2009年2月17日星期二

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Burris tried to raise funds for Blagojevich (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 11:33 PM CST

Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.), leaves a press conference outside Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - U.S. Sen. Roland Burris now acknowledges attempting to raise money for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich — an explosive twist in his evolving story on how he landed a coveted Senate appointment from the man accused of trying to sell the seat.

Muslim TV exec accused of beheading wife in NY (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 01:06 AM CST

In this photo made available by Bridges TV, Muzzammil Hassan, and his wife Aasiya Hassan of Orchard Park, NY, near Buffalo, pose in an undated photo. Police say Hassan beheaded his wife after she filed for divorce. Hassan, CEO of Bridges TV in Orchard Park, NY, launched the network in 2004, to improve the image of Muslims in the media following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. (AP Photo/Bridges TV)AP - The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes.

Animal experts are baffled by chimp attack (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 11:36 PM CST

In this Oct. 20, 2003 photo, Travis, a 10-year-old chimpanzee, sits in the corner of his playroom at the home of Sandy and Jerome Herold in Stamford, Conn. The 175-pound (80-kilogram) chimpanzee kept as a pet was shot and killed by a police officer Monday, Feb. 16, 2009 after it attacked a woman visiting its owners' home, leaving her with serious facial injuries, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Stamford Advocate, Kathleen O'Rourke)AP - Travis the chimpanzee, a veteran of TV commercials, was the constant companion of a lonely Connecticut widow who fed him steak, lobster and ice cream. He could eat at the table, drink wine from a stemmed glass, use the toilet, and dress and bathe himself.

Crash probe focusing on weather, crew's training (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 04:58 PM CST

Team members from ZAKA International Search and Rescue from Israel wait to speak with law enforcement officials near the scene of the Continental Connection Flight 3407 crash in Clarence Center, N.Y., Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - The man at the controls of a turboprop plane that pitched like a kite before crashing into a house last week had spent only 110 hours flying that model, and investigators said Tuesday they would look into the quality and quantity of his training.

Hundreds of television stations cut analog signals (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:13 PM CST

Dorothy Delegard gets some instruction from home theater salesperson Todd Tibesar on how to set up her digital TV converter box Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 at the Best Buy store in Richfield, Minn. Even though Congress delayed the switch from analog TV to digital until June, many stations are switching over to digital on Tuesday. Tibesar said he thinks most people are ready for the switch. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)AP - About a quarter of the nation's TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not prepared for digital television despite two years of warnings about the transition.

Mixed verdict over migrants' run-in with rancher (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:17 PM CST

AP - A federal jury on Tuesday rejected several claims by a group of illegal immigrants who claimed a southern Arizona rancher detained them at gunpoint, but found the rancher liable for assault and infliction of emotional distress.

Calif. Legislature still 1 vote shy of budget fix (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:36 PM CST

As the discussion over the state budget raged, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, paces the floor at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. The Senate failed to act on the spending plan, hammered out by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders, and is expected to take it up for a vote on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California legislative leaders on Tuesday made what they hoped would be a last push for one more Republican to support their $42 billion budget fix, warning of fiscal disaster if none of the holdouts puts aside opposition to tax increases.

Homeowners' rallying cry: Produce the note (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 02:54 PM CST

First Kathy Lovelace, shown looking over mortgage documents at her home Thursday Jan. 12, 2009 in Zephyrhills, Fla., lost her job, then got caught in mortgage-limbo. She tried desperately to hang onto her house, but was getting nowhere with maddeningly uncooperative loan offers and collectors on the phone. Then last fall, she printed a document from a website and filed it with the court, simply asking that the lender produce the original mortgage note. And just like that, the mortgage proceedings stopped. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - Kathy Lovelace lost her job and was about to lose her house, too. But then she made a seemingly simple request of the bank: Show me the original mortgage paperwork.

Appeals court upholds NYC's calories-on-menus rule (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:52 PM CST

AP - A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the city's regulation requiring some chain restaurants to post calories on menus and menu boards, saying the rule is a reasonable effort to curb obesity.

Iraqi boy deafened in bomb attack hears again (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:39 PM CST

Mustafa Ghazwan, 3, of Baquba, Iraq plays with cochlear implant specialist Dr. Colleen Polite after she activated Mustafa's implant at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center in San Francisco on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. Mustafa was 2 years old and just learning to speak when a missile struck a neighbor's home and left him deaf in June 2007. (AP Photo/Kim Komenich, Pool)AP - A U.S. missile strike in Iraq took Mustafa Ghazwan's hearing nearly two years ago. On Tuesday, far from home, the 3-year-old's wall of silence finally cracked.

Doubts about stimulus drag stocks down sharply (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:34 PM CST

Geoffrey Friedman of Barclays Capital leans on his trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 in New York. . (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - Doubts that the government's stimulus and bank bailout programs can stop the global economic freefall dragged Wall Street to within a fraction of a point of its lowest close in 5 1/2 years Tuesday.

Georgia trying to revive peanut's good name (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 02:07 PM CST

A worker checks for peanut products among the donated items at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the city's clearinghouse for nearly 600 local food banks, in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2009. Food pantries are chucking thousands of pounds of food containing peanut products tainted from the salmonella outbreak — a particularly painful process as food banks struggle to meet a growing demand to feed families in a floundering economy. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Georgia lawmakers are trying to revive the peanut's good name.

Innovative Web site posted crash's radio traffic (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 12:31 PM CST

Workers remove debris at the scene of a plane crash site of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/David Duprey, pool)AP - The air traffic controller's words were pointed but steady as Flight 3407 burned on the ground near Buffalo.

Man who skied every day for 24 seasons dies at 85 (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 11:29 AM CST

AP - Paul Schipper, an avid skier who obsessively hit the slopes every day of the season for more than 24 years, has died. He was 85.

2nd soldier at Missouri base dies of meningitis (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 02:49 PM CST

AP - A second soldier stationed at the Army's Fort Leonard Wood has died of meningitis, officials said Tuesday. Leonard Wood officials said Pvt. Randy Stabnick, 28, of South Bend, Ind., died Tuesday at a hospital in Springfield. Another soldier from the base died Feb. 9. His name has not been released.

Kansas budget impasse ends (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:37 PM CST

AP - Kansas officials say a budget impasse that held up state income tax refunds and threatened to delay state employees' paychecks has come to an end.

Backward green comet making one-time only visit next week (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 02:23 PM CST

AP - An odd, greenish backward-flying comet is zipping by Earth this month, as it takes its only trip toward the sun from the farthest edges of the solar system. The comet is called Lulin, and there's a chance it can be seen with the naked eye — far from city lights, astronomers say. But you'll most likely need a telescope, or at least binoculars, to spot it.

Authorities: Teen kept in Fla. bathroom, beaten (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:03 AM CST

AP - For three years, neighbors in a quaint, middle-class community scarcely saw the lanky 16-year-old boy who lived with his adoptive mother and her boyfriend.

Jury recommends death in Kan. student's slaying (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:41 PM CST

AP - A jury on Tuesday recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of killing a 19-year-old college student two years ago.

Call for end to USDA's wildlife killing agency (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:49 AM CST

AP - Conservationists argue in a new report that U.S. taxpayers should stop subsidizing a $100 million program that kills more than 1 million wild animals annually, a program ranchers and farmers have defended for nearly a century as critical to protecting their livestock from predators.

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