2009年5月11日星期一

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Suspected Nazi guard Demjanjuk on plane to Germany (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:28 PM PDT

John Demjanjuk is helped into a wheelchair before boarding a plane headed for Germany on Monday, May 11, 2009, at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland. Demjanjuk is accused in Munich of 29,000 counts of accessory to murder at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.  (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - Federal agents carrying John Demjanjuk in a wheelchair put him on a small jet Monday to be deported to Germany, where the retired autoworker is accused of being a Nazi death camp guard in World War II.


Shuttle blasts off to repair Hubble Telescope (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:09 PM PDT

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts-off at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla, on Monday, May 11, 2009. Space Shuttle Atlantis' seven-member crew is on a final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Atlantis blasted off Monday for the Hubble Space Telescope on the most delicate and dangerous repair job ever in orbit — a mission so risky that for the first time a second shuttle stands ready to rescue the seven astronauts if something goes wrong.


Not again: FAA stops military flight over Hudson (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:56 PM PDT

AP - The Federal Aviation Administration turned down a U.S. Navy request to fly a patrol aircraft past Manhattan on Monday, two weeks after a nerve-racking Air Force photo shoot over the Statue of Liberty caused a brief panic.

Former Catholic head of Milwaukee admits he's gay (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug, 28, 2002 file photo shows retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland,  at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wis.  (AP Photo/Dale Guldan, Pool, File)AP - A Roman Catholic archbishop who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man describes his struggles with being gay in an upcoming memoir about his decades serving the church.


NY mass transit agency approves fare increases (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 01:58 PM PDT

AP - New York's mass transit agency voted to raise fares and tolls by 10 percent Monday after the state Legislature approved a $2.26 billion bailout to avert higher fare increases and deep service cuts.

'Rockefeller' wants to use that name at trial (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 11:30 AM PDT

Defense attorneys for the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, Jeffrey Denner, left, and Timothy Bradl, second from right, confer with Suffolk assistant district attorney David Deakin, right,  in a pre-trial hearing in superior court Monday, May 11, 2009, in Boston. The lawyers argued that Rockefeller, who was not at the hearing and whose real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, should be able to use the Rockefeller name at his upcoming kidnapping trial.   (AP Photo/George Rizer, Pool)AP - A man accused of kidnapping his daughter wants jurors at his upcoming trial to know him as Clark Rockefeller, one of the many identities he assumed since moving here decades ago from Germany.


Federal judge in sex case gets nearly 3 years (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 02:04 PM PDT

U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent leaves the Houston federal courthouse Monday, May 11, 2009 after being sentenced to nearly three years in prison for lying to investigators about whether he sexually abused his secretary. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - A disgraced federal judge was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in prison for lying to investigators about sexually abusing two female employees, who said they feared him so much they hid from him in the courthouse.


Drew Peterson arrest: What happens to the kids? (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 03:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this file booking photo provided May 7, 2009 by the Will County Sheriff's office in Joliet, Ill., former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson is shown. Peterson's lead attorney said he'll ask a judge to sharply reduce the former suburban Chicago police officer's bond from the current $20 million to 'a reasonable level.' Brodsky said at a news conference Sunday that a bond between $500,000 and $1 million would be within the range set in other murder cases in Will County. (AP Photo/Will County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - Drew Peterson, charged in the death of his third wife and suspected in the disappearance of his fourth, soon might face another legal battle: a custody fight.


Lawyers: Ex-soldier deserves death for crimes (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 11:35 AM PDT

FILE- In this  Wednesday, April 29, 2009 file photo, former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green is escorted to the courthouse on the third day of his trial in Paducah, Ky. A federal jury convicted a former soldier Thursday, May 7, 2009 of raping and fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl after killing her parents and younger sister while he was serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)AP - Federal prosecutors say a former soldier convicted of raping and murdering an Iraqi teenager and killing her family deserves a death sentence because the crimes were so heinous.


Crowd pelts Austin police after fatal shooting (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:27 PM PDT

AP - An angry crowd threw rocks and bottles at police in riot gear in Austin, Texas, hours after an officer shot two men, killing one of them.

NJ bank robbery ring leader gets 117 years (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 12:05 PM PDT

AP - A New Jersey man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his role in a string of bank robberies that led to the death of an FBI agent in 2007.

Wisconsin man charged in triple homicide (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 02:56 PM PDT

AP - A central Wisconsin man killed his estranged girlfriend and shot their two small children in the head after she lost her job and their relationship crumbled, says a criminal complaint filed Monday.

Fla. priest in trouble over woman defends celibacy (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 06:07 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 3, 1999 file photo, Father Alberto Cutie speaks to his congregation during service, at St. Patrick's Church in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, file)AP - A popular Miami priest and media personality said Monday he is thinking about leaving the Roman Catholic Church for a woman he loves after a magazine ran pictures of the couple kissing and hugging.


HealthSouth civil lawsuit seeks $2.6B from Scrushy (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 03:56 PM PDT

AP - Shareholders want HealthSouth Corp.'s founder Richard Scrushy to pay $2.6 billion for his alleged role in a huge fraud that nearly ruined the rehabilitation company, attorneys told a judge Monday.

Hubble: From cosmic joke to cherished eye in space (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 06:38 AM PDT

FILE - This composite file photo released by NASA Nov. 2, 1995, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 1, 1995, shows dark pillar-like structures which are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust and also incubators of new stars in the Eagle Nebula. The color image is constructed from three separate images taken in the light from different types of atoms. Red shows emission from sulfur atoms, green from hydrogen, and blue from oxygen, according to NASA, which calls the photo Pillars of Creation. (AP Photo/NASA, File)AP - Using the power of pictures, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped away at the mystery of the universe.


ND friends elated at release of journalist Saberi (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Gary Mailloux prepares to put a welcome-home wreath at the house of Reza and Akiko Saberi in north Fargo, N.D., Monday, May 11, 2009, after it was announced that their daughter Roxana Saberi was released from an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)AP - The first joyous day of summer vacation for one of Roxana Saberi's college journalism instructors started earlier than expected with news that Saberi would be freed from an Iranian prison.


STIMULUS WATCH: Jobs, but not where needed most (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 12:51 PM PDT

Ridgway, the seat of Elk County, Pa., is seen nestled amid the green of the Allegheny Mountains, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Officials and residents of the struggling manufacturing community are learning that they will receive no immediate money from the economic stimulus plan despite the 13.8 percent unemployment rate. Counties suffering the most from job losses are receiving the least help so far from President Barack Obama's plan to spend billions of stimulus dollars on roads and bridges, an Associated Press analysis has found. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The billions in transportation stimulus dollars that President Barack Obama promoted as a way to create jobs shortchange counties that need the work the most, an Associated Press analysis has found.


Ghost hunters inspect 180-year-old NM hotel site (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 01:44 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by Josh Bond shows the old stable from the days that the Old Cuchillo Bar was a busy stagecoach stop in Cuchillo, N.M. Owner Josh Bond has invited the West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society to investigate strange noises and falling objects on the 180-year-old property. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Josh Bond)AP - The former owner of a 180-year-old adobe building hears the door of a potbellied stove opening and wood being stacked inside, but no one is there.


Outrage builds in Anchorage after bear attacks (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 02:17 AM PDT

In this Friday, May 8, 2009 picture, a brown bear crushes a regular garbage can at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage has a reputation for being bear tolerant but after three maulings last summer - including a 15-year-old girl who nearly bled to death when attacked by a grizzly in a city park - a chorus of outrage is building. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Spring is here and bears are emerging from their dens for the short stroll to Alaska's largest city. Some residents are putting out the NO VACANCY sign.


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