, in Paris, Texas. Brandon, a black man, was on a late-night beer run across state lines to Oklahoma with two white friends last month and ended up dead on a rural Texas road. Authorities say he was run over by a pickup and then dragged as far as 70 feet beneath the truck. Two white men have been charged with murder in the case. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - In a gruesome case with powerful echoes of the dragging death of James Byrd a decade ago, a black man was killed underneath a pickup truck in East Texas and two white men have been charged with murder.

Rail agency sues contractor over LA collision (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 12:25 AM CDT

AP - The Southern California Regional Rail Authority has filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to determine whether its contractor can be held responsible for the deadly collision of one of its Metrolink commuter trains and a freight train.

Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 11:15 PM CDT

Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama walks past police officers as heads towards his campaign plane in Indianapolis, October 23, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)AP - Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.

Police search for evangelist's alleged enforcer (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 08:11 PM CDT

In this undated photo released by the Fort Smith, Ark., Police Department, John Erwin Kolbeck is shown a police booking photo of unknown date in Fort Smith, Ark. (AP Photo/Fort Smith Police Dept.))AP - Seth Calagna recalled lying on the Fort Smith warehouse floor, feeling every strike of the board against his backside as blood oozed onto the winter-cooled concrete.

Report: Ex-Detroit mayor transferred appointees (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 01:36 AM CDT

AP - A newspaper reports Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick may have transferred some appointees into civil service positions before he left office.

Young train fans can pose dangerous distraction (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 06:35 PM CDT

An ICE highspeed train leaves the main station in Frankfurt in this September 21, 2007 file picture. German rail operator Deutsche Bahn is taking some of its high-speed trains out of use to make technical checks, the company said on October 24, 2008. Picture taken September 21, 2007. REUTERS/Alex Grimm/File (GERMANY)AP - For young fans of trains, getting an up-close look at the massive machinery can be a dream fulfilled. For train workers, indulging the kids' fantasies can be an ego boost.

Texas man found not guilty of releasing feral pigs (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 01:14 AM CDT

This undated photo released by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shows a wild pig. For years now, dozens of giant, hairy hogs have run wild through the valleys and bottoms in this corner of the state, rooting up trees, devouring crops before they even sprout and keeping residents indoors. Now state investigators say they know who brought the beasts here, and they want him to pay. (AP Photo/Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)AP - A former elk farm owner was found not guilty Friday of releasing wild pigs into the western Wisconsin countryside after a judge said the witness against him wasn't credible.

Execution delayed for convict in '89 Ga. cop killing (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 04:27 PM CDT

This photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Troy Davis. A three-judge panel from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the execution Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, of Davis, who was convicted of the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail.(AP Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections, File)AP - A federal appeals court gave a late reprieve Friday to a Georgia man set to be executed for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer in a case in which several witnesses have changed their accounts of the crime.

Appeals court to take up GOP effort in Indiana (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:27 AM CDT

A large line waits to vote at the Lake County Superior Court House in Gary, In.,Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. An Indiana county still recovering from a primary night black eye is embroiled in a new election-year drama with higher stakes than ever: What happens in Lake County could determine whether Democrats win Indiana's presidential contest for the first time in more than four decades. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - A divided Indiana Supreme Court on Friday rejected a effort by Republicans to shutter satellite early voting sites in three largely Democratic cities near Chicago, but an appeals court later agreed to expedite the case and set oral arguments for five days before the general election.

Conn. school buses collide; nearly 20 kids hurt (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 06:01 PM CDT

AP - Three school buses carrying 79 middle school students on a class trip collided Friday in western Connecticut, injuring 19 children.

UN urges 'drastic' action to help banks and poor (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 09:17 PM CDT

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seen at the U.N. headquarters in New York in this September 24, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Eric ThayerAP - The U.N. chief warned Friday of global recession and a serious hit to emerging economies, calling for "drastic" measures to shore up banks and extend lines of credit to the world's poorest states.

Former NBA star campaigns to be Sacramento mayor (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 02:23 PM CDT

Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo appears at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Fargo, a two-term incumbent, is battling former NBA star Kevin Johnson to retain her seat.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - A bid by a former NBA All-Star to become mayor of California's capital city has drawn basketball celebrities to a town that is often overshadowed by the state politics that unfold here.

Prominent former priest convicted of abusing boy (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 01:49 PM CDT

This photo from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registration database shows former Chicago Jesuit priest Rev. Donald McGuire, 76.McGuire, convicted in Wisconsin of molesting two boys had led a double life as a widely revered spiritual leader who molested a young boy behind closed doors, a federal prosecutor said Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registration database)AP - A prominent former Roman Catholic priest was convicted Friday of taking a boy on religious retreats to have sex with him.

Screen set up at trial nixes assault conviction (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 05:53 PM CDT

AP - A sexual assault conviction was overturned by the Nebraska Supreme Court because of a screen that had been set up in the trial courtroom to prevent the defendant's 11-year-old accuser from having to see him when she testified.

Fla. jury begins cash suitcase deliberations (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 03:24 PM CDT

In this court room illustration, Carlos Kauffmann, the business partner of defendant Franklin Duran, is seen on the witness stand, left, as Duran is seen on right in a Miami courtroom Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. Testimony came to a combative end Tuesday in the U.S. trial of a wealthy Venezuelan businessman accused of illegally acting as a foreign agent in a Latin American political scandal triggered by the discovery of a suitcase stuffed with cash. (AP Photo/Shirley Henderson)AP - A federal jury began deliberations Friday in the trial of a wealthy Venezuelan businessman accused in a conspiracy to hide the source and destination of a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash.

NY governor's top aide resigns over tax flap (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 06:17 PM CDT

In this July 15, 2008, file photo, New York Gov. David Paterson, right, and Charles O'Byrne, chief of staff, are seen in Albany, N.Y. Gov. David Paterson accepted the resignation of his embattled top aide on Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 after a week of escalating criticism over his failure to pay $300,000 in taxes over a five-year period when he was clinically depressed. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, file)AP - Gov. David Paterson's embattled top aide resigned Friday, after a week of escalating criticism over his failure to pay $300,000 in taxes on time and a questionable excuse for the lapse.

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