2009年5月24日星期日

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Woman in 50s is NY's 2nd swine flu death, US' 11th (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 04:04 PM PDT

A mother puts a face mask on her daughter as they visit Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Chinese health authorities on Sunday confirmed the country's eighth and ninth cases of swine flu, in a toddler and a 46-year-old man who had recently returned from the United States and Canada.(AFP/Peter Parks)AP - A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city's second victim and the nation's 11th.

Liberals ask how they lost gun, Guantanamo votes (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 02:45 PM PDT

FILE -- In this March 17, 2009 file photo, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., talks with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y. is in the background at right. Frustrated liberals are asking why a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House can't manage to close the Guantanamo prison or keep new gun-rights laws from passing. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FILE)AP - Frustrated liberals are asking why a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House can't manage to close the Guantanamo prison or keep new gun-rights laws from passing.

Search focuses on Calif., Mexico for mom, sick son (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 11:34 AM PDT

This May 13, 2009 photo shows Colleen Hauser, left, her son Daniel Hauser, center, and Susan Daya at the Hauser's farm in Sleepy Eye, Minn. A crime alert issued Wednesday, May 20, 2009 for Hauser and her son said they may be with Daya, also known as Susan Hamwi, a California attorney who accompanied the Hausers to a medical appointment just before they disappeared. (AP Photo/The Journal Of New Ulm, Steve Muscatello)AP - Authorities in Minnesota say the search for a woman and her sick 13-year-old son remains focused in southern California and Mexico.

Terrorism arrests: snitch, sting, then controversy (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 10:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, May 21, 2009 picture, James Cromitie, center, is led by police officers from a federal building in New York after being arrested on charges related to a bombing plot in the Bronx. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea, file)AP - It usually starts with a snitch and a sting operation, followed by a great deal of publicity and controversy.

Atlantis, crew land in Calif. after Hubble mission (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 04:22 PM PDT

The space shuttle Atlantis touches down at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at the conclusion of mission STS-125 to repair the Hubble space telescope, Sunday, May 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday, detouring from stormy Florida to sunsplashed California to end a 13-day mission that repaired and enhanced the Hubble Space Telescope.

Bondsmen upset by policies that free more people (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 02:48 PM PDT

In this photo taken March, 5, 2009, Vicki Marble, a Larimer County bail business owner, speaks during an interview in Loveland, Colo. Budget cuts and the cost of maintaining an overcrowded jail forced Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden to begin releasing inmates accused of lesser crimes without bond. Other police agencies across the country are following suit — to the chagrin of bail bondsmen who say their livelihood is threatened. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)AP - Budget cuts and the cost of maintaining an overcrowded jail forced Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden to begin releasing inmates accused of lesser crimes without bond. Other police agencies across the country are following suit — to the chagrin of bail bondsmen who say their livelihood is threatened.

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

Posted: 24 May 2009 10:53 AM PDT

In this April 22, 2009 photo, Richard Blackaby stands at attention as a member of the honor guard carries the remains of a veteran during a internment ceremony at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, Calif. Blackaby, an Army veteran, is among more than 300 volunteers who honor veterans buried in the cemetery by reading their names leading up to Memorial Day each year. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - Abts, Richard. Adamski, Walter. Ahlman, Enoch.

Recession suddenly humbles high-tech sector (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 10:11 AM PDT

AP - The $1.6 million red Bugatti crouches in the showroom, flanked by Lamborghinis, Bentleys and a Rolls-Royce all polished to a shimmer. The nearby potted plants, however, are dusty and wilting. With super-luxury car sales here just half of what they used to be, they had to cut something.

2 killed, 6 hurt in Ariz graduation party shooting (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 03:41 PM PDT

AP - Two people were killed and six others — two of them children — were wounded in a shooting at a high school graduation party, police said Sunday.

Mother accused of drowning son, 4, in Oregon river (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Portland Police search on a dock near the Sellwood Bridge Saturday, May 23, 2009, in Portland, Ore. Portland Police homicide detectives have launched an investigation after a 3-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl were found in the Willamette River. The boy was deceased, police say, and the girl was taken to a hospital. Police say officers were called to the Sellwood Bridge area around 1:20 a.m. Saturday after screams were reported. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - An Oregon mother was arrested Saturday in the drowning of her 4-year-old son after the boy and his 7-year-old sister ended up in the chilly Williamette River.

Detroit city council member's property taxes: $68 (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:49 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 29, 2008 file photo shows JoAnn Watson, Detroit City Council president pro tem leading a council meeting in Detroit. According to a story Sunday, May 24, 2009 in the Detroit Free Press Watson paid $68 in property taxes this year because city records showed that her home doesn't exist. She was unaware of a city records discrepancy that has, for the past decade, listed her house as an empty lot even though the brick Tudor-style home has been occupying the plot since 1926. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)AP - A Detroit city council member paid only $68 in property taxes this year because city records showed her home doesn't exist.

Final exec faces sentence in SC firm's $275M bust (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 09:01 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 13, 2009, Donald McQuade poses with the ashes of his wife, Imogene, in Greenville, S.C. McQuade lost his life savings when Carolina Investors collapsed. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Donald McQuade skipped lobster dinners and long vacations for decades, pouring every dollar he saved into a little South Carolina company that made returns close to 10 percent by loaning to people who couldn't borrow anywhere else.

Cops: NY man said he'd hit Rudy Giuliani, arrested (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 02:03 AM PDT

AP - A harassment charge has been filed against a Long Island man who police say approached former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (joo-lee-AH'-nee) and threatened to hit him.

Patti Blagojevich says her marriage is strong (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 10:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 19, 2002, file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his wife Patti watch election returns in their Chicago home. Blagojevich's wife says she will work to support her troubled family by going to Costa Rica as one of what NBC calls '10 pampered celebrities dumped into the jungle to see if they survive' on a reality TV show. If she's the last one still on the show after the others are voted off, the former first lady of Illinois will be dubbed Queen of the Jungle, the network said. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)AP - Patti Blagojevich says her marriage to ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich hasn't been shaken since he was arrested on federal fraud charges.

10 injured in school buses' crash at Ohio speedway (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 04:49 PM PDT

AP - Two school buses have crashed into a concrete barrier at a demolition derby-style race in Ohio, injuring 10 spectators.

Buzz off! Bee swarm traps workers in NY game store (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 07:47 AM PDT

In this image made from video by WABC-TV, a bee specialist wearing protective gear collects a swarm of bees into a box outside a computer game store in New York on Saturday, May 23, 2009. A swarm of bees clustered around the Manhattan store and trapped employees inside for hours as thousands of the insects gathered on the sidewalk and outside the building. (AP Photo/WABC-TV)AP - Thousands of bees swarmed outside a New York City game store, trapping employees inside for hours.

Turnstiles turn for `Museum,' `Terminator' (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 01:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo, the stars of 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,' from left, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria and Ben Stiller pose in front of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)AP - Ben Stiller's "Night at the Museum" sequel and Christian Bale's "Terminator Salvation" are combining for a solid Memorial Day weekend at the box office.

Killings shattered dreams of rural Iraqi family (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 11:35 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.

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