2009年3月19日星期四

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Dallas school accused of staging fights (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 04:41 PM PDT

The South Oak Cliff High School campus, Thursday, March 19, 2009, in Dallas is empty because students and teachers are away on spring break. Teachers and administrators at the school have come under fire for allegedly sending troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room to battle it out with bare fists between 2003 and 2005. (AP Photo/Tom Pennington)AP - The Dallas school system was rocked by allegations Thursday that staff members at an inner-city high school made students settle their differences by fighting bare-knuckle brawls inside a steel cage.

Ky. officials accused of election-rigging scheme (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 05:20 PM PDT

AP - A judge, school superintendent and county clerk in southeastern Kentucky have been indicted on charges they extorted money from political candidates so they could bribe voters in a scheme to rig several elections, authorities said Thursday.

With AIG, Spitzer is Sheriff of Wall Street redux (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:13 PM PDT

In this March 31, 2007 file photo, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is shown at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Spitzer, who battered AIG with charges of mismanagement, has been using the AIG affair to raise his profile and, just maybe, do some reputation-mending after his own prostitution scandal. (AP Photo/Tim Roske, file)AP - Eliot Spitzer has a few words to say about the AIG bonus brouhaha: I told you so.

Palin turns down almost half of stimulus funds (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:58 PM PDT

AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she will accept just 55 percent of the estimated $930 million in federal stimulus funds that could flow to the state.

9 Philly firefighters hurt when 2 trucks collide (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 04:29 PM PDT

AP - Two fire trucks responding to a call collided at a downtown intersection Thursday, injuring nine firefighters, one seriously.

Olson husband says she won't make public comments (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 05:28 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 - Sara Jane Olson's husband said Thursday that the former 1970s radical won't be speaking publicly, citing her parole conditions and critics' opposition to her serving her parole in the state where she hid as a fugitive for more than two decades.

Border drain open for hours before 8 entered it (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 04:55 PM PDT

This photo made available by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a Border Patrol agent helping a Mexican national from a drainage pipe in San Diego, Calif. on Saturday March 14,2009. Authorities searched for hours before finding the eight Mexican nationals tired, dehydrated and hungry late Saturday night. They were given medical attention, food and water. Six of the eight have been returned to Mexico. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)AP - A storm drain in front of the nation's busiest border crossing had been left open for hours by U.S. authorities before eight Mexicans used it to try to enter the U.S. illegally.

Commission: Ohio's former AG violated election law (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:11 PM PDT

Former Attorney General Marc Dann appears at the Ohio Election Commission hearing Thursday, March 19, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Elections Commission has found the former Attorney General guilty of violating state election law for using campaign funds to pay for personal cell phone use and a security system for his home. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - A divided Ohio Elections Commission found Thursday that former Attorney General Marc Dann twice violated state elections law by using campaign funds to pay for an expensive in-home security system and a cell phone often used for personal calls.

Md. mulls denying licenses to illegal immigrants (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:40 PM PDT

Kenneth Hamilton, seated behind desk, a senior document examiner at Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration, checks the documents of Jose Augusto S. Faustino, seated at desk, a Brazilian who lives in Silver Spring, Md., Thursday, March 19, 2009 in Glen Burnie, Md. Maryland is one of just four states where people do not have to prove they are legal U.S. residents before receiving a driver's license. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)AP - In an online Spanish language chat room, people from all over the East Coast seek tips on how to get driver's licenses in Maryland even though they don't live there.

Judge: Abu Ghraib detainees can sue Va. contractor (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 01:34 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge rejected a defense contractor's claims that it was immune from lawsuits by four alleged torture victims at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Prank at Scout camp ended 1 life, changed 3 others (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 04:32 PM PDT

AP - TOMS RIVER, N.J. — It was a hot July night when Eagle Scout Brian Lenz decided to show a group of younger boys at his camp a trick called the "circle of fire," in which he would squirt rubbing alcohol in a pattern on a table and set it aflame.

Autistic murder defendant poses challenges in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 01:03 PM PDT

AP - Sky Walker watches recordings of "The Price is Right" over and over again on a TV positioned just outside his jail cell, a calming ritual for the autistic teenager, who is prone to erratic behavior swings when his routine is changed.

Last call for arcane drinking laws in Utah (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 12:40 PM PDT

Jeffrey Holtz, left, in town on business from St. Louis, looks over the lunch menu while bartender Mark Cannella serves him at Cannella's Restaurant on Wednesday, March 18, 2009, in Salt Lake City. The green divider known as a 'Zion Curtain' creating a visual barrier between the restaurant area and the area behind the bar where the drinks are prepared will no longer be needed after May 12 in existing restaurants in Utah, but new restaurants will be required prepare drinks out of customer's sight under a bill approved by the Utah legislature March 12. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)AP - Guy walks into a bar in Utah — and easily gets a drink.

Police problems, economic woes mount in Oakland (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 01:11 PM PDT

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums poses for a portrait in the rotunda at City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, March 12, 2009. This city of 400,000 unrolling from the shores of the San Francisco Bay is a study in contrasts, charming neighborhoods and a prosperous professional class juxtaposed with chronic violence and pockets of poverty. Lately, the more troubled side of the city has been on display. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - With a redeveloped downtown, a busy port and renovated architectural treasures, this city has worked hard to shake its image as a struggling sister of San Francisco across the bay.

Famed Mont. fossil hunter to admit dinosaur crimes (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:17 PM PDT

AP - A famed paleontologist who discovered the world's best preserved dinosaur intends to plead guilty to stealing dinosaur bones from federal land.

ND: Group used federal disaster funds for booze (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 01:47 PM PDT

AP - Nearly a quarter of the federal disaster planning money spent by a North Dakota nonprofit was used for "unallowable or questionable" items, including alcohol, a state official said.

Video shows fired Conn. officer beating suspect (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 12:56 PM PDT

This undated video still image released by the Connecticut Police Department via MyRecordJournal.com, shows a former Meriden police officer beating a suspect in Meriden, Conn., during a September 2005 motor vehicle stop. (AP Photo/Connecticut Police Department via MyRecordJournal.com)AP - A video released this week by a central Connecticut police department shows a former officer pummeling an unresisting suspect with his fists in an expletive-laced beating that ends with the lawman shouting, "That was me being gentle!" The officer, Brian Lawlor, was fired three months after the 2005 incident. He pleaded guilty March 12 to a third-degree assault and was given a one-year suspended sentence.

Miami man convicted of bilking 600 people of $126M (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:11 PM PDT

AP - A Miami businessman accused of bilking nearly 600 people across the country out of $126 million and using the money on a personal jet, a yacht and other luxuries was convicted Thursday on 23 counts, including fraud and money laundering.

Posh Greenbrier seeks bankruptcy, sale to Marriott (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 02:38 PM PDT

The Greenbrier Resort in Sulpher Springs, WV, is seen in a Feb., 28, 2002 file photo. The posh Greenbrier resort that has housed presidents and royalty in West Virginia has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and signed a deal to sell itself to hotel giant Marriott International.The four-star resort said Thursday, March 19, 2009, that its owner, Jacksonville, Fla.-based railroad company CSX Corp., would lend Marriott $50 million to operate the hotel for two years. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock, File)AP - The historic Greenbrier resort, which has gone from hosting presidents and royalty to posting losses, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday and unveiled a plan to sell itself to hotel giant Marriott International Inc. for up to $130 million.

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