2009年5月19日星期二

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Arrest ordered for mom of boy, 13, resisting chemo (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 06:02 PM PDT

This photo taken on May 8, 2009 shows Daniel Hauser, 13, in New Ulm, Minn. His family, who wants to treat his cancer with natural medicine is waiting to see if a judge will let him refuse chemotherapy for religious reasons. Daniel Hauser has a 90 percent chance of surviving his Hodgkin's lymphoma with chemotherapy, , according to his cancer doctor. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Kyndell Harkness)AP - Authorities sought to arrest the mother of a 13-year-old boy with cancer who refuses chemotherapy after she fled with her son and missed a court hearing Tuesday on his welfare. A judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered that Daniel Hauser be placed in a foster home and be sent for an immediate examination by a pediatric oncologist so he can get treated for Hodgkins lymphoma.

Small aftershock rattles downtown Los Angeles (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 07:33 PM PDT

Skyline of Los Angeles, California, in 2008. A mild earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Tuesday just two days after a moderate tremor that struck a densely populated area and put the sprawling California metropolis on edge.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AP - A small but widely felt aftershock jolted the Los Angeles region Tuesday, two days after a magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Milwaukee police link 7th case to serial killer (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 05:27 PM PDT

This combination photo composed of undated photos released by the Milwaukee Police Department via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel shows five victims from what Milwaukee police say is a serial killer that has been killing for more than two decades. From left to right are: Tanya L. Miller, 19, found on Oct. 11, 1986; Deborah L. Harris, 31, found on Oct. 10, 1986; Sheila Farrior, 37, found on June 27, 1995; Joyce Ann Mims, found on June 20, 1997; Quithreaun C. Stokes, found on April 27, 2007. Police announced Monday that officials used DNA evidence to tie the deaths of six women, five of them prostitutes, to one person. They believe that person killed five of the women and had sex with the sixth. On Tuesday, police said they linked another dead prostitute to the killer. (AP Photos/Milwaukee Police Dept. via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)AP - A prostitute whose strangled body was found in a vacant house has become the seventh known victim of a serial killer who targeted streetwalkers in Wisconsin for more than two decades, police said Tuesday.

New anti-Semitism described in Wesleyan shooting (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 02:53 PM PDT

Stephen Morgan's father, James Morgan, left, leaves Superior Court in Middletown, Conn, Monday, May 18, 2009 after his son's court appearance. Morgan, 29, is being held on $15 million bond in connection with the May 6, 2009 shooting death of Wesleyan University student Johanna Justin-Jinich in a bookstore near the university campus. (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - Police investigating the shooting death of a Wesleyan University student found a copy of an infamous anti-Semitic book in her suspected killer's hotel room, according to newly released court records.

La. 8th-grader detailed shooting in 'deadly diary' (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 03:16 PM PDT

Gay Oregon escorts her daughter Hailey Oregon, right, from Larose-Cut Off Middle School in Larose, La., Monday, May 18, 2009. Authorities say a student shot himself in the head at the school after he fired at a teacher and missed. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Justin Doucet's friends saw him as a quiet, friendly kid — they had no idea what macabre fascinations apparently lurked in a skeleton-adorned journal and a notebook labeled his "deadly diary."

Veteran Ill. sheriff accused of trafficking pot (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 03:13 PM PDT

This image provided by the Illinois Sheriff's Association shows Raymond M. Martin, of Junction, Ill., who is the Gallatin County (Ill.) sheriff. Federal prosecutors are accusing the longtime sheriff of selling marijuana, often while on duty, Tuesday, May 19, 2009. (AP Photo/ Illinois Sheriff's Association)AP - Sheriff Raymond M. Martin has been the law for nearly 20 years in a struggling southern Illinois county. But federal prosecutors say he's been breaking it lately by peddling pounds of pot, some seized by his own department, often in uniform and from his patrol vehicle.

Calif. voters decide slate of budget propositions (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 03:32 PM PDT

AP - Voters trickled to California's polls Tuesday to decide a complex slate of fiscal measures that many said they were largely rejecting out of disgruntlement with lawmakers and their attempts to fill a widening budget deficit.

Longtime fugitive mom released from Mich. prison (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 12:43 PM PDT

Susan LeFevre, 54 speaks to the media after being released from the Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Tuesday, May 19, 2009, in Pittsfield Township, Mich. LeFevre is a California woman who was freed after being captured last year following her escape from a Michigan prison in 1976. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)AP - Susan LeFevre's first prison stretch 33 years ago was so scary that she decided to escape. Now, more than a year after her capture, the woman who changed her life to become a suburban mom in California is free again — and this time her departure was legal.

Witness: Cop surprised when he fired gun at man (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 06:03 PM PDT

AP - Several witnesses to the fatal train station shooting of an unarmed man testified Tuesday that the officer accused of killing him looked surprised and shocked after he pulled the trigger.

Murder charge tossed against Del. shooting suspect (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 03:47 PM PDT

AP - The murder case against a man charged in a shooting two years ago at Delaware State University that left one student dead and another injured will be dismissed because prosecutors withheld key evidence, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Cops: Man arrested in LA shooting death of rapper (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Up-and-coming rap artist Dolla (seen here in 2007) has been shot dead outside a landmark Los Angeles shopping mall, friends and family of the slain musician were reported as saying. The Atlanta-based musician was gunned down at the entrance to the Beverly Center, a popular shopping haunt for tourists, at around 3:00 pm (2200 GMT), the Los Angeles Times quoted Dolla's publicist as saying.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frazer Harrison)AP - Up-and-coming rapper Dolla was killed in a shooting at an upscale shopping mall, and a man was arrested for investigation of murder, police said Tuesday.

Witness says Wis. mother thought illness was sin (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 04:39 PM PDT

AP - A mother accused of rejecting medical treatment and relying on prayer as her 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes believed people got sick because they sinned, a former friend said Tuesday at the woman's homicide trial.

Survey finds slower decline of honeybee colonies (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 04:42 PM PDT

A bee descends on a blooming cactus flower Tuesday morning, May 19, 2009, at Cielo Grande Recreation Area in Roswell, N.M. Federal officials say the decline of honeybee colonies may have slowed slightly but warn that mysterious ailments are still affecting the insects. U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers found that honeybee colonies declined by 29 percent between September 2008 and early April. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record Mark Wilson)AP - The decline of honeybee colonies has slowed slightly since last fall, but a mysterious combination of ailments is still decimating the insect's population, federal researchers say.

King siblings oppose film deal struck by brother (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 03:25 PM PDT

FILE- In this Aug. 28, 1963, black-and-white file photo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his 'I Have a Dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. DreamWorks Studios announced Tuesday, May 19, 2009 it plans to make a movie about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., to be co-produced by Steven Spielberg. (AP Photo/File)AP - DreamWorks plans the first big-screen portrayal of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, the studio announced Tuesday, but two of King's children immediately threatened legal action because the film deal was brokered without their blessing.

Longtime Democratic fundraiser convicted of corruption (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 09:54 AM PDT

In this series of undated photos released by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York, former top Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, top photo left, poses with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), top photo right. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rua Kelly told the jury in Manhattan on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 that it will see photographs of the Hong Kong-born Hsu with famous politicians and will hear his former investors describe being pressured by Hsu to make political donations in their names that they would be reimbursed for. (AP Photo/US Attorney's Office)AP - Longtime fundraiser Norman Hsu was convicted Tuesday of violating campaign finance laws in a case that became an embarrassment to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other prominent Democrats he courted.

Hard-up governments take the fund out of festivals (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 02:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2008 file photo, performers strut around City Hall during the annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia. Cash-strapped Philadelphia says it can no longer waive the costs of city services for festival organizers, and the national forecast is similarly cloudy for other events. Small festivals and huge parades alike are scaling back, stepping up fundraising or even considering canceling. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)AP - The leaders of the "Sunday Out" festival watched thousands brighten a gray day in early May by celebrating in the wet Philadelphia streets with multicolored umbrellas, rainbow-hued hats and colorful necklaces in the name of gay pride.

Man shot in Harvard dorm dies; no arrests made (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 12:36 PM PDT

AP - A 21-year-old man shot inside a Harvard University dormitory Monday while students studied for finals died Tuesday.

Bees sting 74-year-old Texas man over 200 times (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 11:51 AM PDT

AP - A swarm of bees attacked a 74-year-old Texas man as he mowed his lawn, stinging him more than 200 times.

As economy worsens, neighbors buy and share gear (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 11:17 AM PDT

AP - Twice a year, in the spring and again in the autumn, six families on Vicki Matranga's tree-lined Oak Park block go to one neighbor's garage and bring out the $1,200 woodchipper they all pitched in to buy. Then they gather around and feed it dead branches gathered from their yards.

Early skeleton sheds light on primate evolution (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 03:01 PM PDT

The 47 million-year-old fossilized remains of a creature are shown during a news conference at the American Museum of Natural History, Tuesday, May 19, 2009 in New York. The skeleton, from Germany, may help illuminate the early evolution of monkeys, apes and humans. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small, 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts praised the discovery for the level of detail it provided but said it was far from a breakthrough that would solve the puzzles of early evolution.

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