2009年7月19日星期日

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'Angela's Ashes' author McCourt dies in NYC at 78 (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct 29, 2007 file photo, author Frank McCourt arrives at 'The Kite Runner' post screening dinner party in New York. Brother Malachy McCourt says Frank McCourt died Sunday afternoon July 19, 2009, at a Manhattan hospice in New York City at age 78. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)AP - Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "epic of woe" about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer.

Watson, Armstrong break through age barriers (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:26 PM PDT

AP - Old for their sports, yet still vying to be at the top of their games, Tom Watson and Lance Armstrong showed the skills that made them great when they were young haven't faded away with the years.

Friend: Slain woman, accused husband had split (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:19 PM PDT

This image provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation shows a booking photo of Jacob Shaffer of Fayetteville, Tenn., Five people were found dead in two neighboring rural homes near Fayetteville in southern Tennessee Saturday, and a sixth body was discovered at a business in Huntsville, Ala., authorities said. Shaffer was found sitting on the front porch of one of the homes by officers and was taken into custody Saturday July 18, 2009 and charged with homicide. He was jailed without bond in Lincoln County, which borders Alabama. (AP Photo/Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)AP - A southern Tennessee woman and her husband, who is accused of killing her and five other people in two states, had been having marital troubles and were not living together, a man who says he knew the couple told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Idaho town prays for return of captured US soldier (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 03:01 PM PDT

This video frame grab taken from a Taliban propaganda video released Saturday, July 18, 2009 shows Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho, who went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan June 30. The Pentagon on Sunday confirmed that the American soldier who went missing from his base in Afghanistan has been captured and identified him as a private from Idaho serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment. The Defense Department released the name of Pfc. Bergdahl one day after he was seen in a video posted online as saying he was 'scared I won't be able to go home.' (AP Photo/Militant Video)AP - Friends and family of an Idaho soldier who was captured in Afghanistan prayed for his safe return Sunday, shaken by the image of the frightened young private in a Taliban video posted online.

Calif. lawmakers, Schwarzenegger postpone talks (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 02:53 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 - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is abruptly postponing until Monday talks leaders had hoped would solve the final details to closing the state's $26.3 billion budget deficit.

Report: Abdul's return to 'American Idol' doubtful (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 02:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, July 6, 2009 file photo, Paula Abdul is shown during the taping of her show 'Drop Dead Diva' in a studio in Peachtree City, Ga. According to a Los Angeles Times report, Abdul's new manager David Sonenberg says he doesn't have a proposal for a new contract for Abdul and says it doesn't appear she'll be back on 'American Idol.' (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)AP - Paula Abdul's (ab-DOOL') new manager says she may not be returning to "American Idol."

Chances of OJ winning release? Depends who you ask (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 01:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2008 file photo, O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found guilty on 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Simpson will have a rare chance at freedom when a Nevada Supreme Court panel considers letting him trade a prison cell in northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while the court considers his appeal of his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist. In a hearing unlike anything Nevada legal observers can remember over the last 30 years, a three-judge panel has scheduled oral arguments Aug. 3, 2009 on Simpson's plea to be allowed to post bond and get out of prison. (AP Photo/Daniel Gluskoter, Pool, file)AP - Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state's Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist.

Town on SF Bay wants to photograph every car (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 01:16 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, a group of children play outside the Lyford House at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary in Tiburon, Calif. Tiburon, a town of 8,000 in Marin County, is proposing to record license plates of people entering and leaving town. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Visitors should be prepared to have their pictures taken as they enter and leave this picturesque town of million-dollar views and homes along the San Francisco Bay.

HOT ISSUE: Should we deliberately move species? (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 12:26 PM PDT

AP - On naked patches of land in western Canada and United States, scientists are planting trees that don't belong there. It's a bold experiment to move trees threatened by global warming into places where they may thrive amid a changing climate.

Astronauts deal with flooded toilet in orbit (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:37 PM PDT

This image provided by NASA shows the underside of the crew cabin near the nose cap of the Space Shuttle Endeavour taken by an Expedition 20 crewmember during a survey of the approaching vehicle prior to docking with the International Space Station Friday July 17, 2009. Endeavour crew performed a back-flip for the rendezvous pitch maneuver. Mission Control said Saturday Endeavour looks to be in fine shape for re-entry at the end of the month. Areas where the heat tiles were dinged during Wednesday's launch can be seen in this image. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded toilet.

Palin: Alaska tour is thanks, not goodbye (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 12:51 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday July 17, 2009, Gov. Sarah Palin talks with residents in Unalakleet, Alaska. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)AP - She was greeted like a rock star in Unalakleet, a fishing village on the Bering Sea. She danced with Eskimos in Kotzebue. And she watched grizzlies at a wildlife sanctuary on the Kenai Peninsula.

Aldrin: NASA should work to put people on Mars (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 10:47 AM PDT

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin speaks during a book signing Friday, July 17, 2009 in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Kohl)AP - Former Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin says NASA should set its sights on a bigger target in the future: Mars.

'Potter' conjures up $159.7 million in 5 days (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 10:19 AM PDT

Actors (L-R) Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint arrive for the premiere of AP - Harry Potter continues to work box-office alchemy, turning his latest movie adventure into an overnight blockbuster.

Cheating SC gov says God will make him better (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 01:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 24, 2009 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford tearfully admits to having an affair during a news conference in Columbia, S.C. Sanford has cleared his schedule this week to take a personal trip with his wife, three weeks after announcing his extramarital affair with an Argentine woman, his office announced Wednesday, July 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, still clinging to office after admitting to an extramarital affair, wrote in an opinion piece released Sunday that God will change him so he can emerge from the scandal a more humble and effective leader.

2 killed in small plane crash north of Los Angeles (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 11:46 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say both people aboard an experimental airplane have died when it crashed in northern Los Angeles County.

California sprouts marijuana 'green rush' (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 11:00 AM PDT

In this May 20, 2009 photo, Erick Alvaro, left, delivers medical marijuana from The Green Door dispensary to a man who wished be identified only as David, at his home 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:

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