2009年5月23日星期六

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NYPD forensic investigator stabbed to death in bed (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 02:13 PM PDT

AP - Michelle Lee's career was solving crimes. Working as a forensic investigator for the New York Police Department, she was training to do the type of "CSI" work made famous on television.

Maine-bound truck burns wood chips (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 04:22 PM PDT

AP - A pickup truck that was modified in Alabama to burn wood chips for fuel was headed to Maine with its new owners behind the wheel of the bright green vehicle they call "Termite."

Critics blast Milwaukee cops over serial killings (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 11:26 AM 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 - Within a 3-square-mile area of Milwaukee's north side an unknown man strangled six women police say were prostitutes between 1986 and 2007. But it wasn't until this past week that the city's top cop said recent DNA tests had linked the killings.

Memorial Day roll call honors 148,000 veterans (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 03:34 PM PDT

In this May 17, 2009 photo, Joe Landaker wears a T-shirt bearing his son's image as he reads the names of veterans buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, Calif. Landaker is among more than 400 volunteers who honor the cemetery's military dead by reading their names leading up to Memorial Day. His son, Jared, who died on Feb. 7, 2007 during his last mission in Iraq as a Marine helicopter pilot, is buried in the cemetery. (AP Photo/Branimir Kvartuc)AP - Abts, Richard. Adamski, Walter. Ahlman, Enoch.

Obama sees court pick as smart with common touch (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 05:04 PM PDT

FILE - This March 4, 2008 file photo shows California Supreme Court Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, pool, File)AP - On the verge of choosing his first Supreme Court nominee, President Barack Obama has already provided a profile of the person he is likely to pick: an intellectual heavyweight with a "common touch," someone whose brand of justice means seeing life from the perspective of the powerless.

Slayings shattered dreams of rural Iraqi family (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 03:36 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the U.S. District Court and introduced by the prosecution as an exhibit in the trial of former Army Pfc. Steven Green in Paducah, Ky., shows Abeer Qassim al-Janabi as a young girl in Iraq. Green, convicted of raping and killing al-Janabi and murdering her family was sentenced to life in prison Thursday, May 21, 2009 in a case that drew attention to the emotional and psychological strains on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court via The Courier-Journal)AP - The beautiful, dark-haired girl in the photograph stands near a wall in pre-invasion Iraq. What is unseen and now lost, her family says, is her dream of moving to the big city and getting married.

Gates: West Point grads brave for joining military (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 11:28 AM PDT

Cadets at the United States Military Academy celebrate at the conclusion of their graduation and commissioning ceremony in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Cadets graduating from West Point were praised by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday for having the courage and patriotism to join the military in "a dangerous new century."

NASA scraps landing for shuttle 2nd day in a row (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 08:39 AM PDT

In this photo released by NASA, astronaut Mike Massimino is photographed through a window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis Sunday, May 17, 2009 during the mission's fourth session of extravehicular activity as work continues to refurbish and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Thunderstorms prevented space shuttle Atlantis from returning to its home base Saturday for the second day in a row, and kept the astronauts circling Earth after a successful repair job at the Hubble Space Telescope.

Decorated pilot, 3 kids killed in Nev. plane crash (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 03:24 PM PDT

AP - A small plane has crashed while approaching an airport in the town of Fallon, killing a naval air station officer and his three daughters, authorities said Saturday.

Alaska cracks down on man who feeds wild bears (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 05:07 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows black and grizzly bears wondering around on Charlie Vandergaw's property near Alexander Creek, Alaska. The 70-year-old retired science teacher who has been feeding bears at his property in the Susitna River valley about fifty miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska, for 20 years was charged with 20 counts of illegally feeding game in May, 2009. (AP Photo/ Alaska Department of Fish and Game)AP - Charlie Vandergaw is crazy about bears.

3-year-old boy found dead in Oregon river (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 01:59 PM PDT

AP - The body of a 3-year-old boy was pulled from the Willamette River hours before daybreak Saturday and an injured 7-year-old girl was rescued nearby after residents heard screams on the water.

A town's struggle to survive in hard times (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 01:01 PM PDT

AP - The auto plants and steel mills, once the lifeblood of Warren, are ghosts of their former selves. Plants lie idle, shifts have been cut, and the huge parking lot outside the Lordstown General Motors factory is nearly empty. The Golden Gate restaurant and Mary M's, fixtures for years, are shuttered. Houses are boarded up. Businesses have given up on downtown.

Neb. boy, 6, takes wheel after dad passes out (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 10:19 AM PDT

In this May 20, 2009 photo Tustin Mains, 6, is seen, in North Platte, Neb. Police say Tustin Mains, grabbed the wheel of his family's pickup truck May 17, 2009, when his father passed out from low blood sugar, keeping the vehicle from crashing until an officer could bring it to a halt. The kindergartner steered the truck several blocks, even turning around when he entered a neighborhood he didn't recognize, until he was spotted by police. (AP Photo/The North Platte Telegraph, Mark Young)AP - A 6-year-old boy grabbed the wheel of his family's pickup truck when his father passed out from low blood sugar, keeping the vehicle from crashing until an officer could bring it to a halt, police said.

Calf in Colorado born with 7 legs, 2 spines (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 11:53 AM PDT

AP - It's an unlucky No. 7 for a calf born with a few extra legs in Colorado.

Census worker prepares for 6th, and last count (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 09:59 AM PDT

AP - Stan Moore remembers when the U.S. Census count involved punching paper cards for each household. That was just before the 1960 count, when the nation's population was around 170 million and he was one of the few men of color working for the Census Bureau.

San Diego to blast seals from beach with dog noise (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 10:50 AM PDT

AP - Officials in San Diego who want to prevent seals from taking over a popular beach are hoping that a dog's bark is worse than its bite.

Obama salutes veterans this Memorial Day weekend (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 08:11 AM PDT

Mike Belmessieri, of South San Francisco, salutes in front of the grave of U.S. Marine Michael Bianchini at the Golden Gate National Cemetery, where over 100,000 U.S. war veterans are buried, in San Bruno, Calif., Friday, May 22, 2009. Binachini died serving in Vietnam. Belmessieri, himself a former Marine, is active in promoting causes for veterans. His son Dominic Belmessieri is a U.S. Marine about to be deployed to Afghanistan after two tours in Iraq. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - President Barack Obama saluted veterans and urged his countrymen to do the same this Memorial Day weekend, saying the nation has not always paid them proper respect.

Prosecutors: Peterson offered $25K for hit on wife (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 04:59 AM PDT

Former Bolingbrook, Ill, police sergeant Drew Peterson leaves the Will County Courthouse Friday, May 22, 2009, in Joliet, Ill. after a bond hearing where Judge Carla J. Alessio-Policandriotes refused to reduce Peterson's $20 million bond who is charged with first-degree murder in his third wife Kathleen Savio's 2004 death. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Worried a pending divorce would leave him penniless, prosecutors say, ex-police officer Drew Peterson offered someone $25,000 to kill his third wife — but then did it himself.

Maine high school snake gets new home after escape (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 10:35 AM PDT

AP - "Buddy" the boa has a new home, after escaping from his cage at Greenville, Maine, High School, then getting away from the police.

Ohio school district to have Memorial Day classes (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 09:32 AM PDT

AP - Students in one southwest Ohio school district will be in class while their peers get a day off for Memorial Day.

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