2009年5月22日星期五

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Prosecutors: Peterson tried to put hit on 3rd wife (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 04:41 PM PDT

Former Bolingbrook, Ill, police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse,Friday, May 22, 2009, in Joliet, Ill., forr a court appearance. Peterson has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Former police officer Drew Peterson offered someone $25,000 to kill his third wife because he thought a pending divorce settlement would financially ruin him, but then killed her himself months later, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutor James Glasgow made the allegation at a bail reduction hearing for Peterson's $20 million bond.

California faces its day of fiscal reckoning (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 04:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, May 21, 2009 file photo Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger tells reporters that he and lawmakers will try to quickly solve the state's $21.3 billion budget deficit without taxes, gimmicks or much borrowing, after appearing at a prayer breakfast in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - The day of reckoning that California has been warned about for years has arrived. The longest recession in generations and the defeat this week of a package of budget-balancing ballot measures are expected to lead to state spending cuts so deep and so painful that they could rewrite the social contract between California and its citizens. They could also force a fundamental rethinking of the proper role of government in the Golden State.

Ga. father gets 100 years for poisoning kids' soup (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 04:18 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Clayton County Police Department shows William Cunningham, who has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his two children. Prosecutors said Cunningham laced his children's soup with prescription drugs and lighter fluid in a scheme to extort money from Campbell's Soup Co. in 2006. The children, ages 18-months and 3-year-old, took ill, but survived. (AP Photo/Clayton County Police Department)AP - A Georgia man was sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his two children to extort money from Campbell Soup Co.

Wash. state has first death under new suicide law (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 04:17 PM PDT

AP - A 66-year-old woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to die under Washington state's new assisted suicide law, an advocacy group said Friday.

NM mom charged in son's death faces life in prison (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 04:37 PM PDT

Albuquerque Police provided this undated photo of Tyruss 'Ty' Toribio, Police said Thursday, May 21, 2009, that Tiffany Toribio, 23, the mother of the 3-year-old boy found buried at a playground, told investigators she suffocated him, had second thoughts and brought him back to life, then changed her mind and suffocated him again. .(AP Photo/Albuquerque Police)AP - A single mother accused of suffocating her 3-year-old son and burying him in a playground will face life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder, prosecutors said Friday.

NY man denies killing reputed dealer at Harvard (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 03:41 PM PDT

This family photo, date and location unknown, released by the Middlesex District Attorney's office shows Justin Cosby of Cambridge, Mass., who died after being shot Monday, May 18, 2009, inside a Harvard University dormitory. (AP Photo/Cosby family via Middlesex District Attorney's Office)AP - A New York City songwriter pleaded not guilty Friday to murder charges in the shooting at a Harvard dormitory of a man prosecutors say was at the Ivy League school to sell drugs.

Iraq slaying verdict highlights combat stress (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 03:03 PM PDT

US marshals take former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green of Midland, Texas, out the back of the court building after Green got life in prison Thursday May 21, 2009 in Paducah, Ky. Green who was convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family was spared the death penalty Thursday and will serve a life sentence after jurors couldn't agree unanimously on a punishment. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)AP - There's no question ex-soldier Steven Dale Green raped and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her parents and sister.

Propane suppliers quietly reduce size of refills (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 02:19 PM PDT

Tammi Dorsey picks up an exchange tank of propane at a store in Denver, Colo., on Friday, May 22, 2009. She was unaware that the volume levels in exchange propane tanks has changed. Propane suppliers reduced the amount of gas in each 20-pound tank by about two pounds to avoid raising prices last year. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Backyard grillers may get a little steamed this holiday weekend when buying refilled propane tanks: They will be getting less fuel for their money than last Memorial Day.

Plot renews fears of radical Islam in prison (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 02:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, May 14, 2009 and reviewed by the U.S. military, Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire inside the exercise yard at Camp 4 detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The arrest of four Muslim ex-convicts in an alleged homegrown terror plot in the Bronx is renewing fears about the spread of Islamic extremism in the nation's prisons. Those fears were heightened this week as lawmakers debated the fate of detainees if President Barack Obama shutters the prison at Guantanamo Bay. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)AP - The arrest of four Muslim ex-convicts in an alleged homegrown terror plot in the Bronx is renewing fears about the spread of Islamic extremism in the nation's prisons.

Photo of US soldier in pink boxers turns iconic (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 11, 2009 file photo, soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive positions at firebase Restrepo after receiving fire from Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province. Spc. Zachery Boyd of Fort Worth, Texas, far left was wearing 'I love NY' boxer shorts after rushing from his sleeping quarters to join his fellow platoon members. From far right is Spc. Cecil Montgomery of Many, La. and Jordan Custer of Spokan, Wash, center. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says American soldiers have more than their military might and training on their side in the war in Afghanistan. Some have pink underwear. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, FILE)AP - An Associated Press picture of a soldier in his pink boxers has become an iconic image of the war in Afghanistan, but at the moment it was taken, wardrobe was the last thing on the minds of the fighter and photographer.

US journalist freed in Iran arrives in America (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 03:42 PM PDT

American journalist Roxana Saberi smiles as she arrives at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., Friday, May 22, 2009. Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, was convicted last month of spying for the United States and sentenced to eight years in prison. She was released from an Iranian jail on Monday, May 11 after an appeals court reduced her jail term to a two-year suspended sentence. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - An American journalist who spent four months in an Iranian prison was greeted Friday afternoon with cheers and hugs from friends as she returned to the United States.

Amid Times Square chaos, now a pedestrian mall (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 03:17 PM PDT

This Neoscape artist's 'before' rendering provided by the New York City Department of Transportation portrays New York's Times Square with traffic flowing downtown on 7th Ave and Broadway.The collision of avenues that helped name this place the 'Crossroads of the World' is getting a makeover: Starting this Sunday evening, Broadway will become a pedestrian mall closed to vehicle traffic for five blocks at Times Square. (AP Photo/New York City Department of Transportation, Neoscape)AP - Take a walk through Manhattan and it's clear that pedestrians think they own this city. They dash through red lights on the way to work, meander through traffic-clogged streets and can sometimes bring cars to a standstill with their power in numbers.

Priest gets 3 to 6 years for $900k theft in Pa. (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT

AP - A priest and former principal of the largest Roman Catholic high school in Philadelphia was sent to prison Friday for three to six years for stealing $900,000, allegedly to buy silence from students he molested.

New York base in latest terror case gets supplies to troops (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 12:18 PM PDT

FILE-- In this May 21, 2009 file photo, a New York Air National Guard C-5 Galaxy airplane lands at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y. Stewart sends supplies to U.S. troops around the world in massive cargo planes dispatched from its extra-long runway. Prosecutors say those military planes were targeted by four would-be terrorists who wanted to shoot them down with surface-to-air missiles. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)AP - Stewart Air National Guard base sends supplies to U.S. troops worldwide in massive cargo planes dispatched from its extra-long runway — planes that would have been shot down with surface-to-air missiles, prosecutors say, if four would-be terrorists had gotten their way.

Wis. mom found guilty of letting sick daughter die (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 03:48 PM PDT

AP - A mother accused of praying instead of seeking medical help for her dying 11-year-old daughter was found guilty Friday of second-degree reckless homicide.

Terror plot suspects have lengthy criminal records (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 08:48 AM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, terror suspects James Cromitie, right, David Williams, second from left, and Onta Williams, left, and Cromitie's lawyer, Vincent Briccetti, second from right, are seen in a courthouse in White Plains, New York, Thursday, May 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)AP - The four men accused of plotting to bomb New York City synagogues and shoot down military airplanes with missiles are down-and-out ex-convicts living on the margins in a faded industrial city.

Interpol joins search for missing Minn. mom, son (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 12:42 PM PDT

Chief Deputy Sheriff Jason Seidl answers questions during a news conference in front of the Brown County Court House in New Ulm, Minn., Friday, May 22, 2009. Anthony Hauser's public plea for his wife to bring home their 13-year-old son for cancer treatment went unanswered as their flight from authorities stretched into another day Friday. Brown County authorities said they had no new leads on the whereabouts of Colleen and Daniel Hauser. (AP Photo/Minneapolis Star Tribune, Marlin Levison)AP - Minnesota authorities said Friday they were turning to an international law enforcement agency for help finding a woman and her 13-year-old son on the run from court-ordered cancer treatment for the boy.

SC mother found in Md. with 555-pound son (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 12:48 PM PDT

This is an undated family photo provided by The Greenville County Sheriff's Office of Alexander Draper of Travelers Rest, S.C. who is missing Thursday, May 21, 2009. Authorities are searching for his mother Jerri Gray who failed to make a scheduled court appearance on May 19, 2009. The judge has ordered the 555 pound teen be taken into protective custody because of medical neglect and Gray's failure to appear in court. (AP Photo/The Greenville County Sheriff's Office)AP - Baltimore County police say a South Carolina woman accused of neglecting her 555-pound son's health has been released from the hospital and transferred to the county jail.

NJ lawyer's cases probed following murder charge (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 12:52 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors in New Jersey are reviewing dozens of cases handled by a defense attorney charged this week in a federal indictment for allegedly plotting to murder prosecution witnesses.

Utah man charged in beating of pregnant teenager (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2009 03:46 PM PDT

AP - A man in Utah was charged Friday with attempted homicide in the beating of a pregnant teenager who police say asked for the pummeling in an effort to abort her six-month-old fetus.

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