2009年1月25日星期日

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Ky. coach indicted in player's death talks of loss (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 01:49 AM CST

In this photo provided by the Gilpin family, Max Gilpin is shown during his 15th birthday party, in July, 2008, in Louisville, Ky. High school footall coach David Jason Stinson has been charged with reckless homicide in Gilpin's death after Gilpin collapsed during practice on Aug. 20, 2008, and died three days later from what the coroner's office said appeared to be complications from heat stroke. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Courier-Journal)AP - A Kentucky high school football coach charged in the death of a player who collapsed at practice says he is heartbroken and that part of his life has been taken away.

Reports: 2 shot dead, 7 hurt at Wichita wake (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 01:53 AM CST

AP - Police say two people were killed and seven injured in a shooting at a wake in southeastern Wichita.

Hudson River pilot: We were just doing our jobs (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 10:56 PM CST

Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, the pilot who landed his US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River with all onboard escaping safely, attends a celebration in his honor on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, in Danville, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - Thousands of people holding signs and waving American flags cheered wildly Saturday to honor the pilot who safely landed a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River. He told them he and his crew were only doing their jobs.

College financial aid system facing stiff test (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 12:49 AM CST

Katie Kliphuis, a senior at Walt Whitman High School, poses for a portrait Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 at the school in Huntington Station, N.Y. The quest for money that begins for students and parents every January has taken on new urgency in 2009 amid fears that loans and grants will be scarcer than in the past due to the recession. (AP Photo/John Dunn)AP - Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam. The quest for money that begins for students and parents every January has taken on new urgency in 2009 amid fears that loans and grants will be scarcer than in the past due to the recession.

AP IMPACT: Freedom looms for terrorist (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 10:48 PM CST

This photo made available by the FBI in 1973 shows a man identified as Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary, a suspected member of the Black September terrorists. Al-Jawary is in federal custody, convicted of building a trio of powerful bombs that were part of a 1973 plot to destroy Israeli targets in New York. Al-Jawary's bombs never detonated and he wasn't brought to justice until two decades later after fleeing the country. On Feb. 19, Al-Jawary, 63, will be released. (AP Photo/File)AP - In 1973, a young terrorist named Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary entered the United States and quickly began plotting an audacious attack in New York City.

Car dealers try to survive as economy, sales drop (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 12:47 AM CST

In this Dec. 26, 2008 file photo, visitors look at the latest models of Toyota Motor Corp vehicles at its gallery in Tokyo. General Motors sold fewer cars globally than Toyota last year, as the Japanese automaker passed the Detroit company for the first time. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)AP - At this year's version of the National Automobile Dealers Association convention, survival has passed maximizing profits as the focus of the annual event.

US Senate pick starts get-to-know-you tour in NYC (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 10:54 PM CST

Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference in Albany, N.Y., Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Gillibrand, a second-term lawmaker from upstate New York, was named to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated when Hillary Rodham Clinton resigned to become secretary of state in the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Senator-designate Kirsten Gillibrand started her statewide "listening tour" Saturday in the urban heart of Harlem — far from the upstate farmlands she represented as a congresswoman.

Schumer the unseen hand in NY Senate choice (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 11:10 PM CST

Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., right, gets a hug from Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., during a news conference in Albany, N.Y., Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Gillibrand, a second-term lawmaker from upstate New York, was named to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated when Hillary Rodham Clinton resigned to become secretary of state in the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Democratic insiders say the selection of Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill New York's vacant U.S. Senate seat showed the pivotal influence of senior Sen. Charles Schumer.

Dry, windy conditions in Texas keep fires burning (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 10:02 PM CST

Craig Smith tries to save his home during a wildfire that destroyed a number of homes, Nov. 15, 2008, in the Sylmar area of northern Los Angeles. When faced with a raging wildfire racing toward your home, is it best to flee or stay and try to protect your house? For most people, the answer is obvious, but in Southern California where there are many stubborn homeowners unwilling to leave or have grown indifferent to the year-round threat of flames, fire officials are reconsidering a policy that would allow some people to stay and defend their homes, according to a report Wednesday Jan. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)AP - High wind and dry weather Saturday allowed wildfires to continue burning across Texas, where fires have destroyed six houses, killed a man and blackened about 6,200 acres of grassland.

Waco cult leader's mother killed, aunt charged (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 08:24 PM CST

In this Saturday April, 19, 2003 file photo, Bonnie Haldeman, mother of the late religious group leader, David Koresh, chats with members of the media following a 10-year-anniversary memorial service in the chapel where the groups compound once stood, Waco, Texas. The mother of infamous Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death, and Koresh's aunt was in custody on a murder charge Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - The mother of infamous Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death, and Koresh's aunt was in custody on a murder charge Saturday.

Illness complicates Iowa murder case (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 09:27 PM CST

In this undated photo released by the Scott County, Iowa, Jail, on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, Debi Olson is shown in a booking photograph. Olson is adamant that she stalked her ex-husband across the country, then stabbed him to death in a Davenport mall last summer. She wants to plead guilty and go to prison, saying her only regret is that she can't be extradited to her home state of Florida, where she could face the death penalty. (AP Photo/Scott County, Iowa, Jail)AP - Debi Joy Olson freely admits that she stalked her ex-husband across the country, then stabbed him to death last summer at a mall in Davenport.

Parents sentenced in fire deaths of 2 children (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 09:03 PM CST

AP - A husband and wife were sentenced to prison for the deaths of two of their children in a house fire, which was sparked by a candle after money relatives loaned them to restore utilities was used to buy drugs.

Seattle shows little love for Lucy fossil exhibit (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 08:29 PM CST

In this 1983 file photo, the fossil skeleton known as Lucy is seen on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Cleveland, Ohio. Lucy is a 3.2 million-year-old fossilized partial skeleton of a species with chimplike features that walked upright. The discovery in 1974 in Ethiopia forced a major revision of theories about the evolution of Homo sapiens. (AP Photo/file)AP - Who loves Lucy? Far fewer people than a Seattle science center hoped when officials paid millions to show the fossil remains of one of the earliest known human ancestors.

For bruised Caroline Kennedy, what's next? (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 01:29 PM CST

Caroline Kennedy, seen here in 2008, Late Wednesday Kennedy announced her last-minute withdrawal from consideration for the US Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, the newly confirmed US secretary of state.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - Following a brief, torturous foray into the public spotlight, Caroline Kennedy has retreated back into privacy. And if there's one thing on which political spectators agree, it's that she is unlikely to rush to repeat the experience.

Sign of the ties: '21' Club changes dress code (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 08:33 PM CST

AP - It's the 21 Club for the 21st Century.

Litigant rapper gets poetic justice in Wis. court (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:58 PM CST

AP - Justice might be blind, but apparently it likes good rhythm.

Alaska shaken by 6.1 quake, no damage reported (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 01:55 PM CST

AP - A moderate earthquake has rattled Alaska's Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage but there have been no reports of damage.

Woman's best friend: Plumber finds ring in toilet (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 07:30 PM CST

This undated photo provided Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009 by Mike Roberts shows a 7-carat diamond ring that Roberts rescued after it fell in a toilet at the the Black Bear Diner in Phoenix, Ariz. It took eight hours and bills totaling more than $6,000, but the Arizona plumber became a hero to a California couple after retrieving the $70,000 diamond ring. (AP Photo/Mike Roberts)AP - Just a case of plumb luck.

Wis. school's epic snowball fight flakes out (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 05:56 PM CST

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison participate in snowball fight on Bascom Hill Saturday Jan. 24, 2009, in Madison, Wis. When a whistle blows Saturday afternoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison students will begin pelting each other with snowballs in a fight they hope will go down in history. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - When a whistle blew Saturday afternoon, two teams of University of Wisconsin-Madison students pelted each other with snowballs, but the 45-minute battle won't be going down in history.

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