2009年7月28日星期二

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Warning signs missed in baby dismemberment case (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:07 PM PDT

This July 18, 2009 photo released by Scott Buchholz shows Otty Sanchez with her son Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez in San Antonio. Sanchez, 33, is charged with capital murder in the baby's death and could face the death penalty. When authorities found the infant's body Sunday, July 26, 2009, Sanchez told officers the devil made her do it, police said. (AP Photo/Scott Bucholz)AP - The warning signs were there. Otty Sanchez, a schizophrenic with a history of hospitalizations, wasn't taking medication and was depressed after her son's birth, the boy's father said. A simple request seemed to set her off, alarming him and his family.

Schwarzenegger signs budget with more welfare cuts (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:11 PM PDT

With the signed budget bill in front of him Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger answers a reporters question concerning the $85 billion revised state budget that he signed during ceremonies at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, July 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a revised $85 billion budget Tuesday that he said contained "the good, the bad and the ugly," including additional cuts to child welfare programs, health care for the poor and AIDS prevention efforts.

Suspect in abortion doc's death pleads not guilty (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:31 PM PDT

Scott Roeder, left, attends his preliminary hearing in court in Wichita, Kan. on Tuesday, July, 28, 2009. Roeder, 51, is charged in the death of Dr. George Tiller. (AP Photo/Jaime Oppenheimer, Pool)AP - An anti-abortion activist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to opening fire on late-term abortion provider George Tiller after a witness gave chilling testimony that he saw the alleged shooter point a gun at the Kansas doctor's head before pulling the trigger.

Tenn. state senator quits after affair with intern (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:56 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 8, 2009 file photo shows Sen. Paul Stanley, R-Memphis, during a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)AP - A Tennessee lawmaker resigned from the state Senate on Tuesday after his extramarital affair with a 22-year-old intern was revealed by an investigation into an extortion case.

Victims' lawyer: 'Candid' Madoff explained fraud (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York. Joseph Cotchett, a lawyer for victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme says the financier told him during a 4 1/2-hour prison interview Tuesday July 28, 2009 in North Carolina exactly how the fraud took place. Cotchett says he plans to use what he learned Tuesday to add defendants to a lawsuit to be filed in Manhattan on behalf of investors harmed by the fraud. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, file)AP - A lawyer for victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme says the financier told him during a 4 1/2-hour prison interview plenty of details about the fraud, including how it took place and how securities regulators missed catching him.

Conflicting portrait of NC terror suspect emerges (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:35 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County shows Ziyad Yaghi. Yaghi is being charged with conspiring to support terrorism and traveling overseas to participate in 'violent jihad,' according to an indictment unsealed Monday, July 27, 2009. (AP Photo/City County Bureau of Identification)AP - Daniel Boyd may have spent the past three years traveling to the Middle East, secretly buying guns and training for jihad with a group of aspiring terrorists as federal authorities claim, but people on his cul-de-sac said Tuesday he also made plenty of time to be a good neighbor.

States target prisons for cuts, raising worries (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2007, file photo, a guard tower is seen behind the wire fence that surrounds California State Prison, Sacramento, in Folsom, Calif. A compromise between California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders to close the state's $26 billion shortfall without tax increases calls for $1.2 billion in cuts to the state prison system. Other states are also looking at cuts at their prison systems as a way to close severe budget deficits. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)AP - Tony Ferranto worries as he walks his patrol at maximum-security Menard Correctional Center in Illinois.

Agents search Vegas home, office of Jackson doctor (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:18 PM PDT

Investigators search the home of Michael Jackson physician, Dr. Conrad Murray in Red Rock Country Club in Las Vegas on Tuesday, July 28, 2009, seeking documents as part of a manslaughter investigation into the singer's death. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)AP - Federal agents searched the home and office of Michael Jackson's personal physician Tuesday in a widening investigation of whether administering a powerful anesthetic as a sleep aid was so reckless that it constitutes manslaughter.

Boston hack almost takes blame for forgotten child (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 01:40 PM PDT

Taxi driver Joseph Cohen sits in his cab Monday, July 27, 2009, in Boston. Supporters of Cohen say he should not be punished after a family left a 5-year-old girl behind in his cab at Logan International Airport Sunday. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Faith Ninivaggi)AP - A family picked up by a taxi at the airport left a sleeping 5-year-old child behind in the back of the minivan — and the cabbie almost took the blame for it.

Freed Fla. dolphin attacked by sharks, euthanized (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 01:34 PM PDT

AP - An Atlantic bottlenose dolphin was attacked by sharks and had to be euthanized just hours after he was released into the Gulf of Mexico off of western Florida.

Mass. grapples with immigrants' health care costs (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:11 PM PDT

Rahima Begum, 63, an immigrant from Bangladesh, sits in the doorway at her home in Woburn, Mass., with grandson Jeeshan Wahab, left, as daughter-in-law Shaheen Wahab, rear, looks on, Tuesday July 28, 2009. Begum who suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis has been concerned about the state's major cut to the health care law that mandated insurance for nearly all residents, including legal immigrants. (AP Photo/Eric J. Shelton)AP - Massachusetts is wrestling with the first major cut to its landmark health care law after lawmakers eliminated subsidized insurance to thousands of legal immigrants — and now are weighing whether to partially restore it.

Wis. mom of dead girl: Sickness was test of faith (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 01:11 PM PDT

AP - The mother of an 11-year-old central Wisconsin girl who died of undiagnosed diabetes as the family prayed for her to get better testified Tuesday that she believes sickness is caused by sin and can be cured by God.

Alexandria police chief resigns after arrest (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 01:27 PM PDT

AP - Alexandria Police Chief David Baker is resigning following his arrest on drunken driving charges.

Pa. police: New law needed after fatal beer brawl (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 12:57 PM PDT

This is a photo released by the Philadelphia police of Francis Kirschner, 28, who is being sought in connection with the beating and kicking of 22-year-old David Sale of Lansdale, Pa., outside Citizens Bank Park during a Philadelphia Phillies-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game Saturday, July 25, 2009 in Philadelphia. (AP Photos/Philadelphia Police Department)AP - The police commissioner has called for a city law requiring bars to report fights to 911 following a fatal melee sparked by a spilled beer at a ballpark pub.

`Clunkers' program draws car buyers in first days (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 02:48 PM PDT

A 'Cash for Clunkers' sign hangs in front of a Subaru car dealership in Oregon City, Ore., Monday, July 27, 2009. Car and truck buyers looking to ditch their gas guzzlers are flocking to dealerships to take advantage of the government's 'cash for clunkers' program and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles, boosting sales in showrooms across the country. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Car and truck owners looking to junk their gas guzzlers are flocking to dealerships to take advantage of the government's "cash for clunkers" program and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles, boosting sales in showrooms across the country.

Shuttle undocks after 11 days at space station (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 03:25 PM PDT

In this image from NASA TV Astronaut Tom Marshburn is seen during a spacewalk on the international space station, Monday, July 27, 2009. (AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - After 11 days together in orbit, Endeavour undocked from the international space station on Tuesday and began its trip home, leaving behind a larger and more energized outpost.

Feds charge 41 in Fla. mortgage fraud schemes (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 12:56 PM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors say 41 people have been charged in the latest round of South Florida mortgage fraud schemes.

Man accused of judge threats called FBI informant (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 12:05 PM PDT

AP - A New Jersey blogger accused of threatening to kill three federal judges has been an FBI informant and even told authorities about a potential plot to assassinate President Barack Obama, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Flaws decried in data on US children's well-being (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 11:51 AM PDT

Graphic shows how states rank in an annual child well-being reportAP - Serious shortcomings in national data, including an outdated federal measure of household poverty, are undermining the task of identifying and assisting America's most vulnerable children, according to a report issued Tuesday.

Minn. Somali pleads guilty to terrorism charge (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 04:19 PM PDT

In a July 13, 2009 booking photo provided by the Anoka Couty Sheriff, Salah Osman Ahmed is shown. Ahmed is one of two men accused of supporting terrorism in a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Anoka County Sheriff,ho)AP - A Minnesota man who helped build a training camp for a group of Islamic militants in his homeland of Somalia told a federal judge Tuesday that he had attended secret meetings in Minneapolis before he went back to East Africa.

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