2009年6月21日星期日

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NM police looking for suspects in Denny's killing (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 02:47 PM PDT

AP - Police on Sunday were searching for at least two more suspects they believe killed a teenage worker during a robbery at a packed Denny's and committed 10 more armed robberies in Albuquerque this past year.

Greener diet reduces dairy cows' methane burps (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 01:20 PM PDT

This June 16, 2009 photo shows Tim Maikshilo and his wife, Kristen Dellert, posing with one of their Holsteins in Coventry, Vt. Yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm wants its cows to burp less. It's for a noble cause: cutting down on the gases that contribute to global warming. Working with 15 Vermont farms to change cows' diets so they emit less methane, it has already reduced cow burping by as much as 18 percent. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp — dairy cows' contribution to global warming.

Immigration enforcement in Arizona could toughen (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 12:56 PM PDT

AP - As America's busiest immigrant smuggling hub, Arizona has earned the distinction as a place that's tough on people who sneak across the border.

Palin spars with critics over ethics complaints (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 12:16 PM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, seen here in 2008, ramped up her feud with US talkshow host David Letterman Friday, slamming remarks by the comic concerning her 14-year-old daughter.(AFP/Getty Images/File/William Thomas Cain)AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says her political enemies are abusing state law with a flurry of frivolous ethics complaints against her, putting her more than $500,000 in legal debt.

Lesson from NY: Long-lost children rarely turn up (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 02:27 PM PDT

From left: Alex Neuenberg and Charile Jaecker-Jones avoid the foul smell as they pose for their parent's cameras. The Corpse Flower after reaching over six feet nine inches, opened it leaf base fully releasing a foul fragrance resembeling rotting flesh at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Corpse flowers come from Sumatra. (AP Photo/Evans Vestal Ward)AP - When Jerry Damman first got news his son may have been found after vanishing from Long Island more than 50 years ago, he said it "was almost too good to believe."

Budget crisis forces deep cuts at Calif. schools (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 11:40 AM PDT

AP - California's historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement.

Road cleaned by neo-Nazis may be named for rabbi (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 04:13 PM PDT

AP - The state's litter prevention program got an unusual ally last year: A neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile section of highway in Springfield and picked up the trash.

NYT editor: We had to keep mum on Afghan abduction (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 11:03 AM PDT

This November 1995 photo shows David Rohde (L) with his nephew Steven Rohde upon arrival at Boston's Logan International Airport after his release by the Bosnian Serbs. Rhode, presently a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped last November by the Taliban and held in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, has escaped to freedom.(AFP/File/Stuart Cahill)AP - Please substitute the following for V4656, slugged NYT Reporter-Afghan Abduction, which moved at 1:29 p.m. Eastern time. The new version CORRECTS pronunciation of Rohde. The New York Times says the name is pronounced ROHD, not ROH'-dee. Make all copy conform.)

NOW elects Maryland woman its next president (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT

AP - The National Organization for Women has elected a 56-year-old Maryland woman as its next president in a close win over a rival who had been endorsed by the group's current president.

Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 10:29 AM PDT

In this May 15, 2009 photo, Lomakotsi Restoration Project crew supervisor Aaron Nauth stands on the stump of a centuries old tree and looks over an old clearcut that his team has thinned on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest outside Takilma, Ore. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chain saws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and piling the remains to be burned later.

US soprano, Ukrainian pianist win $50K (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 10:44 AM PDT

In this image released by the Jose Iturbi Foundation on Sunday, June 21, 2009, Leah Crocetto, 29, fellow with the San Francisco opera, performs during the third annual Jose Iturbi International Music Competition in Los Angeles on Friday, June 19, 2009. Crocetto won the $50,000 first prize in the vocal portion of the competition. (AP Photo/Tim Long/Iturbi Foundation)AP - An American soprano singer and a Ukrainian pianist have won top honors at a competition that combines elements of "American Idol" and classical music.

Tenn. ash spill cleanup slow; cause still unknown (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 08:48 AM PDT

AP - Glen Daugherty watches from his wooden dock, just beyond his prized pontoon boat, as a floating dredging machine growls from across the channel of the Emory River.

Bullock's 'Proposal' woos date crowds with $34.1M (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 02:54 PM PDT

Cast members Ryan Reynolds (L) and Sandra Bullock (R) attend the premiere of the film AP - Movie audiences accepted a proposal from Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who scored the summer's first big romantic comedy hit.

Critics: Burial site for Hudson PCBs is inadequate (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 04:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo, dredges begin to remove PCB-laden sediment from the upper Hudson River, more than three decades after the oily chemicals fouled the waterway in Fort Edward, N.Y. Later this June 2009, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of Lubbock, Texas into New York's 'pay toilet.' (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)AP - Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York's "pay toilet."

NY man denies he dressed as dead mother in scam (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 02:55 AM PDT

This May 2009 image provided by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office shows Thomas Parkin, left, on a Department of Motor Vehicles security camera, dressed up as his mother according to prosecutors. Thomas Parkin, 49, was charged Wednesday in a plot to impersonate his deceased mother, Irene Prusik who died in 2003, so he could collect $117,000 in government benefits. (AP Photo/Brooklyn District Attorney's office)AP - A man accused of dressing up as his dead mother to collect her Social Security and rent subsidies is blaming the crime on an impersonator.

Fire moves into houses abandoned by foreclosures (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 09:44 PM PDT

In this May 14, 2009 photo, Elmer Crawley, Gordy Yoesting's half-brother, looks over the burned remains of the home in Flint, Mich., where Yoesting died in a fire last October. (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.

3 tornadoes destroy buildings in western Michigan (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 08:09 AM PDT

Grave markers are silhouetted by the a swirling cloud of a severe thunderstorm as it passes over a rural cemetery near Wellsville, Kan. Saturday, June 20, 2009. The cell had earlier produced a small tornado but caused no damage. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - Officials in Michigan say tornadoes have destroyed or heavily damaged at least three homes and several other buildings in the western part of the state.

Planned N. Korea launch unnerves Hawaii residents (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 07:07 AM PDT

A missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie during a test in the Pacific Ocean. The US military has moved additional defenses to Hawaii in case North Korea launches a missile towards the Pacific island chain, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said.(AFP/US Navy/File)AP - Comforted by the U.S. military's missile defense systems, Hawaii residents doubt a North Korean missile would light up the clear island sky like fireworks on the Fourth of July.

Ammonia leak at NC plant kills 1, injures 4 (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 10:52 PM PDT

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

Woman says she was evicted over Easter decor (AP)

Posted: 21 Jun 2009 06:44 AM PDT

AP - A woman is going to court claiming she was wrongly evicted from her apartment because she kept her Easter decorations on her door for two weeks after the holiday.

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