2009年6月7日星期日

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New Orleans mayor, wife quarantined in China (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 03:03 PM PDT

FILE - This Dec. 23, 2008 file photo shows New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin smiling during an interview in his office at City Hall in New Orleans. Nagin was elected seven years ago as a reform-minded business executive who quickly won kudos for efforts to modernize City Hall and clean up local government. He emerged from Hurricane Katrina slightly bruised by criticism but in charge of the massive recovery effort. But as he enters his last year in office, Nagin finds himself hugely unpopular and answering ethical questions about vacations to Jamaican and Hawaii. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife have been quarantined in China after a passenger on their flight exhibited flu-like symptoms.

Shootout with Ala. escapees jolts tiny ND town (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Thes undated photos released by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows 22-year-old Ashton Kenny Chase Mink, right, and 26-year-old Joshua Loyd Southwick. A nearly 14-hour standoff on a ranch in North Dakota ended Saturday June 6, 2009 ended with the arrest of the two men who escaped from a rural Alabama prison more than 1,200 miles away, a federal law enforcement official said. Southwick and Ashton Mink were apprehended following two shootouts with North Dakota law enforcement, nearly two weeks after their brazen escape from the Perry County Detention Center in Uniontown, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Dept. of Corrections)AP - Residents in this tiny North Dakota town were jarred from their sleep with calls from authorities: Lock your doors.

Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 03:21 PM PDT

Gay Rights activist and founder of the NAMES project, Cleve Jones, announces a national march on Washington D.C. for October of 2009 during a rally at the Utah Pride Festival Sunday, June 7, 2009 in Salt Lake City. The rally announced for next fall is to push congress to enact legislation for gay rights equality. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)AP - An activist who worked alongside slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk announced plans Sunday for a march on Washington this fall to demand that Congress establish equality and marriage rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

AP IMPACT: Alternative medicine goes mainstream (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 03:44 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Oct. 24, 2008, Bonnie Tarantino, left, and nurse Donna Audia, center, perform Reiki on a patient as the patient's mother Joyce Armstrong, left, and wife, Karen Armstrong, right, hold his hands at the University of Maryland Medical Center, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.

Calif. contemplating rewrite of social contract (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 11:40 AM PDT

Carolina Fuentes and her daughter Katherine, 5, wait for an appointment at the Sacramento county welfare office in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 1, 2009. Facing a $24.3 billion state budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger has proposed ending welfare for poor mothers and their children, wiping out health insurance for 1 million children and disbanding care for people with Alzheimer's disease or other disabilities. Fuentes, 22, a newly-single mother , doesn't qualify for benefits having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenage, applied for cash assistance, food stamps and health coverage of her daughter.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - With empty pockets and maxed-out credit, California is debating whether it can continue honoring all parts of its social contract with the state's most vulnerable residents.

Ore. woman charged in death of pregnant woman (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:30 PM PDT

AP - A pregnant 21-year-old found dead with her baby no longer in her womb befriended the woman charged with killing her through Craigslist, her mother said Sunday.

Boston Globe union to vote on pay, benefit cuts (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 09:33 AM PDT

AP - The Boston Globe's largest employees union faces an important contract vote.

Ex-US Rep. Jefferson faces federal bribery charges (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:19 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D. La. is shown in New Orleans. A former Louisiana lawmaker and three relatives of a former congressman pleaded not guilty Friday to charges they engaged in a scheme to pocket grant money earmarked for charitable and educational programs. A 34-count indictment handed up last month accuses former state Rep. Renee Gill Pratt of using her House position to help secure funding for non-profits operated by a brother, sister and niece of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File)AP - Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson faces several obstacles to being acquitted of bribery, racketeering and other federal charges — and topping the list is explaining the $90,000 cash stashed in his freezer.

Fla. death row inmate sues to get victims' Chevy (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:11 AM PDT

AP - A Florida death row inmate is suing to get a vintage Chevy pickup owned by the couple he is convicted of killing.

`Up' maintains No. 1 box-office altitude with $44M (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:23 AM PDT

In this image released by Disney/Pixar Films, animated characters Russell, left, and Carl Fredricksen are shown in a scene from the film, 'Up.' (AP Photo/Disney/Pixar)AP - Two live-action comedies have been unable to bring down the animated adventure "Up."

Carradine family takes action on probe, photos (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 01:37 PM PDT

A copy of Thailand's Daily XPRESS newspaper reporting the obituary of actor David Carradine, is seen at a newsstand in Bangkok on Friday, June 5, 2009. Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series 'Kung Fu' who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - David Carradine's family members, dissatisfied with Thai investigators and "profoundly disturbed" by the publication of a forensics photo in a Bangkok tabloid, are seeking help from the FBI and an independent pathologist and have threatened legal action against any media outlet that reprints images of the actor in death.

Skydiver hurt in nighttime jump over western NY (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 12:54 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say a skydiver who bungled the landing on a roughly 10,000-foot nighttime jump was flown to a hospital but ended up with little more than a broken nose.

Mexican day-care fire victim to undergo surgery (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 02:09 PM PDT

AP - A 3-year-old boy who was badly burned in a fire that killed 40 infants and toddlers at a Mexican day care was scheduled to undergo several hours of skin graft surgery, a Sacramento pediatric hospital official said Sunday.

US Airways hero gets rousing hometown reception (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 09:52 PM PDT

AP - In a town that's no stranger to heroes, one stood out Saturday.

Natural gas explosion at megachurch pastor's home (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:30 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say they are investigating a natural gas explosion at the Fort Worth, Texas, home of megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes.

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