2008年12月23日星期二

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Many Muslims frustrated with Fort Dix verdict (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 03:46 AM CST

Faten Shnewer stands in front of a large print as she speaks to the media in federal court, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008, in Camden, N.J., after her son, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer and four other Muslim immigrants were convicted of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers in a case that tested the FBI's post-Sept. 11, 2001, strategy of infiltrating and breaking up terrorist conspiracies in their earliest stages. The men could get life in prison when they are sentenced in April. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Muslim leaders reacted with frustration after five Muslim immigrants were convicted of scheming to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix.

Winter visits with a vengeance from East to West (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 03:01 AM CST

A couple uses skis to cross a snowy street in downtown Portland, Ore. on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. A weekend winter storm that buried northern Oregon and slowed its largest city to a crawl was expected to let up some after spilling into the workweek. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - The weather outside was frightful from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore., on Monday, with last-minute holiday shoppers shivering and stranded travelers hoping for the best as Christmas rapidly approached.

Noises heard on plane that veered off Colo. runway (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 02:53 AM CST

The wreckage of a 737 Continental plane sits at Denver International Airport on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008. The plane, bound for Houston, skidded off the runway during takeoff on Saturday evening injuring 38 of 110 passengers. (AP Photo/Rocky Mountain News, Preston Gannaway)AP - Investigators say a bumping and rattling sound was heard on a Continental Airlines plane moments before it veered off a runway and crashed at Denver International Airport on Saturday.

Texas police investigating deadly road shootings (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 02:50 AM CST

AP - Authorities searched Monday evening for a motorist they say shot at a car and three semitrailer trucks on Dallas-area roads during the afternoon rush hour, killing two people and injuring one.

Lesbian's brutal gang rape investigated in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 01:41 AM CST

AP - A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday.

Official says Calif. could be broke in 2 months (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 11:23 PM CST

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger takes part in a conversation on leadership and the economy at The Women's Conference 2008 in Long Beach, California, October 22, 2008. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)AP - California's chief financial officer warned Monday that the state would run out of money in about two months as hopes of a Christmas budget compromise melted into political finger-pointing by the end of the day.

Ohio watchdog: Ex-AG spent campaign funds on pals (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 04:28 PM CST

In this May 14, 2008 file photo, Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, left, announces his resignation in the Cabinet room of Governor's office in Columbus, Ohio. At right is Gov. Ted Strickland. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Former Attorney General Marc Dann ran a vulgar and unprofessional office and misused campaign funds to make lavish payments to friends and family, the state's government watchdog said Monday in releasing the results of a six-month investigation.

4 recruiter suicides lead to Army probe (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 02:27 PM CST

Amanda Henderson holds a photo of her late husband Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Henderson in her home in Henderson, Texas, Nov. 20, 2008. Patrick Henderson, afflicted by flashbacks and sleeplessness after a tour in Iraq, hanged himself in a shed behind his house as his wife and her son slept. (AP Photo/Herb Nygren Jr)AP - Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Henderson, a strapping Iraq combat veteran, spent the last, miserable months of his life as an Army recruiter, cold-calling dozens of people a day from his strip-mall office and sitting in strangers' living rooms, trying to sign up their sons and daughters for an unpopular war.

NYC dodges prosecution in deadly ground zero fire (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 06:23 PM CST

John Galt Corp. foreman Salvatore DePaola exits Manhattan criminal court, after posting bail, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008, in New York. Three construction supervisors and a subcontractor were indicted Monday on manslaughter charges in the 2007 deaths of two firefighters at a skyscraper at ground zero, capping a complex 16-month investigation that exposed numerous failures by city officials. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - Prosecutors castigated city officials Monday but declined to charge them with any crimes in the deaths of two firefighters at a ground zero skyscraper, despite repeated failures to detect hazards that turned the tower into a death trap.

Young cancer patient's thank-you: tip of 500 hats (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 02:57 PM CST

Hudson Francis, 3, shows off the results of a hat drive at a children's hospital in Fargo, N.D., Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008. Francis who is recovering from leukemia is helping his sister organize a Christmas drive to give away hats he wore during chemo. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)AP - Three-year-old Hudson Francis has been making weekly 300-mile round trips from his home in Surrey to Fargo for leukemia treatments. Now, with his cancer in remission, he's left doctors, nurses, patients and others early Christmas presents.

Mo. woman pleads guilty in videotaped sex killing (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 03:56 PM CST

Dena Riley, right, listens as public defender Anthony Cardarella addresses the court during her arraignment in Independence, Mo., in this July 19, 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/Jeff Stead, Pool)AP - A woman struck a plea deal Monday but still faces more charges in a crime spree that included the videotaped sexual torture and slaying of another woman.

Impeachment panel awaiting word from prosecutor (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 07:26 PM CST

A report requested by president-elect Barack Obama due out Tuesday is expected to publicly clear his staff of any improper role in an alleged bid by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, seen here on December 19, 2008, to sell off his Senate seat.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AP - Lawmakers studying impeachment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich heard Monday from a political watchdog who said she sees strong links between campaign contributions to him and contracts awarded to work for the state.

Cop-killer gets first NH death sentence in decades (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 02:19 PM CST

In a Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 file photo, defendant Michael Addison looks back at the gallery during his capital murder trial in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester, N.H. A judge formally imposed New Hampshire's first death sentence in half a century on Addison, who fatally shot a Manchester police officer two years ago.As he did last week when a jury ordered him executed, Michael Addison showed no emotion Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Bob LaPree, Pool, File)AP - A judge issued New Hampshire's first death sentence in nearly 50 years to a man who gunned down a police officer in 2006 and refused to look his victim's relatives in the eye as they addressed him in court Monday.

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