2009年3月22日星期日

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FAA: Children among 17 dead in Montana plane crash (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 04:26 PM PDT

AP - A small plane crashed Sunday as it approached an airport in Montana, killing 17 people, including several children, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.

Police: 4th Oakland officer still on life support (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 04:16 PM PDT

This is an undated photo released by the Oakland Police Department of Oakland Police officer John Hege. A man wanted for violating his parole killed three police officers and gravely wounded Hege in two shootings Saturday, March 21, 2009, the first after a routine traffic stop and the second after a massive manhunt ended in gunfire, authorities said. The gunman was also killed. (AP Photo/Oakland Police Department)AP - A police officer shot during a traffic stop has been pronounced brain dead but remained on life support, police said Sunday, retracting an earlier statement that he had died.

Space shuttle moves to avoid chunk of space junk (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 03:56 PM PDT

In this image taken from NASA video, space shuttle Discovery Mission Specialist Joseph Acaba (C) outside the Quest airlock of the ISS on March 21, 2009 during the second of three planned spacewalks. Discovery astronauts prepared for a third and final spacewalk, with a busy to-do list that may include unsticking a jammed restraint pin used to clamp a toolbox to the outside of the Space Station.(AFP/NASA VIDEO)AP - Confronted with orbiting junk again, NASA ordered the astronauts aboard the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of a piece of debris Sunday.

Va. resort employee sought in supervisor killings (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 03:16 PM PDT

AP - Authorities in Virginia were searching Sunday for a resort employee suspected of shooting and killing two of his supervisors in the hotel kitchen while guests ate dinner in a nearby dining room.

AP IMPACT: Mentally ill a threat in nursing homes (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Russell Smith holds a photo of his stepfather, Ivory Jackson, and half-sister, Anita Jackson, outside the All Faith Pavilion nursing home on Oct. 9, 2008, in Chicago. At 77, Ivory Jackson, who suffered from Alzheimer's, died in June 2008 after being attacked by his mentally ill roommate as he lay in his nursing home bed. An analysis by the Associated Press, shows that over the past several years nursing homes have become dumping grounds for young and middle-age people with mental illness. And it has proved a prescription for violence, as Jackson's case and others across the country illustrate. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer's, but that wasn't what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed.

Ohio fails to decertify all convicted officers (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PDT

In this Feb. 12, 2008 file photo, Bobby Cutts Jr. listens during the closing arguments in his trial, in Canton, Ohio. Bobby Cutts killed his lover and their unborn child while he was still a police officer. He was one of 10 officers convicted in the past five years that the AP found still had the authority to make an arrest or carry a gun. (AP Photo/Bob Rossiter, Pool)AP - Bobby Cutts Jr. was notorious in the law enforcement community because of his crime: While still a police officer, he killed his lover and their unborn child.

Michigan 15-year-old dies after police Taser him (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 01:07 PM PDT

AP - Police in Michigan say a 15-year-old boy has died after being Tasered by officers who were trying to break up a fight.

Alert level raised for Alaska volcano (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 12:04 PM PDT

In a January 27, 2009 file photo provided by the Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S.G.S. steam and gas rise from a large fumerole on the north flank of Mount Redoubt, a 10,197-foot volcano in the Chigmit Mountains, in Alaska. Geologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory Sunday increased the official alert level on the volcano to orange, the stage just before eruption. (AP Photo/AVO,USGS)AP - Increased earthquake activity has prompted scientists to raise the alert level for Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano.

On to Z! Quirky regional dictionary nears finish (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 02:18 PM PDT

Editor of The Dictionary of American Regional English Joan Houston Hall is seen in her office on Tuesday, March 3, 2009, in Madison, Wis. The Dictionary of American Regional English founded by Cassidy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is nearing completion of its final volume of text covering S to Z. A new federal grant will help the volume get published next year and allow the dictionary that linguists consider a national treasure to prepare to go online. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)AP - If you don't know a stone toter from Adam's off ox, or aren't sure what a grinder shop sells, the Dictionary of American Regional English is for you.

NY cop saves sleeping family from burning house (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 11:22 AM PDT

AP - Authorities on New York's Long Island say an off-duty police officer saved a family when he noticed smoke coming from their home and woke them up.

Jury considers penalty in Ariz Serial Shooter case (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 12:11 PM PDT

Dale Hausner, left, looks at his lawyer, Ken Everett in court Friday afternoon, March 13, 2009 in Phoenix, Ariz. Hausner was convicted Friday of six murders in a series of nearly 30 attacks in 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo/Mark Henle, Pool)AP - Jurors who convicted a former janitor of murdering six people and attacking 19 others will begin work Monday to decide whether he should be put to death for the dozens of random, nighttime shootings that terrorized the city in 2005 and 2006.

Natasha Richardson buried near upstate NY home (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 02:31 PM PDT

Actor Ralph Finnes, right, and a fellow mourner arrive at the funeral of Natasha Richardson Lithgow, N.Y. on Sunday, March 22, 2009. Richardson, 45, died last Wednesday at a New York hospital after falling and hitting her head while skiing in Canada. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - A somber group of friends and family gathered in a small Hudson Valley town Sunday to say a final farewell to Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson.

In Vermont, new life for a real bridge to nowhere (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 11:39 AM PDT

A crane prepares to lift the roof off the Martin covered bridge in Marshfield, Vt., Monday, March 16, 2009. A bridge to nowhere will soon become a bridge to somewhere. Sort of. Plunked down in the middle of a field nearly five years ago so it wouldn't fall into a river, the 119-year-old Martin Bridge is being renovated and returned to its original site. When the work is complete this spring, the covered bridge will be back over the Winooski River, where it served farmers for nearly a century.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - A bridge to nowhere will soon become a bridge to somewhere. Sort of.

American space tourist buys return ticket to orbit (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 09:53 AM PDT

A Saturday, April 7, 2007 file photo taken from a broadcast on Russian RTR Russian Television Channel, Space tourist U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi, left, is seen aboard the space craft before the launch of the Soyuz TMA-10 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Simoni will become the world's first two-time space tourist when he leaves Earth behind Thursday, March 26, 2009 and heads back to the space station. (AP Photo/RTR-Russian Television Channe, Filel)AP - Recession or no, billionaire Charles Simonyi couldn't pass up another shot at space, even if it meant shelling out $35 million more.

Immigrants fearful English classes could be cut (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 10:52 AM PDT

Immigrants and their supporters demonstrate during a rally to protest New York city cuts to programs that teach English as a second language, Wednesday, March 18, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Farzana Morshed arrived from Bangladesh three years ago without any real grasp of English. Her husband had to help her open a bank account, an interpreter was necessary when she needed medical care and she couldn't go anywhere by herself for fear of getting lost.

Bobblehead doll for Minn's slow Senate race count (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 10:02 AM PDT

AP - The two candidates locked in a lengthy fight over a Senate seat from Minnesota are getting their own bobblehead doll.

Horror film draws unwanted visitors to Conn. house (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 09:10 AM PDT

AP - A Hollywood horror film that depicts the alleged haunting of a former funeral parlor in central Connecticut is turning into a nightmare for the home's current owners and their neighbors.

DEA looking for cash tossed onto Calif freeways (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 07:29 AM PDT

AP - Federal drug agents plan to review video of a freeway chase in San Diego to identify motorists who haven't turned over thousands of dollars in cash that fleeing suspects threw out of their truck.

NY man with polio wins lawsuit against drug maker (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 07:54 AM PDT

AP - A New York man with polio has won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a drug maker claiming he contracted the disease 30 years ago from the polio vaccine given to his infant daughter.

Protesters visit AIG officials' lavish Conn. homes (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 04:29 AM PDT

Mary Huguley, center, delivers a letter of protest for Douglas Poling in a mailbox outside his home in Fairfield Conn. on Saturday March 21, 2009. A busload of activists, outnumber 2-to-1 by reporters and photographers, are paying visits to the homes of American International Group Inc. executives in Connecticut to protest tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the company. AIG has received more than $182 billion in federal aid. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)AP - A busload of activists representing working- and middle-class families paid visits Saturday to the lavish homes of American International Group executives to protest the tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the struggling insurance company after it received a massive federal bailout.

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