2009年6月18日星期四

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

FBI: Child porn on accused museum shooter computer (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 04:27 PM PDT

FILE -- This undated photograph provided by the Talbot County, Md.,Sheriff Office Thursday, June 11, 2009 shows James von Brunn von Brunn,who opened fire inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Washington on Wednesday, June 10, killing a guard,has been charged with murder. (AP Photo/Talbot County Sheriff Office )AP - Child pornography was found on a computer belonging to the white supremacist charged with shooting and killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the FBI said in court documents.

FBI: Test shows Mich. man not long-missing NY boy (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

This 2-picture combo shows Stephen Damman, left, in an undated file photo and John Barnes, June 17, 2009. Barnes is hoping DNA tests will confirm that he is Stephen Damma, who was snatched from outside a bakery on New York's Long Island in 1955. (AP Photo/John L. Russell)AP - DNA testing disproved a Michigan man's suspicions that he was a toddler kidnapped on New York's Long Island in 1955, the FBI said Thursday, closing a chapter in a bizarre mystery that started after he began researching his roots on the Internet.

Suit accuses TSA of unreasonable airport detention (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 03:53 PM PDT

AP - A lawsuit filed Thursday against the Transportation Security Administration alleges a Ron Paul supporter was unreasonably detained at the St. Louis airport because he was carrying about $4,700 in cash.

Ensign helped mistress's husband get jobs (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 03:53 PM PDT

Nevada Senator John Ensign, pictured in 2006, a rising star of the Republican Party regarded as a possible contender in the 2012 presidential election, admitted an extra-marital affair here Tuesday.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AP - Sen. John Ensign helped his mistress's husband get two jobs during the time the rising Republican senator acknowledges carrying on an extramarital affair, an Ensign spokesman said Thursday.

AP source: Parker surrogate's home burglarized (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 03:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 27, 2009 file photo, actors Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker attend the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The surrogate mom carrying twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick had her home broken into, and two Ohio police chiefs are being investigated, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)AP - Two Ohio police chiefs are being investigated in a suspected burglary aimed at supplying a tabloid with photos and other information about the surrogate mother carrying twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, an official told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Asbestos-coated Libby, Mont., gets federal cleanup (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 02:33 PM PDT

An eagle sign welcomes visitors at the entrance to downtown Libby, Mont. Wednesday, June 17, 2009. The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time has determined there is a public health emergency in a contaminated community, targeting the Montana town for immediate federal attention. (AP Photo/Rick Sheremeta)AP - Yvonne Resch remembers thinking as a child that the vermiculite mine only added to the area's natural beauty — its lights on Zonolite Mountain looked like a castle.

Pilot on Continental flight dies; jet lands safely (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 03:25 PM PDT

This video image provided by Westwood One/Metro Networks shows a Continental Airlines flight 61 from Belgium taxing at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Thursday, June 18, 2009. The pilot of the plane died over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, but the jet landed safely with two co-pilots at the controls. (AP Photo/Westwood One/Metro Networks)AP - The only inkling passengers had that something was wrong on the Continental Airlines flight over the Atlantic Ocean was when an announcement came over the loudspeaker asking if there was a doctor on board.

Gay activists impatient with Obama and Congress (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 12:55 PM PDT

AP - Frustrated gay-rights leaders want President Barack Obama to be far more forceful in supporting their political goals, but they also fault the Democratic-led Congress and vow to step up lobbying efforts in hopes of seeing campaign promises fulfilled.

Janitor gets 6 years in Tenn. nuclear parts theft (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 01:51 PM PDT

AP - A former janitor was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for trying to sell scrap hardware he stole from a shuttered plant that enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.

AP: State hiring freezes allow numerous exceptions (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 11:23 AM PDT

Groundkeepers Gordy Lowe, left, James Tonner, right, and Zach Woodrow at Deer Creek state park golf course Friday, May 29, 2009 in Mount Sterling, Ohio. Despite strict limits on adding new employees imposed last year, Ohio still hired 17 administrators earning six-figure salaries, two workers for state park golf courses and a prison chaplain, records show. The golf course workers were hired for state-run courses at Deer Creek State Park south of Columbus and Shawnee State Park in southern Ohio. The state's six golf courses bring in nearly $2 million a year in greens fees and these workers are critical to maintaining that revenue stream, said Natural Resources spokeswoman Beth Ruth. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Financially strapped states that have announced a freeze on all but essential hiring have made thousands of exceptions for zookeepers, dog wardens, golf-course groundskeepers, boxing inspectors, state fair workers and the like, an Associated Press review of hiring records has found.

Water heater installation eyed in NC plant blast (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 02:14 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 contractor clearing a natural gas line during water heater installation likely released a flammable cloud that ignited in a fatal blast at a North Carolina Slim Jim factory, federal investigators said Thursday.

New images show evidence of ancient Martian lake (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 03:14 PM PDT

This artist rendering released by University of Colorado shows a reconstructed Mars landscape showing the Shalbatana lake as it may have looked roughly 3.4 billion years ago using data from NASA and the European Space Agency. (AP Photo/University of Colorado, G. Di Achille)AP - New images suggest Mars had a sizable lake on its surface billions of years ago, further evidence that the planet had a watery past. Images snapped by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal a 30-mile-long canyon where water once flowed and beach remnants surrounding a basin.

Detention of journalists puts strain on media firm (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 03:10 PM PDT

People walk past the headquarters of Current TV in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Two American journalists sentenced by North Korea last week to 12 years of hard labor were caught shooting video for what the North said was a politically motivated 'smear campaign,' state-run media said Tuesday. The reporting team from Current TV crossed the frozen Tumen River dividing North Korea and China three months ago and walked up the river bank and then recorded their transgression, the official Korean Central News Agency said.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - With backing from Al Gore, Current TV was launched four years ago as a mix of traditional journalism and viewer-produced content meant to create an open exchange with its audience.

Calif. students cleared from Chinese quarantine (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 04:52 PM PDT

AP - A group of California students and teachers was released Thursday after being quarantined for a week in China because some of their classmates tested positive for swine flu, a school spokeswoman said.

Feds: Exec's divorce a ploy to dodge $3.2B payout (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 12:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2007 file photo, former Cendant Corp. Chairman Walter Forbes arrives at the U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, Conn., for a sentencing hearing. Federal prosecutors in Connecticut say the former executive involved in a major accounting scandal is trying to divorce his wife to get out of paying $3.2 billion in restitution. (AP Photo/ Michelle McLoughlin)AP - The wife of the man responsible for the largest accounting fraud of the 1990s has filed for divorce — but federal prosecutors say the timing suggests that they're trying to avoid paying billions of dollars in penalties, not that their marriage is on the rocks.

Late cardinal's nephew claims abuse by priest (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 12:00 PM PDT

AP - A nephew of the late New York archbishop Cardinal John O'Connor alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he was the victim of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest.

SC jobseekers line up to clean nuke waste (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 02:48 PM PDT

AP - Anthony Rivers was laid off from his maintenance job three weeks ago and is willing to do just about anything to rejoin the ranks of the employed in South Carolina — even if that means cleaning up nuclear waste.

Ex-HealthSouth CEO ordered to pay $2.9B to shareholders (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 03:19 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photograph released by the Shelby County, Ala. Sheriff's Department shows former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy. Scrushy testified Wednesday, May 20, 2009 that he wasn't involved in a massive fraud at the rehabilitation chain, his first public testimony about the scandal that almost forced the company into bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Shelby County Sheriff's Department, File)AP - A state judge on Thursday ordered former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy to pay nearly $2.9 billion to shareholders who sued over a massive accounting fraud that nearly sent the rehabilitation chain into bankruptcy.

Miss. civil rights slayings to get historic marker (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 11:42 AM PDT

AP - Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.

RI tries — again — to outlaw indoor prostitution (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Motorists pass by an alleged brothel at 1550B Post Road, in Warwick, R.I. Monday, June 15, 2009. In April 2009, Warwick police shut down the alleged brothel, a two-story home attached to a cash-for-gold store, but since then it has relocated. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - The undercover police officer paid $60 to enter the Midori Spa just blocks from Providence city hall. A massage therapist rubbed the officer's back, then simulated a sex act with her right hand.

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