2009年4月1日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Deadline near, indictment imminent for Blagojevich (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT

In this Dec. 19, 2008, file photo, then Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich bites his nails as he enters a news conference to make his first substantial public comments since his arrest on federal corruption charges at a news conference in Chicago. Now facing a deadline less than a week away, federal prosecutors are expected to unveil as early as Thursday, April 2, 2009, an indictment charging Blagojevich with presiding over a state government awash in political corruption. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - An indictment is expected as early as Thursday charging ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with presiding over state government awash in political corruption. The indictment U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald is expected to produce would replace a complaint charging Blagojevich with plotting to trade or sell President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat and a host of other corruption.

Authorities seize Madoff's home, boats in Fla. (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:51 PM PDT

In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York. Madoff's 55-foot luxury yacht and a smaller vessel have been seized by U.S. Marshals in Florida. The boats were taken Wednesday from two different marinas. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)AP - Federal authorities seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's Palm Beach mansion, his vintage yacht and a smaller boat Wednesday, part of an effort to recoup assets to pay back investors he swindled.

Cop who stopped NFL player in hospital lot resigns (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:16 PM PDT

This video frame grab taken from a police dashboard camera shows NFL player Ryan Moats outside Baylor Regional Medical Center in Plano, Texas early March 18, 2009. Dallas police officer Robert Powell was put on desk duty after pulling over Moats as he was rushing to see his dying mother-in-law in the hospital, and holding him in the hospital parking lot as she died. (AP Photo/Dallas Morning News)AP - The police officer who pulled out his gun and threatened an NFL player with jail instead of allowing him inside a hospital where his mother-in-law was dying resigned Wednesday.

Fargo resisted FEMA recommendation to evacuate (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:03 PM PDT

Jerry Gowan looks out over the icy floodwaters of the Red River as they recede, Wednesday, April 1, 2009, in Oslo, Minn. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - With floodwaters rising around them, Fargo officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency faced an agonizing decision: Should they order a mandatory evacuation of the entire city?

Former Texas nurse charged with killing 5 patients (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:25 PM PDT

AP - A former nurse has been charged with injecting 10 patients with bleach, killing five of them, at a dialysis clinic that temporarily closed last year after deaths mysteriously spiked.

Ohio man asks US to halt deportation in Nazi case (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:45 PM PDT

In this Monday, Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in Cleveland for an immigration hearing. Demjanjuk is asking the United States to block his deportation to Germany, citing humanitarian reasons. John Demjanjuk made the request in a document filed Wednesday, April 1, 2009 with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)AP - An Ohio man with a reputed Nazi past is asking the United States to block his deportation to Germany, citing humanitarian reasons. John Demjanjuk made the request in a document filed Wednesday with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

NYC team to fight sex abuse among Orthodox Jewish (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:22 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors, counselors and religious leaders on Wednesday announced a program to combat sexual abuse among members of the insular world of Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews — a problem one lawmaker says extends beyond New York.

ACLU: Mich. funeral protest law unconstitutional (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:23 PM PDT

AP - A lawsuit challenging Michigan's law restricting funeral protests was filed Wednesday on behalf of a couple who were pulled over and arrested during a procession for a friend killed in Iraq because their van bore signs critical of then-President George W. Bush.

Md. officers accused of lying about teen's beating (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:39 PM PDT

AP - Two Baltimore police officers beat a teenager with a baton and a pool stick while he was handcuffed and shackled, then tried to cover up the attack with their sergeant's help, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.

9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:17 PM PDT

AP - Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients.

Obama aunt can stay in US until 2010 in asylum bid (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 10:57 AM 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 - President Barack Obama's aunt will remain in the United States until at least next year as she awaits a chance to make her case before an immigration judge in her bid for asylum from her native Kenya.

Social Security clogged with disability claims (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 12:01 PM PDT

Karen Slater Chambers looks over Social Security disability papers, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at her home in Tampa, Fla. The accidents and injuries had driven Slater Chambers, 56, out of the delivery truck she drove to a convenience store, where she pumped herself with painkillers just to make it through a shift of cashiering and stocking. The pain wouldn't fade, though. Her body no longer moved the same, She couldn't work. And so, she did what she considers the last resort: She filed for Social Security disability benefits four years ago, was turned down and is now awaiting an appeal hearing.. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - For all the talk of an impending crisis in Social Security, one already exists: The system is clogged with hundreds of thousands of disputed disability claims, a backlog so big that some people wait years for a hearing.

Unlikely pair on same civil liberties side (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:01 PM PDT

AP - Former U.S. Reps. Bob Barr and Cynthia McKinney aren't often on the same side, but both are speaking out on potential abuse of "fusion centers," funded by the Department of Homeland Security to blend state and local law enforcement with national security aims.

Fargo businesses reopen as swollen river subsides (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 09:39 AM 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 - Businesses reopened and commuter traffic returned Wednesday as the bloated Red River fell below the sandbags and the top of the permanent floodwalls protecting Fargo, feeding optimism the city had escaped a disastrous flood.

Army: Officer reprimanded after friendly fire (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT

AP - The Army says a 101st Airborne Division soldier who died during a firefight with Iraqi insurgents last year was killed by an officer's friendly fire.

Flooded, soggy Southeast braces for more rain (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:42 PM PDT

Matt Galloway, left, and golf course superintendent Vance Langham walk through receding floodwaters Wednesday, April 1, 2009 that inundated the River Oaks Golf Course in Geneva, Ala., this week. Officials say hundreds of homes have been flooded by heavy rains this week and more rain is expected to fall. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Water-logged Gulf Coast communities kept a wary eye on rising rivers and flooded roads Wednesday as forecasts called for another round of rain.

Stallworth charged with DUI manslaughter in crash (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:41 PM PDT

In this July 25, 2008 file photo, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth catches a ball after practice at the team's football training camp in Berea, Ohio. Stallworth was charged Wednesday, April 1, 2009 with killing a pedestrian last month while driving drunk after a night out at a swank South Beach nightspot. An arrest warrant charging Stallworth, 28, with DUI manslaughter was filed in the March 14 accident that killed 59-year-old Mario Reyes. If convicted, Stallworth would face as many as 15 years in prison. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)AP - Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth was charged Wednesday with killing a pedestrian last month while driving drunk after a night out at a swank South Beach nightspot.

Journal retracts diabetes study published in 2000 (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:15 PM PDT

AP - A scientific journal is retracting a research paper published more than eight years ago that reported a gene therapy treatment had led to remission of Type 1 diabetes in rats and mice.

Budget forces Fla. Everglades deal to shrink (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:34 PM PDT

AP - Gov. Charlie Crist's celebrated $1.34 billion deal to buy 180,000 acres of U.S. Sugar Corp. land to help restore the Everglades is being scaled back by more than half because the state can't afford the original deal, the governor announced Wednesday.

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