2009年2月13日星期五

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NTSB: Plane crew saw significant ice before crash (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST

The wreckage of a Continental Connection Flight 3407 is seen from the backyard after it crashed into a house Thursday in Clarence Center, N.Y., Friday Feb. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - The crew of the commuter plane that fell on a house, killing all 49 people aboard and one person on the ground, noticed significant ice buildup on the wings and windshield just before the aircraft began pitching and rolling violently, investigators said Friday.

Phila. police officer shot, killed (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 11:21 PM CST

This undated image provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Police Officer John Pawlowski. A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed while responding to a street fight Friday night, city officials said. Officer John Pawlowski, 25, was responding to a fight near Broad Street and Olney Avenue in the city's Logan section at about 8 p.m. when he was shot, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. The officer was taken to Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. (AP Photo/Philadelpha Police Department)AP - A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed while responding to a street fight Friday night, city officials said. Police returning fire shot and wounded the gunman.

Peanut Corp. of America files for bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:24 PM CST

The Peanut Corp. of America plant is seen on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, in Blakely, Ga. The plant that may be linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak. Peanut Corp. of America voluntarily recalled peanut butter produced at the plant, pending the outcome of an investigation. (AP Photo/Elliott Minor)AP - The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. The Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut Corp. of America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Virginia Friday, the latest bad news for the company that has been accused of producing tainted peanut products that may have reached everyone from poor school children to disaster victims.

Neighborhood's quiet night explodes in tragedy (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:41 PM CST

Tony Tatro, witness to the Continental Connection Flight 3407 crash, listens to a reporter's question outside the Clarence Town Hall in Clarence, N.Y. on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. A sputtering commuter plane slammed into a suburban Buffalo home in a fiery explosion that killed all 48 people on board and one person on the ground, authorities said. (AP Photo/Don Heupel)AP - In the white clapboard two-story set back from the sidewalk, the Wielinski family was getting ready to settle in for the night. Karen Wielinski, a secretary for the local school district, busied herself in the family room. Jill, her 22-year-old daughter, watched television in her bedroom upstairs. Husband Doug, an engineer, said he was heading up to bed.

Calif. zoo, teen's family settle over tiger attack (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 09:13 PM CST

AP - The parents of a 17-year-old boy killed by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo reached a settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit, their lawyer announced Friday.

In shift, Blackwater dumps tarnished brand name (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 04:33 PM CST

In this April 4, 2004 file photo plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada Al Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers, in the Iraqi city of Najaf.Iraq said Thursday it will bar Blackwater Worldwide from providing security protection for U.S. diplomats because its contractors used excessive force, sanctioning a company whose image was irrevocably tarnished by the 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians. (AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez)AP - Blackwater Worldwide is still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, but executives at the beleaguered security firm are taking their biggest step yet to put that work and the ugly reputation it earned the company behind them.

Calif. polygamist gets life term for family abuses (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 05:46 PM CST

AP - A self-proclaimed polygamist was sentenced Friday to seven consecutive life prison terms for torturing seven of his 19 children, abusing four others and imprisoning two of his three wives.

'Clark Rockefeller' to use insanity defense (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 04:19 PM CST

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, arrives for a hearing at Suffolk Superior Court Dec. 1, 2008. His lawyers filed notice Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, that he plans to use an insanity defense at his trial for allegedly kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter in Boston last summer. (AP Photo/Ted Fitzgerald, Pool, File)AP - The man who authorities say pretended to be a member of the famous Rockefeller dynasty and fabricated elaborate stories about his past will use an insanity defense when he goes on trial in the kidnapping of his 7-year-old daughter, his lawyers said Friday. Lawyers for the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller filed notice of the mental health defense in Suffolk Superior Court on Friday, three days after Rockefeller rejected a plea deal.

US churches to discuss evolution vs creation (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST

The Rev. Thurmond Tillman, pastor at Savannah's 221-year-old First African Baptist Church, poses in the sanctuary of the church, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 in Savannah, Ga. Tillman doesn't oppose evolution, but he argues that black Americans have other social issues to address, and the faithful should focus on uniting mankind — not dividing his origins. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - After a lifetime in the church, the Rev. William L. Rhines Jr. lately has started to question one of the Bible's fundamental teachings, that God created man. It's an especially touchy topic in his Wilmington, Del., congregation, where generations of black worshippers have leaned on faith to endure the indignities of racism.

VA clinic warns of possible contaminant exposure (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:20 PM CST

AP - Thousands of patients at a Veterans Administration clinic in Tennessee may have been exposed to the infectious body fluids of other patients when they had colonoscopies in recent years, and now VA medical facilities all over the U.S. are reviewing their own procedures.

2 NYC tenants acquitted in firefighter deaths (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 09:27 PM CST

AP - Two tenants were acquitted Friday of creating a deadly maze of illegal walls in their apartment building, forcing two firefighters responding to a blaze to jump to their deaths.

San Francisco weighs ban on new head shops (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:16 PM CST

A smoke shop called Puff Puff Pass is shown on Haight Street in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2009. Counterculture pilgrims hoping to catch a whiff of Flower Power still make their way to the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, where the spirits of Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead rock on in stores offering T-shirts, posters and pot-smoking paraphernalia. Indeed, while other retail enterprises in the cradle of hippie culture are folding, head shops dealing in roach clips, rolling papers and hand-blown water pipes have proliferated on Haight Street -- so much so that a city supervisor has proposed a law to prevent any more from opening. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Counterculture tourists hoping to catch a whiff of Flower Power still make their way to the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, where the spirits of Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead rock on in stores offering T-shirts, posters and pot-smoking paraphernalia.

2 Pa. judges sued in $2.6M kickback scheme (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 05:54 PM CST

Mark Ciavarella, in foreground, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa., on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Prosecutors say Luzerne County Judges, Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. Ciavarella has denied he got kickbacks for sending youths to prison. (AP Photo/David Kidwell)AP - Two lawsuits have been filed against two Pennsylvania judges accused of taking more than $2 million in kickbacks to send youth offenders to privately run detention centers.

A year later, no final report on NIU shooting (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 02:08 PM CST

AP - If the police chief of Northern Illinois University had his way, the name of the man who gunned down five students in a lecture hall one year ago Saturday would fade into oblivion.

Texas man gets life for killing 6-year-old girl (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 05:31 PM CST

AP - A man charged with killing a 6-year-old girl whose half nude, lifeless body was found hanging from the rafters of her family's garage pleaded guilty to capital murder Friday and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Clinton urges NKorea against 'provocative' actions (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:44 PM CST

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged North Korea on Friday not to take any "provocative" actions that could undermine peace efforts.

Wife: Affair began money manager's downward spiral (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:24 PM CST

In this artist rendering, Indiana financial advisor Marcus Schrenker, 38, speaks with Thomas Keith, a public defender, before U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in Pensacola, Fla. Schrenker, an Indiana financial adviser accused of trying to fake his death in a plane crash had been improperly moving money from accounts and forging signatures for several years, investors testified at a hearing Thursday. (AP Photo/The Pensacola News Journal, Gary McCracken)AP - An Indiana money manager charged with trying to fake his death in a plane crash began to change over the past year — ultimately revealing a double life — after he started an affair, his estranged wife said Friday.

Software exec. defends hiring former Detroit mayor (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 03:18 PM CST

AP - The head of a computer software company defended the hiring of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as an account executive Friday, saying the convicted felon is "uniquely qualified" to sell high-tech services in the health care field.

Publicist: 2 Mangione musicians die in plane crash (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:36 PM CST

AP - A publicist says two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangione's band were among those killed on the plane that crashed into a Buffalo, New York, house.

Moms offer sober reality check on multiple births (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 02:09 PM CST

Jenny Ferrill, 31, of Danville, Ill., plays with her 2-year-old quintuplets at their home on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. The children from left are, Layne, Drayden, Kieran, Irelyn and Landyn. Ferrill and other parents of multiples say they would advise the California mother of 14 that donations that seem plentiful now will taper off after the first year; somehow free formula and diapers never morph into free shoes or forgiven medical bills. Requests for TV interviews dwindle. Offers to baby-sit, if they ever existed, vanish. (AP Photo/Robin Scholz)AP - Nadya Suleman's daunting future of raising octuplets into adulthood may best be understood by the exhausted but proud parents of other multiples and the researchers who study them.

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