2009年6月13日星期六

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Lejeune water study finds no definite disease link (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 12:05 PM PDT

AP - Contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune can't definitively be linked to health problems among people who lived at the Marine base over three decades, according to a government report released Saturday.

International child abductions by parents rising (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 03:33 PM PDT

FILE - In a June 10, 2009, file photo, U.S. citizen David Goldman is seen during a hearing at Brazil's Supreme Court in Brasilia. Goldman of Tinton Falls, N.J., is seeking to regain custody of his 9-year-old son, after his ex-wife, who has since died, took their child to her native Brazil. U.S. State Department officials say international parental abductions have been rising steadily over the past several years. (AP Photo/Fabio Pozzebom, File)AP - It was a globe-trotting romance: a handsome American working as a model in Italy falls in love with a Brazilian beauty studying fashion design in Milan. They marry in 1999, settle in the tony New Jersey shore town of Red Bank, and have a son.


End of road for 4-generation Chrysler dealer (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 12:53 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, May 28, 2009, brothers Eric, left, and Steve Isakson peer through the window at Isakson Motor Sales in Hobart, Ind.  Isakson, which has been selling the Chrysler brand since 1928, is among nearly 800 dealerships whose franchises Chrysler terminated as part of its restructuring under bankruptcy. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - At the end of the 81-year marriage, the Isaksons said goodbye by turning off the lights. The partnership was over.


Drug suspect turns tables on NYPD with videotape (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 02:49 PM PDT

In this June 4, 2009 photo, Maximo Colon, left, and his brother Jose stand  in front of a bar in the Queens borough of New York where they were arrested in a drug raid, accused of selling cocaine. The two have been vindicated by a security video from the bar that showed they never had any interaction with the undercover officers who accused them. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - When undercover detectives busted Jose and Maximo Colon last year for selling cocaine at a seedy club in Queens, there was a glaring problem: The brothers hadn't done anything wrong.


Judge rules terrorist can sue over torture memos (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 12:56 PM PDT

AP - A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture, ruled a federal judge has ruled who said he was trying to balance a clash between war and the defense of personal freedoms.

Ariz. home invasion suspects tied to border group (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 03:52 PM PDT

AP - Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.

'Lone wolf' terrorists harder to stop (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

Some of the first people enter 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 - An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a military recruiting office. Another man opens fire in a Kansas church.


Woman gets 20 years in Milwaukee student's death (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:44 AM PDT

AP - A judge in Milwaukee has sentenced a 21-year-old woman to 20 years in prison for helping a new boyfriend kidnap and kill a college student for his car.

Mich. town mourns as 5-year-old girl laid to rest (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 02:43 PM PDT

AP - Mourners embraced family members Saturday as they filed past the closed casket of a 5-year-old found buried along a river, paying final respects to a girl described by one of them as "Monroe's little angel."

Calif kids quarantined in China over flu scare (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 10:54 AM PDT

AP - A private school in Southern California says 36 of its students have been quarantined in China while they are tested for the swine flu virus.

Baxter in 'full production' of swine flu vaccine (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 10:34 AM PDT

AP - Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. says it's in "full scale" production of a swine flu vaccine that will be commercially available in July.

Umpire ejects entire crowd during baseball game (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 02:52 PM PDT

AP - An umpire has emptied the stands at a high school baseball game, ejecting the entire crowd of more than 100 fans for being unruly.

NASA scrubs Saturday morning space shuttle launch (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:09 AM PDT

Space shuttle Endeavour stands at pad 39A, after today's launch was postponed due to a hydrogen leak, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, June 13, 2009. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - A potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak cropped up during the fueling of space shuttle Endeavour on Saturday and forced NASA to postpone the launch by at least four days.


Museum experts ID birds that bring down planes (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:38 AM PDT

AP - When animals are the prime suspects in a whodunit, who gets on the case? In capers where feathers or fur are the smoking guns, the role of CSI is often played by top natural history museums.

Drilling might be culprit behind Texas earthquakes (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:02 AM 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.


Inmate reporters are pen men with a difference (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:24 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday June 3, 2009, Michael R. Harris, editor in chief of the San Quentin News, hands out copies of the newspaper to visiting criminal justice students from San Diego State University at San Quentin prison in San Quentin, Calif. Like journalists everywhere, the staff of the San Quentin News cover news, sports and the local arts scene. But these reporters are pen men with a difference. They work for a paper written by and for inmates of San Quentin State Prison.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Like journalists everywhere, the staff of the San Quentin News cover news, sports and the local arts scene. But these reporters are pen men with a difference.


Wife fought off Pa. man killed in shootout (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 02:03 AM PDT

AP - Hobbled by a broken ankle, the estranged wife of a man killed in a shootout with Pennsylvania state troopers managed to fight him off as he threatened her with a gun before he kidnapped their 9-year-old son, the woman's friend said.

Calif. to probe latest HIV case in porn industry (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 08:53 AM PDT

AP - State health officials are looking into the latest HIV case reported in California's multibillion-dollar porn industry, fearing that reckless practices on film sets might be raising the risk of new infections.

The Three Bears? Try 163,000 ... and counting (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:59 AM PDT

An undated handout photo released by the Kentucky Department of Parks shows a bear climbing on a pickup truck at Kingdom Come State Park near Cumberland, Ky. With black bear populations rising, run-ins have become almost commonplace-- more than 15,000 in the past year in states east of the Mississippi River according to a survey of state wildlife agencies. (AP Photo/via Kentucky Dept. of Parks)AP - Bobby Koger was deer hunting on a Kentucky hillside when a black bear gave him the fright of his life.


Wis. Democrats elect nation's youngest chair (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:11 AM PDT

AP - Wisconsin's Democratic Party says it now has the nation's youngest state chairman in either party.
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