2009年5月4日星期一

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Warrant charges Craigslist suspect with RI assault (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 06:25 PM PDT

FILE - This Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Boston University medical student Philip Markoff stands during his arraignment in Boston Municipal Court, in Boston. Rhode Island prosecutors said Monday May 4, 2009 that they will announce an arrest warrant in the attempted robbery of a stripper inside a hotel last month. They've previously said Markoff, who is charged in Boston with killing the masseuse, was the suspect in the April 16 robbery attempt at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick. (AP Photo/Mark Garfinkel, Pool, File)AP - A medical student jailed in Boston on suspicion of killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist was charged Monday in an arrest warrant with pulling a gun on a stripper in a Rhode Island hotel.


Schoolkids get 'flu days' even as CDC reconsiders (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT

Eight-year old Kaydn Hainline, of Marshalltown, Iowa, kicks a ball in front of his grandfather's house, on a day off from school Monday, May 4, 2009, in Marshalltown, Iowa.  Marshalltown officials have closed schools for the week due to several probable cases of swine flu in the city.  (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Federal health officials said Monday they were rethinking their advice that schools consider closing for as long as two weeks because of swine flu, a recommendation that has already given an unscheduled vacation to 330,000 children in schools nationwide.


Students back at NYC school after swine flu scare (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 03:18 PM PDT

A computer named 'The Bad' shows results from a test for identifying the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, at the New York City Public Health Laboratory in New York, Sunday, May 3, 2009.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Students streamed into St. Francis Preparatory School on Monday morning, happy to return after an outbreak of swine flu but wary of close contact, and some equipped with hand sanitizer in their backpacks.


Authorities seek SoCal tot reported kidnapped (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 03:29 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Monday, May 4, 2009 by the San Bernardino County, Ca. Sheriff's Department shows Briant Rodriguez. Authorities say the 3-year-old boy was kidnapped Sunday by two gunmen who broke into his family's home in Southern California and tied up his mother and her five other children. (AP Photo/San Bernardino County, Ca. Sheriff's Department)AP - Investigators were searching Monday for a 3-year-old boy kidnapped by two gunmen who broke into his family's home, tied up his mother and four siblings, and stole property, authorities said.


Teen son escapes Fla. family slaying; 4 dead (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 03:29 PM PDT

This is an iundated photo released by the Polk County, Fla., Sheriff's Department of Troy Ryan Bellar.  Authorities say Bellar  killed his wife and two of his sons and then killed himself.  (AP Photo/Polk County Sheriff's Department)AP - His father and stepmother had fought before, and 13-year-old Nathan Bellar had no reason to believe their latest exchange would turn violent.


Slain toddler's mom wants trial moved to S. Fla. (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 03:09 PM PDT

AP - The attorney for a Florida mother charged with killing her toddler daughter asked a judge Monday to move the trial to South Florida.

AP exclusive: N.Y. rampage victim recounts horror (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 10:18 AM PDT

FILE - Police officers help hostages exit a building near the American Civic Association in downtown Binghamton, N.Y., following a shooting spree by a gunman in this April 3, 2009 file photo.  (AP Photo/Press & Sun-Bulletin, Rebecca Catlett)AP - For an hour, the Asian man cowered amid the chaos of what had been his adult English class. Blood soaked through his jeans where a bullet had fractured the bones of his lower right leg. More blood flowed into his eye from a bullet wound on his temple; a hole in his sweater sleeve marked the path of another shot.


Run-down S.C. school mentioned in Obama speech gets facelift (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 11:37 AM PDT

Students Yasmin Ware, left, and Johnarra Bethea react to the new desks in their classroom at J.V. Martin Junior High School Monday, May  4, 2009,in Dillon, S.C.  Students at a rural South Carolina middle school whose shoddy condition was highlighted in a speech by President Barack Obama arrived Monday to find their tattered furniture replaced by hundreds of new desks and chairs. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Students who had grown resigned to old, "nasty" furnishings at their dilapidated middle school in rural South Carolina were elated Monday to find new furniture and a freshly painted cafeteria, thanks to a student's plea, a president's speech and a businessman's response.


Empty neighborhoods fill U.S. Rust Belt (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:36 PM PDT

Painted murals spruce up a boarded-up building on Race St. in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday, April 9, 2009.  The neighborhood, which took its name from early German immigrants, is highlighted by its 19th century Italianate architecture. Now, roughly two of every three homes there are vacant or used by squatters in some streches. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Meet the forgotten housing crisis. While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from California to Florida, the nation's emptiest neighborhoods have remained concentrated in the same place for nearly a generation: the mostly minority, poor, urban neighborhoods of the American Rust Belt.


Rice takes question from 4th-grader on torture (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 03:15 PM PDT

In this photograph provided by Rabinowitz-Dorf, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to grade school students at the Jewish Primary Day School in Washington, on Sunday, May 3, 2009.  (AP Photo/Rainowitz-Dorf, Ron Sachs)AP - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics. Her remarks were in response to a question from Misha Lerner, a fourth-grader at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, The Washington Post reported Monday.


Developments on swine flu worldwide (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:15 PM PDT

AP - Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and government officials:

Georgia leads the nation in bank failures (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 11:46 AM PDT

US cash. New Frontier Bank, one of Colorado state's biggest banks, was closed down by state regulators, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said in a statement(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - The banner above FirstCity Bank still reads "Celebrating 100 Years of Service," but the 690 residents of this rural community aren't in the mood — not since government regulators locked the door, emptied the vault and closed the only bank within nearly 20 miles.


3 hurt in La. as more storms batter Southeast (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:34 PM PDT

AP - A tornado injured three people and damaged nearly two dozen homes Monday in southern Louisiana, a day after severe thunderstorms across the Southeast killed one person.

Judge in Fla. terror trial denies mistrial (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 08:34 AM PDT

AP - A judge has denied a request for a mistrial in the Miami case of six men accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices.

Police find passport of prof wanted in killings (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 07:58 AM PDT

Armed University of Georgia Police officers patrol the campus Monday, April 27, 2009 in Athens, Ga. A nationwide manhunt is underway for University of Georgia professor George Zinkhan who is a suspect in the killing of his wife and two others outside an Athens theater Saturday. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Police say they've found the passport of a University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater.


Inspectors examine Cowboys' flattened facility (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 01:13 PM PDT

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Bobby Carpenter looks over the collapsed canopy that had covered the Cowboys indoor football facility, Sunday, May 3, 2009, in Irving, Texas. Twelve people were injured when the roof collapsed Saturday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - Government inspectors sorted through the Dallas Cowboys' flattened practice facility Monday, trying to figure out why fierce winds sent the tentlike structure crashing during a rookie workout session.


Ala. judge: No court power to let kids miss school (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 12:47 PM PDT

AP - A mother and father wanted a judge to force school officials to let their two sons do their school work from home because of the swine flu scare, but the judge said no.

Some Muslims rethink close ties to law enforcement (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 08:56 AM PDT

Afsheen Shamsi of Princeton, N.J., community relations director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, talks about her organization at their offices in South Plainfield, N.J., Friday, April 24, 2009. A coalition of Muslim organizations, including the nation's largest Muslim civil rights group, CAIR, is planning to ask Attorney General Eric Holder to meet with them to discuss what they view as a rapidly deteriorating relationship between law enforcement and Muslim communities across the United States. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)AP - Mohammad Qatanani's mosque was full of FBI agents the night before he was to find out if he would be deported.


Some fear flu rebound as Mexico seeks 'normalcy' (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:56 PM PDT

A woman wears a mask as a precaution against swine flu as she makes her way through the subway with two children in Mexico City, Monday, May 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Mexico announced a return to "normalcy" on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20 countries. World health officials said the global epidemic is still in its early stages, and that a pandemic could be declared in the days to come.


Job guarantees cause impasse in Globe, union talks (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 01:52 PM PDT

A front page headline tops a story about negotiations between labor and ownership that threatens to close the newspaper unless the unions agree to $20 million in cuts  at The Boston Globe Monday, May 4, 2009, in Boston. The Globe's largest workers union and newspaper representatives finished all-night contract-concession talks without a deal Monday, but plan to be back at the bargaining table soon. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)AP - Negotiations between The Boston Globe and its largest union reached an impasse Monday, largely over lifetime job guarantees that the 137-year-old newspaper says it has to end if it will survive.


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