2009年6月25日星期四

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Michael Jackson, the 'King of Pop,' dies at age 50 (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 05:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 1993 file photo, pop singer Michael Jackson performs during his 'Dangerous' concert in National Stadium, Singapore. (AP Photo/C.F. Tham, file)AP - Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the "King of Pop" and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Ed Winter, the assistant chief coroner for Los Angeles County, confirmed his office had been notified of the death and would handle the investigation.

Politicians call for disgraced governor to resign (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 05:29 PM PDT

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford waves to the media as he leaves the family home Thursday, June 25, 2009, on Sullivan's Island, S.C. The family is staying at the beach front home after the Governor admitted to having an affair with a woman from Argentina. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - A day after his stunning confession that he cheated on his wife with a woman in Argentina, a chastened Gov. Mark Sanford sought to do damage control Thursday at home with his family while many politicians urged the South Carolina leader to resign.

Iowa town struggles to understand slaying of coach (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:57 PM PDT

This Jan. 2009 photo provided by Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office shows Mark Becker. The 24-year-old former Aplington-Parkersburg High School football player walked into the school's weight room Wednesday morning, June 24, 2009 and fatally shot his former coach Ed Thomas, before sheriff's deputies arrested him at a nearby home a short time later, authorities said. (AP Photo/Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office via Waterloo Courier)AP - In the years after Mark Becker graduated from high school, friends say he drifted from the community where he played football for the town's beloved coach.

SC gov to pay state for trip where he saw mistress (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:23 PM PDT

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford waves to the media as he leaves the family home Thursday, June 25, 2009, on Sullivan's Island, S.C. The family is staying at the beach front home after the Governor admitted to having an affair with a woman from Argentina. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday he will reimburse the state for a trade mission to Argentina last year during which he saw a woman with whom he acknowledges a yearlong affair.

SC governor's little lie masks a much bigger one (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:34 PM PDT

AP - Six bronze stars punctuate the smooth granite walls of the copper-domed State House. Each marks a scar left by the cannons of invading Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's bombardment of the capital in the final months of the Civil War.

Court: Hustler wrong to print dead woman's photos (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:01 PM PDT

AP - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hustler Magazine didn't have the right to publish decades-old nude photographs of the wife of wrestler Chris Benoit, who killed the woman and his young son before committing suicide two years ago.

Report: TVA dikes on 'verge of failure' pre-spill (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2008 file photo, an aerial view shows homes that were destroyed when a retention pond wall collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authorities Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, file)AP - The earthen dikes supporting a huge coal ash landfill at a Tennessee power plant were "on the verge of failure" long before they collapsed and sent tons of toxic muck into a river and lakeside community, an engineering consultant said Thursday.

Man charged with murdering 4 at Kansas home (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:09 PM PDT

This recent undated photo provided by Frank Leavey shows Leavey's sister Peggy Castleberry and her daughter Juanita Castleberry-Bess. Adrian Burks, 37, was charged Thursday, June 25, 2009 with murdering four people on Monday, including Castleberryand 3-year-old Juanita whose lifeless body was found lying in the front yard of a Kansas City home. (AP Photo/Frank Leavey)AP - A 37-year-old man was charged Thursday with murdering four people, including a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in the front yard of a Kansas City home.

US Swine Flu Cases May Have Hit 1 Million (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:42 PM PDT

In a Thursday, April 30, 2009 file photo, a sample of suspected swine flu is displayed by a technician at the Washington State Public Health Laboratories in Shoreline, Wash. Health officials at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said Thursday, June 25 2009, that they estimate that as many as 1 million Americans now have the new swine flu. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)AP - Swine flu has infected as many as 1 million Americans, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected. The estimate voiced by a government flu scientist Thursday was no surprise to the experts who have been closely watching the virus.

Gov. Sanford's wife not standing by her man (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 02:54 PM PDT

South Carolina's first lady Jenny Sanford stands in front of the family home as she talks to South Carolina public safety officers that are posted in the driveway Thursday, June 25, 2009, on Sullivan's Island, S.C. The family is staying at the beach front home after the Governor admitted to having an affair with a woman from Argentina. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)AP - Jenny Sanford did not stand by her man.

NTSB: Metro signal system didn't detect test train (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:55 PM PDT

Washington Transit Police work the site in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, where two metro trains collided on Monday. At right is a section of electrified rail that was removed for the investigation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - The signaling system for the Washington-area transit system failed to detect a test train stopped in the same place as one that was struck during a deadly crash this week, federal investigators said Thursday.

2 FutureGen partners drop out of coal project (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:01 PM PDT

AP - Just two weeks after the federal government revived plans to build the FutureGen power plant in eastern Illinois, two of the experimental coal plant's financial backers said Thursday they are withdrawing.

AP Source: Michael Jackson dies in LA hospital (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:34 PM PDT

Michael Jackson waves to supporters as he leaves the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in California, June 13, 2005. REUTERS/StringerAP - A person with knowledge of the situation says Michael Jackson has died in Los Angeles. The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity, says the King of Pop died at age 50 in a Los Angeles hospital.

NH tax evaders face new trial for weapons arsenal (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 02:27 PM PDT

FILE - In This June 18, 2007, file photo, Ed and Elaine Brown talk to reporters during a news conference in Plainfield, N.H. The Browns are serving five-year federal prison terms for not paying taxes on nearly $2 million in income. They face more time behind bars when their case goes to trial June 29, 2009, because of the dangerous lengths they allegedly took to prevent authorities from arresting them. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)AP - Retired exterminator Ed Brown and his dentist wife Elaine holed up on a mountaintop in their turreted concrete castle, protected by an arsenal of homemade bombs, booby traps, semiautomatic assault-type rifles and a cache of 60,000 rounds of ammunition — all aimed at federal agents, prosecutors say.

SC GOP leader wants unfaithful gov's resignation (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:45 PM PDT

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wipes his tears as he admitted to having an affair during a news conference in Columbia, S.C Wednesday, June 24, 2009, and said he is resigning as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - A top South Carolina Republican leader says philandering Gov. Mark Sanford should resign and practice the philosophy he's preached of holding GOP leaders accountable. Glenn McCall is one of the state's two national representatives to the Republican National Committee. He's also a county party chairman and said Thursday that party members want Sanford out.

Dad accused in Father's Day beating sought visits (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 02:23 PM PDT

AP - Leslie Schuler once pleaded with a judge for visitation with the 7-year-old son he'd never known, so he could "become the child's father, not just a paycheck once a week."

Vt. police say nanny could have had other victims (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 02:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this photo released by the Vermont State Police, Donald Shepherd, 23, of Fort Myers, Fla., is seen. The Florida man was charged with molesting a 10-year-old boy whose mother says she hired Shepherd over the Internet as a nanny. Vermont State Police believe Shepherd may have sought nanny jobs and summer camp work in several other states. (AP Photo/Vermont State Police, File)AP - An investigation into a nanny charged with molesting a 10-year-old boy in Vermont is broadening after police discovered he may have looked for nanny and summer camp jobs in 12 other states.

Keillor looks back as 'Prairie Home' turns 35 (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 01:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2007 file photo, Garrison Keillor laughs during a live audience dress rehearsal of a skit for 'A Prairie Home Companion' at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt, file)AP - For the 35th anniversary of his "A Prairie Home Companion," humorist Garrison Keillor will be in "Lake Wobegon" when he reads the news from Lake Wobegon.

AP Exclusive: Airport video shows SC gov leaving (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 11:39 AM PDT

This Thursday, June 18, 2009 photo taken from a security camera video and released Thursday, June 25, 2009 by Columbia Metropolitan Airport police shows Gov. Mark Sanford walking through the airport wheeling a small suitcase the day he left on a secret trip to see a woman in Argentina with whom he admitted an affair. (AP Photo/via Columbia Metropolitan Airport Police)AP - Security videos obtained by The Associated Press show Gov. Mark Sanford wheeling a small suitcase though a South Carolina airport the day he dropped off the map to see his mistress in Argentina.

RI club owner in fatal fire case out of prison (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 02:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2006, file photo, Michael Derderian reads a statement in Kent County Superior Court in Warwick, R.I., during proceedings where he pleaded no contest to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter for a Feb. 20, 2003, fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick. A spokesman for the state prison said Derderian, a former co-owner of the nightclub , was released early from prison on Thursday, June 25, 2009, for good behavior. (AP Photo/Bob Breidenbach, Pool, file)AP - A former co-owner of a Rhode Island nightclub where a fire killed 100 people was released from prison Thursday after earning time off for good behavior.

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