2009年6月5日星期五

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Calif. man gets death sentence in 5 arson murders (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:25 PM PDT

Raymond Oyler enters court before his sentencing Friday June 5, 2009 in Riverside, Calif. Oyler was sentenced to death Friday for setting a Southern California wildfire that claimed the lives of five federal firefighters as they struggled to defend a rural home from raging wind-driven flames. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A convicted arsonist was sentenced to death Friday for setting a Southern California wildfire that killed five federal firefighters struggling to defend a rural home from raging, wind-driven flames.

Botox and a resume: Job seekers get wrinkles out (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:53 PM PDT

Benita Jenkins, left, of Washington, Wendy Wright, of Arlington, Va., and Mari Negron, of Arlington, Va., friends who are all currently unemployed, wait to have a Botox treatment at Reveal in Arlington, Va. on Friday, June 5, 2009. Reveal is offering free injections of the anti-wrinkle drug Botox to the first 50 people who stop by Friday clutching a resume. The event will feature recruiters offering tips, networking opportunities and on-site interviews. And, of course, there's also this pitch: Confidence inspired by Botox could give job seekers an edge in the hiring process. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Colleen Delsack is a 47-year-old single mother who can't seem to find a steady job, and she worries that her age may have something to do with it.

South Dakota rancher wins $232 million jackpot (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:24 PM PDT

Neal Wanless, 23, reads a statement as he claims a $232 million Powerball lottery prize, Friday, June 5, 2009, in Pierre, S.D. Neal Wanless, who lives on his family's 320-acre ranch near Mission, S.D., bought the winning ticket in the nearby town of Winner late last month during a trip to buy livestock feed. He will take home $88.5 million in a lump sum payment after taxes are deducted. (AP Photo/Chet Brokaw)AP - If this were a movie, nobody would believe it: A rancher struggling to eke out a living in one of the poorest corners of America claimed one of the biggest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history Friday — $232 million — after buying the ticket in a town by the name of Winner.

Cuban-born Watergate burglar dies in Florida at 92 (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 07:17 PM PDT

FILE - This 1972 police booking mug shows Bernard L. Barker. Bernard Leon Barker, a Cuban-born CIA operative who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion and was later a Watergate burglar, has died in Florida. He was 92. Barker's stepdaughter says that he died Friday morning, June 5, 2009 at his suburban Miami home after being taken to the Veteran's Administration Medical Center the night before. He had suffered from cancer and heart problems but his exact cause of death was unclear. (AP Photo/File)AP - Bernard Leon Barker, one of the five Watergate burglars whose break-in led to America's biggest political scandal, died Friday in suburban Miami. He was 92.

Teen robbery suspect killed in SC police shooting (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:41 PM PDT

This 2007 photo provided by the family shows Yvette Williams, a 15-year-old South Carolina girl killed by police after authorities say she robbed a store at gunpoint Thursday, June 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Williams Family Photo)AP - A police chief said Friday he thinks officers were justified when they shot a 15-year-old girl suspected of robbing a store at gunpoint, comments that left the teen's relatives expressing outrage as they planned her funeral.

Spector's young wife talks about life without him (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:41 PM PDT

In this photo taken on March 5, 2009, Phil Spector, accompanied by his wife Rachelle Spector, arrives at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles. Rachelle Spector will turn 29 next week, a young, pretty woman living alone in a 35-room Pyrenees- style castle while the lord of the manor sits in prison. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Rachelle Spector will turn 29 next week, a pretty woman living alone in a 35-room Pyrenees-style castle while the lord of the manor — music producer Phil Spector — sits in prison.

Ads pulled over radio hosts' transgender remarks (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:10 PM PDT

AP - Bank of America, Verizon, Chipotle and other companies have pulled advertising from a Sacramento radio station after talk show hosts referred to transgender people as "freaks" with mental disorders.

Witness to challenge flight attendant's story (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, passengers in an inflatable raft move away from an Airbus 320 US Airways aircraft that has gone down in the Hudson River in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, FILE)AP - Passengers on the plane that ditched into the Hudson River in January have told a federal safety panel that it was a flight attendant — not a panicked passenger — who opened a rear door on the aircraft, sending water rushing into the cabin.

NC Craigslist rape suspect has '08 Va. conviction (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 05:41 PM PDT

AP - A North Carolina man who police say arranged on Craigslist for his wife to be raped by another man exposed himself last year to a pizza delivery woman in Virginia and pleaded guilty to indecent exposure.

Klansman's conviction upheld in 1964 kidnappings (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 05:52 PM PDT

AP - A reputed Ku Klux Klansman will remain in prison after a federal appeals court's split ruling wiped out his acquittal in the kidnappings of two black teenagers who were slain in 1964.

Millions of tons of TVA coal ash coming to Ala. (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - The nation's largest public utility plans to dispose of millions of tons of coal ash from a massive spill in Tennessee into a giant landfill in one of Alabama's poorest counties, state environmental officials said Friday.

Community mourns Kan. doctor; funeral Saturday (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:33 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 19, 2002 file photo shows Dr. George Tiller, shot to death at his church last Sunday, May 31, 2009, who had been the target of a relentless protest campaign for most of the 36 years that he performed abortions at his Wichita clinic. He was a focal point of the abortion conflict, but it transcended him, often becoming the state's dominant political topic. . (AP Photo/Larry Smith, File)AP - Abortion provider George Tiller felt safe inside the one place where he most openly shared his faith in God with others — the Kansas church to which he routinely tithed and served as an usher.

NYPD seeks way to let guns 'talk' to one another (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:39 PM PDT

Police carry the casket of slain police officer Omar Edwards as his wife Danielle and their son Xavier follow during funeral services at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church in New York, Thursday June 4, 2009. He was killed last week in a friendly fire incident that has raised questions about race and police tactics. Edwards, 25, had just ended a tour in Harlem and was in street clothes on May 28 when he chased a man who had broken into his car down a dark street. Plainclothes officers patrolling nearby noticed the pair and ordered them to halt. When Edwards turned toward them with his gun out, one of the officers shot him. Edwards was black; the three other officers were white. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire that left a cop dead last week.

'Greatest Generation' dwindles at D-Day memorial (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:53 PM PDT

Second World War veteran Don Roach, 82, takes a moment as he stands on Juno beach in Courseulles sur-Mer, France, on Friday, June 5, 2009 as he visits Normandy to take part in ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy. Roach served as a 5th Engineer with the Canadian Merchant Marines and played an active role in the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)AP - It's "A Gathering of the Greatest Generation" — though this year only a small group of that era's aging heroes will commemorate the invasion of France at Normandy 65 years ago.

US loses just 345,000 jobs in May, raising hopes (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:44 PM PDT

Job postings board is shown at Central City Concern Thursday, June, 4, 2009, in Portland, Ore. With companies in no mood to hire, the unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 percent in May, the highest in more than 25 years. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Employers throttled back on layoffs in May and cut the fewest jobs in any month since the financial crisis erupted last fall — raising the brightest hope yet that an economic recovery will take hold later this year.

Couple accused of spying for Cuba for 30 years (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:29 PM PDT

In this Oct. 31, 2003 file photo, then Cuban President Fidel Castro protests against the US embargo in Havana, Cuba. (AP photo/Jose Goitia/File)AP - A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to pass U.S. secrets to the communist government in a security breach one official described as "incredibly serious."

Deadline set for Flight 93 memorial land talks (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - The federal government will negotiate with landowners for one week in an attempt to get property needed to build a Flight 93 memorial without using eminent domain, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Friday.

2 nuke sub sailors held in brutal NH attack (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:25 PM PDT

This May 23, 2009 booking photo released by the Portsmouth Police Department on Friday June 5, 2009 shows 23-year-old Pearl Harbor sailor Sandy Portobanco of Inglewood, Calif. Portobanco is one of two sailors charged with beating a former Maine town councilor last month and will remain in New Hampshire until his case is resolved. (AP Photo/Portsmouth Police Department)AP - Two nuclear submarine sailors, including one assigned to help crewmates stay out of trouble, are accused of brutally beating a man, leaving him near death on a Portsmouth street and then trying to orchestrate a cover-up.

Black pastor: Southern Baptists should honor Obama (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:30 PM PDT

AP - A black Southern Baptist pastor has asked his denomination to acknowledge the importance of President Barack Obama's election, despite the convention's opposition to many of his policies.

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