2009年6月1日星期一

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Defendant in doc's killing railed against abortion (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:38 PM PDT

A man, left,  detained by police after late-term abortion provider George Tiller was shot to death in a Wichita church is transported  in a Ford Taurus from the Fred Allenbrand Justice complex Sunday, May 31, 2009, in New Century, Kan.  (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)AP - Scott Roeder harbored a burning, "eye-for-an-eye" anger toward abortion doctors. He once subscribed to a magazine suggesting "justifiable homicide" against them, and apparently likened Dr. George Tiller to the Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele.


Police: Recruiting center gunman targeted military (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT

Police inspect the scene of a fatal shooting outside a military recruitment office in a Little Rock, Ark., shopping center Monday, June 1, 2009. A new soldier helping to attract others to the military was shot and killed outside the office Monday and a second soldier was wounded, and a suspect was arrested, police said. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - A man with "political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center, police said. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.


Police: Phoenix mom coached youthful armed robbers (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 04:34 PM PDT

AP - Police in Phoenix say they've arrested a woman accused of leading an armed robbery gang involving her 12- and 14-year-old sons.

Sotomayor would be 6th Catholic on Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:55 AM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with members of the White House Counsel's office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex in Washington , Monday, June 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will be the sixth Roman Catholic of the nine justices.


2009 Atlantic hurricane season begins quietly (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Gov. Charlie Crist, left, changes the days left untill hurricane season to zero during a news conference, Monday, June 1, 2009, in Tallahassee, Fla.  Hurricane season starts today. With Crist is David Chayer, a representative from the American Red Cross. (AP Photo/Phil Coale)AP - The "skinny black line," long a staple of forecasts showing a hurricane's projected path, could be a casualty of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season that began Monday.


AP Exclusive: Blago talked to Durbin about Senate (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:51 PM PDT

Sen. Dick Durbin, seen here in February 2009, addresses a crowd during ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by early 2010 drew a crushing Senate rejection on Wednesday, as well as a tough FBI warning over moving detainees to US soil.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AP - Just two weeks before his arrest on corruption charges, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich floated a plan to nominate to the U.S. Senate the daughter of his biggest political rival in return for concessions on his pet projects, people familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.


Another 'black man did it' hoax sparks outrage (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:09 PM PDT

Bonnie Sweeten, who claimed she and her daughter had been kidnapped but instead turned up at Walt Disney World, is escorted into a courthouse in Richboro, Pa., Friday, May 29, 2009. Sweeten waived her extradition rights in Orlando, Fla. to face charges of filing a false report and identity theft in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - It's an old lie, claiming that The Black Man Did It.


Abortion foes worry shooting could silence debate (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:45 PM PDT

A memorial of flowers grows outside the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan., Monday, June 1, 2009. Dr. George Tiller was gunned down at the church during Sunday services. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - The slaying of a Kansas abortion doctor put the anti-abortion movement on the defensive Monday with prominent leaders delicately distancing themselves from the accused killer while positioning their stand as one shared by a majority of Americans.


Border traffic moves easily with stricter ID code (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:17 PM PDT

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer hands documents to a woman entering the U.S. from Mexico, at the Brownsville, Texas border crossing Monday, June 1, 2009. The vehicle line for people entering the U.S. from Mexico at the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville,Texas was short Monday morning, the first day of stricter identification requirements for Americans re-entering the country from Mexico or Canada. (AP Photo/The Brownsville Herald, Brad Doherty)AP - Fears of stalled commerce and travel didn't materialize at U.S. border crossings Monday as people stayed home or were gently warned on the first day of stricter identification requirements for Americans returning from Mexico and Canada.


Suspect jailed in Kansas abortion doctor's killing (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:28 PM PDT

FILE - This  Jan. 19, 2002 file photo shows Dr. George Tiller speaking to a small group during a rally at Tiller's clinic in Wichita, Kan. The attorney for George Tiller says the late-term abortion provider was shot and killed at his church in Wichita, Sunday May 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Larry Smith, File)AP - A man suspected of fatally shooting abortion doctor George Tiller in church was in jail Monday while investigators sought to learn more about his background, including his possible connections to anti-abortion groups.


Prosecutors: College student was budding terrorist (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:26 PM PDT

AP - The videos are choppy and grainy, and some are just a few seconds long. Many were shot through an open window, and the herky-jerky technique was, at best, headache-inducing.

Ark. panel urges judge removed for probation issue (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:48 PM PDT

AP - An Arkansas judge should be kicked off the bench for operating a probation program that handled thousands of dollars collected from people found guilty in his court and for an improper relationship with a defendant, a judicial ethics panel said Monday.

SC gov hints that stimulus fight may soon end (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:23 PM PDT

AP - COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge dealt a major blow Monday to Gov. Mark Sanford's monthslong fight to stop South Carolina from taking $700 million in federal stimulus money, and the governor said the battle may be nearing an end.

O.J. Simpson's Vegas memorabilia back in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:18 PM PDT

FILE-  In this Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 picture, O.J. Simpson arrives to court before being found guilty on all 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Simpson appealed Tuesday, May 26, 2009 to the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn his convictions for armed robbery and kidnapping during a a Las Vegas hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers. (AP Photo/Daniel Gluskoter, Pool)AP - The footballs, jerseys and framed photographs that put O.J. Simpson in a Nevada prison are in the hands of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and likely headed for the auction block, an attorney for longtime Simpson nemesis Fred Goldman said Monday.


Ark. prison guards on leave after 2 killers escape (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:44 PM PDT

Calvin Adams, 39, is seen in an undated handout photo released Saturday, May 30, 2009 by the Arkansas Dept. of Corrections. Calvin Adams, 39, and Jeffrey Grinder, 32, both convicted murderers ,escaped Friday evening, May 29, 2009, from the Cummins Unit prison in Grady, Ark., more than three hours before officials realized they were missing, corrections department spokeswoman Dina Tyler said. Both men were serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. (AP Photo/via Ark. Dept. of Corrections)AP - Five correction officers were placed on leave Monday after two convicted killers escaped a high-security unit by wearing guard uniforms that are made at the prison and leaving in a car left for them.


Extend or end? Minn. Senate race up to high court (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:33 PM PDT

Former Sen. Norm Coleman, left, listens as his attorney, Joe Friedberg, addresses the media Monday, June 1, 2009  in St. Paul, Minn.,  after the Minnesota Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the disputed U.S. Senate race between Republican Coleman and Democrat Al Franken.  (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - An hourlong hearing before a feisty Minnesota Supreme Court put a new spark in the state's U.S. Senate race Monday, but Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman ended the day stuck in familiar waiting mode.


Ex-US Rep formally announces run for Ohio governor (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2000 file photo retiring Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio poses on Capitol Hil with the Washington Monument in the background. Kasich is expected to make it official Monday, June 1, 2009, that he'll run for Ohio governor in 2010.  (AP Photo/Stephen J. Boitano, File)AP - Former central Ohio congressman John Kasich has kicked off his Republican campaign for governor in 2010.


Auto workers, communities ponder life without GM (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 27, 2009 file photo, Pontiac G6 and Chevrolet Malibu automobiles are shown at the Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich.  Assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich., and Wilmington, Del., will close this year, with the Wilmington plant closing in July. Plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Orion, Mich., will end production this fall but remain on 'standby,' meaning workers can be called back should the company need to increase production. One of those plants is slated to be retooled to produce a subcompact vehicle.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)AP - Pontiac. Mansfield. Spring Hill. Orion Township.


Polly Klaas killer to remain on Calif. death row (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 11:14 AM PDT

This is a Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1993 photo of Richard Allen Davis appearing with his public defender, Bruce Kinnison, in a Sonoma County Municipal Court in Santa Rosa, Calif.  Davis is charged with the murder and kidnapping of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma/pool)AP - The California high court has upheld the death sentence of the man convicted of kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Polly Klaas in 1993.


Ex-officer Drew Peterson's case gets its 3rd judge (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 04:55 PM PDT

Former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., Friday, May 8, 2009, for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio, who was found in an empty bathtub at home. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Both sides have accepted the third judge in Drew Peterson's murder trial.


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