2009年6月12日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

'Rockefeller' convicted of kidnapping daughter (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 02:11 PM PDT

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, enters the courtroom to hear the jury's guilty verdict in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston Friday, June 12, 2009. Gerhartsreiter, originally from Germany, was convicted of kidnapping his daughter during supervised visit in Boston last year. (AP Photo/CJ Gunther, Pool)AP - A German man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States was convicted Friday of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter and sentenced to four to five years in prison.

DC Holocaust museum reopens after fatal shooting (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 03:47 PM PDT

A picture of guard Stephen T. Johns, and flowers, are placed near the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington Friday, June 12, 2009. The museum was closed Thursday, for a day, after a shooting on Wednesday left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Liz Johnson showed up Friday to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with 12 Girl Scouts in tow. None of them was alive when the Holocaust took place, but they were determined that a fatal shooting at the museum two days earlier wouldn't keep them from supporting its mission.

Appeals court says no to George W. Bush deposition (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 05:04 PM PDT

AP - A Texas appeals court on Friday overturned a ruling that would have put former President George W. Bush under oath in a dispute involving his presidential library.

Police: NY family arrested, kept kids in squalor (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:10 PM PDT

AP - Five family members kept seven children and more than a dozen animals in a Long Island house that reeked of urine and was littered with rotting food and animal feces, authorities said Friday.

Gorilla injures 1 during brief escape at SC zoo (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 02:51 PM PDT

Children look at one of three male gorillas at Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens in Columbia, S.C. after one escaped and injured a worker Friday, June 12, 2009. Zoo spokeswoman Lindsay Burke says officials aren't sure which of the three gorillas escaped their enclosure. The gorilla returned to the gated sleeping area connected to his outdoor enclosure on his own five minutes later. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - A 390-pound gorilla grabbed some low-hanging bamboo to scale a wall at a South Carolina zoo Friday, escaping his enclosure and tackling a worker before returning to his pen about five minutes later.

Rubble from 2007 bridge collapse rusting in park (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 01:45 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, June 9, 2009 photo, a runner passes some of the fenced-in remnants of twisted steel from the collapsed Interstate 35W bridge, in Minneapolis, a half-mile from the bridge which collapsed nearly two years ago. A Minnesota judge presiding over lawsuits from the Interstate 35W bridge collapse reacted skeptically Friday, June 12 to a design firm's claim of legal immunity because its work was done more than four decades before the 2007 failure. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Nearly two years after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River, much of its twisted steel remnants sit rusting on a long swath of a leafy park just a half-mile from where the span fell.

Ariz. inmate death leads to ban on outdoor cells (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 01:55 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo released by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Marcia Powell. — A prostitute doing time behind bars, Powell was temporarily moved one day last month to an outdoor holding pen with nothing but a chain-link-fence roof to shield her from the searing desert sun. After less than four hours, Powell, 48, collapsed in the 108-degree heat and died at a hospital the next day, touching off a criminal investigation and bringing an abrupt end to a little-known practice in Arizona's prison system that inmate-rights activists found repellent. (AP Photo/Arizona Department of Corrections, File)AP - A prostitute doing time behind bars, Marcia Powell was temporarily moved one day last month to an outdoor holding pen with nothing but a chain-link-fence roof to shield her from the searing desert sun.

Expats in US vote in Iranian presidential election (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT

Orange County, Calif., resident Arezoo Ardekani votes in the Iranian presidential election at the Hyatt Hotel in Irvine, Friday, June 12, 2009. The U.S. Census estimates about 414,000 Iranians are living in the United States, with more than half residing in the West. The election is open to expatriates and their children who have valid Iranian paperwork. Many are legal U.S. residents or U.S. citizens. (AP Photo/Philip Scott Andrews)AP - Iranian expatriates and their children living in the United States cast ballots Friday in the Middle Eastern country's heated presidential election between incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main rival, a reformist who favors greater freedoms and improved ties with the U.S.

Friday marks final signoff for analog TV service (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT

The back of a Analog Pass-Through DTV Converter Box is seen as it sits on the counter at RadioShack in the Camp Hill Mall, Friday, June 12, 2009, in Camp Hill, Pa. Television stations across the U.S. began cutting their analog signals Friday, marking the final signoff for a 60-year-old technology. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes Friday as stations ended their analog broadcasts and abandoned the transmission technology in use since the days of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Howdy Doody.

Bobcat fur coats raise trapping concern in West (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 02:02 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a bobcat resting. This predator whose soft, spotted fur is coveted by the fashion-conscious in Russian and China has found its way into an emotional battle between trappers and wildlife advocates. The Humane Society of the United States and other groups are urging state wildlife officials to scale back bobcat trapping across the West, saying the animals are threatened by high pelt prices. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)AP - Bobcat fur coats have become a hot item among the fashion-conscious in Russia and China, leading to a big jump in prices and exports for the soft, spotted pelts.

UN imposes tough new sanctions on NKorea (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:07 PM PDT

The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to adopt a resolution that expands financial sanctions and the U.N. trade embargo on North Korea during a meeting of the Council at the U.N. headquarters in New York June 12, 2009. REUTERS/Mike SegarAP - The U.N. Security Council imposed punishing new sanctions on North Korea Friday, toughening an arms embargo and authorizing ship searches on the high seas in an attempt to thwart the reclusive nation's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Drilling might be culprit behind Texas earthquakes (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 03:22 PM PDT

A gas pipeline is pictured south of Lake Pat Cleburne, Texas, Thursday afternoon, June 11, 2009. There have been four small earthquakes in the area since June 2, leading some to wonder if natural gas drilling is causing the quakes. (AP Photo/Mark Rogers)AP - The earth moved here on June 2. It was the first recorded earthquake in this Texas town's 140-year history — but not the last. There have been four small earthquakes since, none with a magnitude greater than 2.8. The most recent ones came Tuesday night, just as the City Council was meeting in an emergency session to discuss what to do about the ground moving.

Probation instead of prison for Pentagon leaker (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 12:06 PM PDT

AP - A judge has dramatically reduced the sentence for a former Pentagon analyst who pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to an Israeli diplomat and two pro-Israel lobbyists.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy again receiving treatment (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 03:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., talks at a democratic election party in Providence, R.I. Kennedy, who has struggled with depression, alcoholism and addiction for much of his life, said Friday June 12, 2009 that he has checked into a medical facility for treatment. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)AP - Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who has struggled with depression, alcoholism and addiction for much of his life, said Friday that he has checked into a medical facility for treatment.

Avon, Mary Kay ranks boom as a second-job option (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 11:26 AM PDT

In a Friday, May 15, 2009 photo, Melanie Lyke, left, discusses Avon products with her client, Jennifer Jarnagin, right, in Jarnagin's home in Franklin, Tenn. Lyke sells Avons products as a way to earn a second income. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)AP - Armies of new Avon ladies, Mary Kay reps and Tupperware sellers are advancing on living rooms across the country, their ranks full of professionals forced to take a second job amid the recession.

Moles, not magic, make worm 'grunting' work (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 11:10 AM PDT

File - Mabel works her worm grunting tool in an effort to harvest earthworms that she will sell as fish bait in this Oct. 11, 2006 file photo taken in Hosford, Fla. A piece of iron is rubbed across a wooden stake driven into the ground that causes vibrations that causes the worms to come to the surface. Mabel has been working her trade for 40 years. (AP Photo/Phil Coale, File)AP - Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts. Not because it's so early. It's the term for coaxing worms from the ground by the hundreds to be scooped up and plopped in a tin can until he can sell them for fishing bait.

Miami immigration center has 3 swine flu cases (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 10:07 AM PDT

AP - Three cases of swine flu were confirmed Friday at Miami's Krome immigration detention center, prompting authorities to temporarily stop accepting new inmates and halt social visits.

NJ trooper fined for violations in fatal crash (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 09:47 AM PDT

AP - A New Jersey state trooper who was acquitted of vehicular homicide charges in a crash that killed two sisters has been fined for traffic violations stemming from the accident.

Everything looking up for Saturday space launch (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 09:39 AM PDT

A Japanese banner for the Kibo Experiment Module hangs outside the fence near the space shuttle Endeavour Friday afternoon June 12, 2009 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)AP - NASA zipped through the final hours of its countdown for space shuttle Endeavour, on track for a Saturday morning launch to the international space station.

Teen describes beatings by captors in Calif. home (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 05:36 PM PDT

AP - A teenager who ran from a Northern California home wearing a shackle on his ankle endured frequent beatings, sometimes in front of other children, that worsened over the year he spent there, according to grand jury testimony made public Friday.

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