2008年12月5日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

O.J. Simpson faces 6 years to life at sentencing (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 02:55 AM CST

In this Oct. 3, 2008 file photo, O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found guilty on 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. State authorities are recommending that Simpson and a co-defendant be sentenced to 18 years in prison for the gunpoint robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers, according to documents filed Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Daniel Gluskoter, Pool, file)AP - O.J. Simpson is going to prison; the question is for how long.

Families can't forgive Nebraska mall shooter (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 03:25 AM CST

A plaque in memory of the eight shooting victims who died Dec. 5, 2007 when gunman Robert Hawkins shot and killed shoppers and employees at the Von Maur department store in Omaha, Neb., is seen Dec. 4, 2008. It was the deadliest mall shooting in U.S. history.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Christmas decorations are in place and holiday music fills the atrium, yet a gloom punctuates the shopping season at the Westroads Mall. Employees, their families and friends planned to gather Friday at the steps of the Von Maur department store in remembrance of the eight people killed a year ago in the deadliest mall shooting in U.S. history.

Gun club, police chief indicted in boy's Uzi death (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 03:30 AM CST

In this photo taken Oct. 29, 2005, Dominic Spano, front, of New Milford, Conn., and his son, Michael Spano, 12, load an MG-42 machine gun during the Westfield Sportsman's Club's annual Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the club ground in Westfield, Mass. It was announced Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, that Dominic Spano and two other men were indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj, who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi during a gun show at the Westfield club in October 2008. (AP Photo/The Republican, Christopher Evans)AP - Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi that a prosecutor said he never should have been allowed to handle.

Convict's mom goes undercover, gets dirt on juror (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:53 PM CST

This May 2008 photo provided by attorney Ezra B. Glaser shows his client, Doreen Giuliano, AKA Dee Quinn, and juror Jason Allo at a Brooklyn, New York bar, during one of their last meetings in Giuliano's sting operation against Allo. What Allo, 33, thought was an innocent friendship with Giuliano, 47, in reality was an amateur sting operation by a desperate mother obsessed with saving her son from life behind bars. What Allo didn't know: Giuliano had undergone an extreme makeover - blonde dye job, fake tan, sexy wardrobe, phony name - to conceal her real identity and lure him into a trap that would expose his hidden misdeeds as a juror at her son's murder trial. The saga has become the basis for a defense motion filed this week demanding the verdict be set aside. (AP Photo/Ezra B. Glaser, Esq.)AP - Doreen Giuliano was obsessed with saving her son from a life behind bars after he was convicted of murder.

Calif. trio charged with torturing, abusing teen (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 08:58 PM CST

Kelly Layne Lau, 30, appears in a Stockton, Calif., courtroom with her husband Michael Schumacher, 34, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Both are charged with kidnapping and torturing a 17-year-old boy authorities say was sometimes kept shackled inside their home. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A central California couple was charged Thursday with kidnapping and torturing a teenager that authorities say was sometimes kept shackled inside their home and abused with a baseball bat, belt and knife. The boy's one-time guardian was charged with similar allegations.

NY soldier acquitted of murder in officers' deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:50 PM CST

AP - A soldier was acquitted of murder Thursday in the 2005 bombing deaths of two superiors in Iraq, triggering loud outbursts and gasps from the slain officers' families.

President, first lady buying home in Dallas (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:04 PM CST

This is a house in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Mrs. Bush's press secretary Sally McDonough said that the Bushes have purchased a home in the neighborhood, but do not yet have occupancy of the home, so the White House is not giving out any further details at this time. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush have bought a home among business leaders and prominent Republican donors in an affluent North Dallas neighborhood, where they will live after the president leaves office in January.

Son of former Assembly speaker pleads not guilty (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 03:29 AM CST

From left, Esteban Nunez, Ryan Jett, Rafael Garcia, and Leshanor Thomas, listen as they are arraigned for murder in Superior Court in San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Nunez, son of California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, and his three friends are accused of stabbing to death a 22-year-old student and injuring three other men on the San Diego State University campus. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)AP - The teenage son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez acted in self-defense in a confrontation that left a college student dead from a stab wound, his lawyer said Thursday after his client and three other men pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges.

Minn. teen girls charged in nursing home abuse (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 03:27 AM CST

Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Albert Lea, Minn. is seen in an August 208 photo. Two teenage girls who worked at Good Samaritan Society nursing home have been charged with abuse, accused of taunting, spitting on and groping the breasts and genitals of residents who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disorders in a complaint filed Monday, Dec. 1. 2008. Brianna Broitzman, 19, and Ashton Larson, 18, were charged as adults. Four other teens who worked with them at the Good Samaritan Society were charged as juveniles for failing to report the incidents.(AP Photo/Albert Lea Tribune, Brie Cohen)AP - Two teenage girls who worked at a nursing home have been charged with abuse, accused of taunting, spitting on and groping residents who suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

Who runs Kansas City — the mayor or his wife? (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:57 PM CST

Kansas City's Mayor Mark Funkhouser talks about an ordinance that keeps his outspoken wife from volunteering at his office during an interview at his city hall office in Kansas City, Mo. Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. The spat is the most recent disagreement Funkhouser has had with the city council. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - The people of Kansas City thought they were getting a straight-shooter with financial smarts as their new mayor. What they got, critics say, is a henpecked husband who needs his wife to tell him what to do.

Mich. medical pot law now in effect amid questions (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 08:06 PM CST

AP - Medical marijuana became legal in Michigan on Thursday, but smoking a joint could still get patients arrested because the regulations needed to protect them won't be ready for months.

Recordings show doubt among NJ plot defendants (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:24 PM CST

AP - Some of the five men accused of planning to kill soldiers on New Jersey's Fort Dix told an FBI informant that they lacked the bravery to mount an attack, the informant testified Thursday.

Texas justice fined over law firm's $168K discount (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:07 PM CST

AP - A Texas Supreme Court justice was fined $29,000 on Thursday after the state ethics commission found that a law firm provided what amounted to an illegal campaign contribution by giving him a $168,000 discount on legal fees.

New tapes show LBJ worried about Vietnam, Nixon (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 04:26 PM CST

This undated file photo released by the White House shows President Lyndon Johnson as he sits with three of his beagles during a flight to his Texas ranch aboard Air Force One. (AP Photo/White House, FILE)AP - In the last months of his administration, President Lyndon Johnson voiced worry over the Vietnam peace talks and stridently suggested that associates of Richard Nixon were attempting to keep South Vietnam away from the table until after the 1968 election, recordings of telephone conversations released Thursday show.

OJ judge known for stern lectures, stiff sentences (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 01:12 PM CST

In this Sept. 9, 2008 file photo, Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass presides during the second day of jury selection for the O.J. Simpson trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. On Friday Dec. 5, 2008, Glass will sentence Simpson and co-defendant Clarence 'C.J.' Stewart on 12 criminal charges that arose from a hotel-room confrontation with two sports-memorabilia dealers who were peddling items from Simpson's glory days. (AP Photo/Ethan Miller, Pool)AP - If O.J. Simpson is looking for a break from the Nevada judge who will sentence him for kidnapping and armed robbery, he may be in the wrong courtroom.

Some autoworkers can get paid without leaving home (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 06:19 PM CST

In this Oct. 2, 2008 file photo, Janna Dake inspects a 2009 F150 pickup as it goes down the line at the Kansas City Ford Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo. The United Auto Workers on Wednesday, Dec. 3 said it is willing to change its contracts with U.S. automakers and accept delayed payments of billions of dollars to a union-run health care trust to do its part to help the struggling companies secure $34 billion in government loans. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)AP - For more than two decades, many autoworkers who lose their jobs have been able to enjoy one of the best unemployment benefits in the nation: receiving nearly full paychecks without even leaving home.

3 US residents killed in Ciudad Juarez in 3 weeks (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 05:29 PM CST

AP - At least three U.S. residents have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in as many weeks as the death toll in the violent border city surpasses 1,400.

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