2009年8月3日星期一

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AP NewsBreak: Feds name 8th NC terror suspect (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:48 PM PDT

These undated images provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County(CCBI), North Carolina shows (Clockwise from top L) Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, Daniel Patrick Boyd, Ziyad Yaghi and Hysen Sherifi. The four are being charged with conspiring to support terrorism and traveling overseas to participate in a 'violent jihad,' according to an indictment unsealed on July 27, 2009.(AFP/CCBI-HO)AP - A 20-year-old U.S. citizen who traveled to Pakistan in 2008 "to engage in violent jihad" has been named as the eighth suspect in a North Carolina terrorism case, according to court documents released Monday.


Detained in Iran: Hiked in wrong place, wrong time (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:14 PM PDT

A general view of Dukan Resort, where three American hikers were last seen, near Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. Iranian authorities have given no word on three Americans detained after reportedly wandering across the border with Iraq last week during a hike in the Iraqi Kurdish region. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Shane Bauer, a freelance writer with a passion for travel and the Middle East, planned to spend a week covering the Kurdish elections in Iraq when he checked with his employer last week.


Conn. priest: Bishop wanted to send me to the nuns (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2007 file photo,  the former pastor Michael Jude Fay leaves the Federal Court in New Haven, Conn,  after being sentenced to 37 months in prison  for stealing 1.3 million dollars for his own luxuries from the parish of Saint John's in Darien, Conn. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File)AP - A former priest claims a bishop who played a leading national role in responding to the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal threatened to send him to live with nuns after he hired a private investigator to look into his pastor.


Mass. chemical leak sends 100-plus to hospitals (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:34 PM PDT

AP - Noxious fumes at a trash disposal facility sent 117 people to hospitals on Monday, including two who were listed in critical condition.

Gunman, daughter among 3 dead in northwest Tenn. (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT

AP - A northwest Tennessee man accused of abusing his teenage daughter shot her to death, police said Monday, and killed a neighbor acting as her foster father before turning the gun on himself.

FBI investigator of civil rights era killings dies (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:21 PM PDT

AP - Retired FBI agent Jim Ingram, who helped state and federal officials reopen long-dormant investigations of killings from Mississippi's violent civil rights era, has died. He was 77.

Different US locations considered for Gitmo trials (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:58 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Nov. 19, 2008 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee glances up while resting on a foam pad inside a fenced-in outdoor exercise area at the Camp 6 high-security detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Staring at a January deadline, the Obama administration is debating between two dramatically different schemes for putting Guantanamo Bay detainees on trial: big-city courtrooms in the nation's capital, New York and Virginia — or a one-of-a-kind superjail in the Midwest.


Jobs trump fears of terrorists in Michigan town (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, the United States Disciplinary Barracks is seen on the north edge of Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)AP - To many people struggling in this job-starved part of rural Michigan, unemployment is a bigger threat than terrorists.


Terror as turbulence hurts 26 on Rio-Houston plane (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:49 PM PDT

A passenger arrives in a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue truck at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. A Continental Airlines night flight from Brazil to Texas hit turbulence over the Atlantic,  injuring at least 26 people, forcing an emergency landing in Miami early Monday morning. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - Some passengers were snoozing while others snacked when the first turbulence rattled Continental Flight 128 over the Atlantic. Suddenly, the jetliner began to plunge and shake violently, hurling passengers over seatbacks and slamming them against luggage bins.


3 seeking custody of Mass. baby cut from womb (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:49 PM PDT

In this image from WMUR television video, 35-year-old Julie Corey is escorted after her arrest in Plymouth, N.H. Wednesday July 29, 2009. Corey is accused of cutting the fetus out of her pregnant friend and then telling others she'd just had a baby girl. (AP Photo/WMUR TV)AP - The uncle, aunt and estranged boyfriend of a slain woman whose baby was cut from her womb announced their intentions Monday to seek custody of the infant girl.


Singer claims racial slurs, pen stabbing on flight (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:43 PM PDT

AP - A Brazilian singer's lawsuit claims flight attendants called him racial slurs on a trip from New York to his home county and that his producer was stabbed with a sharp pen.

Study: Depression seen in children as young as 3 (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:17 PM PDT

AP - Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research.

Conn. widow in 2005 cruise case plans to remarry (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:41 PM PDT

AP - A woman whose husband disappeared from their honeymoon cruise in 2005 plans to remarry.

Tenn. senator has affair with intern, resigns (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:30 PM PDT

FILE - This March 31, 2009 file image made from video of the Tennessee General Assembly feed shows intern to State Sen. Paul Stanley, McKensie Morrison. (AP Photo/Tennessee General Assembly video, File)AP - The Tennessee state senator said he was opposed to sex outside marriage, but his private life told a different story: He was having an affair with his 22-year-old intern.


Pa. high court: Save records of judicial scandal (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:44 PM PDT

AP - The state Supreme Court bowed to pressure and abandoned its plan to destroy the records of thousands of juveniles who appeared before a corrupt judge between 2003 and 2008.

Sun Records star Billy Lee Riley dies at 75 (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 12:53 PM PDT

AP - Billy Lee Riley, a rambunctious performer who helped develop the Sun Records sound as a studio musician for other headliners, has died. He was 75.

NYC grand jury indicts Burress on weapons charges (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:16 PM PDT

Former New York GGiants wide receiver Plaxico Burress exits Manhattan criminal court with his attorney Benjamin Brafman Wednesday, July 29, 2009, in New York. Burress says he told the truth before the grand jury that's investigating a weapon charge against him. Burress also told reporters outside the courthouse where he testified Wednesday that 'I'm truly remorseful for what I've done.'   (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - Former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress was indicted by a grand jury on weapons charges for shooting himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub and faces a minimum prison sentence of 3 1/2 years if convicted, prosecutors announced Monday.


Ga. terror suspect to defend self against advice (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 12:49 PM PDT

AP - A 23-year-old Georgia man charged with trying to help overseas terrorists wage "violent jihad" on the U.S. has decided to represent himself.

Ky. man to return to Wis. to face slaying charges (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 09:31 AM PDT

In a Saturday , Aug. 1, 2009 photo, murder suspect Edward Wayne Edwards is arraigned on a fugitive warrant at Metro Corrections in downtown Louisville, Ky.  Edwards agreed Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 to return to Wisconsin to face charges he killed a couple nearly 30 years ago and dumped their bodies in the countryside.  (AP Photo/Courier Journal, David Harpe)  No sales No magsAP - A Kentucky man has agreed to return to Wisconsin to face charges he killed a couple nearly 30 years ago and dumped their bodies in the countryside.


Md. man gets stuck in 3rd-floor window, dies (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 03:18 PM PDT

AP - A man who often lost his keys died after climbing a fire escape and getting wedged in a window of his third-floor apartment, authorities said Monday.
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