2009年1月30日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich thrown out of office (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:27 AM CST

Impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at his home, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office Thursday without a single lawmaker coming to his defense, brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline.

New Illinois governor is grass-roots crusader (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:35 PM CST

Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn responds to a question during a news conference in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was schooled in the politics of the Chicago Machine, but his successor's career has been built on grass-roots organizing to cut government and protect the little guy.

People of Illinois happy to see Blagojevich go (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:41 PM CST

Jose Garcia sweeps the stairs on Daley Plaza as others watch a live broadcast in downtown Chicago, of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich delivering his closing argument at his impeachment trial in Springfield, Ill. Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - People across Illinois who watched former Gov. Rod Blagojevich get the boot Thursday said they hoped removal of the scandal-plagued governor helps the state begin rebuilding its image after weeks of ridicule.

Family: Octuplets' mother has 6 other children (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:30 AM CST

The home of the Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week is seen in Whittier, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. Seven of the babies are now breathing unassisted while Baby G, a boy, is the only baby receiving assisted oxygen through a tube in their nose. The family of the woman who gave birth to octuplets this week in Southern California says she has six other young children at home. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week has six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said.

Many without food, water rush to shelters' warmth (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:39 AM CST

AP - Residents displaced by a winter storm rested in every corner of a university theater, about 100 of them sprawled in aisles, propped in chairs, curled up on the stage. Some watched a movie while others settled in — but all could sleep soundly with the heat blasting, the assurance of food and water nearby.

Web site sows support for White House farmer (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:11 AM CST

In this Sept. 7, 2007 file photo, former pro basketball player Will Allen looks at some lettuce at the former garden center that he transformed into an urban vegetable farm, in Milwaukee. He is one of 100 farmers from 33 states and Washington, D.C., had been nominated by Thursday afternoon, Jan. 29, 2009, on a Web site allowing people to nominate and vote for their favorite growers. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - An Illinois family is sowing support for a White House farmer with a Web site allowing people to nominate and vote for their favorite growers.

Mo. girl: I was tired of my dad abusing my sister (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:22 PM CST

A sign hangs outside the home near Harrisonville, Mo., Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. On Jan. 1, new owners of the property found the bodies of two infants in coolers. A 47-year-old man is charged with one count each of second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child and statutory rape, and two counts each of incest and abandoning a corpse. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - The sister of a girl who was allegedly molested and impregnated four times by their father says she waited until she turned 18 to come forward because she was afraid of being placed in state custody.

Judge: Anti-gay marriage donors must be public (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:39 PM CST

In this Nov. 5, 2008 file photo Joni Boettcher, left, kisses her roommate Tika Shenghur during a 'No on Prop 8'' protest rally in West Hollywood , Calif. Gay rights activists are weighing the wisdom of rushing a repeal of Proposition 8 to the 2010 ballot if California's highest court upholds the state's same-sex marriage ban. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)AP - A federal judge denied a request Thursday to keep secret the names of donors to California's anti-gay marriage initiative, saying the public had a right to know who gave money to state ballot measures.

Prosecutor in LA church abuse tries fraud tactic (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:27 PM CST

In this Sept. 22, 2007 file photo, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony speaks during an annual multi-ethnic migration Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. Two newspapers reported Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009, that Mahony is among those being investigated by a federal grand jury to determine if he failed to keep children safe from predatory priests. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon,File)AP - A federal prosecutor with a penchant for applying the law creatively is taking on the nation's largest Roman Catholic Archdiocese in a child molestation case that could break ground for prosecuting high-ranking church officials.

Newly homeless plead: 'We're not throwaway people' (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:56 PM CST

A woman huddles on a street corner in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. In the first major census of people living on the streets since the recession, thousands of volunteers across the country have fanned out in the thick of night this week to count the most desperate members of their communities, and they are finding many causalities of the job and foreclosure crises. Although a nationwide tally of those sleeping in alleys and tunnels, under bridges and highways and in cars and tents is months away, officials at every level of government say they expect the totals will be substantially higher than the last count two years ago. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - In the first major census of people living on the streets since the recession, thousands of volunteers across the country are fanning out in the thick of night this week to count the most desperate members of their communities.

NY madam gets 6 months in case linked to Spitzer (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 10:19 PM CST

AP - A college student who managed the prostitution ring that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison.

Texas executes inmate for killing fellow prisoner (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:35 PM CST

This photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Ricardo Ortiz who is scheduled for execution by lethal injection at the Texas prison in Huntsville, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. Ortiz, a career criminal, was convicted of killing his cellmate in El Paso, Texas, by injecting him with heroin in Aug. 1997. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)AP - A violent prison gang member was put to death Thursday for fatally injecting a fellow prisoner with an overdose of heroin more than 11 years ago.

Senate GOP leader says party must change (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:56 PM CST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, center, speaks at the Republican National Committee (RNC) meeting in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. Also on stage are both RNC Co-Chairmen Jo Ann Davidson, left, and Robert M. Duncan, right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - After crushing defeats in back-to-back elections, the top Senate Republican warned Thursday that the GOP risks remaining out of power in the White House and Congress unless it better explains its core principles to woo one-time faithful and new loyalists.

Ohioan gets 44 years in underwear molestation ploy (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:50 PM CST

AP - A suburban Cincinnati man convicted of sexually touching children while claiming to be a market researcher who wanted to measure their underwear has been sentenced to 44 years in prison.

Hemingway's Cuba letters now at JFK Library (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:38 PM CST

In this 1948 photo provided by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum shows writer Ernest Hemingway sit with his fourth wife Mary in Cuba. Thanks to an agreement between U.S. Rep James McGovern, D-Mass., and the Cuban government, copies of more than 3,000 documents from Hemingway's time in Cuba are at the John F. Kennedy Library. (AP Photo/John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, HO)AP - When Gaylord Johnson Jr. was struggling with a term paper at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he figured he'd ask for help from someone who knew the material best: Ernest Hemingway.

NJ police: Woman's ex-friends used cold as weapon (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:20 PM CST

Dyanne Velasquez, 21, is seen in an undated handout photo released Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009 by the North Bergen, N.J. Police Dept. Velasquez, Maria Contreras-Luciano, 22, and Amber Crespo, 20, face kidnapping, assault and conspiracy charges. They are accused of abandoning a former friend in the woods in 8-degree (-13 Celsius) weather even though she was wearing just a dress and one shoe. Police say the three were angry that the 19-year-old had sued the auto insurance carrier of one of women after a car accident. (AP Photo/via North Bergen Police Dept.)AP - A 19-year-old woman who thought she was going to a party was instead driven to a rural wooded area and abandoned in 8-degree weather in a long-planned attack by three friends angry with her over an insurance claim, police said Thursday.

15-year-old smashes car into Calif. home; 3 die (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:53 PM CST

San Bernardino County firefighters clean up debris from the rooftop of a home Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, where a car violently crashed through a cinderblock wall and flew onto the house before landing in the yard of the home in Fontana Calif. A 15-year-old driver and two younger boys were killed when they fled a Highway Patrol officer and crashed after a brief 90 mph chase. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A 15-year-old driver, his younger brother and a young neighborhood friend were killed when they fled at speeds up to 90 mph and then crashed into a house after a police car pulled them over.

Indifference to dead man symbol of Detroit's ills (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:46 PM CST

A dead body is seen frozen in a block of ice located in an elevator shaft in a former Detroit Public Schools warehouse building Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 in Detroit, Mich. The Detroit News newspaper says it took making three calls to Detroit authorities over two days before they recovered the body of the man. Authorities used saws to extricate the body Wednesday afternoon, the Detroit Free Press and WDIV-TV said. Investigators said they think the body was there for several months. The man's name and the cause of his death weren't immediately known. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Max Ortiz)AP - In an abandoned warehouse, the image was stark and shocking: two denim-clad, lifeless legs poking up through trash-choked ice.

Probe ordered into Chicago boy's cop impersonation (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:52 PM CST

AP - An angry Chicago Police superintendent vowed Thursday to find out how a 14-year-old boy allegedly impersonated a police officer and even went on patrol for several hours last weekend.

Food makers don't report in-house test results (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:00 PM CST

AP - A federal probe into a deadly salmonella outbreak has exposed a dirty secret: Food producers in most states are not required to alert health regulators if internal tests show possible contamination at their plants.

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