2009年2月24日星期二

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Toddler, 6 others shot on Mardi Gras parade route (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 10:28 PM CST

Dr. Jim Parry talks about going to the aid of one of the victims at the scene where five people were shot and two suspects were taken into custody in a shooting incident that happened along the Mardi Gras parade route in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - A Mardi Gras parade erupted into chaos on Fat Tuesday when a series of gunshots struck seven people, including a toddler. The child was not seriously injured and two suspects were in custody, police said.

The 21st-century fireside chat: Did Obama connect? (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 11:29 PM CST

AP - At a harrowing national moment, Franklin D. Roosevelt commandeered the young airwaves for a "fireside chat" with the American people — a candid talk about big troubles and how to fix them. He was confident and strong, a father figure to a nation that was losing its way.

Boy held in Pa. killing to go to juvenile facility (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 10:20 PM CST

Mourners lined up for the funeral of Kenzie Houk hug each other outside the funeral home Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009 in New Castle, Pa. The 26-year-old pregnant mother of two was killed in her home on Friday. Eleven-year-old Jordan Brown is charged in the shooting. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - An 11-year-old boy charged with killing his father's pregnant fiancee will be moved from a county jail to a juvenile facility under a court order issued Tuesday.

Palin to pay Alaska nearly $7,000 for kids' trips (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 07:47 PM CST

In this file photo taken June 30, 2008, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, right, standing next to her daughter, Piper, left, and holding her son Trigg, with North Slope Borough Mayor Edward S. Itta, back, speaks at a whaling festival in Barrow, Alaska. Thomas Van Flein, attorney for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said Palin will reimburse the state nearly $7,000 for costs associated with nine trips taken by her children. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will reimburse the state nearly $7,000 for costs associated with nine trips taken by her children, her attorney said Tuesday.

Bing, Cockrel advance to Detroit mayoral runoff (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 11:37 PM CST

Detroit mayoral candidate Dave Bing speaks to suporters at a primary election night rally in Detroit, Wednesday Feb. 25, 2009. Voters in financially strapped Detroit were deciding Tuesday in the special, nonpartisan election, which two of 15 candidates will advance to a May 5 runoff to replace the disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, sent to jail last year. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - NBA Hall of Famer Dave Bing and incumbent Ken Cockrel Jr. advanced Tuesday to a May 5 runoff election, vying to serve out the remainder of disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's second term.

Schools thin long-term a.As college donating falls (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 11:10 PM CST

AP - The legions of fundraisers colleges hired during the boom years have a new mission for these tough economic times: Go easy on the hard sell. Talk about financial aid, not shiny new buildings. If prospects can't give now, lay the groundwork for when the economy recovers.

Authorities: 1 killed in NC helicopter crash at Xe (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 08:42 PM CST

Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C., in this July 21, 2008 file photo. Blackwater is abandoning its tarnished brand name as it tries to shake a reputation battered by oft-criticized work in Iraq, renaming its family of two dozen businesses under the name Xe. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - A helicopter crash killed a pilot and seriously injured a passenger Tuesday on the northeastern North Carolina campus of the private security contractor Xe, authorities said.

Salmonella outbreak strain also linked to TX plant (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 10:15 PM CST

In this April 12, 2007, file photo Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., holds up a printed page from the Food and Drug Administration's website and asserts it is confusing during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies on contaminated pet food on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lawmakers are pushing for a new government agency that would be responsible for food safety in the wake of a massive salmonella outbreak in peanuts. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - Tests have confirmed that peanut butter made from peanuts processed at a Texas plant contains the same strain of salmonella blamed for sickening hundreds in a national outbreak, federal officials said Tuesday.

Army IDs overboard soldier after search suspended (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 07:20 PM CST

AP - The Army has identified a soldier based in Virginia who fell overboard off a tugboat during training near the North Carolina coast.

Feds searching for CEO in case of tainted syringes (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 05:25 PM CST

An undated handout photo released by the U.S. Prosecutor's Office as part of the government's evidence against Aniruddha Patel, plant manager for the medical company AM2PAT, shows conditions in the drug manufacturing plant. Federal authorities are hunting the mastermind behind a 'horrific case' in which bacteria-laden syringes shipped from an Angier plant sickened at least a hundred people and killed five.Plant manager Aniruddha Patel and quality control director Ravindra Kumar Sharma pleaded guilty Monday, Feb. 23, 2009 in U.S. District Court in Raleigh for their roles in ignoring sterility standards at the former AM2PAT Inc. plant. The men were each sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for fraud and allowing tainted drugs into the marketplace. (AP Photo/U.S. Prosecutor's Office via The News & Observer)AP - For months, prosecutors say, technicians in the gloom of a run-down North Carolina plant prepared life-sustaining syringes and shipped them before ensuring they were sterile.

Prosecutor says Serial Shooter suspect sought fame (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 07:31 PM CST

AP - A prosecutor in metro Phoenix's Serial Shooter case said in her closing argument Tuesday that the main suspect carried out the shootings for fame and kept news clippings of the crimes as "trophies."

Iowa had known of plant's use of mentally disabled (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 07:06 PM CST

AP - Iowa's social-services agency acknowledged Tuesday that it looked into a company's treatment of its mentally disabled meatpacking workers as early as the 1970s, but decided it lacked the jurisdiction or enough evidence to act.

Appeals court: Classified info OK to use at trial (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 05:23 PM CST

AP - Two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally disclosing national defense secrets can use some classified information at their trial, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Recession raining on Mardi Gras fun? Fat chance (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 04:52 PM CST

King Zulu Tyronne Mathieu gives a thumbs up before his ride in the Zulu parade on Mardi Gras in New Orleans Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. Carnival revelers were greeted with clear weather for Mardi Gras. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The economic downturn couldn't overshadow the Mardi Gras revelry Tuesday as partiers jostled for beads on parade routes and the French Quarter swelled with boozy fun and masked crowds.

NM man indicted over powder, threats sent to banks (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 05:28 PM CST

AP - A New Mexico man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly mailing threatening letters containing suspicious powder to dozens of banks and federal offices across the country last fall.

Groups that helped after hurricane wait for pay (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 04:35 PM CST

A line on a building in Galveston's historic Strand district in Galveston, Texas on February 5, 2009, marks where flood waters rose when Hurricane Ike came ashore on September 13, 2008. The steamy Texas island city of Galveston, an historic port known for palm trees, Victorian buildings and shipping cattle and oil to the world, now finds its economy clinging to a life raft. Some leaders believe the only hope for the city of about 45,000 -- down about a third from its pre-hurricane population -- is to legalize gambling and open casinos that would lure in tourists. Picture taken February 5, 2009. To match feature story FINANCIAL/GALVESTON-GAMBLING REUTERS/Chris Baltimore (UNITED STATES)AP - Hundreds of businesses that provided transportation, portable toilets and other assistance after Hurricane Ike are still waiting to be paid six months after the storm, the result of a $134 million dispute between Texas and the federal government.

Crews work to restore power to Maine after storm (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 04:53 PM CST

Middy Thomas, 78, shovels snow from her driveway and mailbox in Brunswick, Maine, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. A winter storm blew through northern New England on Monday, dumping 2 feet of snow in spots, forcing hundreds of schools to cancel classes and leaving tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - Utility crews wearing snowshoes and riding snowmobiles trudged through chest-high snow Tuesday as they worked to restore electricity to tens of thousands of customers still in the dark a day after a wind-whipped storm barreled through Maine.

DOT, FAA sued in bid to force air safety changes (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 05:33 PM CST

Mary Schiavo, former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, gestures while speaking at a news conference on aviation safely in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. Schiavo said the FAA has lagged on implementing safety improvements in areas such as wing deicing and runway safety. She and other advocates say they plan to sue federal transportation officials later Tuesday in Washington. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)AP - Airline safety advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday to force the U.S. Department of Transportation to adopt long-standing safety recommendations in the wake of a deadly plane crash in New York earlier this month.

NASA rocket failure blow to Earth watching network (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 06:23 PM CST

This handout photo released by Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., shows the launch early Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, of a Taurus XL rocket equipped with NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite which apparently failed to separate from the launch vehicle and splashed into the ocean. (AP Photo/ U.S. Air Force, Airman 1st Class Andrew Lee)AP - A new satellite to track the chief culprit in global warming crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after launch Tuesday, dealing a major setback to NASA's already weak network for monitoring Earth and its environment from above.

Penny stocks? Small change for big-name companies (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 06:37 PM CST

Graphic shows market capitalization for selected companies in 2007 and 20091c x 4 inches; 46.5 mm x 101 mm;AP - What costs more — a spark plug or a share of General Motors? A Sunday New York Times or a share of the newspaper company? A General Electric toaster or a share of GE?

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