2009年6月19日星期五

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Judge in Va. orders Stanford to return to Texas (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 01:26 PM PDT

In this June 11, 2008 file photo, Sir R. Allen Stanford, poses for photos at the Lords Cricket Ground in London. Stanford, chairman of the troubled Stanford Financial Group, surrendered to FBI agents in Virginia Thursday afternoon June 18, 2009, his attorney said. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)AP - A judge in Virginia has ordered indicted billionaire R. Allen Stanford to return to his home state of Texas.

Web support pours out for Iran protesters (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:33 PM PDT

This image from Google, downloaded Friday, June 19,2009, shows a search revealing a page in Farsi. In the aftermath of the disputed presidential election in Iran, companies and individuals around the world are responding with new features and other efforts to help Iranians communicate. (AP Photo/Goggle)AP - Google and Facebook have rushed out services in Farsi. Twitter users have changed their home cities to Tehran to provide cover for Internet users there. Others have configured their computers to serve as relay points to bypass Iranian censorship.

Mourners remember slain museum guard (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:33 PM PDT

Jacqueline Carter, mother of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum security guard Stephen T. Johns, 39, holds an American flag at her son's funeral in Fort Washington, Md. on Friday, June 19, 2009. Johns was shot and killed by a white supremacist at the museum on June 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Family, friends and colleagues on Friday remembered a guard who was gunned down at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last week as the victim of an evil and barbaric act that contrasted starkly with his love for life.

Senate ethics committee next up for Roland Burris (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:31 PM PDT

This photo taken Wednesday, June 17, 2009, shows Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. at the Senate Democratic Green Jobs Summit on Capitol Hill in Washington. Burris will not be charged with perjury for statements he made before an Illinois House impeachment committee because there isn't enough evidence to support the charge, the state prosecutor investigating the case said Friday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - U.S. Sen. Roland Burris won't face a perjury charge over statements he made to state lawmakers investigating how he got his job, but the junior senator still faces the task of salvaging his political future and shaking the stigma of his link to the disgraced former governor who put him in office.

Lawyers seek freeze on HealthSouth ex-CEO's assets (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:04 PM PDT

AP - Attorneys for HealthSouth shareholders asked an Alabama judge Friday to freeze the assets of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy so they can begin collecting a nearly $2.9 billion judgment against him.

Autopsy: Duct tape on Caylee before decomposition (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 02:53 PM PDT

AP - An autopsy for slain toddler Caylee Anthony shows duct tape was placed on the girl's face before her body began to decompose.

FBI files show wide "Deep Throat" investigation (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 02:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 31, 1980 file photo, protesters picket the theater where the film 'Deep Throat' is being shown, near Times Square in New York. FBI files released in June, 2009 to the Associated Press show agents across the country and at the highest level of the agency investigated 'Deep Throat' — the 1972 porn movie, not the shadowy Watergate figure — in a vain attempt to roll back what became a cultural shift toward more permissive entertainment. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)AP - When the FBI investigated the landmark 1972 porno movie "Deep Throat," the case touched the highest levels of the FBI, even its second-in-command W. Mark Felt, the shadowy Watergate informant whose "Deep Throat" alias was taken from the movie's title.

Tobacco advocates fuming over Canadian legislation (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 02:21 PM PDT

AP - Tobacco advocates used to being on the defensive in their own country are fuming over a Canadian proposal they say could essentially ban some American leaf often used in cigarettes sold across the northern border.

Calif. may release immigrant inmates to save costs (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 01:44 PM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 10, 2009, Humberto Espinosa, a criminal alien who is serving time for CD and DVD forgery and distribution, is seen in the minimum security unit he lives in at Folsom Prison in Folsom, Calif. Faced with a $24.3 billion budget gap, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed dumping as many as 19,000 criminal aliens in the laps of the federal government and other nations, notably, Mexico. Espinosa, 39, who has lived in California for 23 years and has a wife and four children living in Los Angeles, is likely to be deported under Schwarzengger's plan.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state's prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation.

Sentencing delayed in Miami terror case (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 01:33 PM PDT

AP - Sentencing has been put off until September for five Miami men convicted of plotting terror attacks against Chicago's Sears Tower and several FBI offices.

Egg fight breaks out over chicken welfare law (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 01:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2007 file photo, a chicken is seen at a chicken house near Livingston, Calif. By the one of biggest margins in California's rich initiative history, voters decreed last year that egg-laying hens must be able to stretch their wings without touching another bird or a cage wall. But the details of the new animal welfare law are bedeviling. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - But the details of the new animal welfare law are bedeviling egg farmers.

Shareholders ask judge to freeze Scrushy's assets (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 01:27 PM PDT

AP - Attorneys have asked an Alabama judge to freeze the assets of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy so they can begin collecting a nearly $2.9 billion judgment against him.

Gay couples can use married names on passports (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 02:29 PM PDT

Keith Toney, and Al Toney III, are photographed in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, June 19, 2009. Gay couples traveling overseas can now show passports that feature their married names, letting them take advantage of a little-noticed revision to State Department regulations that critics had feared would undermine the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Keith and Al Toney, of Holden, learned of the change this week and expressed relief at the end of an effort that began in 2007, when Keith applied for a passport under his married name but was denied. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - Gay couples traveling overseas can now show passports that feature their married names, letting them take advantage of a little-noticed revision to State Department regulations that critics had feared would undermine the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

'Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed' inventor dies at 92 (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 02:54 PM PDT

In this 2009 image released by the Houghtaling family, John Joseph Houghtaling is seen. Houghtaling, the inventor of the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, died in at his home in Ft. Piece, Fla. Wednesday June 17, 2009. He was 92. The coin-operated bed was a fixture in American motel rooms in the 1960's and 70's. (AP Photo/ Paul Houghtaling, HO)AP - The inventor of the "Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed," which brought weary travelers 15 minutes of "tingling relaxation and ease" for a quarter in hotel rooms across America during its heyday as a pop culture icon in the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 92. John Joseph Houghtaling died Wednesday at his home in Fort Pierce, his son Paul Houghtaling said Friday in a telephone interview.

Ariz. killings highlight risk of fringe activists (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:46 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office in Arizona shows Shawna Forde, 41. Forde was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and other charges stemming from a southern Arizona home invasion on May 30 that left a little girl and her father dead. Forde is well known in the anti-illegal immigration community, said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino. (AP Photo/Pima County Sheriff's Office)AP - The tagline on Shawna Forde's anti-illegal immigration Web site says her group was "doing the job our government won't do." They wanted to patrol the border, but her small band of activists needed money to do it.

Billionaire Stanford jailed in alleged $7B fraud (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

US Attorney Steven Tyrrell leaves Federal court in Richmond, Va., after a hearing for Texas Billionaire R. Allen Stanford Friday, June 19, 2009. Sanford scheduled to appear in federal court on fraud charges after surrendering to FBI agents. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Brash Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford was indicted and jailed Friday on charges his international banking empire was really just a Ponzi scheme built on lies, bluster and bribery.

Montana city asks job applicants for all Internet passwords (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 08:21 AM PDT

Muslim American Zabie Mansoory, 23, monitors a Facebook discussion board while watching President Barack Obama's televised coverage of President Barack Obama's speech from Cairo University, in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles, early Thursday June 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)AP - Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are finding that their private Internet discussions and pictures may not be so private after all.

Dead pilot's wife: He was in 'perfect health' (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 05:18 AM 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 Continental Airlines pilot who died on a trans-Atlantic flight from Brussels to Newark was in "perfect health" and fellow crew members initially thought he had just fallen asleep, his wife told a Houston television station.

Southern Baptists to gather in Kentucky (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:55 AM PDT

AP - Southern Baptists leaders are asking followers to put aside squabbles over political and social issues and look inward at a time when the nation's largest Protestant denomination is hoping to stop declining membership.

Nude hiking buffs ready to shed as solstice nears (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 09:28 AM PDT

Andrew Williams poses without his shirt behind his backpack at a park near his home in Warren, Pa., Thursday, June 18, 2009. Williams plans to participate in Naked Hiking Day, on Sunday June 21, an annual event celebrated on the first day of summer by a relatively few enthusiasts. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Every year on the first day of summer, a few outdoor enthusiasts nationwide expose virtually all of themselves to insects, scrapes and thorns for the pleasure of bonding with nature au naturel.

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