2009年1月23日星期五

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Aide: Kirsten Gillibrand picked as next NY senator (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:17 AM CST

In this Nov. 7, 2006 file photo, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand thanks supporters in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.  after beating incumbent U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y. Gillibrand emerged as a leading contender Thursday night Jan. 22, 2009, as New York Gov. David Paterson closed in on a decision to fill the state's vacant Senate seat, according to party officials monitoring events in the wake of Caroline Kennedy's abrupt withdrawal from consideration. An aide to the governor tells The Associated Press that the 42-year-old Gillibrand will be named by Gov. David Paterson on Friday Jan. 23, 2009.   (AP Photo/Tim Roske, File)AP - Democratic congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand is the New York governor's pick to fill Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's vacate Senate seat.


'English First' proposal defeated in Nashville (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:39 AM CST

A yard sign encouraging people to vote against an amendment that would require all city work to be done in English is shown Jan. 15, 2009, in Nashville, Tenn. Nashville voters will decide Thursday, Jan. 22. (AP Photo/Juanita Cousins)AP - Nashville voters rejected a proposal to make English the mandatory language for all government business, easing fears that the measure could damage the city's reputation and cost agencies millions in federal funding.


Rally marks Roe v. Wade anniversary, new president (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 01:04 AM CST

Abortion opponents pray at a rally on the National Mall in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22,2009, before marching to the Supreme Court to mark the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade, March for Life. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Tens of thousands of abortion opponents rallied Thursday on the National Mall to mark the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade amid concerns they could face political setbacks under the new president.


Ill. governor's lawyer: I might sue to stop trial (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 01:03 AM CST

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich leaves his home in Chicago, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. Blagojevich says the state Senate impeachment trial is unfair and denies him the right to due process. The governor is accused of trying to sell President Barack Obama's Senate seat (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Facing almost certain defeat in a Senate impeachment trial, Gov. Rod Blagojevich might ask the courts to step in and block a proceeding that he considers "a sham," a lawyer for the Democratic governor said Thursday.


Kennedy's withdrawal creates a political mystery (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 10:42 PM CST

In this Dec. 17, 2008 file photo, Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, listens to a reporter's question during a news conference at City Hall in Buffalo, N.Y.  In a statement released early Thursday, Jan. 22 Kennedy says she told Gov. David Paterson that she is abandoning her attempt to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton for personal reasons.   (AP Photo/Don Heupel, File)AP - Caroline Kennedy's mysteriously abrupt decision to abandon her Senate bid gave rise to an ugly swirl of accusations Thursday and feverish speculation over whether she jumped or was pushed.


Case against Ky. coach in player's death is rare (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:47 AM CST

Louisville Pleasure Ridge Park football coach David Jason Stinson is seen on the sidelines during the team's first game back after Max Gilpin's death in this Sept. 26, 2008 photo in Louisville, Ky. Pleasure Ridge sophomore Max Gilpin collapsed on Aug. 20, 2008 and died three days later at a hospital. Jefferson County Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel says a grand jury indicted Stinson on Thursday. (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Mike Hayman)AP - The case against a Kentucky high school football coach charged with reckless homicide in the death of a player who collapsed during a broiling summer practice — the teen's temperature reaching 107 degrees — is a rare one.


Police: VaTech grad student knew suspected killer (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 12:49 AM CST

Police and officials gather outside the lobby of the Donaldson Brown Graduate Life Center at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Wednesday night Jan. 21 2009. A female student was stabbed to death  on Virginia Tech's campus, the first killing at the school since a deadly mass shooting there in 2007.  (AP Photo / The Roanoke Times, Matt Gentry)AP - Alone and in a new country, graduate student Xin Yang reached out to other Chinese students at Virginia Tech when she arrived two weeks ago, trying to establish her life on campus.


Trial begins for man accused in deadly Calif. fire (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 10:06 PM CST

Defendant Raymond Oyler looks back during opening statements of his trial Thursday, Jan 22, 2009, in Riverside, Calif. Oyler, 38, has pleaded not guilty to 45 counts including murder and arson. He could face the death penalty if convicted. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A prosecutor said Thursday that an auto mechanic was "a man bent on destruction" who ignited a wildfire that killed five U.S. Forest Service firefighters in 2006.


2 convicted killers executed in Texas, Oklahoma (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 08:16 PM CST

Texas death row inmate Reginald Perkins poses in the interview cage at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Livingston, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Perkins was scheduled for lethal injection at the Texas prison in Huntsville Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 for the Dec. 2000 strangulation death of his 64-year-old stepmother in Fort Worth, Texas, whose body was found stuffed in the trunk of her Cadillac in a parking garage. (AP Photo/Mike Graczyk)AP - Two condemned killers were put to death Thursday evening in Oklahoma and Texas, becoming the nation's third and fourth executions of the year.


Sex scandal divides Portland and its gay community (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 12:00 AM CST

AP - A confession by Portland's first openly gay mayor that he lied about having sex with a teenager is dividing this famously progressive city, as well as its gay community.

Gillibrand emerges as contender for NY Senate seat (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 11:55 PM CST

In this Oct. 26, 2006 file photo, former President Bill Clinton holds up the hand of Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic lawyer who is running against three-term Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., at a rally in Albany, N.Y. Gillibrand emerged as a leading contender Thursday night Jan. 22, 2009, as New York Gov. David Paterson closed in on a decision to fill the state's vacant Senate seat, according to party officials monitoring events in the wake of Caroline Kennedy's abrupt withdrawal from consideration.  (AP Photo/Jim McKnight, File)AP - Democratic Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand emerged as a leading contender Thursday night as New York Gov. David Paterson closed in on a decision to fill the state's vacant Senate seat, according to party officials monitoring events in the wake of Caroline Kennedy's abrupt withdrawal from consideration.


Killer who escaped from Md. prison captured (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 06:28 PM CST

AP - Maryland authorities have recaptured a convicted killer who escaped five days ago from a state prison.

Van left in reverse kills 2 kids walking in NYC (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 06:15 PM CST

Emergency service personnel work at the scene of an accident on East Broadway in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in New York. Authorities say a van struck at least five children on a sidewalk in New York City's Chinatown neighborhood, killing two of them. Police say they were among a group of 14 children standing or walking in front of a bank shortly before noon Thursday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - An unoccupied delivery van mistakenly left in reverse jumped a curb and barreled into a group of children returning to their day care center after a trip to the library Thursday, killing two of them and seriously injuring a third, police said.


Md. teen plans guilty plea in mom's beating death (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 05:09 PM CST

AP - A Maryland teenager plans to plead guilty to bludgeoning his mother to death after an argument over his grades at a prestigious private school, attorneys for both sides said Thursday.

Pa. pet groomer charged with piercing kittens (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 07:17 PM CST

AP - A woman who marketed "gothic kittens" with ear, neck and tail piercings over the Internet has been charged with animal cruelty and conspiracy.

Lawyer: 'Clark Rockefeller' weighing guilty plea (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:49 PM CST

AP - Prosecutors would recommend a prison term of four-and-a-half to five years if the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller agrees to plead guilty to kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter, they said Thursday.

Bad economy means struggle on both sides of border (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:49 PM CST

Ivan Rodriguez, 6, attends a school function as his grandmother Magdalena Rodriguez sits in the background in Iguala, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Now that Rodriguez's daughter, Marilu Vargas, lost her job in the United States, the family is forced to live on less in Mexico.  (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Marilu Vargas digs through bargain meats at a Mexican grocery store, trying to slash the budget for her family of seven while considering how much she can spare for relatives back home in Mexico.


Mo. neo-Nazis join `Adopt-A-Highway' trash cleanup (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:19 PM CST

Traffic passes by an Adopt-A-Highway sign along U.S. Highway 160 in Springfield, Mo., Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. A neo-Nazi group,the Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement,ecently volunteered to clean up trash along a half-mile stretch of roadway on Springfield's west side. Members of the highway cleanup program are required to clean up trash at least four times a year.  (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)AP - A neo-Nazi group has joined the state's "Adopt-A-Highway" volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan.


NC helicopter crash kills pilot; 1 survivor (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 01:51 PM CST

Texas National Guard Chief Warrant Officer Don McDonald looks over the wreckage of an Army UH-60 helicopter Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009 in College Station, Texas. The Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into a field on the campus of Texas A&M University during a field training exercise Monday, killing one person and injuring four others aboard. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - A pilot was killed but his lone passenger survived when their helicopter crashed Thursday in a southern North Carolina field, rattling nearby homes and sending a ball of smoke into the air, officials and witnesses said.


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