2009年5月1日星期五

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Swine flu may be less potent than first feared (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:33 PM PDT

A medic wearing protective gear admits a sick child carried by her mother into the emergency area where people with swine flu-like symptoms are checked at the naval hospital in Mexico City, Friday May 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The swine flu outbreak that has alarmed the world for a week now appears less ominous, with the virus showing little staying power in the hardest-hit cities and scientists suggesting it lacks the genetic fortitude of past killer bugs. President Barack Obama even voiced hope Friday that it may turn out to be no more harmful than the average seasonal flu.

Now more than 140 swine flu cases in US (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:09 PM PDT

Pediatrician and primary physician Dr. Ellen Rothman, left, gives Makhi Hatch, 4, an examination for his cough as his mother Stephanie Correa, center, watches on, at the St. John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles Wednesday, April 29, 2009. The St. John's Well Child & Family Center, which oversees clinics that treat Los Angeles' poor and uninsured, doctors have seen a surge in patients complaining about flu-like symptoms. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - President Barack Obama voiced hope Friday that the swine flu virus will run its course "like ordinary flus" as officials reported more than two dozen new cases and scores more schools shut down.

Alleged Nazi Demjanjuk cleared for deportation (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in Cleveland. A federal appeals court in Ohio has denied a stay of deportation to Germany of alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk. Pending a further appeal, the Friday ruling opens the way for the Justice Department to deport the 89-year-old retired autoworker from his suburban Cleveland home. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)AP - A federal appeals court opened the way again Friday for the Justice Department to deport alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to Germany to face 29,000 counts of accessory to murder. The three-judge ruling from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati denied a stay of deportation for the 89-year-old retired autoworker from his suburban Cleveland home.

New book says FDR tried to save Jewish refugees (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of June 1, 1939, the German liner St. Louis is denied entrance to the Havana, Cuba harbor. The ship, carrying 917 German Jewish refugees, was later denied entrance to the United States and returned to Hamburg, Germany. A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department. (AP Photo, file)AP - A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department.

VA: 5th HIV case linked to unsterile equipment (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:12 PM PDT

AP - A fifth patient has tested positive for HIV, and seven more tested positive for hepatitis after being exposed to contaminated medical equipment at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, the agency said Friday.

Drug smugglers from Mexico move into NM town (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:27 PM PDT

In this April 21, 2009 photo, new Police Chief Angelo Vega talks in front of the city hall in Columbus, N.M. The police department in the little border town has been in disarray, plagued with unqualified officers and allegations of wrongdoing. One chief was arrested on gun theft charges that were later dropped, and two others were never certified police officers. (AP Photo/Bill Faulkner)AP - This dusty little border town with almost no visible means of support has been seeing something of a boom in the past year: Brand-new Lincoln Navigators and Cadillac Escalades with flashy hubcaps are parked just off the bleak main drag. Homes are selling quickly, sometimes for cash. The source of this sudden wealth? An influx of Mexican drug smugglers, investigators say.

LA judge orders widows' green card cases reopened (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:46 PM PDT

Monika Monroe holds a photo of her late husband Tim Monroe amid his abstract artwork at their home in Los Angeles' Eagle Rock district Friday, April 24, 2009. A federal judge in Los Angeles on Friday, May 1, 2009 ordered the government to reopen the immigration cases of dozens of foreign widows, including Monroe, originally from Germany, whose American citizen spouses died before they could get their green cards. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - A federal judge on Friday ordered the government to reopen the immigration cases of dozens of foreign widows whose American citizen spouses died before they could get their green cards.

Immigrants push for reforms at rallies across US (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:55 PM PDT

Supporters hold a banner made up of national flags as they gather in Union Park for a rally calling for the legalization of more than 12 million undocumented immigrant workers Friday, May 1, 2009, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Immigrants and their families gathered at rallies across the country Friday to push for changes to U.S. immigration policy, but as a swine flu outbreak continued to spread, attendance at some events was smaller than organizers had hoped.

Police: 2 SoCal teens considered campus shooting (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:05 PM PDT

This picture provided to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on Thursday, April 30, 2009 by the West Covina Police shows two handguns which police said two Covina High School students, ages 15 and 16, planned to use to shoot people on their school's campus. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune, West Covina Police)AP - Police say two suburban high school students had a pair of loaded handguns, a spooky drawing depicting a killing and the intention of randomly shooting people on campus.

Pa. social workers charged after starvation death (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:28 PM PDT

AP - By all accounts, there is blame to go around for the 2006 starvation death of disabled teenager Danieal Kelly. Her mother pleaded guilty to murder this week for criminally neglecting the once-vivacious girl. Her case worker and a supervisor are charged with involuntary manslaughter for alleged "ghost visits" to the family's squalid home.

Ex-Texas sheriff facing prison in sex scandal dies (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:58 PM PDT

AP - Former Montague County Sheriff Bill Keating, who had faced up to a decade in federal prison for a sexual assault and was accused of letting inmates have the run of his small-town jail, died of an apparent heart attack. He was 62.

Police find Ga. prof's Jeep; search nearby woods (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:31 PM PDT

In this Aug. 11, 2006 photo provided by the University of Georgia, George Zinkhan a Terry College of Business professor in the department of marketing and distribution at the University of Georgia is seen. Three people were killed Saturday at a community theater near the University of Georgia, and authorities were searching for the professor in the shooting deaths. The school's Web site said police were looking for Zinkhan, a marketing professor at the school in Athens, which is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east of Atlanta. (AP Photo/University of Georgia, Robert Newcomb)AP - Law enforcement officers swarmed a heavily wooded area in northeast Georgia on Friday, searching for a former university professor suspected of killing his wife and two other people, but the only sign of the missing academic was his red Jeep wrecked in a ravine.

Swine flu virus starting to look less threatening (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:27 PM PDT

Medics wearing protective gear work at the emergency area where people with swine flu-like symptoms are checked at the Naval hospital in Mexico City Friday May 1, 2009.(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The swine flu virus that has frightened the world is beginning to look a little less ominous. New York City officials reported Friday that the swine flu still has not spread beyond a few schools. In Mexico, very few relatives of flu victims seem to have caught the virus.

Fla. deputy missed 2nd tip in Caylee Anthony case (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:08 PM PDT

AP - The sheriff's deputy who was criticized for his poor response to a tip that eventually led to the discovery of Caylee Anthony's remains had failed to follow up on a call from another tipster who thought the missing toddler's remains would be found in woods near her home, according to documents released Friday.

Swine flu or not, many workers can't stay home (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT

UPDATES day in chatter to Friday; graphic shows daily reported U.S. cases of swine flu since AprilAP - You wake up one morning and you're feeling achy and feverish. The directions from health officials battling swine flu are clear: Stay home from work. Don't risk infecting others. And certainly don't send a sick kid to school.

'Junior' Gotti's mother speaks out in NYC court (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:26 PM PDT

AP - The mother of John "Junior" Gotti interrupted a hearing on her son's racketeering case Friday by telling a federal judge that the government is trying to kill him before he even gets to trial.

Woman accused in Maine of bid to bite flight crew (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:27 PM PDT

AP - A British woman accused of downing prescription drugs, two or three bottles of wine and liquid soap from a London-bound jetliner's lavatory before scuffling with flight attendants will remain in jail in Maine over the weekend.

Swine flu lowers pomp level at college graduations (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 01:50 PM PDT

Health Sciences graduates, from left, Alejandra Calderon of Providence, R.I., Stephanie Calefati, of Union, N.J. and Sharon Casey of Wilton, Conn. apply liquid hand sanitizer at the start of Northeastern University's commencement ceremony in Boston Friday, May 1, 2009. Cases of the swine flu are increasing as college graduation season begins, and schools are doing what they can to keep the large crowds of people traveling from around the country and beyond from spreading or catching the disease. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Miranda Smith is an only child and an honor student. So it was with great anticipation that her mom, aunt and grandparents planned to drive for hours to her graduation ceremony at Cisco Junior College in central Texas.

Souter's home state glad to have him back (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:26 PM PDT

Flowers begin to bloom at the farm house of U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter in Weare, N.H., Friday, May 1, 2009. Souter announced his plans to retire at the end this years session and may return to his family home. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - When U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter retires this summer, you won't find him living in a beachfront condo or lakeside retreat.

New jury problem surfaces in Fla. terror trial (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 02:40 PM PDT

AP - A new jury problem surfaced Friday in the terrorism conspiracy trial of six men when panel members asked a federal judge to remove a juror because she supposedly refused to deliberate.

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