2009年6月9日星期二

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Suspect tells AP soldier's killing was justified (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:52 PM PDT

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad stands in a Little Rock, Ark., courtroom Friday, June 5, 2009, for his initial appearance with his new attorney. Muhammad is accused in the death of a military recruiter outside the Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - A Muslim convert charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting center said Tuesday that he doesn't consider the killing a murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.

Slain woman's parents: LA cop's arrest was overdue (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 05:06 PM PDT

Veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus,49, appears at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles for her arraignment on murder charges on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. The veteran Los Angeles police detective was brought to court Tuesday in an orange jail jumpsuit to face a capital murder charge alleging she killed an ex-boyfriend's wife 23 years ago when she was a young officer. (AP Photo/Mark Boster, Pool)AP - The parents of a woman slain 23 years ago are demanding to know why it took so long for Los Angeles police to focus on one of their own as a suspect, despite several angry confrontations between their daughter and the accused veteran investigator.

Kan. man convicted of Craigslist rape found dead (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 05:03 PM PDT

AP - A man facing nearly 30 years in prison for raping three women who had advertised on Craigslist's former "erotic services" section apparently committed suicide in his Kansas jail cell, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

2 missing, 41 hurt in NC Slim Jim plant collapse (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:44 PM PDT

A Slim Jim meat products plant in Garner, N.C. is pictured after an explosion Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Three people were missing and 20 taken to hospitals after an explosion at the plant. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Thomas Babb)AP - A blast at a Slim Jim meat products plant Tuesday blew workers off their feet, ripped the building's roof off its supports and critically burned four people.

Clinic closing a tainted victory for abortion foes (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 2, 2009 file photo, John Pride, of Wichita, Kan., walks past a memorial outside Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kan. The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller said Tuesday, June 9, 2009 that Tiller's Wichita clinic will be 'permanently closed.' (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)AP - George Tiller's slaying has accomplished what anti-abortion activists had tried to do for decades: The doors to his Kansas clinic will shut forever. The announcement Tuesday from Tiller's family was a tainted victory for the nation's anti-abortion movement. For years, it made Tiller the focus of protests, legislation and legal attacks.

Former Chicago Bear receives probation for fraud (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 03:54 PM PDT

AP - Former Chicago Bear Roland Harper was sentenced to a year of house arrest Tuesday for acting as a front man in a $1.5 million fraud involving a landscaping contract for Chicago public schools.

Miss. boy shot, dies after video game argument (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 03:52 PM PDT

AP - An 11-year-old Mississippi boy accidentally killed his 9-year-old brother with a shotgun blast Tuesday as the two struggled over the gun after arguing about a video game, authorities said.

Clemson president gives low grade to other schools (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - Move over Harvard, Yale, Princeton — and every other college. Asked to rate other universities for the influential U.S. News & World Report rankings, Clemson University President James Barker put his institution on top.

Alabama won't shelter as many storm evacuees (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 03:01 PM PDT

AP - Alabama has a message for its neighbors: Don't count on us next time you need shelter from a storm. And it's not because Louisiana evacuees made a mess last time they came.

Police: 2 teens killed to escape NY group home (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 02:18 PM PDT

AP - Two teenage residents of a western New York group home threw a blanket over a supervisor, beat her to death and then fled in a stolen van after one of them fell under suspicion for stealing, police said Tuesday.

Army closing some special care units (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 02:00 PM PDT

AP - The Army plans to reduce the size of some of its 36 wounded warrior units by the end of the month and close three by October after tightening standards to stem a flood of patients, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Army Corps orders thousands of trees chopped down (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 03:24 PM PDT

This April 8, 2009, photo, shows Hugh Youngblood standing on the levee in front of his home that was built in 1793, in Columbia, La. The Army Corps of Engineers is on a mission to chop down every tree in the country that grows within 15 feet of a levee -- including oaks and sycamores in Louisiana, willows in Oklahoma and cottonwoods in California. Last summer, the cutting crews came to his home on the wooded Ouachita River levee at Breston Plantation, an 18th-century French colonial estate. (AP Photo/ Kita Wright)AP - The Army Corps of Engineers is on a mission to chop down every tree in the country that grows within 15 feet of a levee — including oaks and sycamores in Louisiana, willows in Oklahoma and cottonwoods in California.

Friday is final curtain for analog TV signals (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 02:18 PM PDT

In this June 5, 2009 photo, digital television converter boxes are on display at Radio Shack in Gloucester, Mass. Remaining television stations that have not already made the switch to digital signals are scheduled to cut their analog signals on June 12. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - The last major TV stations that are still broadcasting in analog will turn those signals off Friday and go all digital. And this time, they really mean it.

Death of Somali teen a mystery to Minnesota family (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 01:51 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the family at a news conference in December 2008, Burhan Hassan is seen. Hassan was one of many young Somali men who went missing from Minneapolis last year and according to his family was recruited by radical elements in Somalia. Hassan's family learned on Friday June 5, 2009 that the 17-year-old had been killed under mysterious circumstances and buried in Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Family)AP - Burhan Hassan was an infant when he left his homeland of Somalia. He grew up American, a bright student with dreams of becoming a doctor or lawyer. But now his family is trying to find out why the 18-year-old was killed under mysterious circumstances in Somalia.

Verdict for terror suspect set for Wednesday (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 01:34 PM PDT

This image made from a video by Syed Haris Ahmed and a friend during a 2005 road trip to Washington, provided by the U.S. Attorney's office, shows Ehsanul Islam Sadequee posing in front of the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of videos are the centerpiece to a federal terrorism trial that began Monday, June 1, 2009 against a 24-year-old former Georgia Tech student. The clips, as well as Ahmed's attempts to connect with terrorists in Canada and Pakistan, are at the center of federal charges that he provided support for acts of terrorism in the U.S. and abroad. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office)AP - A federal judge will soon decide the fate of a former Georgia Tech student charged with plotting to aid a terrorist group.

Va. voters decide Democratic nominee for governor (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 01:04 PM PDT

Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., left, Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, D-Va., and Terry McAuliffe, the three Democratic candidates for Virginia governor, laugh together after their final debate in Annandale, Va. on Tuesday, May 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Turnout was light Tuesday as voters chose a Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia's primary.

First Gitmo inmate in US court pleads not guilty (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:32 PM PDT

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a guard stand outside the gate of Camp Iguana detention facility, which houses the Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainees, who are cleared for release but with no country to go to, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Monday, June 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)AP - Under heavy guard, a Guantanamo Bay detainee walked into a civilian U.S. courtroom for the first time Tuesday, underscoring the Obama administration's determination to close the Cuban prison and hold trials here despite Republican alarms about bringing terror suspects to America.

NY school official wrestles gun from armed ex-cop (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:46 PM PDT

AP - A former New York City police officer walked into a suburban middle school with a handgun Tuesday but was wrestled to the floor by the district superintendent, who wrenched the weapon away and pinned him until police knocked down a door and arrested him, authorities said.

Second man charged in fatal Fla. smuggling trip (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:19 PM PDT

With the Miami skyline as a backdrop, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, center, gestures as she speaks during a news conference Friday, May 22, 2009 at the Port of Miami in Miami. Behind Napolitano from left are: Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bill Olejasz, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Matthew Zetts, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Harold Woodward, U.S. Coast Guard Captain James Fitton and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - A second person faces charges in the case of a migrant smuggling boat that capsized May 13 off South Florida's coast, killing nine people.

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