2009年7月9日星期四

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4 Ill. cemetery workers accused in grisly plot (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:06 PM PDT

Family members search for the graves of relatives at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Thursday, July 9, 2009, after graves were discovered dug up Wednesday and bodies dumped into unmarked mass graves in an alleged scheme to resell the plots to unsuspecting members of the public. Three men and a woman are facing felony charges after police found what they called 'startling and revolting' conditions at the historic cemetery in the south Chicago suburb. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies.

Coast Guard ends search for plane crash survivors (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 03:28 PM PDT

AP - The Coast Guard ended its search Thursday for five people aboard a small plane that crashed off Florida's Gulf Coast, saying it believes all are dead.

Jackson children were well prepared for spotlight (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 03:35 PM PDT

Singer Janet Jackson, left, Paris Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Jackie Jackson and Prince Michael I on stage during the memorial service for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, Pool)AP - Even Michael Jackson knew the masks and veils would have to come off one day.

LA official: Promoter should pay Jackson memorial (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 03:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 7, 2009 file photo, the rose covered coffin holding the remains of Michael Jackson rests in the front of stage during Jackson's memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A city council member on Thursday, July 9, 2009 called on AEG Live to pay some of the estimated $1.4 million cost for policing Michael Jackson's memorial service at the Staples Center. (AP Photo/Wally Skalij, Pool, File)AP - A Los Angeles city councilman is calling on AEG Live to pay some of the estimated $1.4 million cost for Michael Jackson's memorial service Tuesday at the Staples Center.

Woman sues, says NY school used her as 'plaything' (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 03:16 PM PDT

AP - A fundraiser at an upstate university has sued two senior athletic department officials, accusing them of using her as a "plaything" and trying to make her ply big donors with her sexuality.

Five killed in Michigan after train slams into car (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Emergency medical technicians leave the scene in Canton Township, Mich., Thursday, July 9, 2009 where an Amtrak passenger train carrying about 150 people struck a car at a road crossing near Detroit killing all five people in the sedan, authorities said. The crossing has a gate and flashing lights that were believed to be working when the car approached, said Sgt. Mark Gajeski, a police spokesman. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - An Amtrak passenger train carrying about 170 people struck a car that had skirted a gate at a road crossing near Detroit on Thursday, killing all five people in the sedan, authorities said. The victims were believed to be teens.

Club: Racism accusations at Pa. pool untrue (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:07 PM PDT

AP - A suburban Philadelphia swim club accused of kicking out a group of minority children visiting from the city denies any racial discrimination.

Lawyers spar in Paris Hilton film contract dispute (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 3, 2009 file photo, Paris Hilton speaks during a news conference in Broumana, east of Beirut, Lebanonl. (AP Photo/Grace Kassab, file)AP - Paris Hilton hated her 2006 movie "Pledge This!" and refused for months to make promotional appearances for it despite a contract requiring her to do so, lawyers for the film's investors said as trial opened Thursday in an $8 million lawsuit against her.

Mount Rushmore may adjust security after protest (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 02:12 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 - Officials at Mount Rushmore may change their security measures after environmentalists were able to hang a banner warning about global warming from atop the national monument, a spokesman said.

NH tax evaders guilty on all weapons counts (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 03:01 PM PDT

In this Monday June 18, 2007 photo Ed and Elaine Brown are seen at their home in Plainfield, N.H. The two were convicted Thursday July 9, 2009 in U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H. for plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at their fort-like home. The Browns, in their 60s, face a mandatory minimum 30-year prison sentence on one charge alone.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted Thursday of amassing weapons, explosives and booby traps and plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff in 2007 at their fort-like home in rural New Hampshire.

Raids in 6 states show dogfighting is widespread (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:35 PM PDT

In this Wednesday July 8, 2009 photo, dogs are taken from a St. Louis location by Humane Society officials. The Humane Society of Missouri says it would welcome help as it shelters about 300 dogs that were seized in raids of dogfighting operations in Missouri and Illinois. The dogs were among 350 mostly American Pit Bull Terrier dogs seized during raids in five states Wednesday. (AP Photo/The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Emily Rasinski)AP - The arrests this week of a Little League coach, a registered nurse and a teacher during the largest coordinated raids on dogfighting in U.S. history confirm the shadowy blood sport is alive and well despite tough laws across the country.

A closer look at Palin finances as she steps down (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 02:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2008 file photo shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in Dayton, Ohio. An examination of Palin's finances, in the wake of her announcement that she was resigning, shows a thriving defense fund, a lucrative book deal, and her husband's six-figure snowmobile, fishing and oil ventures. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Since Sarah Palin abruptly resigned as governor, she has repeatedly cited the bombardment of ethics complaints against her while conceding the financial burden of defending herself had taken its toll.

Woman vanishes at skyscraper near ground zero (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:40 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the New York City Police Department, Eridania Rodriguez is shown. Rodriguez, a cleaning woman in an office tower a few hundred feet from the World Trade Center reconstruction site, vanished midway through her evening shift on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Police searched the building on Wednesday, July 8, but found no clues to her whereabouts. (AP Photo/NYPD, Ho)AP - A Manhattan skyscraper in one of the most security-conscious parts of the city has become the scene of an unlikely missing persons mystery.

Terror suspect could serve less than a year more (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:05 PM PDT

AP - A man who spent 5 1/2 years in solitary confinement before pleading guilty to conspiring to help al-Qaida will spend almost another year in federal custody and then be deported to Canada.

For lease: Office with river views, Madoff stigma (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 01:21 PM PDT

Building manager and leasing agent Russell Freeman walks through the empty office space in New York onced used by convicted financier Bernard Madoff Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The 19th floor offices are now cleared for leasing after an FBI investigation. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Behind unmarked doors on the 17th floor of a red granite high-rise known as the Lipstick Building, FBI agents still labor to unravel a case like no other.

Madoff won't appeal 150-year sentence (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 02:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York. Madoff has decided against appealing his 150-year sentence for a multi-billion dollar fraud, Ira Sorkin, Madoff' lawyer, said Thursday, July 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, file)AP - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff will not appeal his 150-year sentence for a fraud that unraveled overnight last December when Madoff confessed to his sons that nearly $65 billion he promised investors was safe was actually only worth a few hundred million dollars.

Sentencing delayed in Texas 'fight club' case (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 11:12 AM PDT

AP - A judge's illness has forced the postponement of the sentencing of a man who pleaded guilty to abusing residents at a Texas facility for the developmentally disabled.

Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 11:01 AM PDT

An Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar image of the San Andreas fault in the San Francisco Bay area just west of San Mateo and Foster City is shown in this image released by NASA June 17, 2009. The fault runs diagonally from upper left to lower right. The body of water along the fault line is Crystal Springs Reservoir. JPL scientists have added a new airborne radar tool to their arsenal, UAVSAR, this L-band wavelength radar flies aboard a modified NASA Gulfstream III aircraft from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. The compact, reconfigurable radar, housed in a pod under the aircraft's fuselage, uses pulses of microwave energy to detect and measure very subtle deformations in Earth's surface, such as those caused by earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and glacier movements. REUTERS/NASA/JPL/Handout (UNITED STATES SCI TECH) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.

Mobster 'Rifleman' Flemmi takes stand in Boston (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 12:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2008, file photo, Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi, a jailed Boston mob leader, testifies in a Miami court room in the murder trial of former FBI agent John Connolly. Flemmi testified Thursday, July 9, 2009, in federal court in Boston in wrongful death lawsuits filed by three families who say the FBI failed to control Flemmi and fugitive gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter, File)AP - New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi described his long tenure as an FBI informant during testimony Thursday in lawsuits by mob victims' families who say the agency failed to control Flemmi and fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

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