2009年3月31日星期二

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Mom: Suspect's wife survived NC shooting by hiding (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 04:06 PM PDT

A resident pears out a door at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center in Carthage, N.C., Monday, March 30, 2009, a day after seven resident and one staff member shot and killed. As the magnitude of Sunday's shooting spree at the nursing facility sinks in, staff and family members are groping along, trying to determine how much residents know or remember — and how much they should tell them — about how a nurse and seven of their fellow residents were killed. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - The nurse's assistant who may have been the target of a deadly nursing home rampage in North Carolina survived by hiding in a bathroom inside a locked area for Alzheimer's patients, her mother said Tuesday.

Pistachio warning could signal food safety shift (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:38 PM PDT

Close up of pistachio nuts at a grocery store in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Federal food safety officials warned Monday that consumers should stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination. The company at the center of a nationwide pistachio recall says the salmonella contamination could have come from raw nuts during processing but not a human or animal source in its plant. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - It could take weeks before health officials know exactly which pistachio products may be tainted with salmonella, but they've already issued a sweeping warning to avoid eating the nuts or foods containing them.

NYC ultra-orthodox Jews give Amish walking tour (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 04:59 PM PDT

AP - The city's ultra-Orthodox Jews took the Pennsylvania Amish on a walking tour of their world Tuesday, saying their communities are naturally drawn to each other with a commitment to simpler lifestyles. "It's reinforcing to the Amish community to see us Jews living the way the Bible says Jews are supposed to live, and have lived since the time of Moses and Abraham," said Yisroel Ber Kaplan, program director for the Chassidic Discovery Center in Brooklyn.

Red River recedes below most sandbags in Fargo, ND (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 03:42 PM PDT

Lt. Jared Durer with the South Dakota National Guard patrols the snow covered earthen levee in blizzard conditions as Red River floodwaters continue to drop Tuesday, March 31, 2009, along 76th Ave. S. in Fargo, N.D. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - The Red River on Tuesday dropped to a level below most of Fargo's sandbag levees, taking some pressure off the makeshift floodwalls as engineers and National Guard troops watched for signs of leaks during a blinding snowstorm.

Jury: Death for 2 men in Fla. Turnpike slayings (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 04:09 PM PDT

This undated photo released on Saturday Oct. 14, 2006 by the St. Lucie County Sheriff, shows Jose Luis Escobedo Jr, back left, Yessica Guerrero Escobedo, top right, Luis Julian Escobedo, 4, bottom left, and Luis Damian Escobedo, 3. The family, including two boys, was found fatally shot along Florida's Turnpike in Port St. Lucie, about 100 miles (160 kms) north of Miami. (AP Photo/St. Lucie County Sheriff)AP - A federal jury on Tuesday recommended death for two men convicted of gunning down a family of four, including two young children, prompting one of the defendants to curse and hurl a plastic bottle toward prosecutors before he was dragged from the courtroom.

Storms roll again over flooded, soggy Southeast (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 04:16 PM PDT

AP - Thunderstorms accompanied by the threat of tornadoes rolled across the already soaked Southeast on Tuesday, raising new worries for residents still recovering from a weekend deluge that flooded hundreds of homes, washed out roads and forced evacuations.

Trial begins for Marine in Iraq killings case (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:11 PM PDT

Marine Sgt. Ryan G. Weemer, left, follows his civilian attorney, Paul Hackett, to the courtroom where opening arguments in his court martial trial are to begin at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - A court-martial began Tuesday for a Marine accused of killing an unarmed captive in Iraq in a case officials knew nothing about until the defendant sought a Secret Service job and was asked about the most serious crime he had ever committed.

Flood dampens North Dakota's economic success (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 02:49 PM PDT

A customer enters a hardware store Monday, March 30, 2009, in Fargo, N.D. The exact economic toll from flooding there is not yet known, but scores of businesses are shut down and many workers aren't drawing paychecks. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - North Dakota has largely escaped the recession, enjoying slow but steady growth and even a budget surplus. But as the floodwaters begin to recede, the swollen Red River still threatens to wash away some of that prosperity.

Sources: FBI probing Mo. pay-for-play allegations (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:34 PM PDT

AP - The FBI is questioning Missouri lawmakers about allegations that legislative leaders demanded campaign contributions in exchange for prestigious committee posts, legislative sources told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Obama's aunt becomes symbol in immigration debate (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 01:43 PM PDT

In this file photo, the public housing complex in South Boston where President Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango reportedly lives is seen Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. The Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt lost her bid for asylum more than four years ago, and a judge ordered her deported. Instead, Zeituni Onyango stayed, living for years in public housing.

Special Olympics fights use of word 'retard' (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 04:26 PM PDT

From left, actor Eddie Barbanell, star of the hit movie 'The Ringer', Andy Myiers, Nick Zamorano, Hyun-Woo Lin, , Nancy Sawyer, and Noah Gray are seen during the 'Spread the Word to End the Word' Youth Rally at Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest, Fla., Tuesday, March 31, 2009. The rally is part of a campaign by the Special Olympics to get people to stop using the word retarded. (AP Photo/John Watson-Riley) AP Photo/John Watson-Riley 0AP - WASHINGTON — The Special Olympics launched a campaign Tuesday to banish the word "retard," a casual insult that derives from an out-of-favor medical term and has long been considered inappropriate.

SC lawmakers back away from $700M in stimulus cash (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT

In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford responds to questions as he explains his opposition to a proposed coal-fired power plant in Florence County during a news conference at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Sanford has been the leading voice among a group of Republican governors who have criticized President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus plan as a pork-laden effort that will plunge the country further into debt. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - South Carolina is poised to become the first state to shrug off federal stimulus money intended to help recession-battered schools, throwing hundreds of teacher jobs into jeopardy because lawmakers doubt Washington can mandate how the state spends money.

Brothers: Chimp victim is talking and improving (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 01:55 PM PDT

In this Feb. 24, 2009 file photo, Mike Nash attends a probate hearing in Stamford, Conn., where Probate Judge Gerald M. Fox Jr. appointed Nash as temporary conservator to his 55-year-old twin sister, Charla. Michael and his brother Stephen told The Associated Press by telephone on Tuesday March 31, 2009 that their sister Charla can talk and respond to commands. Charla Nash was critically injured on Feb. 16 when a chimpanzee owned by her friend, Sandra Herold of Stamford, attacked her. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)AP - A Connecticut woman nearly killed by a chimpanzee is speaking, asking for her daughter and even responding to fairly complicated commands, her brothers said Tuesday. Stephen and Michael Nash told The Associated Press by telephone on Tuesday that they are encouraged by test results for brain damage to their sister Charla.

3 charged in NYC college student's drinking death (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 01:06 PM PDT

AP - Three members of a banned fraternity were charged with criminally negligent homicide Tuesday for organizing a wild night of drinking that left a college sophomore dead of alcohol poisoning.

Vatican to investigate scandalized religious order (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 02:14 PM PDT

Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to father Marcial Maciel, founder of Legionaries of Christ, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican, Italy, in this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo. Maciel died in 2008 at age 87. Pope Benedict XVI has taken the extraordinary step of ordering an investigation into a conservative Roman Catholic order that recently disclosed that its late founder had fathered a child. The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said investigators would visit all of the institutions run by the Legionaries of Christ, one of the fastest-growing orders in the Roman Catholic church. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has taken the extraordinary step of ordering a Vatican investigation of the Legionaries of Christ, the influential, conservative religious order that has acknowledged that its founder fathered a child and molested seminarians.

No memories of NC shooting a blessing for some (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 12:12 PM PDT

A resident pears out a door at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center in Carthage, N.C., Monday, March 30, 2009, a day after seven resident and one staff member shot and killed. As the magnitude of Sunday's shooting spree at the nursing facility sinks in, staff and family members are groping along, trying to determine how much residents know or remember — and how much they should tell them — about how a nurse and seven of their fellow residents were killed. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - Ellery Chisholm wishes she could forget the bearded man in the red shirt she saw appear at her bedroom door at Pinelake Health and Rehab and point a rifle at her horror-stricken roommate.

Calif. judges aren't sharing state's economic pain (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 11:36 AM PDT

AP - California has furloughed workers and slashed programs to close a $41 billion budget gap, but it still has more than 400 judges in Los Angeles County who each make more than the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

8 accused of stealing pot, guns from Miss. police (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 11:21 AM PDT

AP - Authorities investigating how machine guns, pistols and marijuana disappeared from a police department in a Mississippi Delta town say they have uncovered a ring of prison inmates and a county worker who planned to sell the stolen weapons in Chicago.

Retired military officers: keep ban on gays (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 12:41 PM PDT

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, pictured on March 2, 2009, Sunday ruled out an imminent change in the AP - More than 1,000 retired military officers, including several who were top commanders, are urging President Barack Obama and Congress to maintain the law that bars gays from serving openly in the armed forces.

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