2008年10月27日星期一

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Search continues for Jennifer Hudson's nephew (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 03:14 AM CDT

A group led by community activist Andrew Holmes right, pray at a makeshift memorial outside the home belonging to the family of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Hudson's mother Darnell Donerson and brother Jason Hudson were found dead. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Jennifer Hudson's offer of a $100,000 reward for the safe return of her nephew stood on Monday as investigators and community members continued their search for the 7-year-old boy now missing for a third day.

Acclaimed author Tony Hillerman dies at 83 (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 12:57 AM CDT

In an Oct. 31, 1995 file photo author Tony Hillerman talks about his latest book, 'Finding Moon' in his Albuquerque, N.M., home. Hillerman, creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes — Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee — died Sunday Oct. 26. 2008, of pulmonary failure. (AP Photo/Natasha Lane/file)AP - Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes — Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee — died Sunday of pulmonary failure. He was 83.

Tributes pour in after Arkansas TV anchor's death (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 08:28 PM 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 - Flowers and candles piled up Sunday outside the home where a TV anchorwoman was found brutally beaten, as tributes poured into the Web site of the Little Rock station where her colleagues mourned her death.

Calif. gay marriage ban becomes big money race (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 03:10 PM CDT

In this Sept. 28, 2008 file photo top candidate of the Alliance for the Future of Austria, BZOE, Joerg Haider, left, with leader of the election campaign Stefan Petzner, in Vienna. Speculation that Haider led a double life widened after his political protege, Stefan Petzner, publicly called Haider 'the man of my life', in a tearful tribute to the former Freedom Party boss killed in a car crash earlier this month, although Petzner, 27, did not say explicitly that he or Haider, a 58-year-old married father of two, were gay. In death, as in life, Haider remains steeped in controversy. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, file)AP - At least 64,000 people from all 50 states and more than 20 other countries have given money to support or oppose a ban on same-sex marriage in California, reflecting broad interest in a race that some consider second in national importance only to the presidential election.

States find a can of worms in bottle deposit laws (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 03:00 PM CDT

A customer returns cans at a grocery store in Warren, Mich., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. 'Seinfeld' characters Kramer and Newman once tried driving a mail truck full of empty cans and bottles to Michigan to profit from the state's dime deposit law. But illegal returns are a real-life phenomenon and are no laughing matter in 11 states that encourage recycling by adding a refundable deposit to beer, soft drink and other beverage containers. (AP Photo)AP - "Seinfeld" characters Kramer and Newman once tried driving a mail truck full of empty cans and bottles to Michigan to profit from the state's dime deposit law.

Wall Street workers leaving NYC for fresh start (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 01:53 PM CDT

In this Oct. 2, 2008 file photo, a man walks to work on Wall St. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 in New York. Many Wall Street bankers and brokers are already scrambling to relocate their families, possessions and rarified talent to far-flung venues including Florida, Chicago, Milwaukee, Virginia, and Asia to find a job and get out from under an avalanche of layoffs. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Bankers and brokers looking to escape the financial meltdown are scrambling to relocate their families, possessions and rarified talent far from Wall Street to places such as Florida, Chicago, Milwaukee, Virginia and Asia.

Other woes makes foreclosure crisis hard to break (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 01:18 PM CDT

Maria Martinez looks over mortgage paperwork Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, at her home in Stockton, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Each day from July through September, more than 2,700 Americans lost their homes in foreclosure.

Hospitals ease ER crowding with ward beds in halls (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 12:04 AM CDT

AP - There's no phone and no television. Only a screen offers privacy. But heart patient Edward Gray understands why the hospital put him in a cardiac unit hallway.

One man's garbage becomes another's power plant (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 07:57 PM CDT

A methane gas collection pipe sticks out of the 1-E landfill in Kearny, N.J., Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, with a view of the New York skyline behind. The Kearny site is among 21 landfills in New Jersey that convert methane gas produced by decomposing trash into electricity, according to the state Board of Public Utilities. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)AP - Standing atop the 400-acre 1-E landfill, you get a panoramic view of the Meadowlands sports complex to the north and the New York City skyline to the east. You're also standing on a critical part of New Jersey's, and the nation's, energy future.

Phillies rock Rays 10-2, take 3-1 Series lead (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 12:12 AM CDT

Philadelphia Phillies' Joe Blanton is congratulated by Jimmy Rollins (11) after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of Game 4 of the baseball World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays in Philadelphia, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Ryan Howard knows this place will go nuts with one more win.

Ex-Pa. officer guilty of sex crimes while on duty (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 01:46 PM CDT

AP - A former small-town police officer has been convicted of molesting or propositioning more than a dozen teenage girls for sex while on duty.

Congressman skeptical of NTSB on bridge collapse (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 04:25 PM CDT

Helicopters carrying First Lady Laura Bush and her staff land near the site of the Minneapolis, MN bridge collapse on August 3. (Photo and caption submitted by Emily Marsden)AP - The chairman of the House Transportation Committee criticized federal investigators Sunday after a published report said they have determined an original design flaw is the most likely reason for the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.

Growing Asian-American vote sheds passive past (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 05:05 PM CDT

AP - For a long time, says Loc Pfeiffer, his fellow Asian-Americans were passive participants in American politics. But things are changing.

Pair of quakes strike off Northern Calif. coast (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 05:59 AM CDT

AP - A pair of minor-to-moderate offshore earthquakes have struck the northern California coast, but there are no reports of any damage or injury.

AIDS treatment should start sooner, study finds (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 01:07 PM CDT

AP - People who have the AIDS virus should start drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a large new study that could change the care of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Heart device maker recalls implant (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 09:11 AM CDT

AP - A medical device company has ordered the recall of certain batches of a small mechanical heart pump, saying five people have died while using the device.

'High School Musical' commences at No. 1 with $42M (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 03:17 PM CDT

AP - The crazed killer Jigsaw has been done in by a bunch of singing and dancing teens.

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