2009年7月26日星期日

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Palin steps down as Alaska gov.; her plans unclear (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 04:40 PM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, stands next to Lt. Gov. Parnell, center, as she talks to one of her staff during the governor's picnic in Anchorage, Alaska Saturday, July 25, 2009. Several thousand people attended the picnic. Palin will attend one more picnic in Fairbanks on Sunday where she will resign as Alaska's governor and Lt. Gov. Sean Panell will become governor. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has resigned from office.

4 kids, 4 adults die in NY parkway wrong-way crash (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 04:12 PM PDT

AP - A family's minivan going in the wrong direction crashed into two cars on a suburban parkway on Sunday, killing eight people, including four young children who were related to each other.

Soldiers in Colorado slayings tell of Iraq horrors (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 02:19 PM PDT

A man looks at a destroyed vehicle after a bombing near a Christian church and a mosque in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 13, 2009. Iraqi authorities Monday imposed vehicle bans in two mostly Christian towns and increased security around churches in Baghdad after attacks targeting the Christian minority. Fearing car bombs, authorities on Monday imposed vehicle bans in the towns of Tilkaif and Hamdaniyah, predominantly Christian towns near the northern city of Mosul. (AP Photo)AP - Soldiers from an Army unit that had 10 infantrymen accused of murder, attempted murder or manslaughter after returning to civilian life described a breakdown in discipline during their Iraq deployment in which troops murdered civilians, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Past donors giving up on Ky. Sen. Bunning (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 02:44 PM PDT

AP - Political contributors who donated thousands to Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning's past election campaigns have found a new Republican to support for Senate.

Analysis: What they saw during the Gates arrest (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 01:31 PM PDT

AP - Henry Louis Gates Jr. felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up as he looked across the threshold of his home at Sgt. James Crowley. Looking back at Gates, Crowley worried about making it home safely to his wife and three children.

Dillinger's derringer nets $95,600 at auction (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 01:23 PM PDT

AP - A gun once carried by bank robber John Dillinger has brought $95,600 at a Texas auction.

Police: Ex-boxing champion Forrest killed in Ga. (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 02:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2002 file photo,Vernon Forrest of Atlanta, Ga., celebrates his 12-round unanimous decision victory over Shane Mosely for the WBC World Welterweight Championship at Madison Square Garden in New York. Police say Forrest has been shot and killed in an apparent robbery. Atlanta Police Sgt. Lisa Keyes said in an e-mail Sunday, July 26, 2009 that Forrest may have been robbed and was shot 'multiple times in the back' Saturday night in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Zelevansky, File)AP - Vernon Forrest, a former three-time champion who gained stardom when he became the first boxer to defeat "Sugar" Shane Mosley, was shot to death during an apparent robbery in Atlanta, police said Sunday.

Sex abuse testimony ends Alamo's long crime career (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, July 23, 2009 file photo, evangelist Tony Alamo talks to reporters as he is escorted to a waiting police car outside the Federal Court House in Texarkana, Ark. Alamo, a one-time street preacher who built a multimillion-dollar ministry and became an outfitter of the stars, was convicted Friday of taking girls as young as 9 across state lines for sex. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, file)AP - Of all the horrid accusations against evangelist Tony Alamo — and the list is long — it was the testimony of formerly loyal subjects, recounting "marriages" between their cult leader and girls as young as 8, that may end his 40-year rule and send him to prison for life.

NASA patches air-purifying system on space station (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:40 PM PDT

In this photo provided by NASA, almost lost to the vision among tons of space hardware, astronauts Christopher Cassidy, partially in frame at upper left, and Tom Marshburn, mission specialists for STS-127, share duties on the fourth spacewalk of Endeavour's current mission and its crew's joint activities with the space station. Eleven astronauts and cosmonauts remained inside the international space station and the shuttle to which it was docked, while the two continued work on the orbital outpost, Friday, July 24, 2009. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A space station air purifier was working again Sunday after it shut down at the worst possible time, when company was still visiting and had swollen the on-board crowd to a record 13.

Conn. home invasion survivor faces long court case (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, July 20, 2008, file photo, Dr. William Petit, center, runs in the first annual GE 5k Petit Family Foundation Road Race in Plainville, Conn. Petit faces years — perhaps decades — of emotionally draining court hearings before the two men charged with murdering his family in a 2007 home invasion may be convicted and executed. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - At 52, Dr. William Petit faces years — perhaps decades — of emotionally draining court hearings before the two men charged with murdering his family in a 2007 home invasion may be convicted and executed.

Toddler shot in head at Ind. wedding reception (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 04:04 PM PDT

AP - Police say an 18-month-old girl was shot in the head when a man opened fire at a wedding reception in Indiana after scuffling with other guests.

Phelps off to winning start at worlds (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 01:49 PM PDT

Michael Phelps of the United States, left, reacts as Ryan Lochte looks on, as they stand on the podium after winning the final of the Men's 4x100M relay, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome, Sunday, July 26, 2009. The United States won the gold medal. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)AP - Michael Phelps had an off night. His new windmill stroke just slowed him down. He left his teammates with some catching-up to do. Heck, he didn't even get a world record when about all you had to do was squeeze into one of those newfangled suits and dive in at the Foro Italico.

Suspect in Kan. abortion killing faces hearing (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 2, 2009 file photo, Scott Roeder makes his first court appearance via a video link from the Sedgwick County Jail in Wichita, Kan. Roeder, 51, the man accused of killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers will get his first look this week at the evidence against him, even as he claims the shooting of Dr. George Tiller was justified and asserts he 'would be pleased' if others are inspired to take similar action. (AP Photo/Jaime Oppenheimer, Pool, file)AP - The man accused of killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers will get his first look this week at the evidence against him, even as he has called the shooting of Dr. George Tiller justified.

In Hawaii, health insurance paid by employers (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:13 AM PDT

AP - Hawaii's decades-old law aimed at increasing health coverage by requiring companies to provide insurance to their workers has brought something less than universal health care to the 50th state.

New direction in terror fight may stem from case (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 09:13 AM PDT

The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The training phase of a secret CIA plan to kill leaders of Al-Qaeda was almost activated before agency chief Leon Panetta got word and terminated the program, The Washington Post reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AP - When the American-born al-Qaida recruit Bryant Neal Vinas was captured in Pakistan late last year, he wasn't whisked off to a military prison or a secret CIA facility in another country to be interrogated.

LAPD has shed scandalous image, city leaders say (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 10:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 12, 2001 file photo former Los Angeles police officer Rafael Perez looks back at the courtroom. At left is Perez' attorney, Winston Kevin McKesson. Eleven years after Perez was arrested for stealing eight pounds of cocaine from a headquarters evidence room, city leaders believe the Los Angeles Police Department has dashed the image of corruption and abuse created when he spilled his guts. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - Eleven years after an anti-gang cop was arrested for stealing six pounds of cocaine from an evidence room, city leaders believe the Los Angeles Police Department has dashed the image of corruption and abuse spawned by revelations of the theft investigation.

Mexico police name suspect in border agent death (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 03:23 PM PDT

Police officers escort alleged smugglers from left to right, Eugenio Quintero, Jose Camacho, Eubidio Quintero and Antonio Balladares during their presentation to the media in Tijuana, Saturday, July 25, 2009. Mexican police said men may be tied to the murder of US Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas, who was shot and killed Thursday night while on patrol near Campo, California. He was shot multiple times after exiting his patrol vehicle on the Shockey Truck Trail along the border. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Authorities in Mexico have identified the man suspected of fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Texas man wins Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 09:45 AM PDT

David Douglas (C) celebrates at Sloppy Joe's Bar after winning the 2009 AP - A 55-year-old Texan wearing the requisite white beard and sporting a sweater won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest — one of the highlights of a six-day annual festival honoring the late Nobel prize-winning author.

Scientists try to stop schizophrenia in its tracks (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:44 AM PDT

In this May 11, 2009 photo, nurse Ann Lovegren Conley, a family nurse practitioner at the University of Southern Maine, examines a patient on the university's Portland, Maine campus. Conley has been trained to identify a troubled mental state usually found in teens and young adults that can lead to schizophrenia. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - She was sociable and happy in high school. But in college that changed abruptly: Depressed and withdrawn, some days she couldn't get out of bed.

Events in Palin's political career (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 04:37 PM PDT

AP - • 1992-1996 — Sarah Palin enters public life in Alaska, serving two terms on the Wasilla City Council.

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