2009年5月25日星期一

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Police: Mike Tyson's daughter on life support (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 06:22 PM PDT

AP - Boxer Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter is on life support after she was found with her neck on a treadmill cable Monday, police said.

Mom returns voluntarily with cancer-stricken boy (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 05:53 PM PDT

This May 20, 2009 photo shows Anthony Hauser in Sleepy Eye, Minn., talking about his thirteen-year-old son, Daniel, and wife, Colleen, who are being sought by authorities after they failed to show up for a court appearance. The search for the Minnesota mother who fled with her 13-year-old cancer-stricken son to escape court-ordered chemotherapy has turned to Southern California after authorities received a tip. But the officials leading the search that continued Thursday acknowledged that Colleen Hauser and her son, Daniel, could already be in Mexico, possibly to seek treatment for his Hodgkin's lymphoma. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jim Gehrz)AP - A 13-year-old cancer patient and his mother, who fled Minnesota last week to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy for him, returned voluntarily Monday, and the boy was evaluated by a doctor, a sheriff and the family's attorney said.


'I love nerds': For spellers, dorky's the new cool (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 03:40 PM PDT

Stephanie Dostie, left, and her daughter Bayleigh Dostie, 9, from Fort Campbell, Ky., and Christy Young, from Fort Drum, N.Y., visit the grave of Dostie's husband, U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Shawn C. Dostie, who died serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005, Monday, May 25, 2009, on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Lauren Kirk had a hamburger in hand, a new friend by her side. On Monday afternoon, she was one of the cool kids.


Chicago reports nation's 12th death from swine flu (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 04:41 PM PDT

This preliminary negative stained transmission electron micrograph (TEM) image depicts some of the ultrastructural morphology of an H1N1 AP - A Chicago resident has died of swine flu, the first death in Illinois and the 12th nationally, from the illness, health authorities said Monday.


Obama observes Memorial Day at Arlington cemetery (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 04:42 PM PDT

President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, May 25,2009, during a Memorial Day ceremony. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama avoided a racial controversy on his first Memorial Day in office by sending wreaths to separate memorials for Confederate soldiers and for blacks who fought against them during the Civil War.


2 hurt saving mom, boy as train hits stalled van (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 03:41 PM PDT

This image from video shows a minivan that was hit by a train in Elm Grove, Wisc., Monday, May 25, 2009. The Elm Grove Memorial Day parade was canceled as a result of the accident. (AP Photo/via WISN TV)AP - A freight train smashed into a minivan stuck on the tracks Monday as a police officer struggled to help a man pull his wife and child to safety.


Ariz. police: Graduation party killer was jealous (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 05:13 PM PDT

AP - Police say a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend at an Arizona high school graduation party apparently was upset at seeing the couple kiss.

Hillary Rodham Clinton surprises Yale graduates (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Yale University commencement in New Haven, Conn. Monday, May 25, 2009. Clinton is a Yale Law School graduate and met Bill Clinton there in 1970. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a surprise return to her alma mater on Monday, picking up an honorary degree from Yale University 36 years after earning her law degree from the Ivy League school.


Crisis spurs spike in 'suburban survivalists' (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 10:37 AM PDT

Jim Wiseman displays his guns in a gun safe at his home in La Jolla, Calif. Thursday, May, 7, 2009.  Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a back-up generator, a water filter, a grain mill and a 4-foot-tall pile of emergency food tucked in his home in this upscale San Diego suburb.  (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet.


Analysis: NKorea widens threat, limits US options (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 05:46 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement about North Korea in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - North Korea's nuclear test makes it no likelier that the regime will actually launch a nuclear attack, but it adds a scary dimension to another threat: the defiant North as a facilitator of the atomic ambitions of others, potentially even terrorists.


Man dies after rescuing 7-year-old boy from pit (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 02:14 PM PDT

AP - A 58-year-old man has died after rescuing a 7-year-old boy who fell into a water-filled hole at a Detroit construction site.

Hometown street poles salute soldiers in war zones (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 03:36 PM PDT

AP - A drive around the small central Illinois town of Sullivan is a lesson in patriotism. The lamp posts and telephone poles on two streets are adorned with white signs bearing the names of local military members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Long past heyday, oldest black Ala. city in peril (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 12:51 PM PDT

Hobson City, Ala., Mayor Alberta McCrory looks through old photos of the city in Hobson City, Ala.,in a  Monday, May 18, 2009 photo. The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama's oldest black city. Empty homes and businesses line the narrow streets; the busiest place in town is a rural AIDS clinic. Hobson City doesn't have a police officer or a fire department, and weeds have overgrown the oldest part of the cemetery and a park. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama's oldest black city. Empty homes and businesses line the narrow streets.


The fame paradox: Pay attention to me, on my terms (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 03:02 PM PDT

AP - Look at me. Look at my life, my body, my antics, my kids, my home. It's OK — come on in. It's a fair deal: I'm getting famous, you're getting entertained. Everybody's happy. What's the problem?

Obama: World must 'stand up' to North Korea (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 04:40 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement about North Korea in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama assailed North Korea Monday for new missile tests, saying the world must "stand up to" Pyongyang and demand that it honor a promise to abandon its nuclear ambitions.


Student who shot self after firing at teacher dies (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 11:23 AM PDT

Police and emergency officials arrive at Larose-Cut Off Middle School in Larose, La.,  Monday, May 18, 2009. Authorities say a student shot himself in the head at the middle school after he fired at a teacher and missed.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - A coroner's investigator says a 15-year-old student who shot himself in the head after firing a shot over a teacher last week at a Louisiana middle school has died.


Dying bulldog saves owner from Grand Rapids fire (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 08:36 AM PDT

AP - A Michigan man's decision not to end his terminally ill bulldog's life has ended up saving his own.

Mich professor, son each get Fulbright scholarship (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 10:12 AM PDT

AP - Calvin College professor James Bratt couldn't have been happier when he learned his son, Eric, had earned a prestigious Fulbright scholarship.

Web service Twitter proposes TV competition series (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT

Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, poses for a photograph after an interview in San Francisco, California May 18, 2009. Micro-blogging site Twitter plans to introduce tools and services by year-end to help businesses serve their customers, and may charge fees for such services, Stone said on Monday. REUTERS/Kimberly WhiteAP - Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody's doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.


Ship to become 2nd largest intentional reef (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 07:11 AM PDT

AP - Aboard the Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a massive World War II ship last used by the U.S. Air Force to track missiles and spacecraft, it's anything but business as usual.
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