2009年7月18日星期六

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Police: 6 slain in Tenn., Ala.; suspect in custody (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 05:50 PM PDT

Lincoln County Tennessee Sherriff Murray Blackwelder speaks with the media about the slayings, Saturday, July 18, 2009 in Lincoln County, Tenn.. A suspect was in custody in the slayings of six people, five in southern Tennessee and another about 20 miles away in Huntsville, Ala., authorities said Saturday. (AP Photo / The Huntsville TImes, Bob Gathany)AP - Five people were found slain in two homes in southern Tennessee Saturday, some of whom were related, and a sixth person at a Huntsville, Ala., business, said authorities who have a suspect in custody.

Dozens injured in San Francisco light-rail crash (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 05:31 PM PDT

AP - Several dozen people were injured when two San Francisco light-rail trains collided Saturday afternoon at the West Portal Station, authorities said.

Spacewalk day: Astronauts install new porch on lab (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 04:38 PM PDT

In this image rendered from video and released by NASA, space shuttle Endeavour is shown after docking with the international space station Friday, July 17, 2009. (AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - Astronauts working inside and out installed a porch for experiments on Japan's enormous space station lab Saturday, accomplishing the major objective despite microphone static that often drowned out the spacewalkers' voices.

Cronkite to be buried in Mo. after NYC funeral (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 04:43 PM PDT

FILE - This undated photo provided by CBS, shows CBS television newscaster Walter Cronkite. Famed CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, known as the 'most trusted man in America' has died, Friday, July 17, 2009. He was 92. (AP Photo/CBS, File)AP - Walter Cronkite's final resting place will be next to his late wife in Missouri, where the two first met, his chief of staff said Saturday.

50 Cent slashes price on Conn. mansion to $10.9M (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 02:33 PM PDT

AP - The price of the Connecticut mega-mansion owned by rapper 50 Cent has dropped again — to $10.9 million.

NY man pleads not guilty in skyscraper slaying (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 02:26 PM PDT

AP - A handyman at a skyscraper near the World Trade Center pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges he murdered a cleaning woman and hid her body in the tower's ventilation system.

Govs: Federal stimulus helped states plug budgets (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 02:49 PM PDT

From left, Republican Governors Haley Barbour of Mississippi, West Virginia's Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin and Jim Douglas of Vermont, center, listen to Montana's Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer discuss some of the concerns facing all heads of state, during the opening news conference of the National Governors Association Saturday, July 18, 2009, in Biloxi, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - A bipartisan group of governors said Saturday that the federal stimulus package helped states avoid deep budget cuts during the recession. But some at the National Governors Association convention said they're not pushing for another infusion of cash from Washington.

Deal possible Sunday on California budget (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 12:27 PM PDT

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, answers a questions while talking to reporters with State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, right, after a meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Republican leaders at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, July 17, 2009. The Democratic leaders were optimistic that a solution to the budget stalemate might be ready for a vote by the Legislature early next week. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California officials hope to reach a deal Sunday on how to erase a $26.3 billion budget deficit that has forced the state to issue IOUs for the first time in nearly 20 years.

California sprouts 'green rush' from marijuana (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 11:02 AM PDT

In this May 20, 2009 photo, Tom Romero packs one-eighth-ounce bags of medical marijuana at The Green Door dispensary in San Francisco. Since California became the first state to legalize the drug for medicinal use, the weed that the federal government puts in the same category as heroin and cocaine has become a major economic force. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - A drug deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased Smart Car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his 58-year-old customer, who inspects the bag to ensure everything he ordered over the phone is there.

At compound, Alamo controlled all aspects of life (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Evangelist Tony Alamo, center is led from the federal courthouse in downtown Texarkana Ark. Tuesday July 14, 2009 following opening statements in his trial. Alamo is charged with taking underage girls across state lines for sex. (AP Photo/Texarkana Gazette, Evan Lewis) MANDATORY CREDITAP - In the years after evangelist Tony Alamo took the 14-year-old girl as a bride, she said, she caught glimpses of her father on the surveillance cameras that fed into the minister's office.

Fuller portrait of slain Fla. couple emerges (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 04:02 AM PDT

One of the Billings' children releases a balloon with a message attached during funeral services for his mother and father, July 17, 2009, in Pensacola, Fla. Byrd and Melanie Billings were murdered in their home during an apparent robbery attempt on July 9(AP Photo/Phil Coale)AP - When the attorney for a slain Florida couple's family disclosed the contents of a safe stolen from their home, she said she wanted to put to rest intense speculation and rumors.

Cleared by DNA, 1 Ga. man gets $1M, 2 get nothing (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 09:19 AM PDT

Doug Echols, left, describes his time served in the Georgia prison system along with Sammy Scott, right, at Scott's house in Pooler, Ga. Both Echols and Scott served over a decade in prison before being exonerated through DNA evidence. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - On a March afternoon in 2005, three men who spent a combined 37 years behind bars for rapes DNA later showed they didn't commit climbed the steps to the Georgia Capitol. They were seeking some measure of justice — money to help them rebuild lives wrecked by years spent in prison.

Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be? (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 07:46 AM PDT

In this photo made July 7, 2009, a sign marks the shopping center named Moon Plaza in Moon, Pa.. Forty years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, space occupies a very different place in the popular culture. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - On July 22, 1969, barely 48 hours after a human being first stepped onto the moon's surface, a community in Pittsburgh's western suburbs called Moon Township had a parade, as suburban communities do.

Same-sex couples seek immigration benefit (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 12:58 PM PDT

In this Thursday, July 2, 2009 photo, Judy Rickard, left, with her partner, Karin Bogliolo, right, sit at their dining room table at their home in San Jose, Calif. Facing a painful separation, Rickard, 61, retired early from her job at San Jose State University this past April and took a reduced pension so that she could spend more time with her partner, Bogliolo, a citizen of Great Britain who is allowed to stay in the U.S. for up to six months at a time. It was not the preferred option. Rickard wanted to keep working and sponsor Bogliolo for residency in the United States, just as married heterosexual couples can. But U.S. law does not allow for that. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Judy Rickard took an early retirement and a reduced pension so she could be assured of more time with her partner, a British citizen whose stays in the U.S. are limited to six months.

1st day of Fla. hunt nets nearly 10-foot python (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 02:51 AM PDT

AP - A program to eradicate invasive pythons from Florida's Everglades began Friday with a slithering success: Trappers caught a nearly 10-footer within about an hour of setting out, a shock to even the experts.

Regulators shut banks in Calif., Ga. and SD (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 11:36 PM PDT

AP - Regulators on Friday shut two banks in California and two smaller banks in Georgia and South Dakota, boosting to 57 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year.

Spacewalk Day: Astronauts set for first outing (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 07:37 AM PDT

In this image rendered from video and released by NASA, space shuttle Endeavour is shown after docking with the international space station Friday, July 17, 2009. (AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - It's spacewalking day at the shuttle-station complex. At high noon Saturday, two astronauts will venture out to help attach a platform for science experiments. It's the third and final piece of Japan's huge billion-dollar lab. And it's the first of five spacewalks planned for the shuttle flight.

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