2009年7月25日星期六

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NJ mayor's arrest puts spotlight on historic city (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:04 PM PDT

Peter Cammarano (C), newly elected mayor of Hoboken, N.J., exits federal court after being one of the more than 40 people were arrested in a federal investigation of public corruption and international money laundering, in Newark, N.J., July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Chip EastAP - Even in the state of "The Sopranos" and "On the Waterfront," where corruption seems institutionalized, the arrest of a neophyte mayor in office a mere three weeks stands out.

Connecticut holds 1st exotic animal amnesty day (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:09 PM PDT

Joaney Gallagher Director of the Rain Forest Reptile Shows and Don Goff Assistant Director and Curator of the Beardsley Zoo hold an 8 foot albino Burmese python which is surrendered to the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, Conn. Saturday July 25, 2009 .The State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection held an exotic pet amnesty day Saturday and 135 animals were taken at the Beardsley Zoo . (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)AP - Owners of exotic animals in Connecticut have been given a day of amnesty to turn in their illegally-owned pets.

Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:08 PM PDT

FILE - This 1997 file photo released by Harvard University shows professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Jane Reed, File)AP - Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying "in the end, this is not about me at all."

In Texas, drought means conserving every last drop (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:43 PM PDT

A flat-bed trailer is parked on the closed boat ramp of a Lake Travis marina Friday, July 24, 2009, near the Village of Briarcliff, Texas. Lake Travis is about 31-feet below average level for July. The lake was nearly this low in 1984. Cities across Texas are urging residents to cut way back on water usage, especially in areas hit hardest by drought conditions. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)AP - Off-duty police officers are patrolling streets, looking for people illegally watering their lawns and gardens. Residents are encouraged to stealthily rat out water scofflaws on a 24-hour hot line. One Texas lake has dipped so low that stolen cars dumped years ago are peeking up through the waterline.

Palin faces questions as she exits Alaska politics (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:03 PM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, right, hugs Theresa Thomas after giving her a flag in appreciation for her dad, Mark Thomas, with the National Guard serving in Iraq during the governor's picnic in Wasilla, Alaska Friday, July 24, 2009. Palin handed out the flags to residents who have family members serving in the armed forces. This is one of three governor's picnics Palin is attending before she resigns as governor in Fairbanks on Sunday, July 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Gov. Sarah Palin gained fame — and to some infamy — since she embarked on a vice-presidential bid less than a year ago.

No-nonsense Blagojevich judge is actor, novelist (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:07 PM PDT

AP - Judge James B. Zagel has meted out justice on the silver screen and masterminded a bank robbery in the pages of a novel.

Fla. gov's office mistakenly praises Nazi film (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 06:51 AM PDT

AP - Despite the content of a letter bearing his signature, Gov. Charlie Crist does not want to share an anti-Semitic movie with all Floridians.

Libertarians seek a place in the New Hampshire sun (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:34 PM PDT

In this June 26, 2009 photo, campers stand near flags that state, 'Don't Tread on Me,' and, 'Come and Take It' at the Porcupine Freedom Festival 2009 in Lancester, N.H. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)AP - He fled the "People's Republic of Massachusetts" to escape tyranny. Now he strides the campground in a plaid kilt and mirror shades, an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle across his torso, an immense Scottish sword sheathed between his shoulders.

Anti-drug efforts beefed up along US-Canada border (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 11:45 AM PDT

ADVANCE FOR JULY 26; graphic shows drug seizure statistics in CanadaAP - The world's longest undefended border. It's a catchy yet increasingly imprecise term for the U.S.-Canada frontier, as authorities on both sides ratchet up efforts to curb bustling traffic in illegal drugs and guns.

Wis. father saw sickness as 'test of his faith' (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 11:56 AM PDT

AP - A Wisconsin man accused of killing his daughter by praying instead of seeking lifesaving medical help considered her illness "a test of his faith," a prosecutor told jurors Saturday.

The art of a recession: Gallery owners struggling (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 10:21 AM PDT

AP - Art gallery owners across the country are finding they have a tough sell these days.

Portland's 'young creatives' tough out tough times (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 10:00 AM PDT

AP - Ceramics artist Heidi Sowa had her eyes set on Portland for years. The city was not too big, had a cohesive arts community and plenty of easygoing and helpful people.

Swine flu could hit up to 40 percent in US (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 07:27 AM PDT

A woman and a boy wearing masks to prevent infection from swine flu leave the Miguel Couto hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, July 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes)AP - In a disturbing new projection, health officials say up to 40 percent of Americans could get swine flu this year and next and several hundred thousand could die without a successful vaccine campaign and other measures.

Brooklyn man accused of buying, selling kidneys (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:32 AM PDT

FBI agents lead arrested suspects from their headquarters as part of a corruption investigation,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 - Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a "matchmaker," but his business wasn't romance. Instead, authorities say, he brokered the sale of black-market kidneys, buying organs from vulnerable people from Israel for $10,000 and selling them to desperate patients in the U.S. for as much as $160,000.

All 13 astronauts enjoy first day off in 11 days (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:13 PM PDT

In this photo provided by NASA, inside Kibo or the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), astronaut Mark Polansky, left, STS-127 commander, shakes hands with Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, who has been onboard the international space station for a tour of duty as flight engineer but will be returning to Earth with Polansky and the rest of the STS-127 crew next week, Thursday, July 23, 2009. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The astronauts in orbit, all 13 of them, enjoyed their first day off in more than a week Saturday after a series of grueling spacewalks.

Manhunt begins for suspect in border agent's death (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:55 AM PDT

This undated image provided by the U.S. Border Patrol shows agent Robert Wimer Rosas, who was shot and killed while patrolling Thursday July 23, 2009 in southeastern San Diego County. (AP Photo/US Border Patrol)AP - Federal investigators are combing hospitals along the U.S.-Mexico border for at least two suspects who may have been injured in gunfire that killed a Border Patrol agent in Southern California.

Palin picnic in Alaska hometown draws big crowd (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 11:47 PM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her daughter Piper dish out hot-dogs during the governor's picnic in Wasilla, Alaska Friday, July 24, 2009. This is one of three governor's picnics Palin is attending before she resigns as governor in Fairbanks on Sunday, July 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - More than a thousand people showed up Friday for Gov. Sarah Palin's annual picnic held in her hometown of Wasilla.

Special sessions on budgets costing states big (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:12 AM PDT

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, left, talks with Assembly Minority Leader Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo,right, during the Assembly session at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, July 24, 2009. Lawmakers worked through the night on a package of bills worked out between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Legislative leaders to resolve the state's $26.3 billion budget deficit. The Senate approved the plan that are currently stalled in the Assembly. (AP Photo/Robert Durell)AP - States are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece on special legislative sessions whose chief purpose, ironically, is to trim more funding from their eroding budgets.

Contador set to win Tour — and Astana battle (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:45 PM PDT

Alberto Contador of Spain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, American seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, Vincenzo Nibali of Italy, Frank Schleck of Luxembourg, and brother Andy, wearing the best young rider's white jersey, left to right, climb Ventoux pass during the 20th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (103.8 miles) with start in Montelimar and finish on Mont Ventoux pass, southern France, Saturday July 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Bernard Papon, POOL)AP - Alberto Contador is basking in double satisfaction: the Tour de France victory is an easy ride away, and he's pulled it off in spite of his own team — and Lance Armstrong.

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