2008年11月3日星期一

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Gay-marriage backers make the political personal (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 07:49 PM CST

Nancy Ayllon, left, and Shawny Woodward kiss during a No on Proposition 8 rally Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008 in Fresno, Calif. If passed, Proposition 8 would overturn the California Supreme Court's decision earlier this year to legalize same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)AP - As California voters prepare to decide Tuesday whether to eliminate the marriage rights same-sex couples won five months ago, gays and their allies have been encouraged to tell co-workers and neighbors why legalizing the unions matters to them.

Attorney says FBI probe clears Nevada Gov. Gibbons (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 12:02 AM CST

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons answers questions from the media, in this June 11, 2008 file photo at the Capitol in Carson CIty, Nev. Gibbons was sued in federal court Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 by a woman who claimed he made advances and threatened to rape her after having drinks at a Las Vegas restaurant just before the 2006 election. (AP Photo/Nevada Appeal, Cathleen Allison)AP - Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, whose first term has been marred by an FBI corruption investigation, has been cleared of wrongdoing and will not be charged in the probe, his attorney said Sunday night.

AP IMPACT: Flood of wounded GIs swamps care units (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 03:35 AM CST

In this undated photograph provided by the Department of Defense, Brig. Gen. Gary Cheek is seen. In a rush to correct reports of sub-standard care for wounded soldiers, the Army flung open the doors of new specialized treatment centers so wide that up to half of the soldiers currently enrolled don't have injuries serious enough to be there, the Associated Press has learned. The overcrowding was a 'self-inflicted wound,' said Cheek, who also is an assistant surgeon general. 'We're dedicating this kind of oversight and management where, truthfully, only half of those soldiers really needed this.' (AP Photo/Department ofDefense)AP - In a rush to correct reports of substandard care for wounded soldiers, the Army flung open the doors of new specialized treatment centers so wide that up to half the soldiers currently enrolled do not have injuries serious enough to justify being there, The Associated Press has learned.

Police seek caller as 5 SoCal homeless found dead (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 03:42 AM CST

AP - With no suspects identified and a crime scene washed by rains, police were hoping the anonymous caller who sent them to a homeless encampment where five people were shot to death would come forward and say more.

Mourners celebrate lives of slain Hudson relatives (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 09:02 PM CST

Well wishers wait to enter a community memorial celebration honoring Darnell Donerson, Jason Hudson and Julian King at the Pleasant Gift Memorial Baptist Church in Chicago Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008. Friends and relatives of Jennifer Hudson are gathering at her childhood church in Chicago for an evening memorial service to mourn the Oscar-winning actress' slain mother Darnell Donerson, brother Jason Hudson, and nephew Julian King. (AP Photo/Chicago Tribune, E. Jason Wambsgans)AP - Mourners in Jennifer Hudson's childhood church Sunday listened as the second-grade teacher of the entertainer's slain nephew read aloud from journals written by his classmates — including one who lamented that Julian King didn't live long enough to become president.

Utah polygamous communities produce voter's guide (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 08:00 PM CST

AP - One of Utah's original voting blocs — polygamists — is attempting to re-establish its political influence after more than a century of largely trying to go unnoticed.

Calif. surgeon faces trial in organ donation case (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 07:49 PM CST

AP - Ruben Navarro loved horror movies. He watched the "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th" series with his mother, Rosa, and liked to visit Knott's Berry Farm when it was transformed every October to "Knott's Scary Farm."

Supreme Court hears case over American Indian land (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:25 PM CST

Narragansett Indian Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas stands Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 in Charlestown, R.I., among buildings of a partially completed elderly housing complex on land entangled in a legal dispute scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. The case is being closely watched across the country because it could determine how tribes recognized after the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act are allowed to buy, govern and use land. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)AP - The Narragansett Indian Tribe bought a 31-acre lot in 1991, saying it would be used for "economic development" and housing for the elderly and poor.

John Ripley, Vietnam War hero, dies at age 69 (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 08:48 PM CST

Guest speaker retired Marine Col. John Ripley participates in a Naval Academy ceremony on June 6, 2007 in Annapolis, Md. to honor sailors who have returned from Iraq and Afganistan. Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday Nov. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/The Baltimore Sun, Elizabeth Malby)AP - Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday.

Chicago's 'Fast Eddie' alderman headed for trial (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 07:54 PM CST

AP - Edward R. Vrdolyak was the tough, street-wise leader of white aldermen in a spectacular feud with the city's first black mayor 25 years ago. He lost that fight but went on to get rich as a deal maker at the shadowy fringes of Chicago politics.

'Tis the season for tricking voters (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:28 PM CST

Guadalupe Bojorquez is shown outside her mother Dora Escobedo's home in Albuquerque, N.M., Oct. 29, 2008. Bojorquez says her 67-year-old mother was harassed by a private investigator who came to Escobedo's home and questioned her right to vote. Bojorquez says the investigator threatened to call immigration authorities and frightened her mother badly enough that she cried. Escobedo, who declined to be photographed, is a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Albuquerque. MALDEF is representing Escobedo and another Hispanic woman who also felt harassed by the investigator. (AP photos/Heather Clark)AP - In the hours before Election Day, as inevitable as winter, comes an onslaught of dirty tricks — confusing e-mails, disturbing phone calls and insinuating fliers left on doorsteps during the night.

Magnitude-6.1 quake shakes Aleutian Islands (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 10:04 AM CST

AP - The U.S. Geological Survey says a significant earthquake has jolted the ocean floor near Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands.

Boeing factories set to resume work after strike (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 03:31 PM CST

Boeing Machinists union member Michael Olebar of Shoreline, Wash., dumps ballots on the table of fellow union members Karla, left, and Patrick Kingsella of Kirkland, Wash., after union members voted on a new contract offered by the company at the International Association of Machinists union hall in Seattle, Saturday Nov. 1, 2008. By 74% union members voted to accept the offer ending a 57-day strike. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)AP - Factories at Boeing Co. are due to start humming again Sunday after Machinists union members voted to end a costly eight-week strike that clipped profits and stalled deliveries by the world's No. 2 commercial airplane maker.

7 injured in shooting outside Chicago club (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 09:48 AM CST

AP - Police in Chicago say seven people were wounded in an early morning drive-by shooting outside a club on the city's West Side.

Painting by Italian master turns up in Texas (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 02:20 PM CST

AP - A painting by Italian master Sebastiano Ricci, long presumed to be lost, has turned up in Texas after a 300-year journey from the hands of a European nobleman playboy to a fur trader and finally through generations of one family.

Amid gloom, young see vote as act of hope (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 11:31 AM CST

AP - Getting ready to cast her first vote, 19-year-old Elizabeth Jimenez considers all that's at stake in her choice of president: the tanking economy in which she'll start her career. The dwindling medical benefits that support her bedridden sister. The failed promise of immigration reform to help her Mexican-born father.

US Navy intercepts missile shot from Hawaii base (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 06:09 AM CST

In this image provided by the US Navy a Standard Missile - 3 (SM-3) is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton enroute to an intercept over an open ocean area northwest of Kauai, Hawaii Saturday Nov. 1, 2008. The SM-3 successfully collided with a ballistic missile target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Test Facility at Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. However a second threat target missile was not successfully destroyed by the USS Hopper according to the Navy. (AP Photo/US Navy)AP - U.S. Navy officials say one of two short-range ballistic missiles shot from a military facility in Hawaii in a defense system test was hit by an interceptor missile fired from a Navy ship.

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