2009年2月23日星期一

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Possible suspect in Levy death had troubled past (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 11:10 PM CST

This undated file photo released by the family shows Chandra Ann Levy, a 24-year-old graduate student from University of Southern California, who has been missing since April 30, 2001, after completing a federal internship. On Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, eight years after Levy's death, police said they planned to arrest Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique in the slaying may resolve the crime. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Modesto Bee)AP - Since Washington intern Chandra Levy disappeared in 2001, one name had been familiar: Gary Condit, the former congressman who was questioned by authorities in her disappearance.

DA: Blanket is evidence Pa. boy planned to kill (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 11:00 PM CST

In this undated photo released by the Houk family shows Kenzie Marie Houk with her daughters Jenessa, left, and Adalynn in Wampum, Pa.. Eleven-year-old Jordan Brown is charged in the shooting death of the 26-year-old pregnant mother of two. (AP Photo/Thhe Houk Family)AP - An 11-year-old boy apparently covered his shotgun with a blanket to keep it hidden when he left his bedroom, went downstairs and fatally shot his father's pregnant girlfriend in the head as she slept, a prosecutor said Monday.

Report urges boost for US family planning program (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 11:21 PM CST

AP - Publicly funded family planning prevents nearly 2 million unintended pregnancies and more than 800,000 abortions in the United States each year, saving billions of dollars, according to new research intended to counter conservative objections to expanding the program.

SC, Ala. governors OK some stimulus for unemployed (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 07:01 PM CST

In a Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, South Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Sanford gestures as he gives his State of the State address, at the State house in Columbia, S.C. Even as their states face crushing budget deficits and soaring unemployment, the Republican governors of Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi and Texas are considering turning down some of the stimulus package money. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - The governor of South Carolina, a vocal opponent of federal bailouts in a state beset by one of the nation's highest jobless rates, has decided to take stimulus money to increase weekly unemployment checks by $25, officials said Monday.

Battle over UBS secret accounts to take months (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 04:58 PM CST

A pigeon flies above a logo of the Swiss banking giant UBS in Lausanne. UBS has accused the United States government of ignoring Swiss sovereignty and forcing its employees to break the law, as lawyers seek to fend off an IRS fraud probe into the firm.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AP - A federal judge decided Monday it will take months to determine if and when the Internal Revenue Service will learn the identities of 52,000 wealthy Americans who have secret accounts at Swiss bank UBS AG.

NY archbishop preaches orthodoxy with light touch (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 05:37 PM CST

Archbishop Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee, who will replace Cardinal Edward Egan as archbishop of New York speaks to reporters during a news conference, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The next Roman Catholic archbishop of New York is known as a gentle enforcer of Vatican teaching — a faithful servant of Rome who can disarm his critics with his self-deprecating wit, human touch and love of a good cigar.

Ex-CEO of kosher slaughterhouse: Grand jury biased (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:25 PM CST

In this July 27, 2008 file photo, trucks sit parked outside the Agriprocessors kosher meat packing plant, in Postville, Iowa. The Iowa Labor Commissioner's Office announced Aug. 5, 2008, that it had uncovered dozens of alleged child labor violations at the plant. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Attorneys for a kosher slaughterhouse and a former executive charged after the plant was raided by immigration officials asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss the case or move the trial out of Iowa, claiming anti-Jewish bias in the grand jury and the state that one lawyer compared to Nazi-era Poland.

Chicago's top cop defies judges in abuse suit (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 09:00 PM CST

AP - Chicago's top police official is defying orders from two federal judges to turn over lists of officers who have repeated complaints filed against them by the public, saying it would unfairly inflict harm on some members of the force.

Judge: Top Obama officials should review Laos case (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 07:10 PM CST

AP - A federal judge on Monday urged top Obama administration officials to decide whether to continue to pursue the case against 11 Vietnam War veterans accused of trying to overthrow the communist government of Laos.

Testimony begins in Vegas toddler video sex case (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:26 PM CST

Chester Arthur Stiles appears in court during jury selection for his trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009. A community was horrified when authorities issued a public plea to help track down a man who videotaped himself molesting a 2-year-old girl. The same graphic video that helped end a frantic manhunt for Chester Arthur Stiles in 2007 and located his victim will be the key piece of evidence as Stiles goes on trial this week. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - The trial of a man charged in the videotaped sexual assault of a 2-year-old girl opened Monday with a prosecutor reading a letter in which the defendant told an ex-girlfriend, "I am a monster."

I had no choice, octuplets' mom tells own mother (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:25 PM CST

In this Jan. 29, 2009 file photo, the home of the Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week is seen in Whittier, Calif. Property records show this house where the California mother of octuplets lives is under the threat of foreclosure, according to a report Wednesday Feb. 18, 2009. Los Angeles County property records show a notice of mortgage default was recorded Feb. 9 against the Whittier home owned by Angela Suleman, the mother of Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets on Jan. 26. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - In a videotaped squabble with her mother posted Monday on a gossip Web site, the woman who gave birth to octuplets said she had no choice but to use the embryos she had because her only other option was to destroy them.

Appeals court asked for sex-offender law rehearing (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 04:34 PM CST

AP - The Department of Justice on Monday asked a full appeals court to rule that the federal government has the power to hold sex offenders in custody indefinitely beyond the end of their prison terms.

More buried bodies found in NM desert, total at 10 (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 06:19 PM CST

AP - Four more bodies have been uncovered from the mesa west of Albuquerque, including a fetus found inside its mother's skeleton, bringing the total remains found in the area to 10.

Fla. priest guilty in church embezzlement case (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 03:52 PM CST

Rev. Francis Guinan waits to be called in front of Judge Jeffrey Colbath who set a trial date of Feb. 18, 2009 in the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Jan.21, 20009. Guinan will go on trial for one charge of grand theft. Guinan and another former St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church pastor, John Skehan allegedly embezzled $8.6 million during their years at the Delray Beach parish. Both priests had pleaded not guilty to grand theft. But on Wednesday, Skehan, 81, changed his plea to guilty.(AP Photo/Gary Coronado,Pool)AP - A jury convicted a Florida priest on Monday of stealing from his church, but the panel found that he embezzled far less than the $488,000 prosecutors charged.

Federal judge pleads guilty before start of trial (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 06:09 PM CST

Donna Wilkerson, who claims to have been sexually abused by U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, listens to her lawyer Terry Yates speak to reporters in front of the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse in Houston on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. Kent pleaded guilty Monday to lying to investigators about sexually abusing his secretary, Wilkerson, in exchange for prosecutors dropping five sex-crime charges alleging he groped the secretary and another female court employee. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick De la Torre)AP - A federal judge pleaded guilty Monday to lying to investigators about sexually abusing his secretary in exchange for prosecutors dropping five sex-crime charges alleging he groped the secretary and another female court employee.

Possible bird strike eyed in chopper crash (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 03:20 PM CST

AP - Investigators have found evidence that a bird may have struck a helicopter before it crashed into a Louisiana swamp last month, killing eight people, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.

Bail denied for Chicago lawyer in double slaying (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 05:58 PM CST

This photo released by the Chicago Police Department shows attorney Fredrick Goings, 36. Goings was charged Sunday Feb. 22, 2009 with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of the former girlfriend and infant daughter of New York Knicks player Eddy Curry during a domestic-related dispute. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department)AP - The attorney accused of killing New York Knicks player Eddy Curry's ex-girlfriend and her infant daughter was an abusive, controlling boyfriend who disputed $23,500 in legal fees with his victim, prosecutors alleged Monday.

Trial begins over asbestos-contaminated Mont. town (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 05:26 PM CST

AP - A federal prosecutor told jurors Monday that a chemical company knew for years that its mining operation in a small Montana town exposed residents to asbestos, but the company hid the risks from workers and government regulators.

Conn. child-porn convict ordered to pay victim (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 05:02 PM CST

AP - A federal judge on Monday ordered a man convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography to pay about $200,000 in restitution to a woman who was photographed being sexually abused when she was a child.

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