2009年4月3日星期五

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Upstate New York gunman kills 13, commits suicide (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:14 PM PDT

Unidentified people embrace outside a Catholic Charities office where counselors tend to relatives of victims of the shooting in Binghamton N.Y., Friday, April 3, 2009. A gunman barricaded the back door of a community center with his car and then opened fire on a room full of immigrants taking a citizenship class Friday, killing 13 people before apparently committing suicide, officials said. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A gunman barricaded the back door of a community center with his car and then opened fire on a room full of immigrants taking a citizenship class Friday, killing 13 people before apparently committing suicide, officials said.

Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:05 PM PDT

Laura Fefchak, right, and Nancy Robinson, center, of Urbandale, Iowa, react to the ruling from the Iowa Supreme Court in Urbandale, Iowa on Friday, April 3, 2009. Gay marriage advocates began celebrating early Friday after the Iowa Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling finding that the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples. (AP Photo/David Purdy)AP - Iowa's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and first in the nation's heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed.

Homeland Security boss says cartels under pressure (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:43 PM PDT

Janet Napolitano, center, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Congressman Henry Cuellar leave the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas, Friday, April. 3, 2009. Secretary Napolitano visited Laredo as part of her three-day trip to California, Mexico and Texas. (AP Photo/The Laredo Morning Times, Ricardo Santos)AP - Beefed up vehicle inspections, more drug-sniffing dogs and improved surveillance should help curb the flow of guns and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.

Calif. nut plant: Kraft found salmonella in 2008 (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:32 PM PDT

Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc. is a processing plant shown Tuesday, March 31, 2009 in Terra Bella, Calif. The company at the center of a nationwide pistachio recall says it believes the salmonella contamination is likely not from a human or animal source inside their plant. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)AP - A company at the heart of a nationwide pistachio recall said Friday that Kraft Foods Inc. detected salmonella in its pistachios more than six months ago but didn't report the finding until last week.

Siegelman attorney asks Holder to intervene (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:22 PM PDT

Mexico's Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora, left, speaks with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder during a press conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Thursday, April 2, 2009. ( AP Photo/ Claudio Cruz)AP - The chief attorney for former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman is urging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to ask a federal judge to throw out Siegelman's corruption conviction.

Ohio man branded Nazi guard stalls his deportation (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:02 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 - John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi death camp guard, marked his 89th birthday Friday by winning a reprieve of his ordered deportation to Germany to face possible trial.

Egyptian student found not guilty of bomb charges (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:13 PM PDT

AP - In an emotional conclusion to a federal trial, an Egyptian student was found not guilty on charges of carrying explosives that prosecutors said could have been used to build a dangerous rocket.

Midwesterners hope to find cash for flood fixes (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:53 PM PDT

An old rural farmhouse is surrounded by the icy floodwaters of the Red River as it continued to retreat, Wednesday, April 1, 2009, in Oslo, Minn. The farm house is seen from an airbaot, the only way to acess most rural ares around Oslo, Minn. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Still soggy from surging floodwaters, weary residents and elected officials in the Midwest already are clamoring to bulk up the region's patchwork flood control system — hoping that they won't be so dependent on sandbags and sweat the next time around.

Ex-sailor sentenced to 10 years in terror case (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:38 PM PDT

AP - A former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements and the best ways to attack them was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10 years in prison.

Lawyers convicted in diet-drug case sent to jail (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:03 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge jailed two disbarred lawyers who had been found guilty Friday of scamming their clients out of nearly $95 million in a diet-drug settlement.

New photos of aftermath of MLK killing published (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:37 PM PDT

A statue of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands outside of the Brown AME Chapel in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 8, 2009, on the 44th anniversary of the Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer)AP - Newly published photographs of the aftermath of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. languished for decades in Life magazine's archive before being published on the magazine's Web site this week.

Vick's plan to pay creditors shot down by judge (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Peter Ginsberg, left, bankruptcy attorney for former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, talks to the press after the second day of a bankruptcy hearing at the US Federal Courthouse in Newport News, Va., Friday, April 3, 2009. A judge denied his bankruptcy plan and asked for a new one. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Fallen NFL star Michael Vick told a bankruptcy judge Friday that he became a changed man in prison and is determined to do all the right things upon his release from prison, including repaying his creditors with the millions he hopes to resume earning in professional football.

NYC fried chicken joints under fire for Obama name (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:14 PM PDT

AP - Two New York City fried chicken restaurants in predominantly black neighborhoods are under fire for putting President Barack Obama's name on their signs.

NYPD sees threat in Israel-Iran tensions (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT

AP - The New York Police Department has prepared plans to beef up security at the city's synagogues and other Jewish sites amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, officials confirmed Friday.

CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:51 PM PDT

AP - Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what's considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient, a government study has found.

Life for Md. teen who killed mom after grade fight (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:45 PM PDT

AP - A Maryland teenager who never got in trouble before beating his mother to death with a baseball bat after an argument over his grades was sentenced to life in prison Friday.

Jobless make TV ads pitching themselves for work (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:29 PM PDT

Jayna Dinsmore, 33, of Groton, Mass., left, an unemployed marketing manager, looks up from twittering while the set for 'The Job Show' is prepped in Chelmsford, Mass. Thursday, March 19, 2009. As unemployment rates continue to climb, a group of unemployed residents northern Massachusetts have opted to take their job search to a cable access production they call 'The Job Show.' The episodes, produced by other unemployed residents, allow hungry job seekers to record 30-second commercials, or elevator pitches, about themselves and their job experiences. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Jayna Dinsmore dressed in a sharp pink blouse and black slacks and made the pitch she hoped would end her five months of unemployment: Experienced marketing manager and analyst. Diverse background. Trade show experience.

SC man's corpse was apparently cut to fit coffin (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:04 PM PDT

This is a copy of a family photo provided by Ann Hines that was taken of her and husband James Hines in Jan. 2004 about nine months before he died of skin cancer in Allendale, S.C. Hines memorable size is apparently the reason he hasn't been able to rest in peace since his death at age 60 in 2004. Authorities exhumed Hines this week to check rumors that a funeral home cut his legs because the 6- foot-7 man couldn't fit in his casket.(AP Photo/Ann Hines)AP - James Hines was a giant — a 6-foot-7, 300-pound preacher and funk musician so big that after he died in 2004, a macabre rumor began circulating in this small town that the undertaker had to cut off his legs to fit him in the coffin.

Mass. mother charged with stabbing 2-year-old girl (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:07 PM PDT

AP - A woman who believes she was being stalked by a cult has been charged with stabbing her 2-year-old daughter 100 times with scissors, her lawyer and police have said, and can be heard yelling "Die! Die!" on a 911 call.

Doctor in NJ hep B case has his license suspended (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:23 PM PDT

Dr. Parvez Dara, an oncologist with offices in Toms River, N.J., watches a hearing concerning his medical practice at the state Board of Medical Examiners office in Newark, N.J., Friday, April, 3, 2009. Regulators are holding a hearing Friday to decide whether to suspend Dara's medical license after five of his patients tested positive for the disease hepatitis B, that is transmitted through exposure to infected blood. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)AP - State regulators on Friday temporarily suspended the medical license of a doctor who health officials suspect is linked to a hepatitis B outbreak.

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