2009年5月28日星期四

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Investigators try to unravel abduction hoax case (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 04:52 PM PDT

AP - Bonnie Sweeten appeared to neighbors, colleagues and other school parents like a woman smoothly juggling the responsibilities of work and family.

Multiracial people become fastest-growing US group (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 03:46 PM PDT

Golfer Tiger Woods looks on in the first quarter of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals NBA basketball playoff series between Orland Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers in Orlando, Florida May 24, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Kolczynski (UNITED STATES SPORT GOLF BASKETBALL)AP - Multiracial Americans have become the fastest growing demographic group, wielding an impact on minority growth that challenges traditional notions of race.

'75 Gerald Ford attacker hoped to start revolution (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 01:42 PM PDT

Sara Jane Moore, the woman who fired a gun at President Gerald Ford in 1975 and spent the next 32 years in prison, waits to hear the concert on the NBC 'Today' television program after her interview on the show in New York Thursday, May 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - The woman who fired a gun at President Gerald Ford in 1975 and spent the next 32 years in prison said in an interview Thursday that she believed the country would change only through a violent revolution.

Fla.'s 'Father Oprah' joins Episcopal Church (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Father Alberto Cutie talks to reporters during a news conference at the Trinity Cathedral in Miami, Thursday, May 28, 2009. Cutie, a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, has become a member of the Episcopal Church and will pursue the priesthood. The popular Miami priest and media personality says he is leaving the Catholic Church and joining the Episcopal church after he was photographed cavorting on the beach with his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - A popular priest known as "Father Oprah" has left the Roman Catholic Church and joined the Episcopal Church less than a month after a tabloid published photos of him cavorting on the beach with his girlfriend in a scandal that rocked South Florida's Spanish-speaking community.

Lawyer: 'Rockefeller' insane when he took daughter (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 02:03 PM PDT

Court officers escort Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, into the courtroom for the first day of his trial at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston on Thursday, May 28, 2009. Gerhartsreiter, originally from Germany, is charged with kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter in Boston last July. (AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool)AP - Prosecutors and defense lawyers offered similar portraits of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller as his kidnapping trial opened Thursday: a German-born man who has spent decades making up fantastic lies about himself.

11 advance to National Spelling Bee finals (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 11:32 AM PDT

Serena Laine-Lobsinger, 13, of West Palm Beach, Fla., center, is congratulated for spelling her word correctly in round four of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Washington, on Thursday, May 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - The chairs on the ballroom stage emptied one by one, left vacant by those who had guessed and walked away disappointed. Rarely has a spelling bee round been this brutal.

Big Apple readies to greet a royal little brother (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 01:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 5, 2008 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry arrives at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, Wales, to open an exhibition of tapestries from Lesotho. Harry arrives in New York Friday, May 29, 2009 for his first official visit to America, with plans including a stop at the World Trade Center site, meetings with wounded veterans and a polo match. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)AP - He's a 24-year-old Londoner whose grandmother offered to pay for his trip to New York.

Ex-U.S. soldier convicted of Iraq murders faces victims’ relatives (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 02:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, July 13, 2006 file photo, Mohammed al-Janabi, uncle of 14 year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi who was raped and killed by American soldiers, displays death certificates and ID's on his niece's grave, in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Relatives of a murdered Iraqi family will get a chance Thursday, May 28, 2009 to tell a federal judge how the deaths affected them. (AP Photo/Ali al-Mahmouri, File)AP - Weeping relatives of a murdered Iraqi family confronted the killer Thursday in an American courtroom and said he deserved to die.

NYC man sues police for $220M over alleged assault (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 12:05 PM PDT

AP - A man filed a $220 million lawsuit on Thursday claiming that New York Police Department officers robbed him of his civil rights by sodomizing him with a baton in a subway station.

Gun supporters say colleges trample protest rights (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 11:53 AM PDT

AP - Colleges nationwide have unconstitutionally barred students from handing out literature, protesting and gathering in support of the right to carry weapons on campus, students and an advocacy group say.

Some charges against Baltimore mayor dismissed (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 12:52 PM PDT

AP - A judge has dismissed some charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and all charges against a councilwoman indicted in a probe of city finances.

CDC says October soonest for swine flu shots (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 11:20 AM PDT

AP - A U.S. health official said a swine flu vaccine could be available as early as October, but only if vaccine production and testing run smoothly this summer.

Police: Ga. prof in killings taped affair talk (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 11:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2006 photo provided by the University of Georgia, George Zinkhan is seen. Documents from a police investigation into Zinkhan, who fatally shot his wife and two men, reveal that the former University of Georgia professor had secretly recorded a conversation he had with his wife about her apparent affair with one of the men killed. (AP Photo/University of Georgia, Robert Newcomb)AP - A former University of Georgia professor had secretly recorded a conversation with his wife about her apparent affair with an economist before he shot both of them and another man to death outside a community theater, according to police documents.

Season's 1st tropical depression forms in Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 01:51 PM PDT

A tropical storm forms in the sky over Havana, May 28, 2009. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA ENVIRONMENT)AP - National Hurricane Center forecasters in Miami say a tropical depression has formed off the mid-Atlantic coast, but it's not expected to threaten land.

New York set to welcome Prince Harry (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 09:55 AM PDT

In this image issued by Clarence House, Tuesday, May 5, 2009, Britain's Prince William, left, and Prince Harry sit alongside an animated frog in a clip from a 90-second video launched by Britain's Prince Charles in his campaign to protect the world's rainforests. A 90-second video featuring both the frog and the prince will be launched Tuesday. The video from the Prince's Rainforests Project is aimed at raising awareness of deforestation and climate change online. (AP Photo/Clarence House, PA)AP - Prince Harry is arriving in New York for his first official visit to America.

Toys R Us acquires high-end retailer FAO Schwarz (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 09:47 AM PDT

File - People pass a a statue of a teddy bear and a doorman dressed as a toy sholdier as they enter the FAO Schwarz on Fifth Avenue in New York in this Monday, Nov. 10, 2003 file photo. Toys R Us Inc. says it has purchased FAO Schwarz, one of the nation's oldest toy retailers. CEO and chairman Jerry Storch announced the acquisition of the iconic high-end store in a news release early Thursday May 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Rich Kareckas, File)AP - Geoffrey the Giraffe became a knight in shining armor for toy retailer FAO Schwarz late Wednesday, as Toys R Us Inc. said it acquired the troubled high-end retailer, which has struggled for years through bankruptcies amid tough competition from discount stores.

Winning $232M lottery ticket sold to in Winner, SD (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT

AP - It's been 100 years since this South Dakota ranch town lived up to its name, but it has done so in a big way for whoever bought a Powerball ticket worth $232.1 million.

Md. teen to be tried as adult in dad's slaying (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 02:42 PM PDT

Danielle Black, 15, is escorted out of the Washington County Courthouse on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 in Hagerstown, Md. Black charged as an adult with soliciting her father's murder is fighting to have her case referred to juvenile court. A hearing Tuesday was recessed after about three hours of testimony. Washington County Circuit Judge Kennedy Boone said he will rule Thursday. (AP Photo/Timothy Jacobsen)AP - A judge on Thursday ordered a 15-year-old tried as an adult on a charge of soliciting her father's stabbing death in a case that points toward a showdown over her mental state.

Car driven by mother plows into preschool, 5 hurt (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 12:35 PM PDT

AP - A car plowed into a bustling child care center on Thursday, pinning a 2-year-old boy underneath it and injuring four other youngsters.

Congress can learn from Mass., Tenn. health plans (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2009 01:08 PM PDT

Graphic responses to a survey of Massachusetts’ health insurance expansion for 2006 andAP - Laid off from her job in Massachusetts, Danielle Marks thought immediately about losing her health insurance. How could she afford the medication and physical therapy she needed to heal after shoulder surgery?

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