2009年7月12日星期日

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Man charged with evidence tampering in Fla. deaths (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:15 PM PDT

This 2005 picture shows Byrd and Melanie Billings at their home in Beulah, Fla. Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout Friday, July 10, 2009 for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of the Florida Panhandle couple who were shot in their rural home while eight of their children slept. (AP Photo/The Pensacola News Journal, Karena Cawthon)AP - Authorities in the Florida Panhandle say they've arrested a man on a charge of evidence tampering in connection with the slayings of a Florida couple known for their large family.

Thunderstorms delay space shuttle launch again (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:36 PM PDT

Space shuttle Endeavour sits on pad 39A moments after the launch was scrubbed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Sunday, July 12, 2009. Thunderstorms forced NASA to call off Sunday evening's launch of shuttle Endeavour, the fourth delay for the space station construction mission. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Thunderstorms forced NASA to call off Sunday evening's launch of shuttle Endeavour, the fourth delay for the space station construction mission.

Carlos weakens to tropical storm over the Pacific (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 01:46 PM PDT

Filipinos boys are carried away as waves churned up by a passing storm smash a seawall at a park in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines, Thursday, June 25, 2009. Tropical storm Nangka cut across the northern Philippines, leaving at least eight killed and 11 missing amid widespread flooding, officials said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Carlos has weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm as it heads west over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Church bus crash kills 1 in Miss.; 23 injured (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:27 PM PDT

AP - A bus carrying a church youth group from Louisiana to Georgia flipped Sunday on Interstate 20 in Mississippi, killing one person and injuring 23 others, a coroner said.

Woman was gagged before body found in NYC building (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:07 PM PDT

AP - A woman found dead in a skyscraper where a cleaning woman had vanished days earlier was bound and gagged and had a gold crucifix taped to her mouth, police said Sunday.

Calif. leaders face tough choices in budget talks (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:58 PM PDT

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, smiles as he enters the Governor's office for a budget meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, July 10, 2009. Lawmakers met with Schwarzenegger earlier in the day to try to resolve the state's $26.3 billion budget shortfall, in what Steinberg called 'the most productive negotiations we have had in weeks.'(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California's top lawmakers on Sunday focused on cost-saving reforms to social welfare programs and how deeply to cut an array of state services as they dove into the complex task of closing the state's $26 billion deficit.

Jackson, healthy or not? Depends on who's talking (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 08:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 1993 file photo, American pop star Michael Jackson performs during his 'Dangerous' tour in Bangkok. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener, file)AP - In his final days, Michael Jackson was robust and active. Or dangerously thin and frail. Begging for access to powerful prescription drugs. Or showing no signs of ever having used them.

Minn. mom says missing son, 20, killed in Somalia (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 02:02 PM PDT

AP - The mother of a 20-year-old Somali man missing from Minneapolis says her son has been killed in Somalia.

RI bucks trend, fights to keep greyhound racing (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 02:53 PM PDT

AP - Greyhound tracks are folding across the country, but in cash-strapped Rhode Island — where the unemployment rate is among the nation's worst — lawmakers are betting on the dogs to save jobs.

Allies' stance cited in US gays-in-military debate (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 12:38 PM PDT

In this June 11, 2009 photo, Israeli army Maj. Yoni Schoenfeld , right, listens to his partner Noam during an interview with the Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - When it comes to dealing with gay personnel in the ranks, the contrasts are stark among some of the world's proudest, toughest militaries — and these differing approaches are invoked by both sides as Americans renew debate over the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Gunman surrenders to police at Kan. VA med center (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:24 PM PDT

AP - Officials say a gunman who entered a Veterans Affairs medical center in Topeka, Kan., surrendered without hurting anyone and is now a patient at the hospital.

Jailed evangelist's followers sell suspect goods (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 11:39 AM PDT

In this photo taken May 4, 2009, a house on property once owned by evangelist Tony Alamo is shown in Dyer, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Evangelist Tony Alamo once said God never wanted his ministry to be poor, but money raised by his followers only seems to go his way.

US, Swiss ask for delay in UBS secrecy case (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 02:20 PM PDT

The logo of a UBS bank in Geneva. The US and Swiss governments called for a delay to the start of a court showdown seeking to force Swiss financial giant UBS to reveal thousands of offshore accounts held by US clients.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AP - The U.S. and Swiss governments and banking giant UBS AG indicated Sunday they were seeking a settlement and asked a federal judge to delay high-stakes hearings on the Internal Revenue Service's effort to identify thousands of suspected American tax evaders.

War: Is it getting more hellish, or less? (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, July 31, 1994 file picture, a bulldozer operated by a French soldier shovels bodies into a mass grave at the Kibumba refugee camp in Rwanda near Goma, Zaire. More than 1 million Rwandans had fled refugee camps in eastern Zaire where cholera spread. Peace studies experts who tally the dead from wars are divided over whether such victims are properly counted as 'war victims' when they die of disease and deprivation caused by war, rather than actual battle wounds. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)AP - War is hell, it's long been said. But just how hellish it can be is a more difficult question, judging from disputes among researchers at several highly respected international peace institutes. They cannot agree on whether war is becoming more or less deadly — or even on how to count the dead.

Palin says she's not leaving politics (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 12:26 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 - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she's not only staying involved in national politics, but she plans to jump back into the national scrum when she leaves office at the end of the month.

Relatives go to Ill. cemetery looking for answers (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 01:26 AM PDT

Stanley and Wanda Windermyre, of Zion, Ill., hold records of Wanda's mother, Ora Mae Sawyer, and grandfather, Carnell Neal, who are buried at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Friday, July 10, 2009. Hundreds of confused and angry family members have come to the historic cemetery looking for answers after four people were accused of digging up graves and reselling plots in a moneymaking scheme. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - A constant stream of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots.

Kids recant abuse claims after dad jailed 20 years (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 12:04 AM PDT

AP - Former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually molesting his son and daughter. Now, the children say it never happened.

Slain ex-QB McNair mourned as a 'hero,' 'legend' (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 08:22 PM PDT

Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young, left, speaks during the funeral service for Steve McNair in Hattiesburg, Miss., Saturday, July 11, 2009. McNair, a former NFL quarterback with the Houston Oilers, Tennessee Titans, and Baltimore Ravens, was shot to death in Nashville on July 4. (AP Photo/George Clark, Pool)AP - Titans quarterback Vince Young didn't expect to speak Saturday during his mentor's funeral. He wound up summing up the emotional day with just a few words.

Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 03:10 AM PDT

In this April 10, 2009. photo, Chris Paget, a self-described 'ethical hacker,' sits in the back of his car with electronic equipment seeking information from imbedded radio frequency identification, or RFID chips as people pass him along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.

Iranian-Americans rally in front of White House (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 11:59 PM PDT

Mansoureh Mojahedpoor of Washington holds a photo of her son, Mojtaba Mojahedpoor, who she says was a Tehran University student killed by the current Iranian regime in 1982, during a demonstration against the Iranian government in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Saturday, July 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Hundreds of protesters, many of them Iranian-Americans, marched from Capitol Hill to the White House on Saturday, most holding Iranian flags and chanting demands for the U.S. to take more action after Iran's disputed election.

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