2009年7月23日星期四

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3 NJ mayors, lawmakers arrested in corruption case (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:57 PM PDT

FBI agents lead arrested individuals from their headquarters,Thursday, July 23 , 2009, in Newark, N.J. The mayors of three New Jersey cities, two state legislators and several rabbis were among more than 40 people arrested Thursday in a sweeping corruption investigation that began as a probe into an international money laundering ring that trafficked in goods as diverse as human organs and fake designer handbags. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - An investigation into the sale of black-market kidneys and fake Gucci handbags evolved into a sweeping probe of political corruption in New Jersey, ensnaring more than 40 people Thursday, including three mayors, two state lawmakers and several rabbis.

Navy: Murder charge filed in gay seaman's death (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:56 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Navy says a sailor has been charged in military court with murder and other offenses in the shooting death of a gay San Diego seaman.

Judge resolves final Texas polygamist custody case (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:44 PM PDT

AP - The only child left in state custody after being swept from a polygamist sect's West Ranch was placed permanently with a relative on Thursday, ending one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history.

Ore. faith-healing pair acquitted of manslaughter (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:11 PM PDT

Carl Brent Worthington and his wife, Raylene Worthington, who relied on prayer instead of medical care dodged manslaughter convictions in the death of their 15-month-old daughter are shown leaving court Thursday, July 23, 2009, in Oregon City, Ore. The jury convicted the father, Carl Brent Worthington, of criminal mistreatment, a misdemeanor carrying a maximum sentence of a year in jail. The mother, Raylene Worthington, was acquitted in their daughter Ava's 2008 death. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - An Oregon couple who relied on prayer instead of medical care were acquitted of manslaughter Thursday in the death of their 15-month-old daughter.

Obama remark on black scholar's arrest angers cops (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:57 PM PDT

AP - Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama: Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday.

Cop who arrested black scholar is profiling expert (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:38 PM PDT

Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley listens to questions from members of the media at his home in Natick, Mass., Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Crowley responded to a call last week and went to the home of renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. near Harvard University to investigate a report of a burglary. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - The white police sergeant accused of racial profiling after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach recruits about avoiding racial profiling.

Police: 8 shot in Texas Southern drive-by attack (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:52 PM PDT

Police tape marks the spot where at least 5 people were shot Wednesday, July 22, 2009 none fatally, at the Texas Southern University campus, school and police officials said. The shootings occurred during community rally Wednesday evening on campus, where a popular Houston rapper was promoting voter registration. According to TSU police, several hundred people were listening to a rap band when a car rounded the corner and the suspects fired shots into the crowd. Campus police believe the incident resulted from a rivalry between two gangs, one from Missouri City, a suburb southwest of Houston, and the other from Fresno, a small town outside Missouri City. (AP Photo/Billy Smith - Houston Chronicle)AP - Houston police on Thursday increased to eight the injury toll from a drive-by shooting at a community rally on the Texas Southern University campus.

Army: No indication Texas soldier was kidnapped (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:25 PM PDT

This July 22, 2009 booking photo released by the Webb County, Texas, Sheriff's office shows Pfc James Gonzalez, 24, who was taken into custody Wednesday night during a traffic stop in Laredo, Texas. Gonzalez was reported as a possible kidnap victim more than a week ago but was found unharmed and there was no indication he was ever abducted, an Army official said Thursday. (AP Photo/Webb County Sheriff's Office)AP - The Army said little Thursday about a soldier who disappeared for more than a week and was reported as a possible kidnap victim before being apprehended in an upscale neighborhood in the border city of Laredo.

Report says police taunted, Tasered handcuffed man (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:34 PM PDT

AP - Boise police officers used excessive force when they taunted and threatened a handcuffed man and then Tasered him in the buttocks, a report from the city's police ombudsman said.

Mass. police 'deeply pained' by Obama's criticism (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:16 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 - The Cambridge police commissioner says his department is "deeply pained" by President Barack Obama's statement that his officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested a renowned black scholar in his home.

New burst of attention for old doubts about Obama (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh talks with guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Six months after Barack Obama's inauguration, a persistent and noisy legion of doubters won't let go of an already debunked claim, that he is actually a foreign-born, illegal president. Mainstream Republicans who want the issue to go away are having a tough time stamping it out as the so-called 'birthers' resurface, with assists from talk show host Rush Limbaugh and CNN's Lou Dobbs. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - Six months after Barack Obama's inauguration, a persistent and noisy legion of doubters won't let go of an already debunked claim — that he is actually a foreign-born, illegal president.

4 boys charged in Phoenix in girl's sex assault (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:53 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors filed sexual assault charges against four boys ages 9 to 14, officials said Thursday, alleging they brutally attacked an 8-year-old girl after luring her to a shed with chewing gum.

Jurors in pastor sex-crime case break for night (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:50 PM PDT

Evangelist Tony Alamo, left, is escorted from the Federal Court House in Texarkana, Ark., after a day of jury deliberations in his trial Thursday, July 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - The jury deliberating the fate of evangelist Tony Alamo made progress Thursday but needs more time to weigh the charges that he took young girls across state lines for sex, the judge in the case said.

Lawyer: Va. Tech gunman files taken inadvertently (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:16 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine shows Dr. Robert C. Miller. Mental health records for Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho that were missing for more than two years have been discovered in the home of Dr. Miller, the university clinic's former director, according to a state memo shared with victims' family members. (AP Photo/Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE **AP - The former counseling center director at Virginia Tech inadvertently took home mental health records for the student gunman when he left his job a year before the massacre, the director's attorney said Thursday.

Sources: US al-Qaida recruit trained to be bomber (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:11 PM PDT

AP - An American-born al-Qaida recruit trained to become a suicide bomber before he was captured in Pakistan last year, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

Player in NY softball rec game gets prison term (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:53 PM PDT

AP - A softball player who cried during his sentencing Thursday was given a two-to-four year prison term for dealing a deadly blow to a rival team member at a recreational league game in a Rochester suburb.

Minimum wage hike could threaten low earners' jobs (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:19 PM PDT

Graphic shows the rise of minimum wage sinceAP - A federal minimum wage increase that takes effect Friday could prolong the recession, some economists say, by forcing small businesses to lay off the same workers that the pay hike passed in better times was meant to help.

AP IMPACT: Cash-strapped states raid 911 funds (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:12 PM PDT

This July 14, 2009 photo shows dispatcher Angelo Daga working at the Albany Police Department call center in Albany, N.Y. In New York, only 19 cents of the $1.20 the state collects from each cell phone subscriber each month goes to emergency calling services. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)AP - More than $200 million collected from cell phone users for upgrades to the 911 system has been diverted in the last two years to plug state budget holes, keep campaign promises and, in at least one case, buy police uniforms, an Associated Press analysis has found.

Family wants custody of starved kids kept at hotel (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:01 PM PDT

A Dallas motel where three emaciated children, at least one of whom appeared to be repeatedly sexually assaulted, were kept day and night in a bathroom for about a year when found by police earlier this month is shown Wednesday, July 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)AP - The aunt of three emaciated children forced to spend day and night in a hotel bathroom in Texas for at least nine months said Thursday that she and their grandmother want custody of the youngsters, who were placed in foster care together.

Closing arguments next week in freezer cash trial (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Former Democratic Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, left, exits U.S. District Court with his wife Andrea Jefferson, in Alexandria, Va., on Thursday, July 23, 2009. Jefferson is facing multiple charges including bribery. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Defense lawyers for a former Louisiana congressman accused of taking bribes and found with $90,000 in cash in his freezer presented their side to a federal jury Thursday in a matter of hours.

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