2009年5月29日星期五

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NYPD investigates how cop shot off-duty colleague (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:38 PM PDT

New York Police Department Community Affairs officers and others gather Friday May 29, 2009 outside the police station where fellow officer Omar J. Edwards worked in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York. Edwards, 25, who drew his gun while chasing someone he had found rummaging through his car, was shot and killed Thursday May 28 by a fellow officer who was driving by and saw the pursuit. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - A police officer had just opened fire on a man he thought was a criminal, caught running through a desolate stretch of Harlem with a gun in his hand. But when paramedics arrived at the scene and cut through the bloodied clothes, the officers realized the man handcuffed and dying in the street was wearing a police academy T-shirt underneath his street clothes, and had a badge in his pocket.

Oklahoma druggist arrested for killing holdup man (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:51 PM PDT

Jerome Ersland sits inside the courtroom watched by Oklahoma County sheriff deputies during a bond hearing at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City on Thursday, May 28, 2009. Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore's security camera, he went behind the counter, got another gun, and pumped five more bullets into the wounded teenager as he lay on the floor. Now Ersland has been charged with first-degree murder in a case that has stirred a furious debate over vigilante justice and self-defense and turned the pharmacist into something of a folk hero. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul B. Southerland)AP - Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore's security camera, he went behind the counter, got another gun, and pumped five more bullets into the wounded teenager as he lay on the floor.

Terrorist flees to Lebanon, FBI confirms (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:52 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file artist sketch, originally provided in March 2009 by the FBI, shows a likeness of master bomb maker Abu Ibrahim, whose real name is Husayn al-Umari. A master bomb maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraq insurgency has fled to Lebanon, an FBI official confirmed Friday, May 29, 2009. (AP Photo/FBI, File)AP - A master bomb maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraq insurgency has fled to Lebanon, an FBI official has confirmed.

Woman in abduction hoax case due back in Pa. (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 03:17 PM PDT

This image provided by the Orange County Florida Sheriffs department shows the booking photo of Bonnie Sweeten. Sweeten and her daughter, Julia Rakoczy, were taken into custody Wednesday night , May 27, 2009, at the Grand Floridian Hotel in Orlando, Bucks County District Attorney Michelle Henry said. The woman at the center of an abduction hoax that began near Philadelphia and ended at Disney World faces a hearing Friday May 29, 2009 to determine whether she will head back home to face charges. The 38-year-old woman from Bucks County, Pa., has been charged with filing a false report and identity theft. (AP Photo/Orange County Sheriff's Department)AP - A woman accused in an abduction hoax that began near Philadelphia and ended at Walt Disney World began heading back to Pennsylvania in police custody on Friday.

Phil Spector gets 19 years to life in murder case (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:20 PM PDT

Music producer Phil Spector sits in a courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles, Friday, May 29, 2009. Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)AP - Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot through the mouth in the music producer's home six years ago. Spector, 69, looked straight forward and showed no emotion as Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler ordered a term of 15 years to life for second-degree murder plus four years for personal use of a gun.

Quick-thinking pizza man leads cops to rape victim (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 03:36 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Friday, May 29, 2009 by the Sevier County Sheriff's Department in Sevierville, Tenn. shows David J. Jansen, 46, of Snellville, Ga. Jansen was arrested Tuesday, May 26, and charged with aggravated kidnapping and rape after an alert pizza deliveryman tipped off police who rescued a Georgia woman who was abducted while jogging in Atlanta, taken to a remote rental cabin in the Smoky Mountains and raped. (AP Photo/Sevier County Sheriff's Department)AP - Chris Turner normally wouldn't drive 30 miles into the remote Tennessee mountains just to deliver a pizza. The one time he did, he came upon a scene that drained the color from his face and made him "numb from head to toe" — a woman with her hands tied, silently begging him to call 911.

Montana town offers to take Guantanamo prisoners (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 12:47 PM PDT

The entrance to the Two Rivers Detention Center in Hardin, Mont. is shown on May 27, 2009. The jail has sat empty during the two years since it was built, and Hardin officials have proposed that it house the terrorism detainees now being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)AP - On Capitol Hill, politicians are dead-set against transferring some of the world's most feared terrorists from Guantanamo to prisons on U.S. soil. But at City Hall in this impoverished town on the Northern Plains, the attitude is: Bring 'em on.

Graphic testimony heard in Va. beheading case (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 01:31 PM PDT

AP - A Virginia Tech doctoral student lunged at a fellow student in a campus cafe and began cutting her head off with a knife while staring at her face with a blank, determined expression, a cafe worker testified Friday.

Congressional panel to analyze VA hospital mishaps (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 12:48 PM PDT

AP - A congressional panel will question Department of Veterans Affairs officials about mistakes that put patients at risk of possible exposure to HIV and other infectious body fluids at three VA hospitals.

Pa. labor officials probing 'Jon & Kate' complaint (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 03:18 PM PDT

In this publicity image released by TLC, reality TV stars, Jon Gosselin, right, and his wife Kate Gosselin, from the TLC series, 'Jon & Kate Plus 8,' are shown in Hawaii. (AP Photo/TLC, Mark Arbeit)AP - In a cold dose of reality for reality TV, Pennsylvania's Labor Department has opened an investigation into whether the hit show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" is complying with state child labor laws.

Miami judge awards $1B in lawsuit against Cuba (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 03:01 PM PDT

AP - A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 billion in damages against the Cuban government for the 1959 suicide of the father of a Cuban-American man who was involved in the CIA-backed capture and killing of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Aged warrior: Medal of Honor recipient turning 100 (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 12:43 PM PDT

Medal of Honor recipients John Finn, left, and Frank Currey chat at the Home Front Cafe in Altamont, N.Y., on Friday, May 29, 2009. The two will be joined by another Medal of Honor recipient this weekend to celebrate Finn's upcoming 100th birthday. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)AP - John Finn, Frank Currey and Nick Oresko are years apart in age, come from different backgrounds and hail from three states. But for most of their long lives they've been linked by the medal draped around their necks.

SC manual labels former black speakers as 'Negro' (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 02:32 PM PDT

AP - The official manual of South Carolina's Legislature continues to label some of the state's former politicians as "Negro" or "scalawag" — apparent remnants of disgruntlement over Reconstruction that are drawing fresh scrutiny.

Prince Harry tours WTC site in 1st US visit (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 12:06 PM PDT

Britain's Prince Harry stops to speak with media at the site of the Sept. 11 terror attack, Friday, May 29, 2009 in New York .(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, Pool)AP - Prince Harry bowed his head in prayer at ground zero Friday, then toured the Sept. 11 attack site and shook New Yorkers' hands in his first official visit to the United States.

1st black female rabbi spent years searching (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 11:14 AM PDT

Alysa Stanton poses in front of an ark in the synagogue at Hebrew Union College, Thursday, May 21, 2009, in Cincinnati. Stanton is to be ordained June 6 as mainstream Judaism's first black woman rabbi. She will become the rabbi at Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C., on Aug. 1. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Alysa Stanton began quenching her spiritual thirst early, discovering Judaism after a search that began at age 9 and worried her mother only when a man called the house one night asking for her youngest child.

Americans helps Ohio town save youth baseball (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 10:47 AM PDT

David Goetz, right, talks with youth baseball players, from the left, Evan Lewis, Nicholas Penwell, and Kyler Drefz, in the dugout, Thursday, May 28, 2009, in Greenfield, Ohio. Goetz donated all the baseball equipment shown to the youth league. Fred Everhart, right rear, and Dean Mann listen in. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - A Florida man is sending a batch of new baseballs. A car filled with gloves, bats and catcher's gear arrived courtesy of a Columbus man. And an Illinois woman who lived through the Great Depression and has a soft spot for baseball is writing a check.

Robots with fins, tails demonstrate evolution (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 10:40 AM PDT

In this April 3, 2009 photo, Vassar biology and cognitive science professor John Long poses with Madeleine, a swimming robot, in a lab at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Madeleine has four flippers sticking from its sides, and it was used to study a 45-ton marine reptile that patrolled the seas in the Jurassic Period. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, the sort you'd store soup in.

Space station crew finally at full staff of 6 (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 09:03 AM PDT

This image from NASA TV shows Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, left, reaching to greet Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka after docking of the Soyuz spacecraft with the international space station, Friday, May 29, 2009. The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three new space station residents docked at the orbiting complex Friday. With three astronauts there to greet them, the space station now has a full staff of six for the first time in its 10-year history. (AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - The international space station just had a population boom.

NJ murder case puts lawyers' conduct in spotlight (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:52 PM PDT

AP - With his expensive suits and slicked-back hair, Paul Bergrin fit the stereotype of the flashy defense attorney willing to go to any length to help his clients beat a rap.

Drummond denies suit's claim about Colombia terror (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:34 PM PDT

AP - An Alabama-based coal company on Friday denied claims made in a lawsuit that it funded a paramilitary group allegedly responsible for dozens of killings in Colombia, where the firm operates a large mine and railroad.

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