2009年4月10日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Tornado kills 2, injures 41 in Tenn. (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Tornado damages are seen in the Blackman community in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Friday, April 10, 2009. A reported tornado hit central Tennessee, injuring at least 13 people as a line of storms creeps into the South from the Midwest (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Jae S. Lee)AP - A tornado killed a woman and her 9-week-old infant and also injured dozens Friday in central Tennessee as a line of storms lifted homes, ripped off roofs and dumped hail in the Southeast.

Experts: Possible ransom may protect US hostage (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 04:56 PM PDT

Yellow ribbons line the fence in front of the home of Capt. Richard Phillips in Underhill, Vt., Friday, April 10, 2009. Phillips, the American captain held hostage by four Somali pirates, made a desperate escape attempt Friday but was recaptured. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - An American hostage held by armed Somali pirates in a tiny lifeboat may be protected by a lucrative — and possibly growing — ransom on his life, experts said Friday.

Man gets death for California yacht murders (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 01:43 PM PDT

AP - A man convicted of murdering an Arizona couple by tying them to an anchor and throwing them overboard from their yacht off Southern California was sentenced to death Friday.

2 students dead in Mich. apparent murder-suicide (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 04:52 PM PDT

A student is interviewed while a Dearborn, Mich., police officer stands outside the Grant MacKenzie Fine Arts Center at the Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn after police say two people have been killed in what they believe was a murder-suicide at the school on Friday, April 10, 2009. Deputy Police Chief Gregg Brighton says the school was locked down in the early afternoon Friday shortly after a 911 call came in of shots fired. Officers responded after 12:30 p.m., set up a perimeter around the fine arts building and as officers entered they heard another gunshot. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - A student fatally shot a female classmate before turning the gun on himself Friday in an apparent murder-suicide that prompted a lockdown at a community college west of Detroit, police said.

Economy may contribute to rise in family violence (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 10:57 AM PDT

AP - Some hospitals report seeing more than twice as many shaken babies as a year ago. Deaths from domestic violence have increased sharply in some areas.

7th surgery shows face transplants gaining ground (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 03:09 PM PDT

Plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, center, smiles while facing reporters along with other medical staff, during a news conference at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Friday, April 10, 2009. Pomahac led a surgical team that performed the nation's second partial face transplant on a man who suffered traumatic facial injuries from an accident. Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Elof Eriksson, appears center left. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Five years ago, it was the stuff of science fiction: Replace someone's face with one from a dead donor. But on Thursday, Boston doctors performed the world's seventh such transplant — less than a week after one in France — and plans are in the works for more.

No salmonella found in New York pistachio plant (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 09:33 AM PDT

A pistachio trader shows his goods at a shop in Tehran. US federal food safety officials said a California plant was recalling about one million pounds (454 tonnes) of pistachio products following fears of salmonella contamination.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)AP - New York officials say they found no traces of salmonella in a Long Island pistachio processing plant whose sister company sparked a nationwide recall of the nut last week.

At least 1 of fires raging over Okla., Texas arson (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 04:45 PM PDT

Fred Blackwell surveys his burned out workshop attempting to salvage tools and other items in Stoneburg, Texas, Friday, April 10, 2009. Blackwell lost his home, workshop and a trailer on his property following Thursday's wildfires that burned nearly 1000 acres killing at least three. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Oklahomans and Texans returned home to charred buildings, ruined cars and glowing rock Friday in the wake of several drought-fueled, wind-driven fires, at least one of which was deliberately set, according to fire officials.

Black man's killing by police shakes La. town (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 12:33 PM PDT

Shaun Monroe holds a program from the funeral of his father Bernard Monroe Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at his fathers house in Homer, La. For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe's life in this little town was as quiet as they come. Rendered mute after losing his larynx to cancer, the black man's death is making far more noise than he ever did, and raising racial tensions between the black community and the police department. (AP Photo/ Judi Bottoni)AP - For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe led a life in this northern Louisiana town as peaceful as they come — five kids with his wife of five decades, all raised in the same house, supported by the same job.

Tiny horse trains as guide for blind Muslim woman (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 10:58 AM PDT

Mona Ramouni rides a SMART bus to her job with her guide horse, Cali, in Lincoln Park, Mich., Thursday, April 9, 2009. Ramouni lost her sight soon after birth, but she can't use a guide dog. Many Muslims consider dogs unclean, and Ramouni respects her parents' aversion to having one in their home. The solution, she hopes, is Cali, a miniature horse who stands 30 inches tall and is being trained to help Ramouni through her daily routine. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Seeing-eye dogs are a nonstarter among many Muslims who consider the animals unclean, but a horse the size of a dog just might work.

Ohio's Demjanjuk is denied stay of deportation (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 03:17 PM PDT

Suspected Nazi John Demjanjuk, seen here in 1992, ost his latest attempt to block extradition to Germany to face charges of helping murder Jews as a death camp guard.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AP - An immigration appeals board ruled Friday that retired autoworker John Demjanjuk can be deported to Germany to face charges that he served as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.

Binghamton mourns loss of 'family, friends, peace' (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 12:26 PM PDT

Binghamton, N.Y.,city officials and religious leaders lead a community march to memorialize the victims of last Friday's shooting that resulted in the deaths of 14 people, through downtown Binghamton to Confluence Park, where tulips were planted for each of the victims, Friday, April 10, 2009. (AP Photo/HEATHER AINSWORTH)AP - Mayor Matt Ryan wept Friday as he tried to console himself and his community one-week after a gunman opened fire on a classroom of immigrants studying English, killing 13 people before taking his own life.

Doctor in Ala. baby murder case stands by autopsy (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 01:33 PM PDT

In this May 2008 photo, Webb County Medical Examiner Corinne Stern shows one of the freezers at the new county morgue in Laredo, Texas. State experts determined Stern, a former Alabama medical examiner now working in Texas, was wrong when she concluded the death of Bridget Lee's boy was a homicide. The child actually died of pneumonia at birth and never drew a breath, a new autopsy found. (AP Photo/Laredo Morning Times, Ricardo Santos)AP - The doctor whose bungled autopsy of a baby led to a murder charge that was dropped this week against an Alabama mother maintains the findings were correct, the medical examiner's lawyer said Friday.

Blogger critical of cops says he's now a target (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 04:39 AM PDT

Blogger Jeffrey Pataky, who has been critical of the Phoenix Police Department on his Web site, poses for a photo in front of the downtown skyline Wednesday, April 8, 2009, in Phoenix. Pataky says police raided his home in retaliation and is suing the city for civil rights violations. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)AP - Blogger Jeffrey Pataky is dedicated to ranting about crime — so long as it involves the Phoenix police department.

Guardsman brings Iraqi boy to Mich. for surgery (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 02:58 AM PDT

Mohammed, right, a 12-year-old burn victim from Iraq, and Major David Howell leave the Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Thursday, April 9, 2009, in Lansing, Mich. Mohammed was brought to the U.S. and will receive skin grafts and reconstructive surgery largely through the efforts of Howell, a Michigan Army National Guard physician's assistant from Grand Ledge. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)AP - Eleven-year-old Mohammed didn't speak much English, but Army Maj. David Howell had no trouble understanding the badly burned Iraqi boy's request last November to take him to America.

Water monitor eyes farm runoff in Gulf of Mexico (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 05:07 AM PDT

This image provided by NASA shows sediments in the Gulf of Mexico taken by the Aqua satellite in Sept. 2002. The director of Global Water Watch hopes a new project that enlists middle and high school students will help reduce the farm runoff that is a growing pollution threat to the Gulf of Mexico. Nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants from the farms end up on a huge scale in the Gulf, where an 8,000-square-mile 'dead zone' forms annually off the Louisiana and Texas coasts as one result. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A clean water expert at Auburn University hopes a new project that enlists middle and high school students will help reduce farm runoff that is a growing pollution threat to the Gulf of Mexico.

Jet returns to Calif. airport after bird strike (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 02:26 AM PDT

AP - A United Airlines flight bound for Chicago had to return to the Sacramento airport after hitting a bird during takeoff.

Proposed Nev. prostitution tax dies on panel vote (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 08:40 PM PDT

Sex workers from the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Brooke Taylor, left, and Deanne 'Air Force Amy' Salinger testify Tuesday, April 8, 2009 at the Legislature in Carson City, Nev. Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof, at right, was one of three brothel owners who also testified on a proposal to levy a $5 state tax on sex acts to help raise state revenue. (AP Photo/Nevada Appeal, Cathleen Allison)AP - A proposal to levy a $5 tax on sex acts in Nevada has died in a state Senate committee.

Family lets reporters cover fallen Marine's return (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 06:13 PM PDT

A carry team at Dover Air Force Base, Del., loads into a mortuary transport vehicle the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Lance Cpl. Blaise A. Oleski on Thursday, April 9, 2009. Oleski, 22, of Floyd, N.Y., died Wednesday while supporting combat operations in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - The body of a Marine killed in Afghanistan arrived at Dover Air Force Base on Thursday, marking the third time this week that the media were allowed to witness the return of a fallen U.S. serviceman from overseas.

Lawsuit: Firms sold poison gas ingredients to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:49 PM PDT

AP - Three companies illegally sold materials to Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s for making chemical weapons that were used to carry out attacks against thousands of Iraqi Kurds and ultimately caused scores of chronic ailments, according to a federal lawsuit.

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