2009年7月29日星期三

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Jury hands man life sentence in Arizona shootings (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT

AP - A jury sentenced a man to life in prison Wednesday for his role in a series of random nighttime shootings that unnerved metropolitan Phoenix in 2005 and 2006.

Defendant charged with murder in Seattle stabbings (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 02:37 PM PDT

These images provided by the Seattle Police Department shows police booking photos of Isaiah M.K. Kalebu taken in June 2009, left and August 2008, right. Seattle police arrested the 23-year-old Kalebu for investigation of murder in a weekend knife attack that killed one woman and wounded another as they slept in their Seattle home. (AP photo/Seattle Police Department)AP - A man was charged Wednesday with aggravated first-degree murder, rape and other charges in a stabbing that left one woman dead and her partner badly wounded, shocking a south Seattle neighborhood.

Mom of decapitated baby: 'I didn't mean to do it' (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 04:49 PM PDT

In this Monday, July 27, 2009 photo released by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, Otty, Sanchez, 33, is shown. Sanchez is charged with capital murder in the death of her son, Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez. Sanchez apparently ate the child's brain and some other body parts before stabbing herself, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said. (AP Photo/Bexar County Sheriff's Office)AP - A Texas mother accused of decapitating her 3-week-old son screams "I didn't mean to do it. He told me to!" while her sister pleads for an ambulance to bring help in a desperate four-minute 911 call released Wednesday.

911 caller in Gates case hurt by racist label (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 04:51 PM PDT

Lucia Whalen, the woman who placed a 911 call to Cambridge police which led to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., speaks during a media availability in Cambridge, Mass., as her husband Paul looks on Wednesday, July 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - The woman who dialed 911 to report a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Wednesday she was wrongly labeled a racist based on words she never said and hoped the recently released recording of the call would put the controversy to rest.

Alleged `jihadist' known as friendly store owner (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 04:39 PM PDT

FILE --These undated file photos provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County, N.C., show from left: Daniel Patrick Boyd, Hysen Sherifi, Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan and Ziyad Yaghi. Authorities claim the group, including 3others and an eighth suspect believed to be in Pakistan, were gearing up for a 'violent jihad,' though prosecutors haven't detailed any specific targets or timeframe. If convicted, the men could face life in prison. (AP Photo/City County Bureau of Identification/file)AP - When someone in the Raleigh area needed a sheep or goat slaughtered according to Islamic law, Daniel Boyd was the man to see.

Official: Jackson doctor could face foreclosure (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT

Officials remove documents from the offices of Michael Jackson's personal doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, July 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - Michael Jackson's personal physician is more than $100,000 behind on his mortgage payments and could face foreclosure on the country club home authorities searched in their manslaughter investigation into the singer's death, records show. Dr. Conrad Murray, 56, who has been dogged by money trouble, was racking up the debt when he went to work for Jackson in May.

Des Moines buses to honk more to curb accidents (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 04:20 PM PDT

A pedestrian crosses the street in front of a city bus at a downtown crosswalk, Wednesday, July 29, 2009, in Des Moines, Iowa. Responding to a stubborn spate of buses hitting pedestrians, the Des Moines bus system will require drivers to honk every time they turn. And because all of the accidents happened when buses were turning left, drivers now have new routes that allow only right-hand turns downtown. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Honk if you love pedestrians.

Declassified Ike documents show policy challenges (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 04:56 PM PDT

This undated picture shows Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in uniform in front of an U.S. flag. President Eisenhower grappled with topics like relations with Iran and stability in Iraq during an era that was far more complex than thought, newly declassified documents show. The papers illustrate that the 1950s, long viewed as an idyllic time of 'I Love Lucy' and cars with tail fins, were fraught with delicate policy challenges. (AP Photo)AP - President Dwight D. Eisenhower grappled with topics like relations with Iran and stability in Iraq during an era fraught with delicate policy challenges, newly declassified documents show.

Sorority president sued over wax statue of herself (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 03:23 PM PDT

In this June 2009 photo, Barbara McKinzie, international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, center, stands between wax figures of herself, right, and the late Nellie Quander, left, the sorority's first international president, at a sorority function in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. AKA, the country's oldest black sorority, is suing to have McKinzie removed alleging that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of the group's money on herself — some of it on the wax figure in her own likeness. McKinzie took offense to the contention in the lawsuit that she spent $900,000 on her wax likeness. She said a total of $45,000 was spent on the figures of Quander and herself. (AP Photo/Afro-American Newspapers, Rob Roberts)AP - Members of the country's oldest black sorority are suing to remove their president, alleging that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of the group's money on herself — some of it to pay for a wax statue in her own likeness.

NJ to more than double solar power generation (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 03:19 PM PDT

PSE&G lineman Jesse Sullivan mounts a solar panel on a utility pole Wednesday, July 29, 2009, in Secaucus, N.J. PSE&G plans to install about 200,000 solar units on utility and street light poles throughout their electric service territory. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Regulators approved more than $515 million in projects Wednesday that will more than double the amount of solar power generated in New Jersey and will solidify the state's No. 2 spot behind California in power produced from the sun.

Pa. AG upset with ex-editor's penalty in sex sting (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 03:14 PM PDT

AP - State investigators who ramped up their use of sting operations to catch Internet child predators four years ago are frustrated by a judge who has refused to impose a stiffer penalty in a case against a former sports editor.

Officers involved in fatal La. shooting resign (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 03:06 PM PDT

AP - Two white police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 73-year-old black man in northern Louisiana have resigned from the force.

Dozens arrested in Medicare fraud busts across US (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 02:58 PM PDT

Federal agents escort suspects out of the FBI offices Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in Houston. Federal authorities arrested more than 30 suspects, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Federal authorities arrested more than 30 suspects, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston, targeting scams such as "arthritis kits" — expensive braces that many patients never used.

Mass. woman killed, fetus removed from womb (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 02:55 PM PDT

This undated photo released by a family member shows Darlene Haynes, 23, who was found dead in her Worcester, Mass., apartment Monday, July 27, 2009, with her fetus cut from her womb, Police were trying to find the missing baby Wednesday, which they said could have survived. (AP Photo/Family photo via Boston Herald) MANDATORY CREDIT BOSTON HERALD. NO SALES. BOSTON GLOBE OUT. METRO BOSTON OUT. MAGS OUT. ONLINE USE PERMITTED WITH MANDATORY CREDIT: BOSTON HERALDAP - A pregnant woman was found dead in her apartment with her fetus cut from her womb, and police on Wednesday were trying to find the missing baby, which they said could have survived.

NYC council votes for mayor's Coney Island renewal (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 02:51 PM PDT

AP - Summer on Coney Island was sweetness by the sea for generations who reveled in the tacky splendor of the Brooklyn beachfront.

NH reporter accused of running prostitution ring (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 04:44 PM PDT

AP - A veteran sports reporter for New Hampshire's largest newspaper was accused Wednesday of running a prostitution ring in two states and Canada featuring women who had auditioned for him.

Pregnant women front of line for swine flu vaccine (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 03:36 PM PDT

Rear Admiral Anne Schuchat MD speaks during a news conference following a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in Atlanta. The advisory panel decided to recommend that pregnant women, health care workers and children six months and older should be placed at the front of the line for swine flu vaccinations this fall. The panel also said those first vaccinated should include parents and other caregivers of infants; non-elderly adults who have high-risk medical conditions; and young adults ages 19 to 24. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Pregnant women, health care workers and children six months and older should be placed at the front of the line for swine flu vaccinations this fall, a government panel recommended Wednesday.

Obesity surgery death rates are low, study finds (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 03:19 PM PDT

AP - Obese, but worried that surgery for it might kill you? The risk of that has dropped dramatically, and now is no greater than for having a gall bladder out, a hip replaced or most other major operations, new research shows.

Lax hospitals may be fostering kidney-selling (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 02:32 PM PDT

This July 23, 2009 photo shows Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, of Brooklyn, N.Y, being walked to a waiting bus outside FBI offices in Newark, N.J. A federal complaint disclosed last week alleges that Rosenbaum was involved in a scheme to buy a kidney from an Israeli donor and sell it to an American who needed a transplant for as much as $160,000. Critics of the organ transplant process say look-the-other-way hospital policies could be fostering an illegal trade in this country. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A look-the-other-way attitude at some U.S. hospitals may be fostering a black-market trade in kidneys, transplant experts say. Some hospitals do not inquire very deeply into the source of the organs they transplant because such operations can be highly lucrative, according to some insiders. A single operation can bring in tens of thousands of dollars for a hospital and its doctors.

DC judge convicts woman of killing 4 daughters (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 02:51 PM PDT

FILE - This 1999 police booking photo released by the Charles County Sheriff's Office shows Banita Jacks. On Wednesday July 29 2009, Jacks was convicted of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for months. (AP Photo/Charles County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - A judge found a District of Columbia woman guilty Wednesday of killing her four daughters and living with their mummified bodies for months in a case that brought scrutiny to the city's child welfare system.

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