2009年5月13日星期三

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Overloaded boat sinks off Florida, killing 10 (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:23 PM PDT

Fire Rescue personnel unload a body from a U.S. Coast Guard vessel Wednesday, May 13, 2009 from a dock in Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach, Fla. A boat apparently carrying Haitian migrants sank off the Florida coast, and officials say they are not sure if the boat capsized or crashed into something. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - A boat overloaded with around 30 people, possibly Haitians being smuggled to the U.S. from their desperately poor country, sank off the Florida coast early Wednesday, dropping the occupants into the sea. The Coast Guard rescued 17 and was searching for others but said at least 10 died, including one child.

Providence mayor wants $150-per-semester tax on students (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:23 PM PDT

Heather Lee, president of the Brown University Graduate Student Council, center, stands with fellow graduate student Gideon Goldin, left, as they talk with a student raising money for a Pakistani relief fund on the Brown University campus in Providence, RI., Tuesday afternoon, May 12, 2009. Providence Mayor David Cicilline would like to institute $150-per-semester tax on the 25,000 full-time students who attend Brown and three other private colleges and universities in the city, saying they use resources and should help ease the burden on struggling taxpayers. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - The mayor of Providence wants to slap a $150-per-semester tax on the 25,000 full-time students at Brown University and three other private colleges in the city, saying they use resources and should help ease the burden on struggling taxpayers.

Killers of 4 on Fla. turnpike get death sentences (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department, Daniel Troya is shown. A judge in Florida on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 handed down two death sentence for a man convicted of gunning down a family of four on the side of a highway over a drug debt. Troya was convicted by a federal jury in the October 2006 killings of a husband, wife and their two young sons on a darkened stretch of Florida's Turnpike. (AP Photo/Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department, file)AP - Two men were sentenced to death Wednesday for the drug-debt slaying of a family of four on the side of a Florida highway, including two young boys who died in their mother's arms.

Chicago City Council approves BPA baby bottle ban (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 03:59 PM PDT

AP - Chicago on Wednesday became the first U.S. city to adopt a ban on the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA.

Craigslist to drop 'erotic services' classifieds (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:33 PM PDT

AP - A month after the killing of a masseuse who advertised on Craigslist, the classified ad site announced plans Wednesday to eliminate its "erotic services" category and screen all submissions to a new "adult services" section before they are posted.

Conn. chimp that mauled woman had Xanax in system (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:31 AM PDT

AP - A chimpanzee that mauled a Connecticut woman had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in its system, according to toxicology tests, but investigators haven't determined whether the drug played a role in the attack, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

SoCal pursuit ends with officer kicking suspect (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:03 PM PDT

This image taken from video provided by KNBC TV shows an El Monte Police Department officer kicking a suspect who had apparently given himself up after a police chase, Wednesday May 13, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/KNBC)AP - A high-speed police chase through suburban Los Angeles County on Wednesday ended with a foot pursuit and a police officer kicking a suspect in the head after he gave up and lay face down on the ground.

Texas sect men ask judge to toss seized documents (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 03:29 PM PDT

AP - Authorities leveraged a fake abuse claim to justify a massive raid of a polygamist sect's ranch when their true purpose was to persecute an unpopular religious group, attorneys for 10 indicted members of the sect said Wednesday.

Pageant official quits over Miss. Calif. decision (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 11, 2009 file photo, Miss California USA Pageant state executive director Shanna Moakler participates in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)AP - Former Miss USA Shanna Moakler resigned as co-executive director of the Miss California USA pageant on Wednesday, saying she no longer believes in the organization because of pageant owner Donald Trump's decision to let the state's controversial title holder keep her crown.

Trustee: Madoff firm was family's piggy bank (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:07 PM PDT

This copy of the first page of a credit card bill released on Wednesday May 13, 2009 by the court-appointed trustee Irving Picard, shows an American Express corporate account statement from January 2008 belonging to Bernard L. Madoff. Lawyers for the trustee claim in accompanying court papers that the credit card statement and other records prove Madoff's family used his clients' money to pay for homes, travel, fancy meals and other personal expenses. (AP Photo/Court-appointed trustee Irving Picard)AP - The credit card bill is a 30-page study in conspicuous consumption.

Winding paths led victims to Iraq stress clinic (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:29 PM PDT

This undated picture made available by the family via The Star-Democrat shows Pfc. Michael Edward Yates Jr. and his son Kamren. The U.S. military command launched an investigation Tuesday, May 12, 2009 into whether it offers adequate mental health care to its soldiers, a day after a sergeant finishing up his third tour of Iraq allegedly shot and killed five comrades at a clinic on a U.S. base. The mother of Pfc. Yates said two men from the Army came to her Federalsburg, Md, home early Tuesday to tell say her 19-year-old son was killed. (AP Photo/The Star-Democrat, Family Picture)AP - Keith Springle, who grew up swimming and fishing off the North Carolina coast and seemed destined as a boy to join the Navy, was in Iraq because it was his duty as a military psychologist. Dr. Matthew Houseal, a 54-year-old Army reservist and psychiatrist, was there because he felt he needed to be.

Official: Ark. explosion victims died from impact (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 03:49 PM PDT

AP - Three men killed when an empty gasoline storage tank they were working on exploded in north Arkansas likely died from the impact of the blast, a coroner said Wednesday.

Fla. water managers approve $533M Everglades deal (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 03:55 PM PDT

AP - South Florida water managers have approved Gov. Charlie Crist's deal to buy farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. for use in Everglades restoration.

Tenn. nixes marriage of transgender woman, man (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT

AP - Tennessee authorities have invalidated the 18-month marriage of a transgender woman and a man, saying the state considers them both men.

Couple in Md. tourist slaying talked cannibalism (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 03:11 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Aug. 14, 2003 file photo Erika Sifrit, right, is led to a waiting patrol car at the Frederick County Adult Detention Center for the ride to her sentencing hearing at the Frederick County Courthouse in Frederick, Md. Wednesday, May 13, 2009, a judge in Frederick denied a new trial to the Pennsylvania woman convicted in the murder and dismemberment of two Ocean City, Md. tourists in 2002. Thirty-one-year-old Sifrit, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., had claimed in her petition that jurors at her trial were not told that she was a 'needy' woman whose actions centered around her husband, Benjamin. (AP Photo/Timothy Jacobsen, File)AP - A Pennsylvania woman convicted of killing and dismembering a tourist couple in a Maryland resort town claims her husband suggested eating one of the victims but she refused, according to a court document filed Wednesday.

Groups want OH college pres off coal company board (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT

AP - Environmentalists are pressing Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee to step down from the board of a coal mining company ahead of its shareholder meeting Tuesday.

Years after getaway, Va. escapee caught in Ga. (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 01:38 PM PDT

This undated police police released Wednesday, May 13, 2009 by the Whitfield County Sheriff's office shows Richard Boucher. Boucher who escaped from a Virginia prison in 1982 was arrested Wednesday in northern Georgia, where he lived with his wife in a trailer tucked in the woods of an Appalachian mountain valley. Boucher, 56, was taken into custody on a fugitive warrant in Murray County, along the Tennessee line, where he had been for much of the past 27 years, said Gregory Jones, agent in charge of the FBI in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Murray County Sheriff's Office)AP - A man who escaped from a Virginia prison nearly 27 years ago was arrested Wednesday in northern Georgia, where he lived with his wife in a trailer park tucked in the woods of an Appalachian mountain valley.

New Orleans Mayor Nagin gets caught up in vacation controversy (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT

FILE - This Dec. 23, 2008 file photo shows New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin smiling during an interview in his office at City Hall in New Orleans. Nagin was elected seven years ago as a reform-minded business executive who quickly won kudos for efforts to modernize City Hall and clean up local government. He emerged from Hurricane Katrina slightly bruised by criticism but in charge of the massive recovery effort. But as he enters his last year in office, Nagin finds himself hugely unpopular and answering ethical questions about vacations to Jamaican and Hawaii. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - They've already begun the countdown to Mayor Ray Nagin's last day in office a year from now. He is mocked on bumper stickers, even booed at the opera.

Jury told conditions harsh for ex-GI before attack (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 12:49 PM PDT

AP - A former soldier who could be sentenced to death for rape and murder in Iraq had an unusually stressful combat tour in a unit that suffered heavy casualties and didn't get sufficient Army leadership, two former Marine officers testified Wednesday.

Severe storms kill 1 in northern Missouri (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:59 PM PDT

AP - Violent storms that spawned at least one tornado left a path of destruction in northern Missouri on Wednesday, killing a woman and damaging dozens of buildings.

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