2009年3月8日星期日

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Police: Ill. pastor deflected gunshot with Bible (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 05:52 PM PDT

People stand outside of First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill. Sunday March 8, 2009 after a man killed a pastor and injured others at the church. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, John L. White)AP - A pastor shot and killed during his Sunday sermon deflected the first of the gunman's four rounds with a Bible, sending a confetti-like spray of paper into the air in a horrifying scene that congregants initially thought was a skit, police said.

Conn. man is cited for owning an endangered ape (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 03:40 PM PDT

AP - A man already accused of keeping a collection of wild animals including a river otter and a two-toed sloth has been cited for owning an endangered ape.

AG, Wallace's daughter observe Selma anniversary (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 02:46 PM PDT

Marchers led by Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., trace historic footsteps as they cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 8, 2009, on the 44th anniversary of the Voting Rights March. (AP Photo/ Kevin Glackmeyer)AP - The nation's first black attorney general and Gov. George C. Wallace's daughter celebrated the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march Sunday — 44 years after state troopers from her father's administration beat marchers as they started the landmark journey.

Philly mayor supports arts groups even amid cuts (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 11:14 AM PDT

Mayor Michael Nutter makes remarks during an interview with the Associated Press in Philadelphia, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. Despite making budget cuts Nutter has expressed his support for the arts as a way to generate revenue and strengthen the community. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Arts and cultural organizations are often dismissed as a frivolity, the first to go when the budget ax swings even as supporters tout them as powerful economic engines that employ workers and support businesses far beyond the cliche wine-and-cheese set.

Readiness of some rebuilt levees questioned (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 05:16 PM PDT

AP - With the spring flood season fast approaching, the Army Corps of Engineers insists the earthen levees that were overwhelmed by the Mississippi River last summer are rebuilt and ready. Some people who depend on the levees aren't so sure.

Rare NYC foreclosure auction yields deals, protest (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 04:57 PM PDT

Miriam Ruiz of Englewood, N.J., raises her hands in triumph as her bid won a foreclosed property in Scranton, PA., at a foreclosed home auction run by Real Estate Disposition Corporation at the Javits Center in New York Sunday, March 8, 2009. Left is bidder's assistant Kenny Shirey. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - Hundreds of houses — some with starting bids as low as $1,000 — were sold to the highest bidders Sunday in a rare auction of foreclosed properties in the New York metropolitan area, the company running the sale said.

Minn. Senate race leaves voters tired of law drama (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 10:16 AM PDT

In this Feb. 26, 2009 pool file photo, former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman sits pensively during a court delay before the start of the Senate vote recount trial in St. Paul, Minn. It's been four months since Election Day and voters are only marginally closer to knowing whether Coleman or Al Franken will go to Washington. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, Pool, File)AP - What lasts longer than a Minnesota winter? The struggle to choose the nation's 100th senator.

NY mayor hones Spanish skills to woo Latino voters (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 11:05 AM PDT

AP - For a long time, it was hard to get Mayor Michael Bloomberg to say more than a few words in Spanish. Today, as his bid for a third term as mayor gets off the ground, he can't seem to stop.

Imprisoned journalist's father says she met lawyer (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 03:51 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Tuesday, March 3, 2009 by the National Press Photographers Association shows U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi. Iran's judiciary spokesman says Saberi, who was detained about a month ago, is being held in a prison north of the capital, Tehran. Ali Reza Jamshidi says 31-year-old Saberi is being held in Evin prison on a court order. He refused to provide further details in a press conference Tuesday March 3, 2009. Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hasan Qashqavi said Monday that Saberi was engaged in 'illegal' activities because she continued working in Iran after the government revoked her press credentials in 2006. Saberi's father, Reza, has said his daughter told him in a Feb. 10 phone call that she was detained after buying a bottle of wine. Reza Saberi, who lives in Fargo, N.D., said he has not heard from her since. (AP Photo/NPPA)AP - An American journalist detained in Iran showed no signs of physical torture during a prison visit from a lawyer sent by her father, he said Sunday.

Cafeteria regular leaves wealth to Calif. school (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 11:47 AM PDT

AP - Bruce Lindsay left behind a tip officials at Vanguard University won't soon forget.

4 people found slain in Birmingham, Ala., home (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 04:56 AM PDT

AP - Police say they have a person in custody in the slayings of four people found in a home outside Birmingham, Ala.

Former USF football player lost at sea is mourned (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 11:22 PM PST

William Bleakley's brother Blake speaks during a memorial service for Bleakley Saturday March 7, 2009 in Crystal River, Fla. Several hundred people gathered at a Methodist church in Crystal River, a rural community north of Tampa, on Saturday afternoon to remember William Bleakley, a former University of South Florida player aboard the boat which overturned off Florida's west coast. (AP Photo/Dave Sigler, Pool)AP - A week after two NFL players and two of their friends sailed into the Gulf of Mexico on a fishing trip that turned disastrous, family, friends and the lone survivor paid tribute to one of the missing men.

Ohio school gets 700 applicants for janitorial job (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2009 08:06 AM PDT

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

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