2009年3月16日星期一

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Lynne Cheney treated for fainting in Philadelphia (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 06:12 PM PDT

AP - Lynne Cheney has been treated and released at a Philadelphia hospital after she was taken there because she fainted.

Authorities reveal details in Texas inmates-gone-wild scandal (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 04:28 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the Montague County Sheriff shows a trustee holding area of the Montague County jail in Montague,Texas, before it was refurbished. Sheriff Paul Cunningham said he was stunned while touring the jail for the first time just hours after being sworn into office Jan. 1, 2009. Among other things, he saw what appeared to be a rack made of nails, paper towel partitions that blocked jailers' views into cells and pills scattered openly about. Cunningham, who had not worked for the county before his November election, immediately ordered the jail closed and moved the nearly 60 inmates to a nearby facility. (AP Photo/Montague County Sheriff)AP - For months, perhaps longer, the Montague County Jail was "Animal House" meets Mayberry. Inside the small brick building across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities. They also disabled some of the surveillance cameras and made weapons out of nails.

NFL players may have died hours after boat toppled (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 06:08 PM PDT

In this Monday March 2, 2009 photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, former University of South Florida football player Nick Schuyler clings to the engine of an overturned boat in the Gulf of Mexico, as the U.S. Coast Guard approaches. Schuyler, Marquis Cooper, William Buckley and Corey Smith left Clearwater, Fla, on a fishing trip Saturday morning and did not return. The other three remain missing. Records from the search for two missing NFL players and two friends paint a bleak picture of what happened after their boat overturned off Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)AP - Two NFL players may have died just a few hours after their fishing boat capsized in rough seas and possibly before rescuers were even alerted that they and two others were lost off the west coast of Florida, according to Coast Guard records.

Cuomo to probe AIG bonuses for possible fraud (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 03:32 PM PDT

In this Oct. 15, 2008 file photo, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo listens to a question at a news conference on Wall Street Wednesday in New York. Cuomo has subpoenaed Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Ken Lewis as part of an investigation into whether the bank misled investors about losses and executive bonuses at Merrill Lynch & Co, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, file)AP - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday he has issued subpoenas for the names of American International Group employees given millions of dollars in bonuses despite their possible roles in the insurance giant's near-collapse.

New lawyer signals new strategy in Alamo case (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 04:04 PM PDT

AP - California lawyer Danny Davis has wanted to separate jailed evangelist Tony Alamo from the abuse allegations that trail his ministry.

Minn. governor urges Calif. to keep '70s radical (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 03:54 PM PDT

This police booking photo released by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Monday, March 24, 2008, shows former 1970's radical Sara Jane Olson. Olson is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, March 17, 2009. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)AP - Gov. Tim Pawlenty sent a letter Monday to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him to prevent former 1970s radical and longtime fugitive Sara Jane Olson from returning to Minnesota to serve her parole.

Airports' homeless resist efforts to remove them (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 02:27 PM PDT

Richard Walker, 61, right, an admitted homeless man, and another homeless man rest in the north terminal of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009 in Atlanta. After Hartsfield winds down nightly, a different breed of traveler emerges; groups of homeless men and women who occupy some of the nation's largest airports. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)AP - Life has taken Roger Gleen up and down the East Coast, and on this night the weary traveler settles into a chair in the corner of the world's busiest airport.

Vermont begins hearings on same-sex marriage bill (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 02:29 PM PDT

Aroomat the Statehouse is filled with gay marriage opponents in Montpelier, Vt., Monday, March 16, 2009. Hundreds of gay marriage opponents have converged on the Vermont Statehouse to lobby lawmakers as the Legislature opens a week's worth of hearings on a same-sex marriage bill. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Nine years after it played host to a bitter fight over civil unions, Vermont's Statehouse is again a gay rights battleground.

NM man pleads guilty to mailing letters, powder (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 04:54 PM PDT

In this file photo, acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks, center, Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI Robert E. Casey, Jr., right, and Postal Inspector in Charge of the Fort Worth division Randall C. Till stand for news conference in Dallas, Feb. 3, 2009. The group were on hand to announce a 47-year-old New Mexico man has been arrested on charges alleging he mailed suspicious powder to banks and federal offices around the country. Richard Leon Goyette was arrested at the Albuquerque, N.M., airport the federal officials announced. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - A New Mexico man pleaded guilty Monday to mailing threatening letters containing suspicious powder to dozens of banks and federal offices across the country, federal prosecutors said.

4 bodies found in Mo. home; foul play suspected (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Police say the bodies of four people have been found in an apartment near Kansas City, Mo., and that they suspect foul play.

Missouri man arraigned in incest-murder case (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 01:55 PM PDT

AP - A man accused of fathering four children with his teenage daughter was arraigned Monday on second-degree murder, child endangerment and other charges involving three of the children.

If government gets way, Ruth Madoff gets nothing (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 03:46 PM PDT

Disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff leaves US Federal Court after a hearing on March 10, 2009 in New York. US prosecutors said Monday they aim to seize more than 100 million dollars in luxury homes, yachts, stocks, cash and even a piano from disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff and his wife.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AP - Prosecutors probing Bernard Madoff's massive fraud are determined to leave his wife with almost nothing after telling a Manhattan court that they consider more than $100 million in assets, most of it listed in her name, the fruits of her husband's crimes.

Ex-Pa. senator convicted of 137 corruption counts (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 01:35 PM PDT

Vincent Fumo, and his girlfriend Carolyn Zinni, center right, walk out of federal court in Philadelphia, Monday, March 16, 2009. A jury in Philadelphia convicted the powerful former state senator of all 137 corruption counts against him. The jury in U.S. District Court found 65-year-old Fumo guilty Monday of defrauding the Senate, a nonprofit and a museum of more than $3.5 million. Other charges included destroying e-mail evidence.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Vincent Fumo, once one of the most powerful figures in Pennsylvania politics, was convicted Monday of more than 130 counts of corruption for schemes that defrauded the state Senate and others of more than $3.5 million and helped pay for his lavish lifestyle.

Obama rejects SC gov's bid to use stimulus on debt (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 02:53 PM PDT

In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford responds to questions as he explains his opposition to a proposed coal-fired power plant in Florence County during a news conference at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Sanford has been the leading voice among a group of Republican governors who have criticized President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus plan as a pork-laden effort that will plunge the country further into debt. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - The Obama administration on Monday rejected South Carolina Gov.

Police ID victims in Miami party shootings (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 01:28 PM PDT

A Miami police crime scene investigator writes notes at the house where a man shot himself and set the house on fire after shooting four others at a family gathering at another location early Sunday, March 15, 2009 in Miami. A man barged into a birthday party early Sunday, shot his estranged wife and three other people to death, then went home, set his truck and house on fire and killed himself, police said. (AP Photo/David Adame)AP - Police say a man who fatally shot his estranged wife and three other people at a weekend party also tried to blow up his neighborhood by placing gas cans and propane tanks around his apartment before setting it afire.

Civil rights icon Lowery out of hospital in Ga. (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 02:31 PM PDT

In a Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 file photo, The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery gives the benediction at the end of the swearing-in ceremony during the inaugeration of President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Lowery was hospitalized Sunday, March 15, 2009, following a dizzy spell at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The 88-year-old was the keynote speaker at a service marking the church's 123rd anniversary. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - Civil rights icon the Rev. Joseph Lowery was released from a hospital Monday following a dizzy spell a day earlier as he greeted parishioners at the famed Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Mayor counts woes as Chicago loses Obama spotlight (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 01:37 PM PDT

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley purses his lips as he looks out over Lake Michigan during a news conference in Chicago, Monday, March 16, 2009. Since election night when Chicago was on display for the world as President Barack Obama's hometown, Daley just a few months later finds himself awash with troubles. A new political corruption trial is focusing attention on City Hall; the city budget deficit could grow to $200 million next year; street violence is killing Chicago Public School students and the one bright spot, the city's Olympic bid, hit a hurdle. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - On election night last year, Mayor Richard Daley basked in the world's spotlight as hometown President Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech with the city's twinkling skyline as his backdrop.

AP Analysis: Zardari pays to end Pakistan crisis (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 01:08 PM PDT

Pakistan's deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, left, waves to people as lawyers greeted him after the government announced to reinstate him at his residence in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, March 16, 2009. Pakistan's government relented in a major confrontation with the opposition, agreeing to reinstate Chaudhry whose fate had sparked street fights and raised fears of political instability in a country battling rising Islamist violence. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - The promised reinstatement of Pakistan's chief justice defused a protest movement threatening the U.S.-allied government, but it could still spell trouble for the country's struggling president.

'Borat' star fools Ala. Guard, trains briefly (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 01:37 PM PDT

In this Dec. 3, 2007 file photo, Sacha Baron Cohen arrives at the premiere of 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)AP - The actor best known as "Borat" tricked the Alabama National Guard into allowing him onto a post, giving him a military uniform and briefly letting him train — all, supposedly, for a German TV documentary.

Big unions team up for casino pacts in 4 states (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 12:32 PM PDT

AP - Four of the nation's largest labor unions will team up to kick-start stalled contract talks with casinos in four states, starting with New Jersey, officials announced Monday.

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