2009年3月20日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

AIG bonus outrage has employees living in fear (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:24 PM PDT

A protestor is reflected in the sunglasses of a Washington police officer during a protest against AIG bonuses and bailout, Friday, March 20, 2009, in front of the AIG offices in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Pillars of the community are now pariahs fearing for their safety in a ritzy area of Connecticut home to many executives at American International Group Inc., hit with a backlash over bonuses it paid to top brass even as it accepted federal bailout money.

Transgender wife gets 4 years for husband's death (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 04:49 PM PDT

In this security videotape released by Middlefield Police Department showing Chris Mason, center, and her husband, James Mason, right, collapsed and limp in a pool Monday, June 2, 2008 in Middlefield, Ohio. Sitting in a wheelchair is Maryanne Vallandingham, mother of Chris Mason. Chris Masson pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless homicide in the death of her husband. She is due for sentencing Friday. (AP Photo/HO, Middlefield Police Department)AP - James M. Mason knew his wife since she was born a boy. The janitor and former military man was a boarder in the child's home and was treated like family.

NJ scraps plans to ban genital waxing (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:33 PM PDT

In this June 21, 2002 file photo, visitors and residents spend the day on the beach in Belmar, N.J., on the first day of summer. The New Jersey Cosmetology and Hairstyling Board ended its move toward a ban on genital waxing altogether after two women reported being injured. Both women were hospitalized for infections following so-called 'Brazilian' waxes. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)AP - New Jersey is smoothing out differences over a plan to ban bare-it-all bikini waxing.

Kerry seeks asylum for gay man wed in Mass. (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:32 PM PDT

Tim Coco, right, sits in his Haverhill, Mass. office Friday, March 20, 2009 as he speaks to his husband, Genesio 'Junior' Januario Oliveira Jr. via a video conference call. Oliveira, who is in Brazil, was forced to leave the United States in August 2007 when his application for asylum and an appeal were denied. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to grant asylum to Oliveira who has been married to Coco since 2005. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Sen. John Kerry has asked the Obama administration to grant asylum to a gay man who was forced to return to Brazil after he was married to a U.S. citizen in Massachusetts.

Special Olympics bowler: I can beat the president! (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:24 PM PDT

Kolan McConiughey bowls at Colonial Lanes in Ann Arbor, Mich., Friday March 20, 2009. McConiughey, who is cognitively impaired, has bowled five perfect games since 2005. President Barack Obama made an offhand remark on 'The Tonight Show' Thursday comparing his bowling to 'the Special Olympics or something.' He quickly apologized and told the Special Olympics chairman he wants to have some Special Olympic athletes visit the White House to bowl or play basketball. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - So President Barack Obama thinks he bowls like a competitor in the Special Olympics?

Black candidate wants to solve crime with 'noose' (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 05:05 AM PDT

George Lambus, a Republican candidate for mayor of Jackson, Miss., photographed at his home, cast a glance at his handgun that he keeps for protection, March 2, 2009. Lambus has released campaign flyers that note 'crime can only be alleviated by a noose and a stout tree limb.' The mayoral candidate is one of several candidates seeking to replace incumbent Mayor Frank Melton in this year's election. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Down here in the Deep South, calls to bring back the hanging noose are coming from an unlikely source: a 62-year-old, black Republican mayoral candidate in Mississippi's largest city.

Homeless in Calif. 'tent city' to get shelter (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 07:29 PM PDT

Carol Carlile walks to her tent in a homeless encampment known as 'Tent City,' in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 19, 2009. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson announced Thursday that city officials have devised a temporary plan to offer shelter space and transitional housing to the estimated 150 homeless that occupy land along the American River on the northern edge of downtown Sacramento. Johnson said he will take the proposal to the Sacramento City Council for approval on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Mayor Kevin Johnson on Thursday announced temporary plans to move about 150 residents of a homeless encampment featured last month on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to shelters and transitional housing.

Radical's release leaves 1 SLA member in prison (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 12:56 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the California Department of Corrections James William Kilgore is seen Monday, July 17, 2006. Kilgore is set to be released from High Desert State Prison at Susanville, Calif., in May after completing a six-year sentence for the killing of suburban Sacramento housewife Myrna Opsahl during an April 1975 bank robbery. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections)AP - This week's release of Sara Jane Olson to her adopted home state of Minnesota leaves one last member of the violent 1970s-era Symbionese Liberation Army still in prison, serving out the final months of his California sentence.

Dallas school accused of staging fights (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 11:42 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.

Federal report highlights threat to Hawaii birds (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:46 PM PDT

AP - Hawaii's native avian population is in peril, with nearly all the state's birds in danger of becoming extinct, a federal report says.

Man arrested in arrow shooting of NYC woman (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 09:55 PM PDT

This photo provided by the New York City Police Department shows the 30-inch arrow that struck Denise Delgado-Brown on Sunday afternoon, March 15, 2009 in the Bronx borough of New York. Delgado-Brown, who was dropping off fellow parishioners at a nursing home after church when she was struck by the arrow, was in stable condition Monday. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP - A man accidentally shot a woman in the stomach with a 30-inch arrow when he fired it at a fence and it went through to the property next door, police said Thursday.

Palin rejects nearly 30 percent of stimulus funds (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 04:31 AM PDT

In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, left, responds to questions during a news conference, in Juneau, Alaska. Alaska Director of the Office of Management and Budget Karen Rehfeld look on. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, has avoided the spotlight amid complaints in her state that she had been too focused on developing her national profile. (AP Photo/Chris Miller, File)AP - It's up to the Alaska Legislature to request hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds from the federal government.

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