2008年10月26日星期日

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Home that nurtured a star now harbors a calamity (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 03:19 AM CDT

A photo released Oct. 24, 2008, by the Chicago Police Department shows 7-year-old Julian King. Chicago Police issued an Amber Alert Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 for King, who police say may be related to singer and Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson. Julia Hudson pleaded for the safe return of her 7-year-old son, Julian King, on Saturday Oct. 25, 2008, a day after Julia and Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother were found shot to death at the family home in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department)AP - It was the cradle of Jennifer Hudson's greatest triumphs. It's now the scene of her darkest hour.

Ark. anchorwoman dies in hospital after beating (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 02:14 AM CDT

In this photo released by KATV Television Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, news anchor Anne Pressly, 26, is shown in a June 26, 2008, photo in Little Rock, Ark. The Arkansas television anchorwoman died Saturday Oct. 25, 2008, several days after she didn't answer her wake-up call and was found beaten in her home, hospital officials said. (AP Photo/KATV Television)AP - An Arkansas television anchorwoman died Saturday, several days after she didn't answer her wake-up call and was found beaten in her home, hospital officials said.

SUV collides with car in Tenn. crash, killing 5 (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 12:10 AM CDT

In this photo rendered from video and provided by WBIR-TV, authorities investigate the scene of a fatal two-vehicle accident, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, near Huntsville, Tenn. A sport utility vehicle full of high school cheerleaders collided with an oncoming car in a fiery crash on wet, foggy highway in rural northeastern Tennessee, killing four people, authorities said Saturday. (AP Photo/WBIR-TV)AP - A rural East Tennessee community was grieving Saturday for four high school cheerleaders who died in a fiery car crash hours after they had been cheering on their football team.

At service, activists decry Texas dragging death (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 03:23 AM 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 - Members of the Nation of Islam, the New Black Panthers and the NAACP on Saturday promised protests to bring more attention to the killing of an east Texas man whose death recalls, for some, a notorious decade-old hate crime.

Californians float a plan: Return of the zeppelin (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 09:10 PM CDT

The Air Ventures Zeppelin flies over the Golden Gate Bridge to complete its cross-country transit flight with the San Francisco skyline in the background in this view from the Marin Headlands above Sausalito, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008. The airship, one of only three currently flying anywhere in the world, is the first Zeppelin to fly in the skies over the U.S. in 71 years. Passenger service on the airship will begin next week at nearby Moffett Field. At right the airship is greeted by the fire boat Phoenix.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Zeppelins, the giant floating airships used to carry passengers and drop bombs until the 1930s, haven't been seen in American skies for more than 70 years.

Sharpton calls for inquiry in alleged NYPD assault (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 02:33 PM CDT

AP - Saying that police brutality is not an issue of color, the Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday joined the cause of a white man who claims that a group of officers sodomized him with a walkie-talkie.

2 held, believed linked to NJ drive-by shootings (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:53 PM CDT

AP - Two men were arrested in connection with a series of drive-by shootings that killed two people and wounded one in attacks that further shook a city trying to shed a reputation for gun violence.

Ohio home explodes from gas leak (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 12:15 AM CDT

AP - A gas leak ignited an explosion that destroyed a northern Ohio home while its owner was out running errands.

Utah residents make polygamy forefront of AG race (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 02:19 PM CDT

AP - Polygamy is never far from the minds of Utah residents — even when it occurs in another state.

Vaccine slashes diarrheal illness in kids (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 05:50 PM CDT

AP - A vaccine against rotavirus, the leading cause of diarrhea in infants, has led to a dramatic drop in hospitalization and emergency room visits since it came on the market two years ago, doctors reported Saturday.

Colo. couple get marijuana with order of tacos (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 11:44 PM CDT

AP - A Colorado couple found an unusual topping on their order of tacos: a small bag of marijuana.

Ordinary Joes have mixed feelings on wealth (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 11:22 AM CDT

Graphic shows population groups under each tax bracket and tax generated by those groupsAP - The war of words waged by John McCain and Barack Obama for the votes of plumbers and other average Joes is a reminder of the nation's long-standing doubts about concentrated wealth — and its qualms about doing something about it.

AP INVESTIGATION: Palin pipeline terms curbed bids (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 11:25 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin greets the crowd during a rally at the Bass Pro Shop in Springfield, Mo. Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment — a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 — emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Prosecutors widen Chicago police torture probe (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 01:14 PM CDT

U.S Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announces the indictment and arrest of retired Chicago police commander Jon Burge in Florida, on federal obstruction of justice and perjury charges, during a news conference in Chicago, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. The indictment charges that Burge, 60, lied in written answers in a civil rights lawsuit when he said he and other detectives hadn't participated in torture of suspects. Burge was accused but never charged with beating, shocking and otherwise torturing scores of black suspects in the 1970s and 1980s. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - The investigation of decades-old claims that Chicago police tortured suspects with beatings, electric shocks and games of Russian roulette won't stop with last week's federal indictment of a controversial homicide commander.

Hawaii has battle over constitutional redo (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 01:52 PM CDT

AP - Presidential candidate Barack Obama may be running on change but some residents of his home state don't want to shake up things too much.

New Navy sub sponsored by widow of 9/11 co-pilot (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 12:30 PM CDT

Cheryl McGuinness of Portsmouth, N.H., center, whose late husband was a co-pilot on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, stands next to Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, during the commissioning of the Virginia-class nuclear submarine USS New Hampshire at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, in Kittery, Maine. McGuinness is the submarine's sponsor. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Navy tradition suggests that the spirit of a ship's sponsor goes to sea with its crew, and the new USS New Hampshire attack submarine joined the fleet Saturday with its sponsor urging its crews to endure and persevere.

At this condo project the airplane will be king (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 12:34 PM CDT

AP - Bob Banman has spent so much of his life at the little airport in this old farm town that calls itself the "Citrus Capital of the World" that he has decided to move in — lock, stock and airplane.

Mo. man to donate land the size of Central Park (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 01:26 PM CDT

Don Robinson poses on his 843 acres of heavily wooded land Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008, in Cedar Hill, Mo. Robinson will donate his land, which is about the same size as New York's Central Park, to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for a future state park when he dies. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - A long, bumpy road leads through the woods to Don Robinson's unfinished house, where he lives in conditions he calls a step above camping.

Police dog shot by friendly fire to be honored (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 10:11 AM CDT

AP - A memorial service will be held for a police dog accidentally killed by friendly fire during a search for bank-robbery suspects in a Philadelphia suburb.

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