2009年1月31日星期六

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Bus crashes in Arizona, killing 7 Chinese tourists (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 01:08 AM CST

Officials investigate the scene of a tour bus crash U.S. Highway 93 near Dolan Springs, Ariz. Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a tour bus overturned on a highway near the Hoover Dam, killing at least six passengers and injuring at least 16. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - A tour bus carrying Chinese nationals overturned on a highway near the Hoover Dam on Friday, killing seven people and injuring at least 10 others, authorities said.

New Ill. Gov. works to show he's anti-Blagojevich (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 02:13 AM CST

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks to reporters outside the Governor's office at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Quinn was sworn as governor after the Illinois Senate vote 59-0 to remove the impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - New Gov. Pat Quinn is wasting no time working to prove he's nothing like his predecessor — impeached and ousted Rod Blagojevich.

Make that 14: Octuplet mom already had 6 kids (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 12:08 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 - How in the world does a woman with six children get a fertility doctor to help her have more — eight more?

AP source: McNamee's syringes at UCLA lab for test (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 11:42 PM CST

In this Feb. 28, 2008, file photo, Roger Clemens, left, talks with catcher Max Sapp, right, during a workout with minor leaguers at the Houston Astros spring training facility in Kissimmee, Fla. The country's leading doping lab is testing syringes and vials Roger Clemens' former personal trainer gave federal investigators to determine whether the items contain traces of performance-enhancing drugs. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)AP - The country's leading doping lab is testing syringes and vials Roger Clemens' former personal trainer gave federal investigators to determine whether the items contain traces of performance-enhancing drugs, a person close to the case told The Associated Press.

6 die in W.Va. plane crash; pilot radioed low fuel (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 02:13 AM CST

AP - Officials say six people have been killed after a plane that was apparently low on fuel crashed near a West Virginia airport.

Ex-priest gets 3 years in prison for molesting boy (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 09:51 PM CST

Former Roman Catholic priest George Miller, left, and his attorney Steve Cron listen during a sentencing hearing Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, in Los Angeles County Superior Court in San Fernando, Calif. Miller, 70, was sentenced to three years in prison for molesting a 12-year-old boy while he was assigned to Guardian Angel Church in Pacoima area of Los Angeles in the late 1980s. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - In a courtroom where victims denounced him and still-devoted parishioners embraced him, a former Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for molesting a boy in the late 1980s.

Child advocates question Texas' Amber Alert policy (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 12:17 AM CST

AP - Advocates for missing children want Texas' Department of Public Safety to reconsider its policy for issuing Amber Alerts after the agency refused to send one out for a missing 11-year-old girl believed to have run off with a convicted felon.

Lawyer: Transit cop may have pulled wrong gun (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 01:01 AM CST

Police arrest a demonstrator in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, during a protest in support of Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year-old killed by BART transit police. About 100 demonstrators took to the streets in reaction to a $3 million dollar bond set for Officer Johannes Mehserle who is charged in the New Year's Day killing. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - The transit officer who shot and killed an unarmed man may have mistakenly pulled his service pistol instead of a stun gun, his lawyer said Friday.

Attorney: NJ teen abandoned in woods losing trust (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 07:59 PM CST

Amber Crespo, 20, is seen in an undated handout photo released Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009 by the North Bergen, N.J. Police Dept. Crespo, 20, Maria Contreras-Luciano, 22, and Dyanne Velasquez, 21, 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 woman who says she was deceived and abandoned by her angry friends in the woods of northern New Jersey on a frigid night bears scars both physical and emotional from her ordeal, her lawyer said Friday.

Life after ice storm dire, getting worse in spots (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 07:59 PM CST

AP - In some parts of rural Kentucky, they're getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There's not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow.

No bond for Fla. money manager accused of fraud (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 07:32 PM CST

This photo, supplied by Florida's Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, shows money manager Arthur Nadel, who owed investors $50 million, but disappeared on Jan. 14, leaving behind one note threatening suicide and another note apparently with instructions for his wife to 'withdraw as much cash as you can,' according to court documents. On Tuesday Jan. 27, 2009, Nadel ended his two weeks on the lam by surrendering in Tampa, Fla., to face federal securities and wire fraud charges.(AP Photo/ Sarasota County Sheriff's Office)AP - Despite drawing repeated comparisons to the house arrest of Bernard Madoff, attorneys for a Florida hedge fund manager accused of losing millions of dollars in client investments were unable to persuade a judge Friday to offer him similar confinement as he awaits trial on federal securities and wire fraud.

Cop suspected in wife's vanishing loses new love (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 07:31 PM CST

Former Bollingbrook, Ill., police officer Drew Peterson waits to be interviewed on NBC's 'Today' show in New York, in this Feb. 28, 2008 file photo. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - A woman who became engaged to a former suburban Chicago police sergeant suspected in his wife's 2007 disappearance moved out of his home Friday, hours after he spoke about his current and past relationships on a national television show.

Change in distress beacons could strand boaters (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 03:34 PM CST

Chris Edmonston, director of boating safety for BoatU.S., holds an electronic emergency beacon in Annapolis, Md. on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Boaters could end up stranded, or worse, starting this weekend if they haven't upgraded their emergency distress beacons.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Like callers dialing 911 and getting no answer, boaters could end up stranded — or worse — if they haven't upgraded their emergency distress beacons by this weekend. But the improved technology will speed rescues and spare agencies from many false alarms.

Ill. removes Blagojevich stain, but more to do (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:19 PM CST

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks to reporters outside the governor's office at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Quinn was sworn as governor after the Illinois Senate vote 59-0 to remove the impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Quinn is holding up the executive order to officially establish the Illinois Reform Commission. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - Illinois lawmakers spent seven weeks using impeachment to scrub away the ethics stain of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. But his successor says that doesn't mean the notoriously corrupt state has been cleaned up.

Lake Champlain ferry crashes near Vt. dock; 3 hurt (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 11:08 PM CST

AP - A Lake Champlain ferry crashed into the pilings near its dock on the Vermont shore Friday, injuring at least three people.

Dino-right! Fix is in for misnamed Texas dinosaur (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:57 PM CST

This illustration released by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History shows what the Pleuroceolus dinosaur would have looked like. While a student at SMU in Dallas, Peter Rose wrote a paper that showed that the bones identified as the giant dinosaur pleurocoelus, the Texas state dinosaur, were misidentified and were in fact a new dinosaur he named paluxysaurus. Now a Fort Worth lawmaker has filed a resolution in the Texas Legislature that seeks to send Pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi. (AP Photo/Fort Worth Museum of Science and History)AP - Pleurocoelus has served ably as the official dinosaur of Texas. Sure, it was a plant-noshing herbivore in a fiercely barbecue-proud state, but the sauropod dwarfed most other dinos and lumbered with a 20-ton swagger.

Embattled Fla. House speaker steps down for now (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:07 PM CST

House Speaker Ray Sansom, R-Destin, center, talks with reporters following his speech at the Associated Press annual legislative meeting, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in Tallahassee, Fla.(AP Photo/Phil Coale)AP - The speaker of Florida's House of Representatives said Friday he is stepping down temporarily to deal with a probe into his hiring by a state college for which he obtained millions of dollars in funding.

Wis. man freed 23 years after wrongful conviction (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:41 PM CST

Robert Lee Stinson (facing camera) hugs a family friend as his sister Charlene Stinson, right, wipes her tears Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, in New Lisbon, Wis. Stinson, 44, walked out of the New Lisbon Correctional Institution in street clothes and hugged his sister and members of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. A judge vacated the sentence after the Project argued that bite-mark analysis and DNA evidence that didn't match evidence from the crime scene, defense attorney Byron Lichstein said.(AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - A man sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman in 1984 had his conviction overturned and was released Friday on a personal recognizance bond after spending 23 years behind bars.

Death row inmate aids in search for his SC victim (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 10:05 AM CST

Monica Caison from the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons and FBI special agent Jeff Brunning emerge from the brush near Longs, S.C. on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, after attempting to recover more remains of a body. Authorities say they are examining bones found by the search group though information given by an inmate on death row for killing Alice Donovan, who hasn't been seen since she was kidnapped from a Conway parking lot in 2002. (AP Photo/Willis Glassgow)AP - Monica Caison figured it was worth a shot, so she fired off a letter, a single paragraph, to the man on death row for kidnapping and killing Alice Donovan during a two-week, 2,300-mile crime spree.

Fla. mom's lawyers can view wooded crime scene (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:26 PM CST

Casey Anthony, 22, smiles Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, as she attends a court hearing at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla. Attorney Jose Baez said he will file a motion to move Casey Anthony's trial to another city. Prosecutors said it could be later this year before the case is ready. Anthony is charged with first-degree murder of her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony whose remains were found in December 2008. (AP Photo/Red Huber,pool)AP - A judge on Friday denied a motion from Casey Anthony's defense attorneys to remove prosecutors from her murder trial but ruled that the defense team can inspect woods where the remains of her slain toddler were found. Casey Anthony is charged with killing her daughter, Caylee, who was 2 when she disappeared last summer.

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