2009年8月7日星期五

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Wis. dealer sold gun extras to health club shooter (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:24 PM PDT

FILE -In this April 19, 2007 file photo, Eric Thompson, owner of The Gun Source a Green Bay-based Internet gun store poses for a photo in Green Bay, Wis. The gunman who killed three women and wounded nine others at a health club bought accessories for a handgun from the same dealer TGSCOM's president, Eric Thompson, that sold a gun to the Virginia Tech shooter. (AP Photo/John Touscany, File)AP - An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club this week, said Friday that any of the shooters could have just as easily found what they wanted at a Wal-Mart or another store.

Boy dies after getting stranded in Death Valley (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:21 PM PDT

AP - An 11-year-old boy died in the intense heat of Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded in one of the world's most inhospitable areas and survived for several days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts and cheese sandwiches, authorities said Friday.

Former Jack Daniel's master distiller dies at 69 (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:15 PM PDT

AP - Jimmy Bedford, the slender and silver-haired former master distiller of the Jack Daniel's whiskey during a 40-year career with the company, died Friday. He was 69.

Authorities stop getting evidence at Ill. cemetery (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:34 PM PDT

A solitary grave is marked in the area of Burr Oak Cemetery that was part of the crime scene where Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that authorities have stopped collecting evidence, though they say the investigation is ongoing, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 in Alsip, IL. Dart says he'd hoped to provide some degree of closure for the families of those buried at a suburban Chicago cemetery where workers allegedly dug up bodies and resold burial plots. But he said at a news conference Friday that authorities will likely never know everyone whose remains were removed and what became of them. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Investigators stopped collecting evidence Friday at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago where workers allegedly dug up corpses and resold burial plots, acknowledging they'll likely never know the identities of all the remains that were removed.

NY police: Woman was OK at restaurant before crash (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Floral Park Police Department shows Warren, top left, and Jackie Hance of Floral Park, N.Y., with their daughters, from left, Alyson, 7, Kate, 5, and Emma, 8. The Hance children were among the eight people killed in a fiery crash on Sunday, July 26, 2009, when their aunt, Diane Schuler, plowed into an SUV while driving the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway in Westchester County, N.Y. (AP Photo/Floral Park Police Department)AP - Police investigating a head-on highway crash that killed a suburban mother and seven other people said Friday she was fine at a fast-food restaurant an hour after starting her drive, narrowing the timeline for when she may have begun a drinking binge.

Autopsy: Cocaine contributed to Billy Mays' death (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2002 file photo,TV pitchman Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home. An autopsy shows that cocaine use contributed to the heart disease that suddenly killed Mays in June, officials announced Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)AP - An official autopsy report released Friday found that cocaine use contributed to the heart disease that suddenly killed TV pitchman Billy Mays in June, but his family called the finding "speculative" and considered getting an independent look at the results.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver critical at Mass. hospital (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 file photo, Eunice Shriver Kennedy, founder of Special Olympics, attends an event at U.N. Headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/David Karp, file)AP - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, was in critical condition Friday at a Massachusetts hospital.

Ark. mom allegedly drank before sons drowned (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:09 PM PDT

In this police booking photo provided by the Conway County Sheriff's office in Morrilton, Ark., Amber Turley, 26, is shown Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. Turley was charged Friday with felony endangerment in the April automobile crash that resulted in the drowning death of her three young boys. (AP Photo/)AP - The mother of three young children who drowned after she drove into a central Arkansas lake had been drinking before the crash, authorities said Friday, the second recent case in which a mom is accused of consuming alcohol before getting behind the wheel with her kids.

Ark. doctor, wife face new charges in weapons case (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 03:41 PM PDT

AP - An Arkansas doctor accused of illegally owning high-explosive grenades and his wife face new federal charges accusing them of interfering with the investigation into their extensive weapons cache.

Fla. senator to resign, clear path for Crist (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:48 PM PDT

Republican Sen. Mel Martinez, a native of Cuba who is staunchly anti-Castro, resigns from the Senate during a news conference, leaving the seat more than a year before his term ends in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. At his right is his wife, Kitty. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Republican Sen. Mel Martinez's decision Friday to step down 16 months early gave Gov. Charlie Crist the perfect gift: his pick of who should watch over the office while Crist tries to win it for himself.

Aerosmith guitarist: Tyler broke shoulder in fall (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:10 PM PDT

File - Vocalist Steven Tyler of the rock band Aerosmith performs at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in this June 10, 2009 file photo taken in Maryland Heights, Mo. Tyler fell off the stage while performing the song 'Love In an Elevator' in Sturgis South Dakota Wednesday Aug. 5, 2009. Tyler was helped backstage after the fall and was taken to the hospital after being evaluated by medical personnel. This was the first time Aerosmith had performed in Sturgis, but it was Tyler's second appearance at the rally. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)AP - Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler has a broken shoulder and stitches in his head after falling from the stage during a South Dakota concert, but apparently did not suffer any internal injuries, guitarist Joe Perry said Friday.

Alcoholics often are experts at hiding it (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:06 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Floral Park Police Department shows Diane and Daniel Schuler with their children Bryan, 5, and Erin, 2. Diane and Erin were among the eight people killed in a fiery crash on Sunday, July 26, 2009, when Diane Schuler plowed into an SUV while driving the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway in Westchester County. (AP Photo/Floral Park Police Department)AP - At one point during her quarter-century as an alcoholic, Carol Colleran would down at least 10 beers each weeknight, more on weekends. Then she would show up the next morning at her job in hospital management, feeling fuzzy and lousy.

Recession means fewer babies; US births fell 2 pct (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 02:55 PM PDT

Map shows state-by-state birth rate in the U.S.AP - There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.

Sotomayor vote could impact Fla. Senate race (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 02:45 PM PDT

AP - If there is one place where any bad feelings from the hearings on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination could have lasting consequences, it's Florida, the pesky swing state that the second-largest Puerto Rican community outside the island calls home.

Ex-NY judge gets prison for recruiting prostitutes (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 02:56 PM PDT

AP - A retired state Supreme Court judge who procured prostitutes for his social club, including one woman who had appeared before him in court and another who was in the country illegally, was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison.

Ga. governor deals with water battle at home, too (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:53 PM PDT

AP - The age-old tension between rural Georgia and its sprawling metropolis may only intensify because of a federal ruling that could keep essential reservoir water from trickling into Atlanta.

Rare Amur tiger cub fights to survive at SD zoo (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:49 PM PDT

In this 2009 photo released by the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, S.D, a Zookeeper feeds the tiger cub at the zoo in Sioux Falls, S.D. Six Amur tiger cubs were born July 18 and 19 to a first-time mother, Vika. Two cubs were stillborn and a third died a few days later. There are fewer than 150 of the endangered tigers in captivity. (AP Photo/Great Plains Zoo) NO SALESAP - The rare 3-week-old Amur tiger cub's eyes haven't completely opened yet, her belly bulges and her paws seem too large for her tiny head.

Long lines of clunkers await deaths at scrap yards (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 10:39 AM PDT

A crane lifts a flattened van to a shredder at Gershow Recycling Corp. in Medford, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Many of the scrapped vehicles are part of the 'cash for clunkers' program. The Senate is poised to pump $2 billion more into the popular 'cash-for-clunkers' program after agreeing to give shoppers until Labor Day to make a deal on more energy-efficient models. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - They were waiting down at Gibson Chevrolet near Chicago for a couple of five-gallon cans of sodium silicate — liquid glass, they call it — to poison and kill the clunkers when the latest condemned car pulled up.

Hurricane Felicia remains a Category 2 storm (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:42 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, a traffic sign showing the flooded street forbids vehicles to pass through in Haikou, south China, on Thursday Aug. 6, 2009. Tropical storm Goni, which landed early Wednesday morning in Taishan in south China's Guangdong Province, has brought heavy rainfall to Haikou, flooding all the main streets of the city, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhao Yingquan)AP - Hurricane Felicia remains a Category 2 storm far out in the Pacific and is expected to weaken as it gets closer to Hawaii.

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