2009年1月21日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Obama takes power, urges unity vs. 'raging storms' (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 12:46 AM CST

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance together at the Obama Home States Inaugural Ball in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Before a jubilant crowd of more than a million, Barack Hussein Obama claimed his place in history as America's first black president, summoning a dispirited nation to unite in hope against the "gathering clouds and raging storms" of war and economic woe.

Bush tells cheering Texans 'it is good to be home' (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 12:47 AM CST

Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush greet the crowd before a 'Welcome Home' rally, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in Midland, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - Waving cardboard red, white and blue "W"s, thousands welcomed George W. Bush and his wife on Tuesday to their post-presidential home in Texas.

Boats scour icy Hudson River for US Airways engine (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 01:09 AM CST

A man hands items out of US Airways Flight 1549 as other inspectors examine items from inside the plane as it sits on a barge at Weeks Marina Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in Jersey City, N.J. The jet was moved Sunday night from the southern tip of Manhattan where it was lifted out of the icy Hudson River. The Airbus A320 crash landed in the Hudson last Thursday after hitting birds and losing thrust in both engines. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Authorities using sonar in the search for the missing engine from US Airways Flight 1549 detected something about the size of the massive aircraft part deep in the frigid, murky Hudson River on Tuesday, but divers ran out of daylight before they could locate the object.

Grand jury: Ind. man deliberately crashed plane (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 01:10 AM CST

An August 31, 2008 photo obtained by The Associated Press shows investment manager Marcus Schrenker, 38, and his wife Michelle Schrenker. The photo was part of an advertisement for an Indianapolis Lexus dealer, Tom Wood Lexus, in Indianapolis. Schrenker, whose ill-fated flight from ruin was halted when investigators interrupted his suicide attempt at a Florida campground Tuesday night, found his legal problems compounded as authorities filed federal charges against him Wednesday. He was recovering Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 in a heavily guarded Florida hospital room after the apparent suicide attempt. He was in fair condition, and was expected to appear in court in Florida before returning to his home state of Indiana, where he faced the prospect of bankruptcy, divorce and other problems.(AP Photo)AP - A federal grand jury indicted an Indiana investment adviser Tuesday on charges of deliberately crashing his small airplane in the Florida Panhandle to try to fake his own death as part of a plan to escape financial ruin.

Mich. police: Boy, 8, spent 10 days with dead mom (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 01:11 AM CST

Buildings in an apartment complex where an 8-year-old boy who survived Hurricane Katrina spent more than a week with the body of his dead mother is shown in Romulus, Mich., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - An 8-year-old boy lived for more than a week with the body of his dead mother before telling a concerned shopkeeper his mom was "in a better place," police said. Gaynell Tipado, 41, apparently died Jan. 9 in their apartment in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, and the boy survived in part by eating dried rice, butter and flour, authorities said.

Authorities think money manager planned to vanish (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 07:45 PM CST

AP - A missing hedge fund manager who owed investors a $50 million payout told his wife in a note he felt guilty about mismanaging people's money, and threatened to kill himself, according to a sheriff's report released Tuesday.

Police: Bomb threat on NJ turnpike not credible (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 09:43 PM CST

AP - A bomb scare shut down a 30-mile stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike on Tuesday night, snarling traffic for hours before state police determined the threat was not credible.

CDC: Salmonella outbreak numbers increase slightly (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 07:51 PM CST

AP - Health officials say the number of people sickened in a national salmonella outbreak involving peanut butter has grown to 485 cases.

Poet offers `praise song' for Inauguration Day (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 06:57 PM CST

People listen and watch the AP - Following the world's most awaited oration — President Obama's inaugural speech — poet Elizabeth Alexander echoed the new leader's tribute to daily labor, his call for responsibility and his reminder of the sacrifices that made his election possible.

For older blacks, inauguration a dream fulfilled (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 04:40 PM CST

Ann Nixon Cooper, 107, left, watches the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama on her television with friend James Davis Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - As she watched Barack Obama descend the steps of the U.S. Capitol to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, 107-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper leaned forward in her seat, grinned and let out a contented sigh.

Inauguration security tight; cold taking a toll (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 01:18 PM CST

President Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner talks with people in the crowd as he waits for the start of the 'We Are One' Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, January 18, 2009. (Jason Reed/Reuters)AP - Authorities monitored a rush of intelligence leads Tuesday at the largest security operation in presidential inauguration history, including a possible threat from an East Africa radical Islamic terrorist group.

Oregon mayor admits past relationship with teen (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 09:35 PM CST

AP - The mayor of Portland apologized Tuesday for lying about a sexual relationship with a male teenager he was mentoring three years ago, but asked the city to consider it an anomaly in two decades of public service.

Mail-hoarding carriers uncommon but embarrassing (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 07:23 PM CST

In this undated photo released by the U.S. Postal Service, undelivered third-class mail is shown at the home of Steven Padgett, 59, a postal carrier who delivered in the Apex, N.C., area. Authorities used four trucks to remove mail that had been stashed in his garage for six years. Across the nation in recent months, several mail carriers have been accused of failing to carry out their appointed rounds, in some cases for years, hoarding mail by the ton. (AP Photo/U.S. Postal Service)AP - Some of those who are supposed to endure snow, rain and gloom of night to deliver the mail have resorted to hiding tons of it in garages, a self-storage unit and the dark of their basements.

Blagojevich gives Senate no answer on charges (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 06:52 PM CST

** FILE *8 Illinois Sen. John Cullerton, D-Chicago, is sworn in on the Senate floor during swearing in ceremonies at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. While the Illinois Senate zeros in on Gov. Rod Blagojevich in a historic impeachment trial, other vital state issues will be shoved aside. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday missed his second deadline for filing formal answers to an impeachment charge, with a Senate trial over his ouster now less than a week away.

Franken says Minn. law lets him join US Senate now (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 06:34 PM CST

A US Senate seat was thrown into limbo Tuesday when a Republican incumbent from the state of Minnesota filed a legal challenge to a recount which handed the seat to Democrat Al Franken, pictured in 2008, with a margin of 225 votes.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Cory Ryan)AP - A single sentence in Minnesota law allows Democrat Al Franken to at least temporarily join the U.S. Senate while Republican Norm Coleman's election lawsuit is pending, Franken's lawyers said Tuesday.

Temporary walls turn NYC apartments into firetraps (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 05:25 PM CST

In this Jan. 23, 2005 file photo, debris in the snow below marks the spot where two firefighters were killed and four injured when they jumped from the building at left in an early morning blaze in the Bronx borough of New York. The firefighters were trapped in a burning maze of illegal partitions built to section off rooms for strangers. The former owner of the building, the current owner and two tenants face manslaughter and lesser charges at a trial that began Jan. 5, 2009, for allowing the construction. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)AP - The firefighters were trapped in what amounted to a burning maze: a Bronx apartment illegally divided into extra rooms for the sake of making a buck in this cramped city.

Criticized Texas university president retiring (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 04:20 PM CST

AP - The president of University of Texas-Pan American, accused anonymously of plagiarism, said Tuesday she is retiring because of "pressures" that taxed her health and distracted her from her job.

NC man gets $35,000 for Bush library domain name (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 01:28 PM CST

AP - Web developer George Huger says he turned $5 into $35,000 when he bought the expired Internet domain name for former President George W. Bush's presidential library and then sold it back.

Racine, Wis., mayor resigns after sex-sting arrest (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 01:11 PM CST

AP - The mayor of Racine, Wis., resigned on Tuesday, days after being accused of trying to arrange a sexual encounter with someone he thought was an underage girl.

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