2009年4月20日星期一

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Dozens 'lie down' at Capitol for Columbine event (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:37 PM PDT

Thirteen people lay down to symbolize those killed in the Columbine school shooting at a Columbine Remembrance and Rededication on the 10th anniversary of the Columbine attack, at the Capitol in Denver, on Monday, April 20, 2009. (AP photo/Chris Schneider)AP - Dozens of people participated in a "lie-down" at Colorado's state Capitol Monday to demand stricter gun control and mark the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. Thirteen people representing those killed at Columbine lay like spokes of a wheel at the west steps of the Capitol. They had wrapped blue and white ribbons around their necks, the official colors of the suburban Denver school.

4 people found dead in hotel north of Baltimore (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:47 PM PDT

AP - Investigators began the task Monday evening of identifying four bodies found inside a hotel guest room earlier in the day in suburban Baltimore, as well as figuring out how the people died.

Mystery at Fla. polo match: 21 horses die (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Flowers are shown at a makeshift memorial outside of Lechuza Caracas Inc. Monday, April 20, 2009, in Wellington Fla. The horses from the Venezuelan-owned team Lechuza Caracas sickened just before a tournament Sunday, collapsing and dying on the scene or while being treated at vet clinics or transported, officials said. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)AP - Ladies in their spring dresses and men in casual linen suits sipped champagne and nibbled hors d'oeuvres as they waited for the U.S. Open polo match. What they ended up with was a field of death.

FBI workers accused of spying on dressing room (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:38 PM PDT

AP - Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall.

2 New Orleans kidnapping victims found dead (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:57 PM PDT

AP - The bodies of two college students kidnapped during the weekend were found Monday inside an abandoned house in a section of New Orleans east of the Mississippi River.

The darkness of dementia destroys a Good Samaritan (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Claire Young shows her husband William Young of Auburn, Maine. Young, who has been missing for a week was found dead Sunday, April 19, 2009 in Kokadjo, northern Maine. His wife, Claire, told Kokadjo wardens that Young may have traveled to the Kokadjo area to search for an elderly South Portland woman who had been reported missing the week before and was located alive on a snowmobile trail in the Kokadjo area. Auburn police say Young suffered from dementia. (AP Photo/The Young family via The Sun Journal)AP - After hearing news reports about a 75-year-old woman with memory problems who disappeared into the remote Maine woods, Claire Young had a talk with her husband, William, who has dementia.

Attorneys: Whistleblower faked explosion warning (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:01 PM PDT

AP - Attorneys for one of the nation's largest sugar producers accused a whistleblower Monday of faking a report that he says he sent to company executives warning them of the dust hazard at a Georgia refinery days before a blast there killed 14 workers.

For its trouble, downtrodden Detroit gets Pulitzer (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:42 PM PDT

Detroit Free Press reporter Jim Schaefer, right, lifts Senior Managing Editor Jeff Taylor as reporter M.L. Elrick, left, celebrate their Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, Monday, April 20, 2009 in Detroit. The Detroit Free Press won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for obtaining a trove of sexually explicit text messages that brought down the city's mayor. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Struggling simply to survive as readership and advertising drop, the Detroit Free Press celebrated winning a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its reporting of a sex scandal that brought down the city's mayor.

Last surviving D-Day 'Bedford Boy' dies at 94 (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:16 PM PDT

AP - When World War II broke out, the "Bedford Boys" left home to serve. Many of them didn't come home — so many that the community had among the greatest losses per capita on D-Day.

Papers win Pulitzers for bringing down gov, mayor (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Detroit Free Press reporter Jim Schaefer, right, lifts Senior Managing Editor Jeff Taylor as reporter M.L. Elrick, left, celebrate their Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, Monday, April 20, 2009 in Detroit. The Detroit Free Press won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for obtaining a trove of sexually explicit text messages that brought down the city's mayor. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Two newspapers hit hard by a historic downturn won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for exposing sex scandals that brought down a governor and a big-city mayor, in what was hailed as a victory for old-fashioned watchdog journalism at a time when the industry's very survival is in question.

Jewish educational institution struggles (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:18 PM PDT

AP - The nation's oldest institution for training rabbis, cantors and educators of Reform Judaism is facing economic woes that could lead the college to close two of its three U.S. campuses.

RI police release suspect pics in Craigslist case (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:58 PM PDT

AP - Police in Rhode Island have released surveillance camera photos of a suspect in an attempted robbery of an exotic dancer.

Chafee aims for comeback in RI, as an independent (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:02 PM PDT

AP - Having shed his Republican name tag but not his reputation as a successfully centrist U.S. senator, Lincoln Chafee faces better odds than most independent politicians as he moves closer to confirming that he wants to sit in the governor's chair.

California man booked in horse decapitation (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:19 PM PDT

This photo released by Riverside County Calif., Sheriff's department shows Jack Ziniuk, 64, after he was arrested and charged with animal cruelty Monday, April 20, 2009. Authorities said they found a decapitated horse on his property and that the animal's head had been fed to his dogs. (AP Photo/Riverside County Sheriff's Department)AP - Authorities have arrested a Southern California man after determining that a dead horse on his property had been struck repeatedly in the head with a sledge hammer and decapitated with a chain saw.

Friends say imprisoned journalist is Iran's pawn (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:33 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided Tuesday, March 3, 2009 by the National Press Photographers Association shows U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi. Saberi, a 31-year-old dual American-Iranian citizen, was convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison by an Iranian court Saturday April 18, 2009. (AP Photo/NPPA)AP - Hometown friends and colleagues of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran for espionage maintain that she's a political pawn and not a spy — though a local newspaper editor hesitates to declare her innocent without seeing the evidence.

Lawsuit: Conditions awful at Miss. juvenile center (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:44 PM PDT

AP - A south Mississippi juvenile detention center subjects young people to physical and emotional abuse, forcing them to live in squalid cells infested with insects and the stench of human excrement, a federal lawsuit alleged Monday.

Sheriff: Woman says sons slipped from grip in lake (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:55 PM PDT

AP - A woman whose car plunged off a dead-end road into a lake in rainy, dark weather told investigators she tried to rescue her three young sons from the vehicle but lost her grip on them in the water, a sheriff said Monday.

Ex-teacher convicted of raping 10-year-old student (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:52 PM PDT

AP - A 33-year-old former elementary school teacher has been convicted of having sex with a 10-year-old student and his 15-year-old brother.

Katrina flooding victims in court to seek damages (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:34 PM PDT

With the Louisiana Superdome in the background construction workers work on a street project in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Billions of dollars in government-backed rebuilding projects are planned or under way following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - A coastal geologist testified Monday that he warned the Army Corps of Engineers decades ago about the dangers of the shipping channel that funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge into New Orleans.

Judge: No bond for NC Marine in colleague's death (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 11:44 AM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Onslow (NC) County Sheriff's Department, Cpl. Cesar Laurean, is shown. Laurean, who fled to Mexico shortly before he was charged with killing a pregnant colleague in North Carolina returned to the U.S. on Friday, April 17, 2009. Laurean, 22, was extradited to face a murder charge in the death of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, of Vandalia, Ohio, said FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson. (AP Photo/Onslow (NC) County Sheriff's Department)AP - A judge denied bond Monday for a Marine who fled to Mexico shortly before he was charged with killing a pregnant colleague in North Carolina.

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