2009年3月27日星期五

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Phoenix's Serial Shooter gets 6 death sentences (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 04:03 PM PDT

Dale Hausner holds up six fingers while referencing the six counts of murder the jury convicted him of in the Serial Shooter case Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Phoenix. A jury has sentenced Hausner to six death terms in a series of murders that put the city on edge for nearly two years. (AP Photo/ Pat Shannahan, POOL)AP - The main suspect in the Phoenix Serial Shooter attacks was sentenced to death Friday for six murders that put the city on edge for nearly two years. Dale Hausner was convicted earlier this month of killing six people and attacking 19 others in random nighttime shootings in 2005 and 2006.

Spokane residents smuggle suds over green brands (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:34 PM PDT

Shannon Brattebo poses to show how she would place a phosphate free dishwasher detergent tablet into a dishwasher in Spokane, Wash. on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Dishwasher detergents containing phosphates have been banned in Spokane County since July 2008. Brattebo, as secretary of Washington State Lake Protection Association, was a prime mover of the ban. 'I'm not hearing a lot of positive feedback,' she conceded . 'I think people are driving to Idaho.' (AP Photo/Young Kwak)AP - The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned some law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers.

Jury finds Kan. doctor not guilty in abortion case (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:36 PM PDT

Attorney Lee Thompson, left, congratulates Dr. George Tiller after bailiff Mary Mazur reads the jury's verdicts of not guilty in Sedgwick County District Court Friday, Mar. 27, 2009. Jurors have acquitted one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers of violating Kansas law requiring an independent second opinion for the procedure. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Mike Hutmacher)AP - One of the nation's few late-term abortion providers was acquitted Friday of misdemeanor charges stemming from procedures he performed, but moments after the verdict the state's medical board announced it was investigating allegations against him that are nearly identical to those the jury had rejected.

Report: Improper anchoring caused boat accident (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:06 PM PDT

In a photo provided by Stuart Schuyler, Nick Schuyler and his girlfriend, Paula Olivera, are seen in 2007 in Tampa, Fla. The boating accident involving two NFL players and their friends in the Gulf of Mexico in late February was caused by improper anchoring and a decision to throttle the boat forward in an attempt to free the stuck anchor, a report released Friday, March 27, 2009 by The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission concludes.(AP Photo/NFL)AP - An agency investigating a deadly boating accident involving two NFL players and their friends in the Gulf of Mexico has concluded it was caused when the vessel was improperly anchored and the boat capsized after one of them tried to throttle forward to pry loose the anchor.

VA: 16 patients of problem clinics infected (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 04:11 PM PDT

AP - Viral infections, including hepatitis, have been found in 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at Veterans Affairs medical facilities, a department spokeswoman said Friday.

New York to ease its landmark tough drug laws (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:26 PM PDT

Maria Muentes, right, along with others, hold signs during a rally outside New York Governor David Paterson's office to persuade him and legislative leaders to end the remaining so-called Rockefeller-era drug laws, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - New York Gov. David Paterson and legislative leaders have agreed to ease drug laws that were once among the harshest in the nation and led a movement more than 30 years ago toward mandatory prison terms.

New Kan. law: Before abortions, offer ultrasounds (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:56 PM PDT

AP - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has signed a bill ensuring that clinics give women and girls seeking abortions a chance to see ultrasound images before performing the procedure.

Atlanta 'giving meters' program off to slow start (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - Six months after Atlanta business leaders set up parking meter-like machines to accept spare change donations and discourage panhandling, just $500 has been deposited — not much help for beggars who say they can sometimes raise $300 in a day on their own.

Man locked inside bar after falling asleep (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:03 PM PDT

AP - A patron at the I Don't Care Bar & Grill evidently didn't care about leaving until it was way past closing time and the door was locked. The man, whose name was not released, told police in western Kentucky that he fell asleep inside the bar and when he got up to leave he set off the alarm.

Survivors of Holocaust train meet liberators in SC (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:28 PM PDT

Frank W. Towers, of Gainsville, Fld. president of the 30th Infantry Division Veterans of WWII talks about the liberation of Holocaust survivors from concentration camps as he shows his photos taken at Buchenwald in late May 1945 Friday, March 27, 2009, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Robert Spitz was an emaciated, lice-infested 15-year-old when he was put on an overcrowded train at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the waning days of World War II. He was sure it was a journey to death.

Estimate of Mass. stimulus jobs uncertain at best (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 01:52 PM PDT

AP - State officials overseeing the federal economic stimulus program in Massachusetts say they have no idea how the White House came up with one key pledge — the promise to save or create 79,000 jobs in the state.

Pa. youth court corruption creates legal headache (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:22 PM PDT

In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo Mark Ciavarella, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned hundreds of juvenile convictions issued by Ciavarella. The high court on Thursday, March 26, 2009 voided the convictions of many youth offenders who appeared before former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella from 2003 to 2008. (AP Photo/David Kidwell, file)AP - The decision this week to overturn hundreds of juvenile convictions was a significant and dramatic first step toward untangling the legal mess left behind by a judicial corruption case in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Man pleads not guilty in Nevada boy's abduction (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 01:21 PM PDT

AP - A man accused in the abduction of a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy last year pleaded not guilty Friday to plotting the drug-related kidnapping as retaliation against the boy's grandfather.

Va. governor vetoes bills to expand death penalty (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 01:46 PM PDT

AP - Gov. Timothy M. Kaine vetoed legislation Friday that would have extended the death penalty to murder accomplices, a measure that would have increased the population eligible for execution in the nation's second-busiest death chamber.

Blizzard conditions close roads in Southern Plains (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:39 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, March 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM EDT shows ample clouds over the East as a complex storm system is providing widespread rain through the Southeast and snow in the southern half of the Plains. Tornadoes may even form in eastern Texas and much of the rest of the state is experiencing heavy winds. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - A major spring blizzard plodding eastward over the Southern Plains shut down major highways and paralyzed the region as residents braced Friday for up to a foot of snow, freezing 45-mph winds and massive snowdrifts.

Miami sex offenders still living under bridge (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 12:26 PM PDT

In a Tuesday Feb. 5, 2008 photo, an elderly sex offender relaxes outside his tent at the makeshift camp he and other offenders call home under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami. The state of Florida has not been able to dissolve the community of sex offenders living under the bridge. Their numbers have increased as parolees and other sex offenders find it nearly impossible to find an affordable place to live that does not violate ordinance laws. (AP Photo/David Adame)AP - A sandy shoreline runs outside Patrick Wiese's front door. A white crane toes through gentle blue-green waters as the sun beams overhead. The view of downtown is spectacular, the fishing good and the rent free.

Longtime NBC newsman Irving R. Levine dies at 86 (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 12:19 PM PDT

In this Oct. 29, 1995 file photo, veteran reporter Irving R. Levine smiles during taping of NBC's 'Meet the Press' in Washington. Levine, the NBC newsman who explained the fine points of economics for nearly a quarter century, died Thursday, March 26, 2009. He was 86. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)AP - Irving R. Levine, the bow-tied NBC newsman who explained the fine points of economics to millions of viewers for nearly a quarter century, has died. He was 86.

Obama nominates former Miss. gov as Navy secretary (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:12 PM PDT

This is a March 5, 2008 file photograph of former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus shown in Jackson, Miss. President Barack Obama will nominate Mabus to be secretary of the Navy, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press on Friday, March 27, 2009. Mabus, 60, is a Democrat and campaigned extensively for Obama last year. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - President Barack Obama on Friday nominated former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus to be secretary of the Navy, choosing a political supporter with a two-year career in the service.

Funeral begins for 4 slain Oakland, Calif., police (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:21 PM PDT

A hearse arrives under a U.S. flag carrying the body of a fallen Oakland Police officer Friday, March 27, 2009, in Oakland, Calif. The memorial service was held for Oakland police officers Mark Dunakin, John Hege, Ervin Romans and Daniel Sakai, who were gunned down Saturday police say by a 26-year-old parole violator, who was also killed. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Thousands of mourners gathered with the families of four slain Oakland police officers for a joint funeral Friday that drew law enforcement officers from around the world.

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