2008年11月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Residents pull keepsakes from Calif. fire wreckage (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2008 04:08 AM CST

Residents of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park are escorted by LAPD on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, to go in and get one bag of personal items from their homes which made it through the recent wildfire in Sylmar, Calif. Once considered a paradise with swimming pools and tennis courts, residents of Oakridge Mobile Home park felt safe there until winds with the intensity of a hurricane blew a wall of fire through nearly 500 manufactured homes and set them ablaze so quickly that even firefighters had to drop their hoses and run. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Daily News, POOL)AP - Michael Hernandez pulled a charred photo album from the wreckage of his home, the plastic pages melted and flaking after a wildfire tore through the mobile home park where he lived with his grandparents and 7-year old daughter.

Texas officials say layover mystery a homicide (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:35 PM CST

AP - A mysterious disappearance of an Alzheimer's patient during a layover at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport seven years ago became a homicide case Monday after an examination of skeletal remains found miles from the airfield.

In bad economy, breaking up is even harder to do (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 03:06 PM CST

AP - Bonnie Rabin is fond of saying that divorce lawyers are a bit like liquor stores. They're busiest in the really good times, and the really bad.

Neb. senators eye age limit for safe haven law (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:51 PM CST

Members of the public react to the testimony of Lavennia Coover of Decatur, Neb., who gave up her 11 year-old son under Nebraska's safe haven law on Sept. 24, 2008. Coover testified at a public hearing before the Judiciary Committee in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, on bills that would amend Nebraska's safe-haven law.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Nebraska lawmakers are proposing an age limit of 30 days for children who may be legally abandoned under the state's safe haven law.

Government delays decision on killing wild horses (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:04 PM CST

AP - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will round up fewer wild horses and try to shuffle funds within the agency to hold off for now on killing large numbers of the animals in an effort to control herds and spiraling costs, an official said Monday.

Calif. high court asked to hear gay marriage cases (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:01 PM CST

AP - The state attorney general and sponsors of the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California urged its Supreme Court to hear a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn the ban, saying the matter is too urgent to be unsettled.

Kan. abortion doctor's attorney spars with ex-AG (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:45 PM CST

Among a slew of executive orders Barack Obama, pictured in October 2008, is said to be drafting, observers believe one may lift a ban on US funding for overseas family planning groups that even dare mention abortion.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AP - Attorneys for an abortion provider facing criminal charges questioned the former attorney general Monday, trying to show that the abortion opponent who started the investigation had intended to prosecute Dr. George Tiller even before taking office.

Falling boulders endanger lives at Yosemite (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:49 PM CST

A boulder is shown after a rock slide at Curry Village in Yosemite National Park, Calif., Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. Falling rocks at one of America's most popular parks, Yosemite, have led to lawsuits and scientific debate over whether construction in the park has increased the danger and contributed to the deaths. Since 1999, 20 of the structures at Curry Village have been directly hit by boulders and many more damaged by flying rocks. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - For a decade, the National Park Service has known that the 3,000-foot granite cliff hanging over a tourist village at Yosemite is susceptible to colossal rockslides like one last month that crushed cabins and sent schoolchildren running for their lives.

Hunter charged in fatal shooting of girl in home (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:40 PM CST

AP - A deer hunter has been charged with manslaughter after a bullet he fired killed a toddler inside her grandparents' Hudson Valley home, police said Monday.

North Dakota OKs spraying oil wastewater on roads (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:27 PM CST

AP - North Dakota's health department will allow salty oil field wastewater to be sprayed on roads as a deicer or for dust control even though oil companies and environmental groups have questioned the practice.

Man drops 140 pounds in 11 months to join Marines (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:02 PM CST

AP - Army and Navy recruiters took one look at 330-pound Ulysses Milana and told him to forget about joining. "'You've got to lose weight,'" Milana remembers them saying.

Suicide case: Cyberspace law or human drama? (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2008 03:27 AM CST

This Sept. 4, 2008 file photo shows Lori Drew, a Missouri woman who allegedly perpetrated a MySpace hoax that drove her daughter's 13-year-old classmate to suicide, leaves court in Los Angeles. The case of U.S. vs. Lori Drew is viewed in legal circles as landmark Internet law, but as outlined in government documents with its neighborhood feuds and a teen's suicide it reads more like a plot line for a made-for-TV drama. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Lori Drew garnered headlines after being painted as a vindictive mother whose online actions allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide.

3 arrested in Long Island shooting death of lawyer (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:47 PM CST

AP - A botched ambush robbery that left a mortgage lawyer dead had been set up by his business partner, police said Monday after arresting the suspect and two people he's accused of paying to commit the holdup.

Schwarzenegger convenes global climate summit (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:56 PM CST

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks to the media about the Tea Fire in Montecito, California. More than 500 mobile homes were destroyed and 10,000 people fled as a wildfire described as the most devastating to hit Los Angeles in nearly half a century ripped through a city suburb on Saturday, officials said.(AFP/Getty Images/Sandy Huffaker)AP - Scientists, environmentalists and government and industry officials from around the world meet this week for a summit on greenhouse gas emissions that their host, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, hopes will highlight the economic benefits of pursuing green technologies.

Informant: 5 spoke little about attacking Fort Dix (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:57 PM CST

In a courtroom artist's sketch, Mahmoud Omar, second from right, the government's star informant in the case of five defendents charged with conspiracy to kill military personnel and attempted murder in a jihad-inspired attack on Fort Dix, addresses Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Hammer, right, as U.S. District Court Judge Robert Kugler listens, left, in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Omar, 39,, who took the stand for the first time, wore a wire for 16 months and recorded 200 conversations for investigators. The attack never took place. (AP Photo/Shirley Shepard)AP - Five men accused of plotting to attack soldiers at Fort Dix hardly mentioned the military installation in the months before their arrest, a key government informant testified Monday.

Wis. woman pleads no contest in toilet corpse case (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 11:25 PM CST

AP - A woman accused of helping her religious leader hide a decaying corpse on her toilet so they could continue collecting her Social Security was convicted of a misdemeanor in a deal for her to testify against the leader, a prosecutor said Monday.

Citigroup plans a leaner future, cuts 53,000 jobs (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:33 PM CST

Graphic shows share of financial jobs in U.S. employment and financial sector job cuts since 1997;AP - Citigroup, widely seen as the sickest Wall Street bank, will make some of the most severe cuts in the history of U.S. business — 53,000 jobs — as it tries to slash costs and get back to basics before it's too late.

Heavy lake-effect snow hits Great Lakes states (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 03:23 PM CST

Carl Cartright shovels snow to make way for the mail carrier at his home near South Dayton, N.Y., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Downwind from Lake Erie in western New York, 20 inches had piled up in South Dayton. (AP Photo/Doug Benz)AP - A blast of cold wind spread snow along the Great Lakes from Michigan to New York on Monday, dumping 2 feet on this central New York town.

Man who had ricin in Las Vegas gets federal prison (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 03:58 PM CST

AP - A man who made enough ricin to kill hundreds of people — and kept it with him for a decade as he moved to various Western states — was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years in federal prison for possessing the deadly toxin.

Young killer pleads guilty to Michigan drug charge (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 11:25 AM CST

Nathaniel Abraham, left, talks with his lawyer Byron Pitts about a plea deal before the judge enters Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac, Michigan Monday, November 17, 2008. Twenty-two months after he was released from juvenile detention for a murder he committed at age 11, Abraham, 22, appeared headed to prison after pleading guilty in Oakland County Circuit Court Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, to to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. (AP Photo/ The Detroit News, Brandy Baker)AP - A man who committed murder at age 11 pleaded guilty to drug possession Monday, less than two years after he was released from juvenile detention for the killing.

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