2008年10月30日星期四

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Patchwork of safe-haven laws creates confusion (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:17 AM CDT

Nebraska's governor Dave Heineman, with Todd Landry, director of children and family services at Nebraska's Health and Human Services, left, announced at a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008, that he had called a special session of the legislature to fix the state's 'safe haven' law, which allows parents to abandon children as old as 18. The announcement came a day after a 17-year-old was left at a hospital in Lincoln, Neb., the 23rd child abandoned since the law took effect in July. Gov. Heineman said legislation will be introduced to amend the law so it applies only to infants up to 3 days old. Nebraska's current safe haven law is the only one in the country that lets anyone leave a child as old as 18 at a state-licensed hospital without fear of prosecution for abandonment.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - As lawmakers prepare to tweak Nebraska's much-criticized safe-haven law that allows parents to abandon kids as old as 18, they'll find no nationwide consensus on what age limit should be written into such legislation.

Thousands to douse annual Detroit arson tradition (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:08 AM CDT

This Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2001 file photo shows Volunteers as they sign up to patrol neighborhoods during Angels' Night at the local city hall on Vernor Street in Detroit. The annual anti-arson campaign began in 1994 after hundreds of fires were being set annually in Detroit on Devil's Night, the eve of Halloween. The night of Oct. 30 was renamed Angels' Night, and police and fire departments and an army of volunteers have set out to reduce arson. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza, file)AP - The city that used to burn on the night before Halloween as mischief-makers torched abandoned buildings has largely doused its Devil's Night by mobilizing tens of thousands of citizens and law-enforcement personnel each year to patrol city neighborhoods.

FBI: Anthrax hoaxes from Calif. man still in mail (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 02:59 AM CDT

A package labeled 'anthrax' sits on a counter at the photo desk of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newsroom was evacuated briefly Wednesday after an editor opened what appeared to be one of a number of anthrax hoax mailings sent to media outlets around the country. (AP Photo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Joshua Trujillo)AP - A California man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sending hoax letters labeled "anthrax" to scores of media outlets, the FBI said Wednesday, warning that many of the threats may still be in the mail.

Fatalities on the rise in vehicle-animal crashes (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT

A wounded deer lies in the road after being hit by a car on the northbound lane of I-295 near Freeport, Maine, in this Wednesday, June 11, 2008 file photo. Fatalities from vehicle crashes with deer and other animals have more than doubled over the last 15 years, according to a new study by an auto insurance-funded highway safety group that cites urban sprawl overlapping into deer habitat. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, file)AP - Fatalities from vehicle crashes with deer and other animals have more than doubled over the last 15 years, according to a new study by an auto insurance-funded highway safety group that cites urban sprawl overlapping into deer habitat.

Real Halloween back for long traumatized Pa. town (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:14 PM CDT

Buildings of downtown Oil City, Pa. are reflected in the windows of a 'Haunted House' with a Dracula replica setup for the Halloween season, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. A 1992 murder, unsolved for over a decade, of an 11-year-old girl walking home from a pre-Halloween party halted nighttime trick-or-treating in Oil City, and for 15 years it didn't return. Two months ago, fifth-grader Elizabeth Roess petitioned City Council to bring it back. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - For 16 years, real horror overshadowed the make-believe terror of Halloween in this Pennsylvania town, where trick-or-treating after dark was banned after an 11-year-old girl was abducted off the street and murdered.

Hot-button social issues highlight state ballots (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:19 PM CDT

Megan Bernard is accompanied by her son Harrison, eight months, as she attends a rally in support of Proposition 8, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. More than 300 people rallied in support of the Nov. 4th ballot measure, that would take away the right of same-sex couples to wed.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Social issues so volatile that the presidential campaigns sidestepped them will be on the ballots in several states next week, including measures that would criminalize most abortions, outlaw affirmative action and ban same-sex marriage in California, one of only three states that allows it.

College prices up again even as economy falters (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:50 PM CDT

Graphic shows the average college price increase from 2007-08 to 2008-09; includes available undergraduate aid; two sizes;AP - As the economy walloped their finances, students and families saw little relief this fall from rising college costs, which jumped 6.4 percent at state universities, according to new figures out Wednesday.

Calif. cop fatally shoots innocent man in his yard (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 02:38 AM CDT

AP - When Julian Alexander heard a strange noise in his yard, he reacted the way many people would — he went outside to investigate, taking a stick with him. Moments later, the young father-to-be lay dying on the ground, shot twice by a police officer who was chasing suspected burglars through the neighborhood.

Husband held in death of NY teacher as body ID'd (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 02:37 AM CDT

Shakira Petit, a teacher at Promise Academy in Harlem, New York, speaks to students watching at her school via satellite from Antarctica on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Petit was chosen to be part of a project which aims to learn about the continent's climate history over the last 50 million years. Once a week she is linked via satellite with students all over the United States help teach them about the research happening in Antarctica. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Police arrested a man on suspicion of murder Wednesday after the body of his wife, a special education teacher, was found near a highway on New York's Long Island two days after she failed to show up for work.

Impressive weapons array protected NH tax evaders (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:31 PM CDT

AP - The New Hampshire home where a tax-evading couple staved off arrest for nine months was defended by concrete walls, homemade bombs, 60,000 rounds of ammunition and the zealousness of a few fellow believers, testimony and prosecution documents show.

Churches are looking at hard times (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:10 PM CDT

RESEND; graphic originally moved Sept. 25, 2008; graphic shows percent change in giving during years with eight months or more of recession;AP - On a recent Sunday, the Rev. Richard Mahan scrapped a sermon on forgiveness. He felt compelled instead to address the economic turmoil battering the nation.

Texas Samaritan buys woman her house at auction (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 08:27 PM CDT

AP - A woman distraught over losing her house showed up to watch it auctioned off, but that wasn't the end of the story. Tracy Orr will return home after a stranger bought the house back for her Saturday.

Iowa meatpacker fined nearly $10M over violations (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:42 PM CDT

AP - A kosher meatpacking plant that was the site of one of the nation's largest immigration raids was fined nearly $10 million by the state Wednesday over accusations that it violated state labor laws.

Oil well explosion kills 2, injures 5 in Illinois (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 04:03 PM CDT

AP - Authorities say an oil well explosion in southern Illinois killed two people and injured five others.

Obama effigy found on U. of Kentucky campus (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:14 PM CDT

AP - A life-sized likeness of Barack Obama was found hanging from a tree with a noose around its neck Wednesday at the University of Kentucky, the second time in about a month such an effigy of the Democratic presidential nominee was reported on a college campus.

NASA probe shows Mercury more dynamic than thought (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:23 PM CDT

This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken earlier this month by the Messenger space probe, shows a portion of Mercury. Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in in shaping itself than scientists had thought with volcanoes spewing 'mysterious dark blue material.' (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in shaping itself than was thought, with volcanoes spewing "mysterious dark blue material."

NASA may be able to speed up launch of moonship (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:19 PM CDT

View of the moon captured by astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001. India has begun counting down to the launch of its first unmanned mission to the moon that will mark a giant catch-up step with Japan and China in the fast-developing Asian space race.(AFP/NASA/File/Nasa)AP - NASA officials said Wednesday it might be possible to try out its new moon rocketship a year earlier than its current target date of 2015.

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