2009年7月21日星期二

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AP NewsBreak: Palin implicated in ethics probe (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:54 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 8, 2009 file photo shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the start of the 2009 Iron Dog snow machine race in Big Lake, Alaska. An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, FILE)AP - An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position in seeking money for legal fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week.

Minn. man killed by deputy after day of swimming (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:38 PM PDT

AP - A plainclothes sheriff's deputy shot and killed an unarmed 24-year-old man returning from a day of swimming with friends after an argument ensued when he confronted the man for erratic driving, authorities and witnesses said Tuesday.

Calif. deficit deal likely just a temporary fix (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:38 PM PDT

Graphic shows California’s state-local tax burden as the percent of the average state income compared to U.S. figures sinceAP - California's deal to close its $26 billion budget gap may end up doing what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had hoped to avoid: kicking the state's problems down the road.

Greenpeace charged in Mount Rushmore demonstration (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:16 PM PDT

AP - A federal grand jury has indicted the environmental group Greenpeace and 11 people involved in hanging a banner on Mount Rushmore.

Black, white protesters rally over dragging death (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:03 PM PDT

A white supremacist drapes himself in a Nazi flag across the street from protestors on the town square in Paris, Texas, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. The conflict began with a march through downtown by about 100 black activists who were protesting the state's handling of the case of a black man who was run over and dragged by a vehicle. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - State police in full riot gear rushed a downtown street in this eastern Texas town Tuesday to break up a tense standoff between hundreds of black and white protesters who exchanged screams of "Black power!" and "White power!"

Yahoo 2Q profit rises 8 pct despite weak ad sales (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, Yahoo Inc. headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. is seen Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Yahoo's second-quarter profit rose 8 percent, boosted by the cost cutting the Internet company has imposed as it tries to bounce back from a long slump. The results announced Tuesday, July 21, 2009, marked Yahoo's first quarterly earnings increase since the first three months of 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Yahoo Inc. eked out a slightly higher profit in the second quarter as its new, no-nonsense chief executive cut enough expenses to shake off the Internet company's sharpest drop in ad revenue since the dot-com bust.

Analysis: Black scholar's arrest a signpost on racial road (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken by a neighbor Thursday July 16, 2009 Henry Louis Gates Jr. center, the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, is arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Police say they were called to the home of Gates after a woman reported seeing a man try to pry open the front door. (AP Photo/Demotix Images, B. Carter) MAGS OUTAP - It took less than a day for the arrest of Henry Louis Gates to become racial lore. When one of America's most prominent black intellectuals winds up in handcuffs, it's not just another episode of profiling — it's a signpost on the nation's bumpy road to equality.

Idaho town hopes for safe return of soldier (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:32 PM PDT

Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl worked as a barista at Zaney's River Street Coffee House in this central Idaho resort town just south of the Sawtooth Mountains in Hailey, Idaho on Sunday July 19, 2009, before he enlisted in the Army in 2008. Outside, an American flag hangs from the eaves; inside, on the counter where Bergdahl pulled espressos, is a small sign asking patrons to keep the 23-year-old Taliban captive in their thoughts. (AP Photo/John Miller)AP - To the rest of the world, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl is the frightened soldier who appeared in a Taliban propaganda video after he was captured in Afghanistan.

Wife of man killed in NY hotel said he hit her (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:51 PM PDT

AP - The wife of a man who was killed last week in a suburban hotel told police in 2002 that he often hit her and once broke her nose.

Record payment by NY for false Medicaid bills (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 11:54 AM PDT

AP - The state and city of New York have agreed to pay a record $540 million to settle allegations they helped overbill the federal government for Medicaid services.

Roethlisberger accused of sex assault in lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:01 PM PDT

Ben Roethlisberger arrives at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday July 15, 2009, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - A woman has filed a lawsuit accusing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of raping her last summer in his penthouse hotel room at a casino in Lake Tahoe during a celebrity golf tournament.

Dog drags newborn from family home in Ky. (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:32 PM PDT

AP - A father was frantically calling 911 to report his missing newborn when he spotted the baby, bleeding from the mouth and clutched in the jaws of a family dog who had carried him from his crib to the heavily wooded backyard.

3-year countdown begins for Atlanta's water future (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:56 PM PDT

FILE - In a Tuesday, Oct 7, 2008 file photo, men fish from the exposed shore at Lake Lanier in Buford, Ga. Lake Lanier is the main source of water for Atlanta. A Friday, July 17, 2009 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson found that nearly all of Georgia's withdrawals from Lake Lanier, a massive federal reservoir north of Atlanta, are illegal because the lake wasn't built for water supply. The ruling has left Peach State leaders racing against the clock to avoid a potentially dire water shortage in the South's largest urban area. (AP Photo/Greg Bluestein, File)AP - Georgia faces the dire prospect of losing metropolitan Atlanta's main water source if political leaders can't broker a solution with Alabama and Florida over rights to a major reservoir within three years.

Bernanke says Fed can take on supercop role (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 01:59 PM PDT

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers a report on the country's economic and financial health before the House Financial Services Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ran into skepticism Tuesday from lawmakers wary of expanding the Fed's duties to police big financial companies. They argued that the Fed failed to spot problems that led to the financial crisis in the first place.

ESPN reporter secretly videotaped nude in hotel (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Erin Andrews arrives at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday July 15, 2009, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was secretly videotaped in the nude while she was alone in a hotel room, and the video was posted on the Internet, her attorney said.

Suspect: Solo shooter killed Florida couple (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:27 PM 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 - One man planned a Florida home invasion and fatally shot a couple who had several adopted special needs children, one of eight suspects in the case told investigators.

New NASA boss: Astronauts on Mars in his lifetime (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:15 PM PDT

Charles Bolden testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in Washington, July 8. The US Senate has confirmed former astronaut and Marines general Bolden as the new administrator of NASA, making him the US space agency's first African-American chief.(AFP/Bill Ingalls)AP - NASA's new boss said Tuesday he will be "incredibly disappointed" if people aren't on Mars — or venturing somewhere beyond it — in his lifetime.

Maine lobsterman charged in turf war shooting (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 01:16 PM PDT

This Monday July 20, 2009 booking photo released by Maine's Knox County Sheriff's Office shows Edwin Vance Bunker who was being held Tuesday on $50,000 bail for elevated aggravated assault for allegedly shooting fellow lobsterman Chris Young, Monday morning on Maine's Matinicus island. Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland says an argument over fishing territory led to the shooting. (AP Photo/Knox County Sheriff Office)AP - A turf war in the lobster-rich waters off Maine escalated into a dispute that left a lobsterman with a gunshot wound to the neck and another in jail, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Aussie stargazer spots scar from Jupiter collision (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 02:21 PM PDT

In this image released by NASA/JPL showing a large impact on Jupiter's south polar region captured on Monday, July 20, 2009, by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Astronomers say Jupiter has apparently been struck by an object, possibly a comet. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL)AP - An amateur stargazer in Australia spotted an Earth-sized gash on Jupiter, possibly caused by a collision with a comet, NASA scientists say.

San Diego will seek lifting of seal removal order (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 02:28 PM PDT

Harbor seals lounge on the beach where they have gathered for years in the La Jolla section of San Diego Monday, July 20, 2009. A judge has given the city 72 hours to begin chasing harbor seals out of the Children's Pool at La Jolla beach or face heavy daily fines, ruling firmly for humans in a decade-long battle over who should win exclusive use of the cove. San Diego County Superior Court Judge Yuri Hofmann ordered the city to comply with a 2005 order by another judge to restore the Children's Pool cove to its original condition. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - The city of San Diego said Tuesday it will go to court to ask a state judge to lift an order requiring the immediate removal of a colony of federally protected harbor seals from a La Jolla cove.

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