2009年3月24日星期二

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Bones may be from US grave of 57 Irish immigrants (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 04:53 PM PDT

Immaculata University history professor William Watson displays what he says is part of a human skull that members of the Duffy's Cut Project unearthed last week, in Malvern, Pa., Tuesday, March 24, 2009. The Duffy's Cut Project believes the bones are from a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after coming to Pennsylvania to build a railroad. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th-century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after traveling to Pennsylvania to build a railroad. Historians at Immaculata University have known for years about the 57 immigrants who died in August 1832 but could not find the grave.

US takes steps to deport alleged Nazi to Germany (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 04:41 PM PDT

In this Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in Cleveland for an immigration hearing. The U.S. government said Tuesday March 24, 2009 that it has contacted the German government to get travel documents needed to complete the deportation of accused Nazi guard Demjanjuk. The 88-year-old suburban Cleveland man is charged in Germany with 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder while working as a guard at a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland during World War II. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - The U.S. government said Tuesday it is asking German officials for travel documents needed to deport accused World War II Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, who is charged in Europe with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.

Change of flight plan under scrutiny in MT crash (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 05:07 PM PDT

Debris from the tail section of a plane is seen in the foreground as NTSB investigators and local authorities examine the scene at Holy Cross Cemetery, where a plane crashed killing 14 people on Sunday, adjacent to the Butte Airport in Butte, Mont., on Tuesday, March. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Albans)AP - Investigators said Tuesday that a pilot's change of course shortly before his plane nose-dived into a Butte cemetery, killing all 14 aboard, has emerged as a potentially crucial factor in the crash. Flying at 25,000 feet, pilot Buddy Summerfield requested the diversion from Bozeman to Butte half an hour before the single-engine Pilatus PC-12 crashed at the edge of Butte's airport Sunday. Seven children under the age of 10 were among the victims.

Sen. Schumer changes view, supports gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 04:08 PM PDT

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., applauds during the ringing of the opening bell at the NYSE, in New York. Schumer has reversed course and said Monday March 23, 2009 he now supports gay marriage. Schumer previously supported civil unions, which give same-sex couples some of the same rights as married couples. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - Sen. Charles Schumer reached out to gay leaders earlier this month and convened a meeting at an upscale Manhattan restaurant to make an important announcement: He was supporting gay marriage after years of opposing it. The response from the crowd was swift. "The room applauded," recalled Alan Van Capelle, the executive director of Empire State Pride Agenda, who helped organize the dinner at Gramercy Tavern.

In race against river, Fargo pulls together (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 03:21 PM PDT

Isabel Kallmeyer, 9, works with her neighbor Caitlin Carson, 6, with the shovel, to fill sandbags that will be piled around the Kallmeyer home in the hopes of holding back floodwaters of the Red River Tuesday, March 23, 2009, in Fargo, N.D. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - As the swelling Red River lapped within 30 feet of his back door, Carlis Kramer's property resembled nothing so much as a bustling construction site.

Fla. priest who stole from church gets prison time (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 02:39 PM PDT

AP - A Florida priest who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $370,000 from his church has been sentenced to 14 months in prison.

SD transit mechanic shoots 2, is killed by police (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 03:07 PM PDT

AP - A mechanic at a bus depot in downtown San Diego shot a co-worker to death and critically injured another early Tuesday before being killed by police, authorities said.

Embattled ex-governor will be taking your calls (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 04:06 PM PDT

In this Feb. 3, 2009 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appears on the NBC 'Today' television show in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)AP - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich certainly isn't acting like a man staring down a federal corruption indictment that could come any day.

Police: Abducted baby found unharmed in Florida (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 02:35 PM PDT

AP - A woman who authorities believe abducted a 2-month-old infant from her mother at a health clinic near Tampa turned in the baby unharmed to a Florida sheriff's office, officials said Tuesday.

2 Pa. brothers dead amid demise of car dealership (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 02:34 PM PDT

Four charred cars sit , Tuesday, March 24, 2009, outside the remains of Graham Colonial Motors, a southwestern Pennsylvania car dealership whose ownership spanned three generations of the Graham family in Ligonier, Pa. Last month, owner Gregory Graham died of a herat attack, his body found alongside the four charred cars he set on fire in the parking lot of his family's financially battered dealership. Then, over the past weekend, his younger brother was found dead at the wheel of his car, an apparent suicide. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - Third-generation car dealers Gregory and Randolph Graham watched helplessly over the past year as their business collapsed under the weight of the recession. Now the Graham brothers are gone, too.

Gainesville, Fla. puts non-bias laws to a vote (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PDT

AP - Voters went to the polls Tuesday in an election that could strip the local government's anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.

Huzza! Md. mulls changing 'offensive' state song (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 02:27 PM PDT

AP - Maryland lawmakers are thinking maybe it's time to find a way to scrub "Northern scum" — and a few other sensitive pre-Civil War phrases — from the official state song.

Tax my beer and cigarettes? Not without a fight (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 02:05 PM PDT

Mike Wood walks out of the Red Dot Liquors store with a case of beer as a sign urging patrons to call their legislators over the alcohol tax bill is posted by the door in Frankfort, Ky., Monday, March 9, 2009. On April 1, 2009, Kentucky will begin imposing a 6 percent sales tax on all alcohol sales and double the sales tax on cigarettes to 60 cents per pack. Faced with huge budget holes, states from Connecticut to Arkansas are eyeing higher taxes on cigarettes and booze, infuriating cash-strapped consumers who say they can't afford to pay more in tough economic times.(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - Faced with huge budget holes, states from Connecticut to Arkansas are eyeing higher taxes on cigarettes and booze, infuriating consumers who say the goods are the last vices they've got to help cope with lost jobs, a deepening recession and overall economic misery.

Michigan AG: Drug trial was filled with perjury (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 02:59 PM PDT

AP - Michigan's attorney general filed charges Tuesday against a judge and a prosecutor he said worked together to allow two police officers to lie on the witness stand in a drug trial, allegations that he said "undermine the credibility of our justice system."

Very early photo of NYC to be sold (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 01:46 PM PDT

This undated photo released by Sotheby's shows an 1848 daguerreotype of a stately Manhattan home expected to go for $50,000 to $70,000 when it is auctioned off at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, March 30, 2009. It's believed to be one of the earliest photographic views of New York City and shows the hilltop house with a vast lawn on what is now Manhattan's Upper West Side. (AP Photo/Sotheby's)AP - In the early to mid-19th century, between the American Revolution and the Starbucks revolution, the Upper West Side of Manhattan was open countryside, with large estates, white picket fences and wagons trundling along a rutted road already known as Broadway.

Ohio State's Gee wears 2 energy hats (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 01:33 PM PDT

AP - Known as an influential cheerleader for green energy jobs, Ohio State University's President E. Gordon Gee also holds a seat on the board of one of environmentalists' top energy targets.

Fishing boat sinks off NJ; 2 dead, 4 missing (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - A fishing boat sank in rough seas off New Jersey on Tuesday morning, killing two people and leaving four missing in the icy ocean as relatives gathered at the water's edge to pray for their safe return.

Oakland cop shot by parolee taken off life support (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 01:31 PM PDT

A memorial to four officers killed in the line of duty by a man wanted on a parole violation is seen Tuesday, March 24, 2009, at police headquarters in Oakland, Calif. Oakland's police department has been left stunned after one officer died after being taken off life support and three others were killed during confrontations with the parolee on Saturday, the department's worst single-day death toll. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - An Oakland police officer shot by a man wanted on a parole violation was taken off life support after vital organs were removed for transplantation, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Firefighter investigated in string of Pa. arsons (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 01:03 PM PDT

AP - Investigators are trying to determine if a firefighter charged with the latest suspicious fires in an arson-plagued Philadelphia suburb could be responsible for any other unsolved blazes.

Mean dogs stand guard at Idaho prison (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 01:14 PM PDT

Scout, a German shepard, does his job as a sentry dog at the Idaho State Correctional Institution, Tuesday, Feb. 24. 2009 in Boise, Idaho. The dogs are aggressive and deeply territorial of their space between chain-link and razor wire fences. Nobody has broken out of the prison in more than 20 years. Prison officials like to think a hard-bitten corps of sentries has something to do with that. (AP Photo/Paul Hosefros)AP - Nobody has broken out of the Idaho State Correctional Institution in more than 20 years. Prison officials like to think a hard-bitten corps of sentries with names like Cookie, Bongo and Chi Chi has had something to do with that.

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