2008年11月30日星期日

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After mother's slaying, daughter awaits dad's fate (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST

Debby Crabtree sits on a swing in her backyard with her mother's books, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 in Jackson, Ohio as her parents farm is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Her father waits behind a glass wall, clothed in the jail standard gray-and-white striped shirt and pants. He has tidied up some since their last visit: What's left of his thinning hair has been trimmed, and his face is clean of stubble.

Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 01:49 AM CST

Gen. Peter Chirarelli, vice chief of staff for the Army, accompanied by occupational therapist Eileen Hayes, tests out a driving simulator used for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients to test their reaction skills, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, at Fort Campbell, Ky. Chirarelli toured the Warrior Transition Unit, as well as medical and rehab facilities for soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)AP - Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.

Plea deal offered to 8-year-old murder suspect (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 10:51 PM CST

This photograph taken Saturday Nov. 8, 2008 shows the house where Vincent Romero, 29, and Timothy Romans, 39, of San Carlos, Ariz were found fatally shot in St. Johns, Ariz. on Wednesday. Police say the boy planned and meticulously carried out the shootings, but they haven't discussed a motive. Child psychologists and others say that while many factors could cause a child to kill a parent, the most common in other cases has been severe abuse. Those who know the boy and his family say there was no abuse — that his father, Vincent Romero, was a good dad trying to raise his son to be a polite and respectful boy. (AP Photo/Dana Felthauser)AP - Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an 8-year-old boy charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his father and another man in their eastern Arizona home, court records show.

Astronauts ready, but weather 'iffy' for landing (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 01:52 AM CST

In this image rendered from video and provided by NASA-TV, Space shuttle Endeavour is seen, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Endeavour and its crew of seven departed the international space station on Friday, ending a 12-day visit that left the orbiting complex with more modern and deluxe living quarters for bigger crews. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)AP - Their work in orbit accomplished, space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts got the green light Saturday to return to Earth, but were warned "pretty iffy" weather at the main landing site could send them across the country or keep them up an extra day.

Sought: Wal-Mart shoppers who trampled NY worker (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 07:04 PM CST

Nassau County Police examine the front of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, after a temporary Wal-Mart worker died after a throng of eager shoppers broke down the doors and trampled him moments after the Long Island store opened early Friday for day-after-Thanksgiving bargain hunting, police said. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)AP - Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges.

Meltdown fallout: some parents rethink toy-buying (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 12:32 PM CST

Jessica Luu, left, looks for deals as her friend's baby, Kaylee Oliver, inspects a toy in the shopping cart, as shoppers at Toys 'R' Us at The Forum at Olympia Parkway in Selma, Texas look for the best savings on Black Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen)AP - In a season that inspires earnest letters about toys, one notable batch is being sent not by kids to Santa's workshop but by parents to the executive suites of real-world toy makers.

Pastor who helped get "under God" in Pledge dies (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 04:19 PM CST

In this Feb. 4, 2004, file photo, Rev. George M. Docherty and his wife, Sue, look at a display of photos celebrating the retired minister's life, at Huntingdon Presbyterian Church in Huntingdon, Pa. Docherty, whose sermon before President Dwight Eisenhower helped push Congress to insert the words 'under God' into the Pledge of Allegiance, has died. He was 97. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)AP - The Rev. George M. Docherty, credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, has died at 97.

Fear discourages US residents from visiting Mexico (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 12:39 PM CST

AP - The recent spate of drug-related killings in Nogales, Mexico, is driving apart what have long been close-knit communities, discouraging some residents of its Arizona sister city from crossing the border.

Fetus at Detroit wastewater plant puzzles police (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 01:31 PM CST

AP - Investigators in Detroit say they have little to go on in the case of a fetus found in a municipal wastewater treatment plant.

National Forest visitors down, no one knows why (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 01:42 PM CST

In this file photo taken Dec. 7, 2005, Erik Fernandez of the conservation group OregonWild crosses Roaring River on the Mount Hood National Forest near Estacada, Ore. After enjoying rising numbers of visitors in the decades following World War II, national forests are seeing a decline in recent years. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)AP - In the years after World War II, Americans packed up their young families and Army surplus camping gear and headed into the national forests to hunt, fish, and hike. Going to the woods was part of what it meant to be an American.

Storm planners reflect on busy hurricane season (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:05 AM CST

In this Aug. 30, 2008 file photo, New Orleans residents board a bus during the evacuation from the approaching Hurricane Gustav at the Greyhound Bus and Amtrak station in New Orleans. Evacuation warnings encouraged residents to flee New Orleans before Gustav made landfall in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to 'hunker down' might have kept evacuation routes from clogging before Hurricane Ike struck. The strategies were different but the results largely the same: Both cities avoided repeating disastrous evacuations that cost lives during the deadly 2005 hurricane season. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP - In New Orleans, a dire warning to flee emptied the city before Hurricane Gustav in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to "hunker down" might have kept evacuation routes from clogging before Hurricane Ike struck.

Official: MSNBC pundit may seek Pa. Senate seat (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:37 AM CST

Chris Matthew is seen on stage at The Women's Conference, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, in Long Beach, Calif. A Pennsylvania Democratic party leader says television political pundit Chris Matthews may be considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010. The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reports Matthews met with state party leaders this past week in Washington to discuss a possible bid to unseat Republican Sen. Arlen Specter. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - A Pennsylvania Democratic party leader says MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews may be considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010.

50 years after school inferno, scars remain (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 12:30 PM CST

In this Dec. 1, 1958 file photo, fire fighters battle a blaze at the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago. Fifty years later, some survivors say they still have problems dealing with memories of what they saw and suffered in the fire that killed 92 students and 3 teaching nuns. (AP Photo/File)AP - Seven-year-old Dan Taglia heard the fire alarm bell from his classroom on Dec. 1, 1958, but hoped it was a signal that students were getting ice cream. It was too late in the day for a fire drill, and anyway the nuns wouldn't send the children out coatless on such a cold day.

Customer memorialized by chair at NY Starbucks (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 12:22 PM CST

AP - One customer's favorite purple velvet chair at a Starbucks in a New York suburb has become a memorial.

Group seeks Pickens' wife's help to save rangeland (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:18 AM CST

In this photo released by the Bureau of Land Management, wild horses are seen on the at the Pryor Mountain National Wild Horse Range in south-central Montana in this July 16, 2004 file photo. Madeleine Pickens recently announced plans to create a refuge for wild horses. She came up with the idea after hearing that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management was considering euthanizing some of the animals to control the herds and protect the range. WildEarth Guardians wants to take Pickens' plan further by proposing a solution the group believes would resolve public land grazing conflicts that have resulted in the horses needing a home. (AP Photo/Bureau of Land Management, Ann Boucher)AP - Conservationists are looking to the wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens to help push for federal reforms that they say will help thousands of wild horses and save rangeland in the West.

Fore! Woods' split with GM a warning for athletes (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:00 AM CST

AP - Turns out, Tiger Woods wouldn't really rather have a Buick. At least not anymore.

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