2009年6月20日星期六

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Fire moves into houses abandoned by foreclosures (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 02:18 PM PDT

In this May 14, 2009 photo, three abandoned homes are boarded up along Jane Ave. in this East Side neighborhood of Flint, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Like the house across the street gone missing and the one at the corner stripped of its front door, the weathered brown bungalow at 1430 Jane Ave. bided its time, edging nearer to a meeting with a wrecking crew.

Ammonia leak at NC plant kills 1, injures 3 (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 03:09 PM PDT

AP - An ammonia leak Saturday at a poultry processing plant in North Carolina killed one worker and injured at least three others, authorities said.

Woman killed fleeing Ill. train derailment, blast (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 03:33 PM PDT

Map locates Rockford, Ill. where a train derailedAP - Railroad tank cars holding thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol derailed and exploded in flames, killing a 41-year-old woman as she tried to run to safety from a car stopped at a crossing.

Kids to meet gay dad's partner on Father's Day (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 10:54 AM PDT

AP - Eric Mongerson's kids couldn't meet his partner of two years, much less join the couple for ice cream. His friends couldn't cheer on the children at concerts or Little League games.

NM ranchers worry that sick cows could cross to US (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 10:54 AM PDT

This Dec. 16, 2008 photo provided by Judy Keeler shows Bobby Pierce, deputy director of the New Mexico Livestock Board examining a section of a Normandy-styled barrier fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that has sunk into the ground near Columbus, N.M. Some border ranchers and livestock experts in New Mexico say the Department of Homeland Security has installed a 'hodgepodge' of fencing along the border with Mexico, with sections so low that cows can step right over it. Border Patrol officials say they've heard mostly positive responses from area ranchers about the new fencing and say more efforts are to come concerning border fencing. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Judy Keeler)AP - Longtime New Mexico cattle rancher Judy Keeler is keenly aware of how tough it is to raise livestock in the dusty desert near the U.S.-Mexico border.

AP: Conn. officials were warned about attack chimp (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 08:15 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 20, 2003 file photo, shows Travis, a 10-year-old chimpanzee, sitting in the corner of his playroom at the home of Sandy and Jerome Herold in Stamford, Conn. Connecticut officials were repeatedly warned about the dangers posed by a chimpanzee who later mauled and blinded a woman and were urged more than three years before the attack to take action, but failed to do so, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/The Stamford Advocate, Kathleen O'Rourke, File)AP - Connecticut officials were repeatedly warned about the dangers posed by a chimpanzee who later mauled and blinded a woman and were urged — more than three years before the attack — to take action, but failed to do so, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

Moderate quake shakes central California (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 06:28 AM PDT

AP - A moderate earthquake has jolted part of central California's San Luis Obispo County.

Anti-abortion vigils moved from closed Kan. clinic (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 01:45 PM PDT

Operation Rescue president Troy Newman lays flowers in front of his his group's headquarters to memorialize abortion deaths Saturday, June 20, 2009, in Wichita, Kan. The anti-abortion group had originally planned to have the memorial outside the now closed abortion clinic of Dr. George Tiller, who was killed May 31, but decided to do it at their headquarters instead to avoid a confrontation with pro-choice activitists camped at the clinic. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - More than 40 abortion rights supporters kept watch Saturday at the Kansas clinic run by slain abortion provider George Tiller, thwarting plans for a memorial service there by the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.

Red panda at ND zoo has rare set of triplets (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 09:05 AM PDT

AP - The Red River Zoo in North Dakota has welcomed a rare new set of red panda triplets.

New net timer could save sea turtles from drowning (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 08:59 AM PDT

AP - Fishery managers trying to protect rare sea turtles from dying in fishing nets have tapped a Cape Cod company to build a device they think can help balance turtle protection with profitable fishing.

Ariz. killings highlight risk of fringe activists (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 07:17 AM 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.

FBI tried in vain to stop 'Deep Throat' film (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 01:42 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.

DNA debunks Mich. man's hunch he was snatched tot (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 06:56 AM 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 - After five decades of silence about what happened to his toddler son, farmer Jerry Damman was hopeful that a Michigan man's incredible claim to be the boy was true.

Prosecutors: Sentence Madoff without delay (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 12:58 AM PDT

AP - A judge should not delay Bernard Madoff's sentencing even though investigators have yet to determine how much money investors lost in the disgraced financier's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said.

Thousands remain without power following storms (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 07:49 AM PDT

AP - Thousands of utility customers in the Midwest are without electricity following waves of thunderstorms.

Sen. Ensign responds to ex-mistress' husband (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 01:04 AM PDT

Doug Hampton, a former aide to Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., is pictured outside his home, Friday, June 19, 2009 in Las Vegas. Hampton is the husband of former campaign worker Cindy Hampton, with whom Sen. Ensign on Tuesday admitted to a nine-month affair. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - Sen. John Ensign is pushing back against the husband of his former mistress, saying the man made "exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits."

Nonprofit reverses plan to give injured vet a home (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 01:49 AM PDT

AP - A veteran who lost three limbs in Iraq will not get the keys to a new home, after a nonprofit group said the family concealed that they already own two homes.

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