2008年12月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Adam Walsh case transformed missing kid searches (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:17 AM CST

Adam Walsh is seen in an undated handout photo. The 6-year-old son of television crime show host John Walsh was kidnapped and killed 27 years ago by a drifter who later died in jail, police in Florida said on December 16, 2008 in closing the books on one of America's best-known unsolved crimes. REUTERS/America's Most Wanted/Handout. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.AP - The abduction happened 27 years ago, at a time when parents routinely left their children playing in the toy store, unattended, and continued shopping.

Source: Ill. gov nixed job for Jackson Jr.'s wife (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 11:29 PM CST

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. answers questions about a report involving his brother Jonathan outside his house in Chicago, Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. As calls for the impeachment Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich intensified,, the Chicago Tribune reports in a story for Friday's editions, citing unnamed sources, that businessman Raghuveer Nayak and Blagojevich aide Rajinder Bedi told attendees at an Oct. 31 meeting that they needed to raise the money for the governor to ensure Jackson's appointment.The Oct. 31 meeting led to a Blagojevich fundraiser held Saturday that was co-sponsored by Nayak. The governor attended, as did Jackson's brother Jonathan, who went into business with Nayak several years ago, according to the newspaper report. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Shortly after his 2002 election, Gov. Rod Blagojevich told Rep.

No respite as wintry storms spread over nation (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 11:30 PM CST

Alex Freeman, right, throws a snowball as Maya Lloyd, left, looks on in Palo Alto, Calif. on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008 after a snow storm in the hills. (AP Photo)AP - Students went home for a snow day, stranded travelers waited at airports and drivers slid across icy roads in the second day of a bitter cold wave that blanketed much of the nation Tuesday.

Ill. parties clash over potential special election (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 06:00 PM CST

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich looks to media as he leaves his house on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Illinois Republicans have launched a political ad campaign demanding a special election to fill the Senate vacancy that Gov. Rod Blagojevich allegedly tried to sell, hoping to pick up a seat they had no shot at before the scandal.

Kennedy mystique flummoxes NY rivals for Senate (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 05:05 PM CST

In this March 7, 2005, file photo, Caroline Kennedy, sits in front of an image of her late father President John F. Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Caroline Kennedy has told New York Gov. David Paterson she wants to be the state's next U.S. Senator, becoming the highest-profile name to actively lobby for the seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)AP - Caroline Kennedy has avoided politics most of her life. She has yet to utter a word publicly about her interest in running for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate seat.

Father of Oregon bank bombing suspect also charged (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 12:09 AM CST

Joshua Turnidge, left, stands with his attorney Steven L. Krasik as he is arraigned in Marion County Court in Salem, Ore., Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008, on charges related to a bank bombing in Woodburn on Friday that killed two law enforcement officers and critically injured a third. (AP Photo/Stephanie Yao, Pool)AP - The father of a Salem man accused of killing two Oregon law enforcement officers in a bank explosion was arrested and charged Tuesday, authorities said.

Governor's panel says Calif. must fix water system (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 10:24 PM CST

AP - A panel of the governor's top advisers on Tuesday backed sweeping changes to California's water system, including the building of dams and a canal to pipe water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Jury ready to deliberate in Fort Dix plot trial (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 05:36 PM CST

In this Oct. 20, 2008 file photo is an artist's drawing showing defendants Shain Duka, bottom left, Eljvir Duka, Dritan Duka, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer and Serdar Tatar in a federal courtroom in Camden, N.J., Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. After 26 days of testimony, jurors are to hear final arguments beginning Monday, Dec. 15, 2008, in the case against the five men accused of planning to kill soldiers at Fort Dix. (AP Photo/Shirley Shepard, File)AP - A federal jury is ready to begin deliberating the case of five men accused of plotting an attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey.

Suspected bank robber killed in Dallas; guard hurt (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 07:31 PM CST

AP - A robbery suspect was killed inside a bank after he wounded an armed security guard, police said.

Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler namesake denied (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 11:33 PM CST

Heath Campbell, left, with his wife Deborah and son Adolf Hitler, 3, pose in Easton, Pa.,, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Deborah and her husband Heath attempted to by a birthday cake for their son at a near by ShopRite supermarket in Greenwich, N.J. and were told that the store would not inscribe Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler on the cake. The Campbell's also have two daughters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.

NYC cop seen in YouTube shove pleads not guilty (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 05:25 PM CST

AP - A New York City police officer seen in a YouTube video knocking a bicyclist to the pavement during a protest in Times Square pleaded not guilty Tuesday to related charges.

Ill. speaker, AG have stormy past with governor (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 02:18 PM CST

Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, sits at his seat during a committee hearing looking into the impeachment of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Long before Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges, House Speaker Michael Madigan compared him to a tumor and suggested ways to impeach him.

Ill. gov's legal woes worsen as fundraisers defect (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 07:18 PM CST

AP - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko's attorneys sent a strong signal Tuesday that he has resumed his on-again, off-again cooperation with federal prosecutors in the criminal case against Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and another one-time adviser to the governor served notice that he intends to plead guilty to tax charges.

AP source: Donor to Commerce nominee being probed (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 05:46 PM CST

AP - A federal grand jury is investigating how a California firm that contributed to the political activities of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nominee to head the Commerce Department, won a lucrative government contract.

Ga. black colleges merger idea stirs resistance (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 04:18 PM CST

AP - Public colleges created during segregation to provide blacks an education denied to them by white institutions are at the center of a budget battle brewing in Georgia.

Minn. panel reviews disputed Senate race ballots (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 04:13 PM CST

In this June 7, 2008 file photo, confetti falls around former comedian Al Franken after he accepted the Democratic endorsement for U.S. Senate from Minnesota at the party's state convention in Rochester, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)AP - Members of a board refereeing more than 1,000 disputed ballots in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race started their work gingerly Tuesday, squinting at ballots as they tried to figure out what some voters intended.

Obama chooses Chicago schools chief Ed. Secretary (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 04:32 PM CST

Education Secretary-designate Arne Duncan smiles as President-elect Barack Obama make the announcement, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008, at the Dodge Renaissance Academy in Chicago. (AP Photo)AP - President-elect Barack Obama announced Arne Duncan, the head of the Chicago school system, as education secretary Tuesday and declared that failing to improve classroom instruction is "morally unacceptable for our children."

Yale endowment drops 25 pct amid financial turmoil (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 05:01 PM CST

AP - Yale University said Tuesday its nearly $23 billion endowment has dropped 25 percent to about $17 billion in recent months due to the recession, prompting the college to delay construction projects and take other cost-cutting measures.

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