2009年1月10日星期六

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

5 people shot outside Chicago high school (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 03:04 AM CST

Chicago Police officers investigate the scene of a five-person shooting outside Dunbar High School in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Five people were shot as spectators left a crowded high school basketball game Friday in what police called a possibly gang-related drive-by attack that sent panicked students running into a snowy street on the city's South Side.

Baltimore mayor indicted on theft, perjury charges (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 03:06 AM CST

AP - For Sheila Dixon's entire tenure as mayor, a City Hall corruption probe has threatened to overshadow successes that have included a reduction in violent crime.

Ill. House impeaches governor, who vows to fight (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 11:09 PM CST

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich makes a statement at a news conference Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 in Chicago, after he was impeached by the Illinois House on a wide array of offenses including criminal corruption and wasting taxpayers money. The two-term Democrat becomes the first governor in the history of Illinois to be impeached. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached Friday by Illinois lawmakers furious that he turned state government into a "freak show," setting the stage for an unprecedented trial in the state Senate that could get him thrown out of office.

Losing job for first time a painful experience (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 11:39 PM CST

Julie Banner, right, chats with Rebekah Lowe outside the state unemployment office in Cary, N.C., on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. The woman were both recently laid off for the first time in their lives and are taking a course to help them in their job search. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)AP - Behind the latest unemployment figures showing another 500,000-plus Americans lost their jobs is a sad truth: The deeper the recession becomes, the more it touches people whose livelihoods have never been threatened by dark financial times.

Northwest floodwaters recede; cleanup begins (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 12:02 AM CST

Alton Hushagen walks through receding floodwaters in front of his barn in the Galvin community near Centralia, Wash., Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. The flooding,some of the worst on record in Washington state, was touched off Wednesday by a combination of heavy rain of 6 inches or more and a warm spell in the mid-40s that rapidly melted snow in the Cascade Mountains. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - State officials began reopening Washington's major highways on Friday as floodwaters receded and road crews plowed away mud, snow and debris. But flooding continued on some major rivers, and residents of some low-lying areas were only beginning to tackle the cleanup of their sodden homes.

Oakland shooting fuels anger over police brutality (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 08:50 PM CST

This undated family photo provided by the Law Offices of John Burris shows Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old transit rider who was shot and killed by BART police on New Year's Day, 2009. (AP Photo/Family Handout provided by the Law Offices of John Burris)AP - The videotaped killing of an unarmed black man by a transit police officer here has inflamed long-running tensions between police and many African-American residents.

Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 11:10 PM CST

Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas is shown in this undated handout file photo released Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 in Huntsville, Texas. Thomas, who has a history of mental problems is being treated at a prison psychiatric unit after authorities said he pulled out his only good eye and ate it. He similarly had plucked out his right eye before his trial in 2004. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, FILE)AP - A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant's death.

Border Patrol: San Diego plaza used by smugglers (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 12:08 AM CST

In this Sunday, June 22, 2008 photo, residents practice yoga on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border fence as they take part in the 'Yoga without borders' encounter in Tijuana, Mexico. The top U.S. Border Patrol official in San Diego said Friday Jan. 9, 2009 that he closed this half-acre oceanfront plaza on California's border with Mexico to enhance security. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File)AP - The top U.S. Border Patrol official in San Diego says he closed a half-acre oceanfront plaza on California's border with Mexico to enhance security.

Mass. teacher accused of having sex with teen (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 12:02 AM CST

AP - An elementary school teacher accused of having sex with a teenage boy pleaded not guilty to rape charges Friday.

Ala. plant accident heightens pressure on TVA (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 05:46 PM CST

Map locates Stevenson Alabama where there was a coal ash spill; 1 c x 2 5/8 in; 46.5 mm x 66.675 mmAP - A retention pond at a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-burning power plant leaked waste into a northeast Alabama creek Friday, ramping up pressure on the utility that already is trying to clean up last month's major coal ash spill at a plant in Tennessee.

Motorist with 16 guns, ammo arrested at LA airport (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 11:59 PM CST

AP - A motorist with more than a dozen guns — two of them loaded — and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his pickup truck was arrested Friday at a vehicle checkpoint as he entered Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.

Boston fire truck smashes into building; 1 dead (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 09:58 PM CST

A Boston Fire Department ladder truck is seen after it plowed through an intersection and crashed into a high-rise apartment building, killing one firefighter and injuring several other people, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 in Boston. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - A Boston Fire Department ladder truck coming down a hill plowed through an intersection Friday and crashed into a high-rise apartment building, killing one firefighter and seriously injuring a second.

CDC director is out, government e-mail says (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 12:12 AM CST

In this Thursday, July 31, 2008 file photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Julie Gerberding prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gerberding has resigned as director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will be replaced as of Jan. 20, 2009 by a deputy who will serve as interim director. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The woman who led the nation's public health agency in a post-Sept. 11 world of bioterrorist fears is out, her resignation announced in a Friday night e-mail to employees.

Durbin: No Burris Senate seat without signature (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 07:20 PM CST

AP - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday that Roland Burris should not be seated in the U.S. Senate because he has failed to get the secretary of state's signature on his appointment to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the chamber.

Pastor in gay scandal: I'm back from 'wilderness' (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 08:30 PM CST

This image taken from video, supplied by Magnolia Pictures, shows the Rev. Ted Haggard preaching in the documentary film 'Jesus Camp'. Speaking out two years after being embroiled in a gay sex scandal, former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard said Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 his sexual identity is complex and can't be put into 'stereotypical boxes,' but that his relationship with his wife is stronger than ever. (AP Photo/Magnolia Pictures,File)AP - Speaking out two years after being embroiled in a gay sex scandal, former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard said Friday his sexual identity is complex and can't be put into "stereotypical boxes," but that his relationship with his wife is stronger than ever.

Immigrant advocates decry new rules on courts, DNA (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 07:44 PM CST

AP - Civil liberties and immigrant rights advocates expressed outrage over a Department of Justice rule that took effect Friday, mandating federal agencies to collect DNA samples from anyone who is arrested and foreigners detained by immigration authorities.

Palin: Is Kennedy getting 'kid glove' treatment? (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 06:17 PM CST

In this Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, is seen on stage during an election night rally in Phoenix. In an interview with conservative radio talk-show host and filmmaker John Ziegler, Palin questioned whether Caroline Kennedy was getting better treatment than Palin did as Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)AP - She messed up her first interviews, didn't show much of a grasp of the issues and, dontcha know, had a speech pattern that was widely mimicked.

'Missing mom' suspect charged with murder in NJ (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 06:55 PM CST

AP - A married man accused of killing his mistress and dumping her dismembered body in a Staten Island pond has been charged with first-degree murder.

NY state senator's assault case provokes outrage (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 05:56 PM CST

Sen. Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens, says the Pledge of Allegiance after being sworn into office in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Women's groups are outraged that a freshman New York state senator was sworn in this week while facing charges that he slashed his girlfriend's face with a piece of broken glass in a jealous rage.

SC man pleads to illegal gun sale (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 04:52 PM CST

AP - A South Carolina pawn shop owner accused by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg of recklessly selling a rifle to an ex-convict pleaded guilty Friday to a federal weapons charge.

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