2009年6月22日星期一

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DC metro trains collide, killing 4 and wounding 70 (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 04:34 PM PDT

District of Columbia Fire and Emergency workers at the site of a rush-hour collision between two Metro transit trains in northeast Washington, D.C. Monday, June 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - One Metro transit train smashed into the rear of another at the height of Washington's Monday evening rush hour, killing at least four people and injuring scores of others as cars of the trailing train jackknifed into the air and fell atop the first.

SC governor's whereabouts unknown, even to wife (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 04:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 3, 2009 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford fields questions during a news conference in Columbia, S.C. Sanford's wife Jenny said, Monday, June 22, 2009, she did not know the location of the two-term Republican chief executive. Sanford's staff declined to disclose where he was. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, file)AP - Where is South Carolina's governor?

Quake jolts Anchorage, Alaska, but damage minimal (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 05:06 PM PDT

UPDATES magnitude to 5.4 from 5.7 Map locates earthquake epicenter near Willow, AlaskaAP - A strong earthquake jolted a swath of southern Alaska on Monday, sending people diving under desks and huddling in doorways but causing little damage.

Craigslist suspect pleads not guilty to killing masseuse (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 04:05 PM PDT

Former Boston University medical student during his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court, Monday, June 22, 2009, in Boston. Markoff was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of one woman and the gunpoint robbery of another woman in downtown Boston hotels this spring. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, Pool)AP - A former Boston medical student pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he lured a masseuse he met through Craigslist to a Boston hotel, then bound her, beat her and shot her to death with a gun authorities say he later stashed in a hollowed-out medical textbook.

Huckabee urges stronger Iran response from US (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 04:17 PM PDT

AP - Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the U.S. should respond more strongly in support of political protesters in Iran.

Blago former fundraiser gets 3 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 04:06 PM PDT

Christopher Kelly, the former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, leaves the federal building in Chicago, Monday, June 22, 2009, after he was sentenced to 37 months in prison for hiding his use of company funds to pay gambling debts and other expenses from the Internal Revenue Service. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's former chief fundraiser was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for hiding the use of his company's money to pay thousands of dollars in gambling debts and other expenses.

700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 02:20 PM PDT

This May 2006 photo provided by art teacher Judith Cohen shows her sitting in front of cardboard boxes in a rubber room, in New York. Hundreds of public school teachers in New York accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct, have been banished to adult detention centers known as rubber rooms, where the city can keep an eye on them, paying them their full salaries of $70,000 or $80,000 a year to essentially do nothing. Cohen says she has been waiting in a rubber room, or reassignment center since May 2006. Cohen, an art teacher, says she passes the time by painting watercolors of her fellow detainees. She is 'awaiting a decision from my hearing which was over April 21, 2009. And here I sit, waiting, and waiting and waiting...' (AP Photo/Courtesy Judith Cohen)AP - Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

Pickup gets stuck in Texas pond, 5 occupants die (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 03:45 PM PDT

AP - A sheriff's office says five people died after their pickup got stuck with its tailpipe submerged in a shallow pond in western Texas.

Which way to Bay? Baby sea lion rescued on freeway (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Marine Mammal Center, a harbor seal is shown resting Monday, June 22, 2009 at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif. The baby sea lion was rescued after wandering onto a busy San Francisco Bay area freeway. Drivers on Interstate 880 started calling authorities at about 5:45 a.m. today after spotting the creature waddling along the center divider near the Oakland Coliseum. (AP Photo/The Marine Mammal Center)AP - A baby sea lion has been rescued after wandering onto a busy San Francisco Bay area freeway. Drivers on I-880 started calling authorities early Monday morning after spotting the creature waddling along the center divider near the Oakland Coliseum.

APNewsBreak: Ark. inmate left in feces nearly died (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 04:21 PM PDT

AP - An Arkansas state prison lieutenant was fired after an inmate left lying naked in his own feces for a weekend nearly died from septic shock.

Ore. AG clears Portland mayor over relationship (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 02:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday Jan 26, 2009 picture, Portland Mayor Sam Adams attends a joint session in the Council Chamber of City Hall in Portland, Ore. There's no credible evidence that Portland's openly gay mayor, Sam Adams, had sex in 2005 with a minor, the state attorney general said Monday, June 22, 2009 in a report that may put to rest a scandal that's shaken a city proud of its progressive ways. The report by Attorney General John Kroger also had harsh words for the former teenager at the center of the drama - Beau Breedlove. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)AP - There's no credible evidence that Portland Mayor Sam Adams broke the law in his 2005 relationship with a teenager, Oregon's attorney general said Monday.

Books by Martin Luther King Jr. to be republished (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 01:05 PM PDT

AP - Four books that have been long out of print by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be published again under a deal with Beacon Press brokered by King's youngest son.

2 rescued after drifting 52 hours off Aleutians (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 02:14 PM PDT

AP - A Coast Guard helicopter has rescued a pair of men adrift for more than two days in an open 15-foot skiff off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.

Report: Ex-Scientologist had evidence destroyed (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 11:56 AM PDT

The Church of Scientology's Flag Building, the spiritual headquarters of the sect, in Clearwater, Florida. Wikipedia has blocked the religious group from editing entries at the communally-crafted online encyclopedia due to an unrelenting battle over the group's image.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - A former high-ranking Scientology official who handled the case of a mentally ill member who died under church care ordered the destruction of incriminating evidence to cover up missteps, a newspaper reported Monday.

Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak's taking Kodachrome away (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 12:15 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Sept. 15, 2008, a roll of Kodachrome 64 is seen in Tonawanda, N.Y. Kodak announced Monday that it is retiring its most senior film because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away.

Work begins on world's deepest underground lab (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 04:26 PM PDT

Dignitaries and board members applaud South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, at the podium, during dedication ceremonies Monday, June 22, 2009, at the future site of the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. The event occurred at the 4,850 foot level of the former Homestake gold mine at Lead, S.D. In the near future, scientific experiments dealing with dark matter and numerous other ideas will be set up in the mine shafts nearly a mile underground, shielded from cosmic rays. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe)AP - Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter.

Ind. man pleads guilty to abducting, killing son (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 11:09 AM PDT

AP - An Indiana man has pleaded guilty to abducting his two young sons at knifepoint and killing one of them just days after his wife told him she wanted a divorce.

Blogger arraigned on Conn. lawmaker-threat charge (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 10:50 AM PDT

Harold 'Hal' Turner, right, of North Bergen, N.J., leaves Hartford Superior Court in Hartford, Conn., on Monday, June 22, 2009 after he was arraigned on a charge of inciting violence against state lawmakers. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - A New Jersey blogger accused of encouraging violence against Connecticut legislators told authorities he hoped nobody would "go off the deep end and do something terrible," but he added, "you never can tell," according to a police report released Monday.

Mich teen makes 100-mile wheelchair trek (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 10:29 AM PDT

AP - A 14-year-old Michigan boy has completed a four-day, 100-mile trip in his wheelchair as part of a fundraiser.

Underground transformer explodes in DC suburb (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 07:26 AM PDT

AP - An underground transformer has exploded and about 250 mostly elderly residents are evacuating their apartments in suburban Washington, D.C.

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