2009年6月28日星期日

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Lawyer for doctor: Jackson had pulse when found (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT

A Japanese woman weeps during a memorial vigil for Michael Jackson in Tokyo, Saturday, June 27, 2009. Some 200 people gathered outside a Tokyo park to pay tribute to Michael Jackson, who died Thursday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Michael Jackson still had a faint pulse and his body was warm when his doctor found him in bed and not breathing, a lawyer for the doctor told The Associated Press on Sunday.


TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead at Florida home (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 01:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2002  file photo,TV pitchman Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home. Tampa police say Mays, the television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)AP - Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.


Madoff sentencing nears, but victims' pain goes on (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Jack and Melba Cutter are shown in their home in a subdivision outside the north-central Colorado city of Longmont on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Jack Cutter, who is 80 years old, has returned to work as a clerk at a meat counter in a supermarket after he and his wife invested their savings with a small firm last year that sent the money into feeder funds created by Bernie Madoff. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - Bernard Madoff will get one last creature comfort before he is sentenced Monday, probably to serve out the rest of his days in prison. The judge has given him permission to don his own clothes for the hearing, rather than a jail uniform.


Jackson was acquitted at trial but never recovered (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 12:30 PM PDT

File - Michael Jackson walks with his father Joe, right, after a day of testimony in his child molestation trial in this May 25, 2005 file photo, in Santa Maria, Calif. Jackson, the 'King of Pop' who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday June 25, 2009 as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.  (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)AP - Michael Jackson called his trial on child molestation claims, "the hardest thing I've ever done in my life." Acquitted of all charges by a jury but convicted by public opinion, he spent the rest of his life trying to recover from the ordeal.


Gale Storm, perky star of 1950s TV, dies at 87 (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 04:09 PM PDT

FILE- This undated file photo shows Actress Gale Storm, whose wholesome appearance and perky personality made her one of early television's biggest stars on 'My Little Margie' and 'The Gale Storm Show.'   Storm died on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at age 87. (AP Photo/File)AP - Gale Storm, whose wholesome appearance and perky personality made her one of early television's biggest stars on "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show," has died at age 87.


Arizona moves to allow concealed guns in bars (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 09:26 AM PDT

AP - There was a time in the Wild West that cowboys had to check their guns before they could pull up a bar stool for a drink — rules that protected against the saloon gunfights that came to define the frontier era in places like Arizona.

AP Enterprise: '91 death verdict splits Ga. jurors (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 10:49 AM PDT

AP - Inside the jury room, seven men and five women huddled around a table to discuss a parade of witnesses in the case of an off-duty police officer shot and killed outside a fast-food restaurant.

Does 'love factor' make SC gov more sympathetic? (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 05:35 PM PDT

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford tries to keep the media back as he makes his way to the Statehouse after a cabinet meeting Friday, June 26, 2009, in Columbia, S.C.  (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - If you're a governor who's in the doghouse for marital infidelity, is it better to have loved and lost or never to have loved at all?


Backcountry mail pilot helps preserve way of life (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 09:22 AM PDT

AP - In the small airport lounge, his former wife and business partner rattles off the weather report and frowns as a surge of wind blows open the door and invites in the morning chill.

Argentine woman admits relationship with SC gov (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 04:46 PM PDT

In this undated video frame grab, taken from a C5N TV Channel from Argentina report sometime during the Sept.11, 2001 twin towers attacks in New York, Argentine Maria Belen Chapur speaks during a stand up. The 41-year-old Argentine woman, who had worked as free-lance journalist in the past, has acknowledged having a relationship with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. In a statement sent to news network C5N of Buenos Aires,  Chapur said she will not talk about her private life, but also said the email exchanges with Sanford that were widely published by U.S. media and elsewhere were obtained by someone who hacked her account.(AP Photo/C5N TV)AP - A 41-year-old Argentine woman acknowledged having a relationship with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, saying Sunday that widely published e-mail correspondence between the two was obtained from her account without permission.


'Do The Right Thing' still asks burning questions (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 01:26 PM PDT

In this June 15, 2009 photo, film director Spike Lee responds during an interview in New York about his 1989 film 'Do The Right Thing.'  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America's window. At the climax of Spike Lee's 1989 drama "Do The Right Thing," the eternal battle between love and hate teeters on a razor's edge.


3 killed in pizzeria shooting outside Los Angeles (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 09:28 AM PDT

AP - A gunman fired into a group of people outside a pizza restaurant where a motorcycle club was holding a fundraising event, killing three people and wounding seven.

`Transformers' takes to sky with $112M weekend (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 12:54 PM PDT

Actors (from L) Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Megan Fox, film director and executive producer Michael Bay and Shia Labeouf pose for a picture as they arrive for the Russian premiere of AP - Alien robots have transformed into box-office superstars with $200 million in domestic ticket sales in just five days.


Paralyzed Vt. GI gets star-spangled welcome home (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 10:19 PM PDT

Pfc. Andrew Parker, in wheelchair, waves to the crowd during a parade welcoming him home in Hyde Park, Vt., on Saturday June 27, 2009. Parker was paralyzed by a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan in November 2008. The family's home was renovated volunteers to make it accessible for Parker and allow him to come home. (AP Photo/Steve Legge)AP - For Pfc. Andrew Parker, it was a bittersweet homecoming: He was hailed as a hero, feted with a star-spangled parade and showered with gifts at a welcome home ceremony. He had to watch it all from a wheelchair.


Ky. pastor welcomes guns, their owners to church (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 06:23 PM PDT

Liz Boyer sells a raffle ticket for a new firearm to Tom Schultz before a service in the New Bethel Church where people were invited to bring their own firearms to the sanctuary in Louisville, Ky., Saturday, June 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, Pool)AP - For one day, at least, it was OK to pack heat in church.


Thread of pain ran through Jackson's career (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 03:46 AM PDT

In this May 6, 2009 image released courtesy of Michael Jackson, pop star Michael Jackson, center, and director Kenny Ortega, left, are shown in Los Angeles during rehearsals for his upcoming concert in London.  (AP Photo/courtesy of Michael Jackson)AP - It was the last day of shooting for a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984, and the only hiccup had been an argument between Michael Jackson and an ad executive over whether the young superstar would take off his sunglasses.


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