2009年3月13日星期五

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Ariz. serial shooting suspect guilty of 6 murders (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 05:44 PM PDT

Dale Hausner, left, looks at his lawyer, Ken Everett in court Friday afternoon, March 13, 2009 in Phoenix, Ariz. Hausner was convicted Friday of six murders in a series of nearly 30 attacks in 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo/Mark Henle, Pool)AP - A former janitor was convicted Friday of murdering six people and attacking 19 others in dozens of random nighttime shootings of pedestrians, bicyclists and animals that terrorized this desert city over a 14-month period in 2005 and 2006.

Town comedian hailed as hero in Alabama killings (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 05:20 PM PDT

This photograph provided by relatives on Friday, March 13, 2009, shows Bruce Maloy of Samson, Ala., who was hailed as the unsung hero of shootings that claimed 10 lives this week. Authorities and witnesses said Maloy chased the shooter out of town in his pickup truck, possibly prevent more deaths. Maloy is pictured holding his newborn grandchild on Feb. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/HO)AP - Many around Samson knew Bruce Maloy as their town's comedian, a goodhearted, wiry little jokester who was always boasting about hitting it big someday.

Kids mistakenly drink wiper fluid at Ark. day care (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 04:59 PM PDT

A daycare center for children near Scott, Ark., is shown Friday, March 13, 2009. Arkansas Children's Hospital officials said a staffer at the daycare mistakenly put blue windshield wiper fluid in a refrigerator and served it to 10 children at the center. Only one child remained hospitalized Friday morning, after blood samples showed 'measurable levels' of methanol, a highly toxic alcohol that can induce comas and cause blindness, officials said. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Ten children at an Arkansas day-care center drank windshield wiper fluid after the owner served it from a container mistaken for Kool-Aid and placed in a refrigerator, authorities said Friday. The day-care owner voluntarily surrendered her state license Friday.

Slaying of family in NC home still a mystery (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 04:40 PM PDT

AP - Screaming and sobbing, a teenage girl dialed 911 to report that a friend had been yanked into her own home by a strange man who was stabbing and beating her.

Jon Stewart puts spotlight on CNBC and meltdown (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:54 PM PDT

Jim Cramer, left, host of the 'Mad Money' show on CNBC, talks with Jon Stewart during an appearance on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' Thursday, March 12, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - The feud between Jon Stewart and CNBC's Jim Cramer has been good for laughs — and ratings — but has also raised the serious question of whether the experts at TV's No. 1 financial news network should have seen the meltdown coming and warned the public.

Video raises questions about Conn. priest's arrest (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 04:23 PM PDT

AP - A Roman Catholic priest who monitors law enforcement treatment of minorities with a video camera released footage that appears to contradict the police account of his own arrest.

Deep split over an economic fix as ministers meet (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:27 PM PDT

Britain's Treasury chief Alistair Darling, left, arrives with US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner for a bilateral meeting during the G20 Finance Ministers meeting at a hotel near Horsham in Sussex, England Friday, March 13, 2009. World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned on Friday that 2009 could be a 'very dangerous year' and urged quick action to fix troubled economies ahead of a meeting of international finance officials expected to wrestle over whether to spend or regulate the way out of the global downturn. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - The leaders of the world's most powerful economies are deeply split over how to fight a downturn that is intensifying around the globe, with no nation in a position of strength as finance ministers gather to talk about the crisis.

Slain pastor's wife: `I refuse to let Satan win' (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 05:30 PM PDT

Cindy Winters eulogizes her husband, Rev. Fred Winters, who was shot dead in his church while delivering his Sunday sermon, at his funeral, at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill., Friday March 13, 2009. 'On Sunday, my husband did not die .... He just simply got a promotion,' Cindy Winters said in her eulogy. (AP Photo/Robert Cohen, Pool)AP - The widow of a pastor killed in mid-sermon urged mourners to reject hate and to take comfort in their faith at his funeral Friday, in the church where he was gunned down five days earlier.

Appeal says juror sent 'tweets' during $12.6M case (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:47 PM PDT

AP - A building materials company and its owner have appealed a $12.6 million verdict against them, alleging that a juror posted messages on Twitter.com during the trial that show he's biased against them.

Catholic dioceses still paying for clergy misdeeds (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:34 PM PDT

Charts show abuse claims against U.S. dioceses and costs related to allegationsAP - The price for failing to rein in predatory clergy keeps rising for the U.S. Roman Catholic Church.

Long game's journey into night a 6-OT Syracuse win (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:04 PM PDT

Syracuse's Kris Joseph, left, hugs Jonny Flynn after Flynn was fouled while shooting against Connecticut in the sixth period of overtime during a quarterfinal NCAA college basketball game at the Big East men's tournament Thursday, March 12, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Syracuse won 127-117. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - The freight elevator opened and Syracuse players Jonny Flynn and Paul Harris wobbled in, physically and mentally exhausted, heading for a bus to the team hotel.

Report: Zell was on Blagojevich campaign's list (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:33 PM PDT

**FILE*File photos show former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell. Internal documents from ousted Gov. Blagojevich's campaign show that staffers planned to ask billionaire Tribune Co. Chairman Zell for a $25,000 contribution days before the governor was arrested on corruption charges that include alleged strong-arming of the company, according to a report published Friday, March 13, 2009. (AP Photos/File)AP - Internal documents from ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's campaign reveal that there was a plan to ask billionaire Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell for a $25,000 contribution days before the governor was arrested on corruption charges that include alleged strong-arming of the company, according to a published report.

Utah Lake's excess carp become mink food, compost (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:13 PM PDT

AP - More than 1 million pounds of carp that were threatening endangered fish have been pulled out of Utah Lake this winter, with most of it going to a farmer's fields and a nearby mink farm.

After plea, Madoff investigation grinds on (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:08 PM PDT

In this artist's sketch, Bernard Madoff, right, speaks to the court during a hearing in federal court Thursday, March 12, 2009 in New York. His attorney, Ira Lee Sorkin, stands next to him. Victims of Madoff's fraud are at far left. (AP Photo/courtroom art, Elizabeth Williams)AP - That means it could be a while before anyone else is arrested and the full extent of Madoff' vast swindle comes to light.

Belfast chooses peace in face of renewed terror (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:52 PM PDT

The funeral of PSNI constable Stephen Carroll makes its way through Banbridge, Northern Ireland, Friday March 13, 2009, to St Therese's Roman Catholic church. Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, was shot while on duty in Craigavon on Monday. Thousands of people lined the streets outside St Therese Church in his hometown of Banbridge, County Down, where funeral mass was held. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - When Irish Republican Army dissidents gunned down their first British security forces in more than a decade, they hoped to provoke a steely security crackdown and tit-for-tat attacks that would drag Belfast back into the bad old days.

In rural South Carolina, jobs — and hope — fade (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:29 PM PDT

AP - On most days, freight trains rumble past vacant storefronts in the center of town, seldom ever stopping anymore. The rail spurs leading to a shuttered grain elevator are brown with rust, the buildings closed off by a chain-link fence.

Economic crisis threatens small, rural schools (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:25 PM PDT

Students walk to Wooden Valley Elementary School in Napa, Calif., Friday, Feb. 20, 2009. More than 150 years after it was established, this one room school house could fall victim to an economic crisis that threatens to close schools across the country. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - In this rustic corner of California wine country, parents are fighting to prevent the closure of a one-classroom school established before the Civil War.

Police: No foul play in Vt. student's 2008 death (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 01:53 PM PDT

AP - A Middlebury College freshman who died under mysterious circumstances last year was drinking heavily in the hours before he vanished from campus and investigators found no evidence to suggest it was anything more than an accident, according to a new report.

US pushes harder in Brazilian custody case (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:09 PM PDT

David Goldman arrives in Brasilia in this Feb. 5, 2009 file photo.The New Jersey man is back in Brazil visiting his 8-year-old son as the custody dispute over the boy grows. Speaking from Brazil, David Goldman told NBC's 'Today' show on Friday, March 13, 2009, that the dispute is about a parent's rights -- not about the diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and Brazil. Goldman's wife took their son with her to Brazil in 2004 and never returned to the United States. She divorced him, remarried and died last year after giving birth.Now he's being raised by his stepfamily. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)AP - A New Jersey man trying to bring his son back from Brazil says the messy custody case is really not a matter of international relations.

Kilpatrick hires 'Giant Killer' to sue SkyTel (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 04:57 PM PDT

Attorney Willie E. Gary, foreground, speaks as his client, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, rear, leaves the Wayne County Andrew C. Baird Detention Facility after serving 99 days in jail in Detroit, Feb. 3, 2009. Kilpatrick will be on five years' probation after a plea to two criminal charges. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - He travels in his own Boeing 737. He won a $240 million verdict against Disney. He "can't stand to lose." And he's on the job for ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

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