2009年1月11日星期日

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Snowstorm ices roads, grounds flights in Chicago (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 03:25 AM CST

Neighbors Phil Samotus, left, and Nate Boros use their snowblowers to clear their respective driveways after a winter storm had dropped nearly eight inches of snow in Zelienople, Pa. Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - A powerful winter storm blasted large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast with snow and freezing rain on Saturday, grounding flights and stranding vehicles along icy roads.

Fire rages through $28 million Tenn. castle-home (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2009 03:05 AM CST

AP - A luxurious castle-like home in Johnson City, Tenn., has been badly burned by fierce flames.

Lifting veil of privacy, friends discuss Kennedy (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 11:24 PM CST

In this Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, then Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves to supporters with Caroline Kennedy, after she endorsed him during a rally at American University in Washington. Although she was no stranger to politics, much was made of the daughter of a president and niece of two senators' decision to go public last January with her support of then-candidate Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - When community groups and the Board of Education were caught in an acrimonious dispute over an arts program, education officials brought in a fixer: Caroline Kennedy.

Nation's largest utility grapples with 2 spills (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 04:08 PM CST

AP - Standing on a porch near the Widows Creek power plant Saturday, Charlie Cookston took a drag off a cigarette and ticked off the reasons he distrusts the Tennessee Valley Authority.

William Zantzinger, villain in Dylan song, dies (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 03:14 PM CST

AP - William Zantzinger, a wealthy Maryland landowner whose fatal beating of a black barmaid was recounted in a Bob Dylan protest song of the 1960s, was buried Friday. He was 69.

Blagojevich faces tough trial in Senate (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 02:07 PM CST

AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich will face long odds, and perhaps some legal twists, in the Illinois Senate trial that will decide whether he'll keep his job or be tossed out of office.

'Man shot my mommy': Ohio woman slain, son taken (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 05:03 PM CST

In this Jan 7, 2008 file photo, murder suspect Charlie Myers, 22, appears in a Franklin County Common Pleas Court in Columbus, Ohio. Authorities say Meyers stole a car in Columbus, then weeks later drove it to the owner's house in Dayton where he shot and killed a woman and abducted her 4-year-old son. Charges against Myers allege he also sexually assaulted the boy before taking him. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - The 4-year-old boy's explanation was even more startling than the sight of him, barefoot and clad in pajamas, standing alone in the lobby of a highway rest stop.

Budget woes prompt states to rethink prison policy (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 11:33 AM CST

In this undated file photo released by the California Department of Corrections, inmates sit in crowded conditions at California State Prison, Los Angeles. Their budgets in crisis, governors, legislators and prison officials across the nation are making or considering policy changes that will likely remove tens of thousands of offenders from prisons and parole supervision. In California, faced with a projected $42 billion deficit and severe prison overcrowding, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed the early release of up to 15,000 non-violent offenders and a reduction of about 70,000 in the state's parole population. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections)AP - Their budgets in crisis, governors, legislators and prison officials across the nation are making or considering policy changes that will likely remove tens of thousands of offenders from prisons and parole supervision.

Rainforest wood at issue in beach town repairs (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 11:31 AM CST

In this Friday, July 4, 2008 photograph, lifeguards in Wildwood, N.J., watch people playing in the Atlantic Ocean. Wildwood, New Jersey's most popular beach town, is about to make a decision that has been unpopular with environmentalists around the world — using wood cut from the Amazon rainforests to repair a section of its boardwalk. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - New Jersey's most popular beach town is about to make a decision that has been criticized by environmentalists around the world — using wood cut from Amazon rainforests to repair a section of its boardwalk.

Feds have plan if Mexico drug violence spills over (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 08:16 AM CST

AP - If Mexican drug violence spills across the U.S. border, Homeland Security officials say they have a contingency plan to assist border areas that includes bringing in the military.

Texas to reconsider $6M steriod testing in schools (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 08:32 AM CST

AP - Boys and girls in all sports, from football to tennis to cross country, have been randomly selected.

Veteran Pa. elem teacher arrested on drug charge (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 10:46 AM CST

AP - Police in central Pennsylvania say they have arrested a veteran elementary school teacher and seized 72 pounds of marijuana from her home.

Rare 'dinky' bird migrates to US for first time (AP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2009 09:48 AM CST

This photo released by Dr. David McDonald of Friendswood, Texas, shows a pine flycatcher bird he photographed on Jan. 4, 2009 in Choke Canyon State Park, Texas. (AP Photo/David McDonald)AP - Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from its high-mountain habitat to the south.

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