2009年4月5日星期日

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Media allowed to witness return of war casualty (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 04:41 PM PDT

In this March 19, 2008 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, Lt. Gen. Robert D. Bishop Jr., then 3rd Air Force commander, left, presents Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, 48th Civil Engineer Squadron, with a Bronze Star medal during an Airmen's Call  at RAF Lakenheath, England.  Myers, 30, of Hopewell Va, died April 4, 2009 in Afghanistan from wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device.  After receiving permission from family members, Air Force officials planned to open Dover Air Force Base, Delaware for the media to observe the return of the body of Myers Sunday night. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Airman Perry Aston)AP - The media will be allowed to cover the arrival Sunday of an airman killed overseas, the first such opportunity since the Obama administration overturned an 18-year ban on news coverage of returning war dead.


Fight over urinating dog got police to Pa. ambush (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 01:25 PM PDT

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, left, listens at a press conference as Police Chief Nate Harper speaks about the three Pittsburgh police officers who were slain as they responded to a domestic violence call and were shot by Richard Poplawski, 23, where he lived  in the Stanton Heights section of Pittsburgh, Pa., Saturday, April 4, 2009.  (AP Photo/John Heller)AP - A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.


Police: Dad killed kids because wife was leaving (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 04:38 PM PDT

Five crosses sit next to a memorial Sunday, April 5, 2009, in front of a home where five children were discovered killed on Saturday, at a trailer park near near Graham, Wash. A man who fatally shot his five children and killed himself had just discovered his wife was leaving him for another man, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - A man who fatally shot his five children and killed himself had just discovered his wife was leaving him for another man, authorities said Sunday.


Freed American UN aid worker leaves Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 01:23 PM PDT

In this file photo released by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009 in Quetta, Pakistan, kidnapped American U.N. official John Solecki is pictured in Quetta, Pakistan in April 2008. The American U.N. worker kidnapped near the Afghan border more than two months ago was abandoned by his captors Saturday, a police official said, but the militant violence plaguing Pakistan continued its relentless pace, as a suicide bomber attacked a paramilitary base in the capital, killing eight. Wazir Khan Nasir, a senior police official in Quetta, said Solecki was abandoned by his captors in a southern village on Saturday and was now in police custody. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, File)AP - The family of a New Jersey man abducted more than two months ago while working for the United Nations in Pakistan is eagerly awaiting his return, following news that his captors freed him this weekend.


AP INVESTIGATION: Terrorist eludes US in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT

ADVANCE FOR APRIL 6; timeline of the career of terrorist Abu IbrahimAP - As Pan Am Flight 830 descended toward Honolulu and passengers finished their breakfast, a blinding burst of light washed over them. And then, "BOOM!"


Pa. man, 73, accused of killing wife of few weeks (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 01:13 PM PDT

AP - A 73-year-old western Pennsylvania man was charged with killing his 73-year-old wife after authorities said he was upset by her decision to end their marriage of just a few weeks.

Volunteers help salamanders avoid roadway massacre (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 01:16 PM PDT

People watch a salamander cross a  roadway in New Haven, Vt., Sunday, March 22, 2009. They volunteered on a recent night to carry salamanders, frogs and newts across the road during their annual migration to mate. On rainy nights in early spring, roads between forests and vernal pools are hopping and crawling with activity. On some nights, hundreds of amphibians cross small stretches of roads to mate. But many don't make it, getting squashed by cars. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)AP - The black salamander with yellow spots sat on the roadside in the dark, ready to make a go of it.


A pain in the ash: Volcano irritates Alaskans (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 10:23 AM PDT

In this March 26, 2009 file photo, Mount Redoubt bellows steam and ash across the Cook Inlet from Ninilchik, Alaska. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said the Mount Redoubt eruptions, which have wreaked havoc on air service in and out of Anchorage for days, underscore the need for a reliable and steady system of volcano observation.  (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File )AP - Mount Redoubt is getting under the skin of Alaska, and it's not just the irritation caused by volcanic ash.


Cleveland looks ahead to next Rock Hall ceremony (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 12:32 PM PDT

James Hetfield of Metallica performs after the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Saturday, April 4, 2009 in Cleveland.  (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich pointed up at thousands of rock fans in the public seating sections at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's 2009 inductions.


Binghamton officials defend response to massacre (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:34 PM PDT

Binghamton police chief Joseph Zikuski speaks during a news conference in Binghamton, N.Y., Sunday, April 5, 2009. Authorities say that all victims of Friday's community center shooting in Binghamton have been identified.  Binghamton Mayor Matthew Ryan, right, listens.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Even if police officers had immediately entered the immigrant center where a gunman had just shot down 13 people, the victims' injuries were so severe that none would have survived, a county prosecutor said Sunday.


Fargo students going back to school after flood (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 12:15 PM PDT

Noof Ali watches her father Amar Hussein, talk about leaving Iraq and settling in the United State, in their Fargo, N.D., apartment Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Battered by a flood and a blizzard, Fargo residents are quick to credit friends, family and faith for getting them through. For Fargo's newest arrivals, refugees from Iraq, Somalia, Serbia, and other hard-hit places, the web of support can be far more frail.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - School bells are set to ring Monday for the first time in nearly two weeks for students who had joined the round-the-clock sandbagging effort to protect the Fargo area from a record Red River flood.


Strong wind hampers crews battling Texas fires (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 02:01 PM PDT

AP - Strong wind on Sunday hampered fire crews' efforts to control several Texas wildfires that had destroyed eight homes and damaged more than 20 smaller structures.

Spotlight focuses on 'squeaky clean' new Ill. gov (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 10:28 AM PDT

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, left, greets members of Future Farmers of America to help kick off Illinois Agricultural Legislative day at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Thursday, March, 26, 2009. After six years as lieutenant governor, Quinn is leaning on his well-honed image of honest public servant as he leads Illinois government in the wake of the corruption scandal that engulfed his predecessor and fellow Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - Gov. Pat Quinn does not tolerate cheating, even if it only means shaving a few steps off a promised 170-mile hike.


Customs says art was framed with marijuana (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 11:34 AM PDT

AP - It wasn't the beauty of the paintings that caught of the eye of Customs agents.

'Fast & Furious' accelerates to $72.5M opening (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 11:49 AM PDT

In this film publicity still released by Universal Pictures, Vin Diesel is shown in a scene from 'Fast & Furious.' (AP Photo/Universal Pictures)AP - "Fast & Furious" left the competition in the dust with a $72.5 million opening weekend, the best so far this year.


Schools eye stimulus $$$ for energy efficiency (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 10:30 AM PDT

Tate Haynes, 33, chief engineer for Henry Sibley Senior High School, points out one of the many sensors that regulate the lights in class rooms and hallways of the school in Mendota Heights, Minn., Friday, March 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - The candy machine at Henry Sibley High School knows when students roam the halls and automatically powers down when they've gone home. The basketball court still shines, but under the glow of fluorescent tubes that suck up a fraction of the juice the old lights used.


Parents to visit detained US journalist in Iran (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 01:06 PM PDT

AP - The parents of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran will be allowed to visit their daughter Monday, and her case is to be reviewed by a court that normally handles security threats, their lawyer said Sunday.

FBI suspects link between truckers, serial killers (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 04:34 AM PDT

AP - The FBI suspects there's a link between long-haul truckers and serial killers, and runs a national program to track murders along popular trucking routes, according to a newspaper report.

Analysis: Negotiating a minefield of bad news (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2009 08:40 PM PDT

A relative of the deceased children is comforted by a Pierce County Sheriff's deputy in Graham, Wash., Saturday, April 4, 2009. Washington state investigators say five children between 7 and 16 years old have been found dead in a Graham area home and they may have been killed by their father.  (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Joe Barrentine)AP - Does the name Byran Uyesugi ring a bell? Odds are not. What about Robert A. Hawkins? Or Mark Barton? Terry Ratzmann? Robert Stewart?


One man's ambivalent retreat from his racist past (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2009 06:39 PM PDT

Elwin Hope Wilson holds a framed photo he kept showing a mob he participated in during one of local civil rights 'sit-ins' that took place in the early 1960s, as he sits at home Wednesday, March 4, 2009, in Rock Hill, S.C.  Several of the clocks he collects are in the background. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Elwin Hope Wilson leans back in his recliner, a sad, sickly man haunted by time.


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