2009年3月7日星期六

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Madoff investors prepare for court confrontation (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:36 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, Bernard L. Madoff, the accused mastermind of a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, leaves Federal Court in New York. Bernard Madoff and $50 billion. His name and that number have become inseparable in describing the enormity of what has been called the largest white-collar fraud in history. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, file)AP - Bernard Madoff has yet to face the many investors he is accused of ripping off in a jaw-dropping Ponzi scheme that amounted to one of the biggest financial frauds in history.

Mourners pay tribute to radio legend Paul Harvey (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 05:25 PM PST

Pallbearers carry the body of legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey from a funeral service at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Saturday, March 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - The son of radio legend Paul Harvey used his father's words for the eulogy Saturday at a public funeral service in Chicago, the city from which he launched his national news and commentary show.

Man slips climbing power pole, saved by his pants (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:48 PM PST

AP - Authorities say a Georgia man was saved by his pants when he decided to climb 35 feet up a power pole and slipped. The pants luckily caught on the metal tower, stopping his fall.

Discord likely over ratifying women's rights pact (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 10:32 AM PST

In this Aug. 26, 2008 file photo, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., addresses the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Boxer plans a concerted effort to seek ratification of a United Nations global women's rights treaty completed 30 years ago as part of her agenda for a new Foreign Relations subcommittee chairmanship overseeing global women's issues. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - A global women's rights treaty completed 30 years ago has a better-than-ever chance for U.S. Senate ratification this year, yet the hunt for the needed 67 favorable votes is likely to incur the wrath of activists on both the left and right.

Ex-Calif. bookkeeper accused of embezzling $10M (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:28 PM PST

AP - A former bookkeeper embezzled $9.9 million, forcing her company to make layoffs as she bought 400 pairs of shoes that she kept in a room-sized closet decorated with a crystal chandelier and a plasma television, authorities claim.

Can Web site offer homeless man hope? (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:49 PM PST

Tim Edwards smokes a hand rolled cigarette sitting outside a Waffle House restaurant on Friday, Feb. 27, 2009 in Houston. Edwards has become the human face of homelessness to thousands of online viewers on the Web site created by Kevin and Sean Dolan called www.pimpthisbum.com. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Until a few weeks ago, Tim Edwards was just another one of the men begging for change at a busy Houston underpass, ignored by most drivers who sped on past without a glance.

Fax leads Los Angeles police to body in car trunk (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:46 PM PST

AP - Los Angeles police following a tip sent by fax to a television station have found a dead woman in the trunk of a car.

Support for Hawaii civil union vote wavering (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:05 PM PST

AP - The drive to make Hawaii the fifth state in the country to allow same-sex civil unions is on the verge of failing, despite support from most state lawmakers.

Time to set clock ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:13 PM PST

Electric Time Company employees Dan LaMoore, right, and James Simonini test the lights in three large clocks being constructed at the company's production facility in Medfield, Mass., Friday morning, March 6, 2009. Early Sunday morning, March 8, 2009, most of the United States will set their clocks forward to 3:00 a.m. from 2:00 a.m., commencing daylight saving time. Daylight saving time is not observed in Arizona or Hawaii. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Time to set the clock forward by an hour.

Abercrombie 'tweets' way into race for Hawaii gov (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 05:11 PM PST

AP - Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie announced Saturday that he will run for Hawaii governor next year, saying he was inspired by his longtime friend Barack Obama to bring change.

Former first lady out of ICU after heart surgery (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 11:55 AM PST

Former President George H. W. Bush fights back tears as he comments on calls he received after former First Lady Barbara Bush's open heart surgery at Methodist Hospital in Houston on Thursday March 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato)AP - Former first lady Barbara Bush has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room at the Texas hospital where she underwent heart surgery.

Children, adult injured when elephant bumps stairs (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 12:07 PM PST

AP - Indianapolis fire officials say a dozen children and an adult have suffered minor injuries when a circus elephant knocked over a portable stairway at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

Search suspended for missing SoCal pilot (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:46 PM PST

AP - The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday for a 71-year-old pilot whose small rented plane crashed off the San Diego County coast.

Abuse-of-power cases upset Mass. pension system (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 10:33 AM PST

In this Aug. 29, 2003, file photo, then-outgoing University of Massachusetts president William Bulger speaks at a convocation in Amherst, Mass. Bulger got his yearly $29,000 housing allowance to count as compensation, helping provide him with the state's highest pension, even though he has lived in same South Boston house, which was less than 10 miles from his office, for decades. (AP Photo/Nathan Martin, File)AP - James Marzilli abandoned his duties as a state senator and left the Statehouse after he was arrested last June on charges of trying to grope four women in broad daylight while visiting suburban Lowell on official business.

Ohioan who killed self, 5 others had vowed change (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 08:27 AM PST

This 1995 photo from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows Davon L. Crawford. Crawford who is a suspect in the shooting deaths of five people in a home on Cleveland's west side Thursday, March 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections)AP - A man who killed himself a day after allegedly killing his wife and four others told a judge in 2005 that he was ready to be a law-abiding citizen who would not let society down if he was released from prison.

Pa. boy, 11, charged with murder was avid hunter (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 08:14 AM PST

Sales associate David Jarasiewicz explains the single bolt action as he shows a pink .22 caliber youth model rifle in the gun department of the Sportsman's Warehouse in Ben Avon, Pa., Tuesday, March 3, 2009. In western Pennsylvania, where hunting is a popular tradition passed down for generations, guns are a way of life and an integral part of a culture that puts food on the table and makes people feel like they are one with nature.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Hunting is a way of life in the rural area where 11-year-old Jordan Brown regularly practiced target shooting with his 20-gauge, youth model shotgun.

Ohio school gets 700 applicants for janitorial job (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 07:19 AM PST

AP - Evidence of the slumping economy is stacking up at an Ohio school which has nearly 700 applications for one open janitorial job.

1 man's odyssey from campus to combat (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 11:45 AM PST

In this undated image, provided by the Bhatia family, a man stands near a simple structure in Afghanistan. Michael Bhatia, who took this photograph, was killed in the area of Khost, Afghanistan in May of 2008 while working for the Human Terrain System program. (AP Photo/Michael Bhatia, Bhatia Family Photo)AP - On the overcast New England morning Michael Bhatia came home, nearly 400 of his colleagues, family and friends turned out to meet him.

Woman, 84, gets the ride of her life for birthday (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 09:23 AM PST

June Pearce, 84, smiles after a ride motorcycle in Okeechobee, Fla., March 6, 2009. June was surprised with a ride on a bike as a birthday present. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - BUCKHEAD RIDGE, Fla. — What do you get an 84-year-old lady for her birthday? That's what Carol Brown was thinking a few weeks ago. Her mother, June Pearce, was turning 84. The idea of buying and giving more stuff just didn't appeal to Brown.

Telescope blasts into space to find other Earths (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 07:01 AM PST

Spectators watch the launch of NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler Friday, March 6, 2009, from Cocoa Beach, Fla. Kepler, named after the German 17th century astrophysicist, set off on its unprecedented mission at 10:49 p.m., thundering into a clear sky embellished by a waxing moon. (AP Photo/Florida Today, Malcolm Denemark)AP - NASA's planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, rocketed into space Friday night on a historic voyage to track down other Earths in a faraway patch of the Milky Way galaxy.

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