2009年7月8日星期三

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Michael Jackson's final resting place a mystery (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 05:23 PM PDT

In this image released by the Jackson family, pallbearers carry a casket holding Michael Jackson's body into a memorial for the pop star at the Staples Center on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/courtesy of The Jackson Family, Kevin Mazur)AP - Michael Jackson's glimmering casket took center stage at the Staples Center, sitting for more than two hours as celebrities memorialized the King of Pop under the watchful eyes of millions. And when the ceremony was over, it was gone.

Getty Center, college evacuates due to LA fire (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:33 PM PDT

Local residents and hikers look on as a brush fire burns in the Sepulveda Pass area of Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The Getty Center art complex in Los Angeles is evacuating staff and visitors because of a nearby brush fire. Nearby Mount St. Mary's College also is being evacuated as a precaution. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP - The world-famous Getty Center art complex and nearby Mount St. Mary's College were evacuated Wednesday as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains.

GOP candidates in Va., NJ wary of Palin (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:06 PM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)AP - Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was driven in part by her wish to help Republican candidates across the country, associates say.

Environmentalists unfurl banner on Mount Rushmore (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 05:15 PM PDT

In this picture provided by the environmental group Greenpeace, Greenpeace climbers rappel down the face of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming. Obama is at the G8 meeting in Italy to discuss the global warming crisis with other world leaders. A federal prosecutor says a dozen people were taken into custody on Wednesday after the incident. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Kate Davison)AP - Environmentalists who hung a banner on Mount Rushmore National Memorial calling for a stop to global warming have been arrested.

Police: McNair shot dead in sleep by girlfriend (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 05:22 PM PDT

FILE -- This June 28, 2001 file photo shows Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair and his wife, Mechelle, smiling during a news conference in Nashville, Tenn. after McNair signed a contract extention. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey, fILE)AP - Former NFL star Steve McNair was shot dead in his sleep last week by a 20-year-old girlfriend distraught about mounting financial problems and her belief that he was seeing someone else, police said Wednesday.

Conn. ad exec arraigned in standoff, house burning (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 05:07 PM PDT

Firefighters hose down the blaze that engulfed the home of Richard Shenkman on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 in South Windsor, Connecticut. Shenkman had held his ex-wife hostage there after kidnapping her in Hartford on Tuesday morning finally surrendered when flames made their way to the basement where he was hiding, authorities said. (AP Photo/George Ruhe)AP - An advertising executive taken from his burning home after holding his ex-wife hostage in a 13-hour standoff with police was arraigned Wednesday while lying in a Connecticut hospital emergency room.

Palin racks up air miles, has time to tweet (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:42 PM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to the Lions Club Wednesday, July 8, 2009 in Conroe, Texas. Perry said Sarah Palin is committed to campaigning for his re-election and that he welcomes the support of the soon-to-be-former Alaska governor. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Gov. Sarah Palin spent another day on the move in far-flung locations Wednesday at a time when many Alaskans remain mystified over her decision to step down and not finish out her first term.

NTSB: No mechanical problems in Disney monorail (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Vistors exit the EPCOT theme park past the monorail station at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Sunday, July 5, 2009. The park's monorail transit system was shut down after two monorail trains crashed early Sunday morning killing one train's operator, emergency officials said.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Federal investigators are focusing on why a switch failed to change positions in the monorail crash that killed an operator at Walt Disney World over the weekend.

Plane with 5 aboard missing off Florida Gulf Coast (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:12 PM PDT

AP - The Coast Guard is searching for five people whose plane went down off Florida's Gulf Coast.

It's not slang! Nev. court permits 'HOE' license (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:08 PM PDT

AP - A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency tried to cancel on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.

Stalking charges dropped against Marion Barry (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:01 PM PDT

Former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry, second right, with his supporters walks back to Washington's city hall following a news conference, Monday, July 6, 2009. Barry's attorney Frederick Cooke, right, said Barry vehemently denies the allegation by Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, and that he's confident the stalking charge will be dropped. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who was accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend.

Georgia could toss suspect math exam results (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:35 PM PDT

AP - Georgia could become the latest state to punish schools caught cheating on standardized tests, becoming another example of what some observers call an alarming trend of educators caving under the pressure to meet federal achievement standards.

Ex-skate champ Bobek posts bail, faces meth charge (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:04 PM PDT

In this Monday, July 6, 2009 photo released by the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in Jersey City, N.J., Nicole Bobek is shown. Bobek, 31, a former U.S. figure skating champion, has been charged in New Jersey with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. If convicted, she would face up to 10 years in prison.. (AP Photo/Hudson County Prosecutor's Office)AP - Former U.S. figure skating champion Nicole Bobek probably got mixed up with the wrong crowd, the skater's mother said Wednesday, two days after her 31-year-old daughter was released from jail on a drug distribution charge stemming from an investigation that has netted 20 arrests so far.

NYC bouncer gets life sentence in student's death (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 02:54 PM PDT

FILE - This photo of Darryl Littlejohn, taken July 29, 2003, when he was using the alias 'Jonathan Blaze,' was released by the New York Department of Corrections Tuesday, March 7, 2006. The former Manhattan nightclub bouncer was sentenced Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to life in prison without parole for the brutal 2006 murder of criminal justice student Imette St. Guillen, a graduate student from Boston. (AP Photo/New York Department of Corrections)AP - A former nightclub bouncer convicted of brutally murdering a graduate student from Boston was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole.

1st Americans killed in Vietnam War are honored (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 02:18 PM PDT

AP - It was July 1959 and Stanley Karnow, Time magazine's chief correspondent in Asia, was on his first trip to Saigon when he heard about an attack at an Army base about 20 miles north of the city.

Ohio woman accused of fawn's shovel beating death (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 02:15 PM PDT

AP - An Ohio woman who found a fawn in her flower garden has been accused of beating it to death with a shovel.

Abortion pill used in a quarter of US abortions (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:17 PM PDT

Files on a table at the Bobigny courthouse, near Paris on the opening day of the trial of French-Algerian Rai singer Cheb Mami. A French court has sentenced the singer to five years in jail for attempting to have his ex-girlfriend undergo a forced abortion.(AFP/File/Boris Horvat)AP - Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called "abortion pill."

Vt. man charged with confining stepson for sex (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 03:16 PM PDT

In this undated booking photo released by Vermont State Police, Robert J. Pratt is shown after being arrested. Pratt sexually abused his stepson for years, threatened him, regularly denied him food and water, and confined him to a bedroom with a homemade alarm system for such long periods that the boy said he resorted to urinating into a wall-mounted telephone jack, authorities said. The boy, who lived with the man for almost six years and is now 17, told police his stepfather, Robert J. Pratt, sent him to school in long-sleeved shirts and pants so no one would see his bruises and scars. (AP Photo/Vermont State Police)AP - For years, a man regularly confined his adolescent stepson to a bedroom rigged with an alarm, molested him several times a week and often denied him food, water and access to a bathroom, authorities said.

Junior Gotti loses another NY bail attempt (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 02:04 PM PDT

AP - John "Junior" Gotti has lost another attempt to be freed on bail before his New York trial on racketeering charges.

AP IMPACT: Tugboat pilot plan may have backfired (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 11:48 AM PDT

This March 9, 2009, photo shows a Coast Guard boat patrolling the Mississippi River in New Orleans. At the start of the decade, the Coast Guard was under pressure from the shipping industry to revamp its training and licensing process for river pilots because an older generation of captains in their 50s was beginning to retire, creating a labor shortage.An Associated Press review of Coast Guard records indicates that the U.S. tugboat fleet is increasingly piloted by captains who have spent as little as one year in the wheelhouse(.AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)AP - A federal program to recruit more tugboat pilots may have backfired by allowing thousands of novice captains to take the helm and contributing to a 25 percent increase in the number of accidents on the nation's rivers.

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