2008年12月11日星期四

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Illinois leaders ponder what to do with governor (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:08 AM CST

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, center, leaves his home through a back alley Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008, a day after he was arrested on federal corruption charges. (AP Photo/Mark Carlson)AP - With Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich defying calls for his resignation, state officials pondered reducing his power or forcing him from office amid an intensifying criminal investigation that has made him arguably the most toxic politician in America.

In tough times more students feed on free lunches (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:43 AM CST

In a Sept. 4, 2007, file photo Trevor Nouvel and Ali Parker go through the serving line in the cafeteria at Sharon Elementary School in Suwanee, Ga. According to the School Nutrition Association, which represents workers who provide the meals, almost 80 percent of schools surveyed by the organization are reporting an increase in the number of free lunches served in 2008. (AP Photo/John Bazemore/file)AP - There is such a thing as a free lunch. And school districts across the country report that kids are eating many more of them as the flailing economy hits families hard.

One state's gain, another's loss in flood program (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:42 AM CST

Water rushes into a field as a levee breaks in the distant background, in this Friday, June 27, 2008 file photo, in Winfield, Mo. Army Corps of Engineers dam safety chief Travis Tutka said muskrat holes caused the breach. America needs a complete inventory of all levees and a national safety standard for the last line of defense against floods, said members of the National Committee on Levee Safety Wednesday Dec. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, FILE)AP - Gulf Coast states have collected billions of dollars more in federal flood insurance claims than they have paid into the system over the past 30 years, while states like Florida and California have paid far more than they have received.

Bush asserts declining teen drug use; reports vary (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:44 AM CST

President George W. Bush delivers remarks on defense transformation, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President George W. Bush claims a national decline in teen drug use during his tenure, but enormous challenges remain in convincing young people about the dangers of marijuana and other illicit substances.

Calif. set to adopt sweeping global warming plan (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 02:52 AM CST

Solar Panels are seen outside the offices of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. California air regulators plan to meet Thursday to consider the nation's most sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, one that will transform how people travel, utilities generate power and businesses use electricity. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California's utilities, refineries and large factories must transform their operations to cut greenhouse gas emissions as part of a new climate plan before state regulators.

Chicago workers end sit-in at closed factory (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 12:25 AM CST

Demonstrators march through downtown Chicago Dec. 10, 2008 in support of members of Local 1110 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. The office of Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., says JP Morgan Chase has pledged $400,000 to use strictly for the workers laid off last week by Republic Windows and Doors. The laid-off workers are staging a sit-in at the plant in a demand for pay. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Jubilant workers, cheering and chanting "Yes We Can," celebrated outside a Chicago factory after approving a $1.75 million agreement to end their six-day sit-in, which had become a nationwide symbol of the plight of labor.

Report: US executions, death sentences on decline (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 01:02 AM CST

EMBARGOED until Dec. 11 at 12:01 a.m.; chart shows executions and death sentences since 1993; 2 c x 2 5/8 in; 96.3 mm x 66.675 mmAP - New death sentences in the United States were at or near a three-decade low this year and the number of people executed will be the lowest since 1994, according to a new report.

Are Blagojevich tapes enough evidence to convict? (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:19 AM CST

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald talks about the criminal complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges during a news conference in Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - The wiretaps portray what prosecutors call blatant corruption: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich scheming to barter Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat for a Cabinet post, an ambassadorship or high-paying jobs for himself and his wife.

Violent storms damage dozens of homes across South (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:57 PM CST

AP - A night of unseasonably warm weather generated torrential rains and tornadoes that damaged two schools and dozens of homes in the South, where snow began to fall in some areas Wednesday after temperatures dropped.

9/11 families protest fairness of Gitmo trials (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:07 PM CST

In an image reviewed by the US military, razor wire topped fences line the Camp Six detention facility on the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)AP - Two dozen family members of Sept. 11 victims signed a letter Wednesday saying they don't believe in the fairness of the military trials of five men charged with orchestrating the terrorist attacks, and some suggested their opinions cost them attendance at the proceedings.

Day to `call in gay' finds few willing to strike (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:03 PM CST

In this file photo from June 17, 2008, Eric Manriquez, left, and Juan Rivera hold their gold wedding rings together as they get married in East Los Angeles. On Wednesday, Dec. 10, supporters of same-sex marriage across the country are being encouraged to stay home and call in 'gay' to work to protest the passage of Proposition 8. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - A daylong work stoppage during which employees were encouraged to "call in gay" to express support for same-sex marriage drew spotty participation nationwide Wednesday, with some gay rights activists praising the concept but questioning its effect.

Police: Ark. school shooter applied for gun permit (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 10:55 PM CST

AP - A man who as a child helped gun down four middle school students and a teacher applied for a concealed-carry permit under a different name but was denied, police said Wednesday.

State reports abuse in 2nd Minnesota nursing home (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 10:48 PM CST

AP - An aide at a Minnesota nursing home was accused of tormenting six residents sexually, physically and emotionally for months before being fired, according to a state health department report released Wednesday. It's the second recent investigation of nursing home abuse in the state.

Judge: Pellicano, 2 others likely to forfeit $2M (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:46 PM CST

AP - A federal judge in Los Angeles says she will likely order Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano and two others to forfeit $2 million for an illegal wiretapping scheme.

Senators urge swift probe of jet fighter crash (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 10:02 PM CST

This undated photo provided by her father Dong Yun Yoon, shows Grace Yoon, 14 months old. Grace and three other members of her family were killed when a military F/A-18D jet crashed into the Yoon house Monday in the University City neighborhood of San Diego. Grace Yoon was found in the home Tuesday. Her mother Young Mi Yoon, 36, her 2-month-old sister Rachel and her grandmother, Suk Im Kim, 60, died after the jet lost power and crashed into their house. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dong Yun Yoon)AP - California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer joined the call for the Marine Corps to review its entire fleet of F/A18-D Hornet jets for possible problems after one of the jets crashed into a home and killed two young girls, their mother and their grandmother.

Ex-Blunt aide says e-mail deleting was encouraged (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 08:54 PM CST

In this Friday, May 16, 2008 file photo, Gov. Matt Blunt answers a question during a news conference in Jefferson City, Mo. A top aide for Missouri's governor encouraged staffers to delete e-mails under the mistaken belief they had found a loophole in the state's public records laws, an attorney fired from the governor's office said in deposition released Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall)AP - A top aide for Missouri's governor encouraged staffers to delete e-mails under the mistaken belief they had found a loophole in the state's public records laws, an attorney fired from the governor's office said in a deposition released Wednesday.

4th suspect in custody in shackled teen case (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 05:15 PM CST

Anthony Waiters is seen in this undated photo provided by The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department. Waiters was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, by Tracy, Calif., police and booked on suspicion of torture, conspiracy, child endangerment, corporal injury to a child and false imprisonment. He's a fourth suspect in the case of a 16-year-old boy who showed up emaciated and shackled at a Northern California gym. (AP Photo/ San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department)AP - The mother of a fourth suspect accused of abusing a 16-year-old boy who was allegedly shackled and tortured in a couple's Northern California home said her son occasionally visited the home but never saw the boy.

Miss. residents sue over Katrina housing funds (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 05:16 PM CST

A view from a barge of the Army Corps of Engineers groundbreaking where the piling driver sits on a barge for the $695 million 2-mile-long floodwall across the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008 in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)AP - Housing advocates and low-income residents sued Wednesday to stop Mississippi from spending a half-billion federal dollars to expand a damaged port rather than replace homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Jackson Jr. denies wrongdoing in Ill. gov scandal (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 08:25 PM CST

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., leaves the podium following his remarks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. Jackson, a 7-term House member and son of a famous civil rights leader, said he is not a target of the federal investigation that led to this week's arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, that he eagerly and openly sought the Senate appointment, but was not involved 'whatsoever in any wrongdoing.'(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said Wednesday he openly sought appointment to Barack Obama's Senate seat but denied offering favors in return to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and said he was not involved "whatsoever in any wrongdoing."

Arrest of Ill. governor puts spotlight on his wife (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 09:23 PM CST

In this Jan. 8, 2007, file photo Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, right, dances with his wife Patti during the Inaugural Ball in Springfield, Ill. Federal authorities arrested Blagojevich Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama for personal benefits for himself and his wife. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich has some close company in his misery.

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