2009年7月14日星期二

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Ex Pa. sen. gets less than 5 yrs. for corruption (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:57 PM PDT

AP - A former Pennsylvania lawmaker who prosecutors said became "drunk with power" in his many years in the state Senate was sentenced Tuesday to less than five years in prison, a steep departure down from what the judge was asked to impose for the corruption conviction.

ND missile crew discharged after falling asleep (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:45 PM PDT

AP - The Air Force discharged three North Dakota ballistic missile crew members who fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices, the military announced Tuesday. Officials said the codes were outdated and remained secure at all times.

AP source: NY AG seeking settlement with Rattner (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:57 PM PDT

AP - The state attorney general has begun pressing for a legal settlement that would allow Steven Rattner, until recently a key Obama administration adviser on the auto industry, to avoid civil charges in an embarrassing influence-peddling case, The Associated Press has learned.

Son's arrest latest chapter in porn family saga (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Claudia Stevens, right, mother of Danielle Keller, holds a picture of Keller while addressing the media as family friend Gina Stahl-Ricco, left, looks on at the Marin County Superior Court building in San Rafael, Calif., Tuesday, July 14, 2009. James Mitchell, son of porn mogul Jim Mitchell was arrested for allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend Danielle Keller to death on Sunday night July 12 and kidnapping their daughter.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - The days before he was arrested for beating his ex-girlfriend to death and kidnapping their daughter brought a string of bad news to James "Rafe" Mitchell, the son of late San Francisco pornography mogul Jim Mitchell.

7 charged with killing Fla. couple, stealing safe (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:45 PM PDT

Booking photos provided by the Escambia County Sheriff Department, Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, July 14, 2009, show suspects in the home invasion and murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings who were found shot to death July 9, 2009. Masked suspects, some dressed as ninjas, stole a safe and other items during a deadly break-in at the sprawling Florida Panhandle home of a couple known for adopting children with special needs, authorities said Tuesday. From top left: Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr., Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Sr., Wayne Thomas Coldiron, Gary Lamont Sumner, a juvenile whom police did not identify; Frederick Lee Thorton Jr., 19; and Donnie Ray Stallworth, 28, who was arrested in Alabama but lives in Florida.(AP Photo/Escambia Sheriff's Department)AP - An ex-convict who taught self-defense to children. A day laborer who served prison time for killing a man in a fight. An Air Force staff sergeant attached to an elite special operations unit.

NYC art gallery owner indicted again (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:16 PM PDT

AP - The owner of a closed Manhattan art gallery that once boasted a star-studded clientele was arrested again Tuesday on charges of carrying out an art fraud that now totals $93 million.

Prosecutors claim evangelist 'married' 8-year-old (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:27 PM PDT

AP - Evangelist Tony Alamo preyed on his loyal followers' young daughters, once taking a girl as young as 8 as his bride and repeatedly sexually assaulting her, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.

DC's Metro signaling system still has problems (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:51 PM PDT

Investigators work at the site where two Metrorail trains collided with one another between the Fort Totten and Takoma Park stations during rush hour on June 23, 2009 in Washington, DC. The US transportation safety board has urged Washington Metro officials to upgrade remote train controls as investigators eyed the current system as the possible cause of last month's deadly subway train crash.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Hoffman)AP - Federal investigators say the signaling system for Metro transit trains continues to fail periodically in the area of Washington, D.C., where a deadly train crash occurred.

Files: SC gov didn't use state cell phone on tryst (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:50 PM PDT

Lori Wind of Charleston, S.C. speaks during a rally calling for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's resignation or removal Thursday, July 9, 2009, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Newly released phone and e-mail records show South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford brushed off a meeting with a business interested in relocating to the state during the days he was with his mistress in Argentina, but they fail to show whether his staff could have reached him via phone.

Informants helped agents infiltrate dogfights (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:58 PM PDT

One of four pit bull dogs that were seized from a home in Tecumseh, Neb this week in a multistate dogfighting raid Friday July 10, 2009 is seen at the Nebraska Humane Society in Omaha, Neb.(AP Photo/Dave Weaver)AP - Undercover agents tipped off by informants infiltrated the illegal world of dogfighting by attending underground fights, leading to the arrest of at least a dozen people in several states, court documents show.

Among Minneapolis Somalis, relief over indictments (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 02:58 PM PDT

In a July 13, 2009 booking photo provided by the Anoka Couty Sheriff, Salah Osman Ahmed is shown. Ahmed is one of two men accused of supporting terrorism in a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Anoka County Sheriff,ho)AP - Over the long months that federal investigators delved into the baffling recruitment of young men who left Minneapolis to fight with Islamic militants in Somalia, the city's Somali community grappled with the fear they would all be branded terrorists.

Texas mulls massive `Ike Dike' to prevent flooding (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:14 PM PDT

Map shows proposed seawall and floodgate along the Galveston, Texas areaAP - It has been dubbed the "Ike Dike" — a 55-mile barrier, 17 feet high, that would be built along the Texas Gulf Coast to fend off the sort of devastating flooding inflicted by last year's Hurricane Ike.

Over the river ... to savings at Camp Grandparents (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:58 PM PDT

In this photo made Friday, June 26, 2009, Anita Preston and her five-year-old granddaughter Ashlyn Preston read a book at her home in Kennesaw, Ga. Ashlyn is visiting from Florida to stay with her grandparents for the entire summer in lieu of day care or summer camp. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Over the river and through the recession to grandmother's house they go. The lingering recession is forcing cash-strapped parents to cancel camp for the kids. Instead, they're being packed off to their grandparents'.

Surprise: Fall most deadly driving, winter safest (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 02:20 PM PDT

AP - Icy winter roads and vacation-clogged summer highways might seem the most dangerous for motorists, but new research says fall is when driving is at its deadliest.

NC probes why suspected SC serial killer was freed (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 01:56 PM PDT

This undated photo released by Cherokee County Law Enforcement officials shows a mug shot of Patrick Tracy Burris. Burris, the serial killer who terrorized a South Carolina community by shooting five people to death before police killed him Monday July 6, 2009 was a career criminal paroled just two months ago, authorities said. Burris, 41, was shot to death by officers investigating a burglary complaint at a home in Gastonia, N.C., 30 miles from where the killing spree started June 27. Burris had a long rap sheet filled with charges such as larceny, forgery and breaking and entering from states across the Southeast, including Florida, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. He had been paroled from a North Carolina prison in April after serving nearly eight years. (AP Photo/Cherokee County)AP - A North Carolina parole officer overloaded with cases should not be blamed for failing to tell jail officers to keep behind bars a career criminal who later killed five people, authorities said Tuesday.

Madoff starts 150-year sentence at NC prison (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Prisoners are unloaded at Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., Tuesday, July 14, 2009. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has been moved out of a New York lockup to this North Carolina facility. (AP Photo/Chuck Liddy, Raleigh News & Observer)AP - Bernard Madoff's life of luxury is a thing of the past. The disgraced financier blamed for what is believed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history arrived Tuesday at a federal prison in North Carolina to begin a 150-year sentence in a cell with two bunk beds, a toilet and a sink.

Hearings captivate nominee's former NYC neighbors (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 04:16 PM PDT

Joe Torres, who is from Puerto Rico, watches a live broadcast of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's U.S. Senate confirmation hearing at the bar and restaurant he owns in the neighborhood Sotomayor spent her childhood, in the Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday June 14, 2009. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Hilda Maldonado is proud that Sonia Sotomayor rose to national prominence "like a phoenix from the ashes" of a burned-out Bronx.

Lawsuit seeks to block 'In God We Trust' engraving (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 01:48 PM PDT

AP - The nation's largest group of atheists and agnostics filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block an architect from engraving "In God We Trust" and the Pledge of Allegiance at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington.

NYC bank heist makes for an unexpected Tweet (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 01:35 PM PDT

A man walks past an HSBC bank location after a robbery Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in New York. Annemaire Dooling of Staten Island, N.Y., tweeted her experience from inside the bank in the aftermath of the robbery. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - "So tired today," Annemarie Dooling tweeted early Tuesday. "really really tired. ugh."

Southwest checks planes after hole forces landing (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 03:18 PM PDT

An investigator looks at a hole on top of a Southwest Airlines plane which had to make an emergency landing in Charleston, W.V., Monday, July 13, 2009. Southwest Airlines ordered inspections of nearly 200 aircraft after a football-sized hole opened up in the passenger cabin of a plane during flight, forcing an emergency landing in West Virginia. Travelers on the 737 aircraft could see outside through the 1-foot-by-1-foot hole that appeared during the flight Monday. The cabin lost pressure, but no one was injured on the Nashville to Baltimore flight with 126 passengers and five crew members on board. (AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Chris Dorst)AP - Federal safety officials are investigating how a foot-long hole opened in the top of a Southwest Airlines jet, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Charleston, W. Va.

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