2009年6月23日星期二

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Computer failure may have caused D.C. train crash (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:27 PM PDT

Officials continue to work around the scene of a rush-hour collision between two Metro transit trains in northeast Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Investigators looking into the deadly crash of two Metro transit trains focused Tuesday on why a computerized system failed to halt an oncoming train, even though there is evidence that the operator tried to slow it down.

Driver of DC train in deadly crash loved her job (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:45 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) shows Jeanice McMillan, 42, of Springfield, Va. the operator of the train that collided into the stopped cars Monday. (AP Photo/WMATA)AP - The woman at the controls of a transit train that plowed into another would have done anything to prevent the accident, friends and relatives said Tuesday, a day after the crash killed her and eight others.

Wal-Mart aims to keep a new flock of customers (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:15 PM PDT

In this photo made Thursday, June 4, 2009, Sam's Club associates ready samples in front of a case of Angus beef at a Sam's Club in Bentonville, Ark. Sam's Club parent company Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upgrading its beef, clothing, electronics and home accessories while sprucing up its stores as it maneuvers to retain these spenders who have embraced a newfound thriftiness. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)AP - The recession steered a new type of customer to Wal-Mart — deeper in the pockets and suddenly looking for bargains. Now the world's largest retailer has to figure out how to keep that customer when the economy recovers.

SF lawmakers pass Haight smoke shop ban (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:12 PM PDT

In this file photo, a smoke shop called Puff Puff Pass is shown on Haight Street in San Francisco, Jan. 3, 2009. Counterculture pilgrims hoping to catch a whiff of Flower Power still make their way to the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, where the spirits of Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead rock on in stores offering T-shirts, posters and pot-smoking paraphernalia. Indeed, while other retail enterprises in the cradle of hippie culture are folding, head shops dealing in roach clips, rolling papers and hand-blown water pipes have proliferated on Haight Street -- so much so that a city supervisor has proposed a law to prevent any more from opening. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Lawmakers agreed unanimously Tuesday to snuff out new shops that sell pot-smoking paraphernalia in the heart of San Francisco's one-time hippie district.

SC governor to return to work after mystery trip (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:11 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 - After a political mystery — "Where in the World is South Carolina's Governor?" — Mark Sanford's aides said he was stunned by all the fuss over his five-day absence and would cut short a secretive hike along the Appalachian Trail.

Minn. judge orders teen to continue chemotherapy (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:09 PM PDT

Thirteen-year-old Daniel Hauser, left, returns to the family van with his sister Mary Ann, right, and mother Colleen, after a court hearing on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in New Ulm, Minn., where a judge ruled that the 13-year-old boy who fled the state last month to avoid chemotherapy must continue getting the treatment because it appears to be working. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - A 13-year-old boy with cancer who fled Minnesota last month to avoid chemotherapy must continue getting the treatment because it appears to be working, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Group agrees to buy Iowa kosher slaughterhouse (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 02:55 PM PDT

AP - The president of a Canadian plastics plant and two partners have agreed to buy a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa that was the site of a massive immigration raid last year, pending a bankruptcy hearing.

NYC beekeepers swarm City Hall to protest ban (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT

In this April 18, 2009 photo, a beekeeper, who did not want to be identified, pulls out panels from her rooftop beehive to check on the condition of her bees in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Keeping beehives in New York City is illegal under the same law that bans venomous snakes, ferrets and elephants. But beekeepers have secretly tended to them for years in backyards and on rooftops, and now they want the rules changed to make it legal. (AP Photo/Suzanne Ma)AP - There's a secret buzzing around the rooftops and backyard gardens of New York.

ACLU sues over limits on Muslim prayers in prison (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:29 PM PDT

AP - Two Muslim inmates held in a special unit at the federal prison in Terre Haute say they aren't allowed to pray in groups as often as their religion commands and have asked a federal judge to ease worship limits imposed by the Bureau of Prisons.

Public help sought in 1976 slaying of singer's ex (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:26 PM PDT

AP - Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives on Tuesday asked the public's help in solving the 1976 rape and killing of the ex-wife of The Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley.

Palin reimburses Alaska $8K for 19 family trips (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:41 PM PDT

AP - Gov. Sarah Palin has paid more than $8,100 to reimburse Alaska for the costs associated with 19 trips taken with her children.

5 of those killed in DC metro crash identified (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 11:38 AM PDT

Rescue workers work through the night at the site of two Red Line Metrorail trains that collided with one another between the Fort Totten and Takoma Park stations during the evening rush hour on June 22, in Washington, DC. Investigators scoured the wreckage of two commuter trains hunting for clues to the worst metro accident in Washington's history which killed nine people and injured 76 others.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Robert Giroux)AP - Officials are identifying five of the victims killed in a subway train crash in Washington, D.C.

Kate Gosselin says marriage 'irretrievably broken' (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this file publicity image released by TLC, reality TV stars, Jon Gosselin, left, and his wife Kate Gosselin, from the TLC series, 'Jon & Kate Plus 8,' are shown. (AP Photo/TLC, Karen Alquist, File)AP - Kate Gosselin says in divorce papers that her marriage to Jon is "irretrievably broken."

TV show helps Utah boy survive night solo in woods (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:42 PM PDT

This photo released by the Wynne family Tuesday, June 23, 2009, shows Grayson Wynne, 9, after he was found Sunday, June 21, 2009 in the Ashley National Forest. Wynne became separated from a family group of hikers on Saturday. He said he relied on what he learned from the television show 'Man vs. Wild' to help him until he was found. (AP Photo/via Wynne family)AP - When he realized he'd been separated from his family on a weekend hike in a northern Utah forest, 9-year-old Grayson Wynne's thoughts turned to television. Grayson watches "Man vs. Wild" on the Discovery Channel every week with his brothers and his dad. On the show, host and adventurer Bear Grylls strands himself in the wilderness and then shows viewers how to survive the sticky situations.

NJ girl, 14, gets probation for posting nude pics (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 02:13 PM PDT

AP - A 14-year-old New Jersey girl who posted nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com will have child pornography counts dropped.

9/11 sculpture embroiled in alleged fraud scheme (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 01:29 PM PDT

FILE — In a Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 file photo, sculptor Stan Watts stands in front of his three-times lifesize, bronze sculpture, To Lift A Nation, in Kearns, Utah. A The towering sculpture of three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag at ground zero was financed by investor fraud, federal regulators say. Now the 40-foot bronze statue is for sale.(AP Photo/Fred Hayes, File)AP - A towering sculpture in the Maryland mountains depicting three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag at ground zero was financed by investor fraud, federal regulators say.

Warren tells breakaway Episcopalians to love all (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 01:40 PM PDT

Evangelical pastor Rick Warren prays after speaking to about 800 people under a large tent at St. Vincent's Episcopal Cathedral Church in Bedford, Texas, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. About 800 Episcopalians splitting from their national church over a dispute about gay clergy gathered to hear Warren, who said they need to love people but not the world's values. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)AP - Christians must show love to all people, even if they don't support their values, evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren on Tuesday told breakaway Episcopalians and other Anglicans splitting from their national church over gay clergy and other issues.

Mont. city ends policy seeking Internet passwords (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:38 PM PDT

AP - The Bozeman City Commission has voted to eliminate a hiring policy that allowed the city to look at information found on social networking sites in considering job applications.

Lawyer: Persuaded CBS not to air custody interview (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 16, 2009 file photo, David Goldman talks with reporters outside New Jersey state Senate chambers at the State House in Trenton, N.J., before a resolution was passed, calling on Brazil to return Goldman's 9-year-old son. The Brazilian family of the boy said Tuesday June 23, 2009 the boy wants to remain in Brazil. The boy was taken to Brazil in 2004 by his mother, who died last year after giving birth. She had divorced David Goldman and married a lawyer from Rio de Janeiro. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)AP - Two Brazilian family members of a boy at the center of an international custody battle were in the United States on Tuesday to make their case that the boy is better off in Brazil than returning to New Jersey to live with his father.

San Franciscans now must sort compost from trash (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:23 PM PDT

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, right, signs a mandatory recycling and composting ordinance on top of a compostable collection bin at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Looking on at left is executive chef Charles Phan of The Slanted Door restaurant. Starting this fall, residents have to separate trash, recyclables and compost, which includes everything from food scraps to garden clippings.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Sorting glass and other recyclables out of household trash will no longer be enough in San Francisco. Anything that can be composted also has to be separated.

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