2009年6月10日星期三

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Elderly gunman kills guard at Holocaust Museum (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 04:21 PM PDT

A US Park Police officer patrols one of the entrances of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, after a shooting. A lone gunman said to have links to white supremacist groups opened fire Wednesday inside the Holocaust Memorial Museum here, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself.(AFP/Karen Bleier)AP - An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said.

Shooting suspect's history of seething anger (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 02:47 PM PDT

William Parsons, walking left, chief of staff of the Holocaust Museum and Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, right, walk toward reporters outside the museum after a shooting in Washington Wednesday, June 10, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - A frustrated artist and an angry man, the suspect in the U.S.

Affidavit: Wife pushed knife away from attacker (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 04:11 PM PDT

AP - A North Carolina man accused of arranging his wife's rape on Craigslist watched as she pushed a knife away from her attacker, then told her to shower afterward to destroy evidence, according to a police document released Wednesday.

2 Alaska lawmakers could be freed, review ordered (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 04:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2007 former Alaska state lawmaker Pete Kott, center, walks from the federal court building in Anchorage, Alaska , with his daughter, Pam Kott, left, and Debora Stovern, right, after Kott was convicted of conspiracy to solicit financial benefits, extortion and bribery. On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the corruption case of the former Alaska House Speaker to district court in Anchorage with an order that Kott be released from prison pending further hearings. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, FILE)AP - Two former Alaska state lawmakers could be released from prison soon after a federal appeals court Wednesday ordered their corruption convictions reviewed.

Neb. doc plans to offer 3rd-term abortions in Kan. (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 04:02 PM PDT

FILE - This June 2, 2009 file photo shows Dr. LeRoy Carhart wearing a black arm band during a news conference in his office in Bellevue, Neb. The Nebraska doctor said Wednesday that he will perform third-term abortions in Kansas after the slaying of abortion provider George Tiller, but declined to say whether his plans include opening a new facility or offering the procedure at an existing practice. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP - A Nebraska doctor said Wednesday that he will perform third-term abortions in Kansas after the slaying of abortion provider George Tiller, but would not say whether he will open a new facility or offer the procedure at an existing practice.

Philly case rekindles debate on vigilante justice (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 03:35 PM PDT

AP - A dozen neighbors were so outraged by the brutal rape of an 11-year-old girl that they gave chase to a suspect and beat him, holding him until police arrived. Two of them were honored with an $11,500 police union reward only days before DNA proved the mob's instincts may have been right: Jose Carrasquillo was charged Wednesday with the attack.

Corpse-shortening SC funeral home open for now (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 03:01 PM PDT

AP - A South Carolina funeral home where a corpse's legs were cut so the body would fit in a casket can remain open as it appeals the revocation of its license, a judge has ruled.

US-Mex border fence completion eludes government (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

This June 8, 2009 photo shows workers tying up the fronds of a Sabal Palm in Brownsville, Texas before moving it to a new location at the Nature Conservancy. Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence was to be finished, a judge is demanding answers to lingering questions about how the government plans to use private property in the fence's path. (AP Photo/Brad Doherty)AP - Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration was supposed to be finished, its completion is in limbo while a judge waits answers to questions about private property in the fence's path.

Va. women's prison segregated lesbians, others (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

Former Fluvanna Women's Correctional Center inmate, Summer Triolo, gestures during an interview in her home in Virginia Beach, Va., March 23, 2009. While an inmate, Trilo was sent to a unit officers derisively dubbed the 'butch wing.' Dozens of inmates were moved in an attempt to split up relationships and curb illegal sexual activity at the 1,200-inmate Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, though some straight women were sent to the wing strictly because of their appearance, the inmates and corrections officers said. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - For more than a year, Virginia's largest women's prison rounded up inmates who had loose-fitting clothes, short hair or otherwise masculine looks, sending them to a unit officers derisively dubbed the "butch wing," prisoners and guards say.

US to reconsider species protection for wolverines (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 03:24 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to reconsider its decision that denied wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Deputy Tasers woman, 72, during traffic stop (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 01:24 PM PDT

In this image taken from a May 11, 2009 video released by the Travis County Constable's Office, Kathryn Winkfein, right, is shocked with a Taser by Deputy Chris Bieze outside of Austin, Texas. Video released by the constable's Office shows Deputy Bieze confronting 72-year-old Winkfein after stopping her for speeding. (AP Photo/Travis County Constable's Office)AP - Cursing and belligerent, the great-grandmother refused to sign her speeding ticket, got out of her truck and dared a deputy to shock her with a Taser.

Schwarzenegger seeks online revolution in schools (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 02:57 PM PDT

AP - In the state that gave the world Facebook, Google and the iPod, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says forcing California's students to rely on printed textbooks is so yesterday.

Chaos described after NC plant blast that killed 3 (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 02:35 PM PDT

Investigators survey the wreckage during recovery operations Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at ConAgra Foods Inc., in Garner, N.C. Authorities say they have found a third body inside a Slim Jim factory in North Carolina a day after an explosion wrecked the building. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chris Seward)AP - A dazed Harold Harris looked up and saw the roof of the Slim Jim snack factory falling down. The doorway was buried in debris. People were crying and screaming.

NM searchers find 1 of 3 on downed helicopter (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 04:22 PM PDT

AP - Rescuers found a state police patrolman suffering from extreme hypothermia Wednesday after his helicopter crashed into a snowy mountain in northern New Mexico, and officials feared that the two others aboard didn't survive.

Gay couples forced to flee US over immigration law (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 12:57 PM PDT

AP - The mayor of this West Texas sheep ranching town offered a stunning explanation when he suddenly resigned: He was in love with a man who was an illegal immigrant and had gone to Mexico.

Ex-Ga. Tech student convicted of video terror plot (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 04:08 PM PDT

An artists rendering of former Georgia Tech student Syed Haris Ahmed in federal court Wednesday June 10, 2009. A federal judge convicted Ahmed Wednesday of plotting to aid a terrorist group by videotaping landmarks around Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Richard Miller)AP - Syed Haris Ahmed's videos of Washington, D.C. landmarks didn't represent an imminent threat to the U.S., but prosecutors said his conviction Wednesday for supporting terrorism exemplifies a strategy of snuffing out potential plots in their earliest stages.

Ore. lawmaker wants charges for killing unborn (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 11:20 AM PDT

Korena Roberts is arraigned in Washington County court on Monday, June 8, 2009 in Hillsboro, Ore. Roberts, 27, is charged with the murder of Heather Snively, a pregnant 21-year-old newcomer to Oregon who was found dead in a crawl space of a suburban home. Snively had been cut open and her baby delivered from her womb, which Roberts claimed to be her own, investigators said Monday. (AP Photo/Jamie Francis, Pool)AP - In the wake of an attack on a woman who died along with her unborn child, a state lawmaker wants Oregon to join 36 states and the federal government in making it a crime to harm a fetus.

GOP stages a coup in New York Senate (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 01:38 PM PDT

The Senate Chamber remains dark and locked at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Republicans say that Senate session may resume this afternoon after they regained control of the chamber Monday with the help of two dissident Democrats. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Pandemonium erupted on the floor, the lights went out and the live television feed went black as the coup unfolded.

NYC 9/11 memorial to feature audiovisual display (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 03:45 PM PDT

This artist rendering by Thinc Design with Local Projects and provided by The National September 11 Memorial & Museum shows one of that museum's planned exhibitions. The memorial exhibition will allow visitors to the underground museum within the footprint of the World Trade Center's south tower to learn more about each individual who was killed in the September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993 attacks. It will include a room where audio-visual tributes will be shown commemorating each victim. (AP Photo/ The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Thinc Design with Local Projects)AP - Audiovisual tributes to the thousands of Sept. 11 victims — accompanied with stories from their lives — will form the core of the memorial museum, officials announced Wednesday.

Donald Trump ousts Prejean as Miss California (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 01:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 26, 2009 file photo, Miss California USA Carrie Prejean listens to a question at the Rock Church during services in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up trouble for herself when she said gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, got the word from pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: "You're fired."

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