2009年3月17日星期二

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Police: Calif. student missing since '07 overdosed (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 05:31 PM PDT

AP - Police said Tuesday they think a 19-year-old college student who went missing almost two years ago died of a drug overdose at a party, and they charged a convicted sex offender with involuntary manslaughter.

AP Interview: Leader of suicide ring defends work (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 04:36 PM PDT

Ted Goodwin, former president of the Final Exit Network, is pictured during an interview with an Associated Press reporter, Tuesday, March 17, 2009, in Atlanta. Goodwin was arrested for his role in assisting in a recent Georgia suicide and says he hopes his trial will be a test case validating the 'right-to-die' movement. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - A former assisted suicide network leader being prosecuted in a Georgia man's death is defending his group's practice of guiding people who want to kill themselves because they're suffering but not necessarily dying.

New England pastor houses child killer, riles town (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 04:36 PM PDT

This Feb. 2007 photo released Monday March 16, 2009 by New Hampshire Department of Corrections in Concord, N.H., shows of former inmate and convicted child killer Raymond Guay, 60. A federal judge in California has ordered Guay to serve out 2-and-a-half years parole in New Hampshire where he has ties. Guay is now staying with a pastor, The Rev. David Pinckney in rural Chichester, N.H. (AP Photo/New Hampshire Department of Corrections)AP - A pastor in this quiet, picturesque New England town thought he was doing the Christian thing when he took in a convicted child killer who had served his time but had nowhere to go. But some neighbors of the Rev. David Pinckney vehemently disagree, one even threatening to burn his house down after officials could find no one else willing to take 60-year-old Raymond Guay.

Woman faces 4 murder charges in fatal Mich. crash (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 03:27 PM PDT

AP - A woman prosecutors say was drunk when her van struck a car, killing four teenagers, was charged with second-degree murder Tuesday.

Petland is accused of scheme to sell sick puppies (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 03:33 PM PDT

AP - An animal protection group has accused the Petland Inc. pet store chain of scheming to sell sick puppies bred in filthy conditions to thousands of unsuspecting people.

Former 1970s radical released from Calif. prison (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 04:25 PM PDT

Sara Jane Olson is seen in a Tuesday, March 17, 2009 photo released by the California Department of Corrections and taken in Chowchilla, Calif. Olson, the 1970s radical who assumed a new identity as a Minnesota housewife while spending a quarter century as a fugitive, was released from prison Tuesday, just after midnight from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections)AP - A former 1970s radical associated with the group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst finished her California prison sentence Tuesday, ending a legal drama that harkened back to a violent era of social unrest.

Prosecutor: SoCal arson killer felt 'all powerful' (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 05:25 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors on Tuesday urged jurors to recommend the death penalty for a man convicted of murdering five firefighters by igniting a Southern California wildfire, but his lawyers said he should get life in prison without parole because he didn't intend to kill anyone.

Creationist museum: Darwin got something right (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 03:33 PM PDT

AP - A controversial Kentucky museum that trumpets the Bible story of creation and rejects evolution is making room for an odd guest: Charles Darwin.

Peoria officers arrested after videotaped beating (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 05:04 PM PDT

AP - Two central Illinois police officers have been charged with beating a man who claims he was pepper-sprayed, kicked, punched and shocked with a stun gun following a police chase that was videotaped by a squad car camera.

Former top NM senator sentenced in corruption case (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 05:32 PM PDT

AP - A former leader of the New Mexico Senate was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for his role in a scheme to defraud the state of some $4 million in a courthouse construction project.

Santa convention draws hundreds of Kris Kringles (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 03:24 PM PDT

AP - Tim Mack's cell phone — he calls it his sleigh phone — rings with the tune of "Santa Baby."

St. Patrick's revelers in US fete all things Irish (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 03:01 PM PDT

Pat Williams, of Middlesex, New Jersey, foreground left, reacts as she and others watch the St. Patrick's Day parade as it makes it's way up New York's Fifth Avenue, Tuesday, March 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - St. Patrick's Day revelers took a break from worries about the global economy to enjoy a day of shamrock-themed frivolity, dyeing city fountains green, taking icy ocean plunges and crowding sidewalks along parade routes to see and be seen.

Air Force nurse charged in 3 patients' drug deaths (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 04:32 PM PDT

Wilford Hall Medical Center is seen in San Antonio, Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Capt. Michael Fontana, 35, an Air Force nurse Michael Fontana, 35, an Air Force nurse was formally charged Monday by the Air Force with deliberately giving three Wilford Hall Medical Center patients lethal amounts of medication, and with conduct unbecoming an officer for allegedly changing a medical record for one of the patients, according to military officials. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - An Air Force nurse has been charged with murder for allegedly giving lethal amounts of medication to three terminally ill patients in his care over one month last summer, military officials said Tuesday.

American dream ends in 2 NJ workers' brutal deaths (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 01:55 PM PDT

Horses are seen at the Sterling Chase Horse Farm in Springfield Township, N.J., Monday, March 16, 2009. Alex Aguilar, 29, and 48-year-old Marcial Morales-Maldonado, both from Honduras, were found bludgeoned to death on Feb. 28 at the Sterling Chase Horse Farm, a 118-acre thoroughbred horse breeding farm. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)AP - Alex Aguilar left his family and farm hand job in Honduras seven years ago to pursue a better life, eventually finding work cleaning stables and feeding thoroughbreds six days a week at a New Jersey horse farm. His mother worried for him.

Hundreds mourn 4 relatives, victims of Ala. gunman (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 01:54 PM PDT

Pallbearers carry a casket from the First Baptist Church in Samson, Ala., Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Four of the ten people gunman Michael McClendongunned down last week were buried Tuesday. They were McLendon's relatives; Virginia Ett Wise, James Alfred White, Tracy Michelle Wise and Dean James Wise. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The funeral procession for four people killed in a 24-mile shooting spree in south Alabama retraced part of the gunman's route Tuesday, and the small, tight-knit town tried mightily to move beyond the carnage that has come to define it.

Taxpayers vent against AIG bonuses (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 03:23 PM PDT

AP - For many Americans who could use a bailout just to balance their checkbooks and make it through the month, the thought of their tax dollars going to million-dollar bonuses for AIG executives is enough to make them furious.

Pa. Amish farmer gets jailtime in outhouse dispute (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 01:53 PM PDT

AP - A western Pennsylvania Amish farmer was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail after refusing to bring a pair of outhouses into compliance with state sewage laws.

Home economics: Frugal families doing own chores (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 03:07 PM PDT

Beth Rogers wipes out the kitchen sink at her home in Fayetteville, Ark., Monday, March 16, 2009. To save money, Rogers and her husband Stanley have canceled their weekly housekeeping service and are doing their own house cleaning. (AP Photo/Beth Hall)AP - Beth Rogers is taking the family's finances into her own hands — literally.

Family of Conn. chimp attack victim seeks $50M (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 12:38 PM PDT

Charles Willinger and Matthew Newman right discuss Tuesday March 17, 2009 in Bridgeport, Conn. their suit on behalf of Charla Nash who was mauled by a chimp which was owned by Sandra Herold. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)AP - The family of a woman mauled by a chimpanzee filed a lawsuit seeking $50 million in damages against the primate's owner, saying she was negligent and reckless for lacking the ability to control "a wild animal with violent propensities."

Jurors' online posts concern trial lawyers (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 02:29 PM PDT

Trial juror Eric Wuest leaves the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, Monday, March 16, 2009 after helping convict a former state senator in a major corruption case. A U.S. judge let Wuest stay on the jury despite his occasional Twitter and Facebook online posts about the case, including one last week that hinted a verdict was near. Given the popularity of such sites, some lawyers want judges to clarify that online communications about a case are also prohibited. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Eric Wuest's post late Friday to Facebook friends teased: "Stay tuned for a big announcement on Monday everyone!"

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