2009年8月12日星期三

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AP Exclusive: Killer says he wants to make amends (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:13 PM PDT

FILE - In a Tuesday, April 12, 2005 file photo, Chadrick Fulks is escorted by U.S. Marshals out of the federal courthouse in Huntington, W.Va., following his arraignment on charges if carjacking resulting in the death of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, felon in possession of a firearm, possession of stolen firearms and interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle. Convicted killer Chadrick Fulks insists he wants to help a slain West Virginia college student's family find solace by leading investigators to her body.(AP Photo/The Herald-Dispatch, Randy Snyder, File )AP - Death row inmate Chadrick Fulks insists he wants to help a slain West Virginia college student's family find solace by leading investigators to her body.

Admitted affair sullies coach Pitino's reputation (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:06 PM PDT

This Dec. 18, 2008 file photo shows Louisville head coach Rick Pitino on the sidelines against Mississippi in an NCAA college basketball game in Cincinnati. A newspaper is reporting that Louisville coach Rick Pitino told police he had sex and paid for an abortion for the woman accused of trying to extort him for $10 million. The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported on its Web site Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, that Pitino told police he had been been drinking in a Louisville restaurant and had consensual sex with Karen Sypher in August 2003. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)AP - In a state where basketball is king, Rick Pitino cuts quite the fine figure. Designer suits, Italian dress shoes, best-selling books on how to succeed on the court and in life, a hit TV commercial with fellow college coaching titans Bobby Knight, Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams, a devout Roman Catholic whose priest friend often leads the Louisville team in pregame prayer.

NY lawsuit v. Anna Nicole Smith book's author OK'd (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2004 file photo, Anna Nicole Smith poses for a photo as she arrives for the VH1 'Big in '04' awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file )AP - A jury can decide whether the author of a best-selling book about the death of Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith defamed her lawyer by making allegations that may be too outlandish to be true, including that he pimped her to up to 50 men a year, a judge concluded Wednesday.

Tenn. student's Confederate flag suit thrown out (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:31 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge ruled a Tennessee school's ban on Confederate clothing was a reasonable attempt to prevent disruptions because of previous racial threats.

3rd man pleads guilty in missing Somalis case (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:18 PM PDT

FILE -In a July 13, 2009 booking photo provided by the Anoka Couty Sheriff, Salah Osman Ahmed is shown. Ahmed, plans to plead guilty to charges related to Americans traveling to Somalia to fight with Islamic militants. An attorney for Ahmed says Ahmed will submit a plea agreement ahead of a hearing Tuesday afternoon, July 28, 2009, in federal court in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Anoka County Sheriff, File_AP - A third man pleaded guilty Wednesday to terror-related charges stemming from a federal investigation into Americans traveling to Somalia to fight with Islamic militants.

Pa. man gets 120 years for making child porn (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 03:56 PM PDT

AP - A seldom-employed psychopath was sentenced Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison for making a huge cache of child pornography that shows him sexually assaulting a dozen children, including infants at a girlfriend's in-home day care.

CA gay rights group: Wait for 2012 to attack ban (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 03:11 PM PDT

Gay couple Ethan Collings (L), 32, and his spouse Stephen Abate, 36, hug as they celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary in West Hollywood, California, June 16, 2009. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonAP - SAN FRANCISCO — California gay rights activists are at odds over when to ask voters to repeal the state's same-sex marriage ban, with one of the largest groups saying it needs until 2012 to put together a winning campaign and two others saying they plan go to the polls next year.

Property owners refuse to leave Iowa flood plain (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:47 PM PDT

AP - After one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history, Cedar Rapids plans to turn a flood-prone strip of land next to the Cedar River into a 220-acre greenway. But a few stubborn homeowners and businesses are refusing to leave.

Peace activist can steer kids to non-military jobs (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:27 PM PDT

AP - A rural North Carolina school district with a proud military tradition is allowing a Quaker peace activist a chance to compete with military recruiters at steering high school students to careers, attorneys said Wednesday.

Georgia man convicted of aiding terror groups (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:12 PM PDT

Artist rendering of Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, left, and courtroom deputy Jessica Birnbaum, in federal court in Atlanta, Wednesday Aug. 12, 2009. Sadequee was convicted Wednesday on all four charges of aiding terrorist groups by sending videotapes of U.S. landmarks overseas. (AP Photo/Richard Miller)AP - A 23-year-old Georgia man was convicted Wednesday of aiding terrorist groups by sending videotapes of U.S. landmarks overseas and plotting to support "violent jihad" after a federal jury rejected his arguments that it was empty talk.

Bodies of Italians killed in air crash going home (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:17 PM PDT

Investigators examine the wreckage of an airplane, right, that sits on a pier next to the the wreckage of a helicopter Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in Hoboken, N.J. The two aircraft collided and fell into the Hudson River on Saturday killing nine people including three members of a Pennsylvania family in the private plane. Five Italian tourists and a pilot from New Jersey were in the helicopter. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - The remains of five Italian tourists killed in the air collision over the Hudson River were taken to Kennedy Airport to be sent home Wednesday as divers recovered about 50 pieces of the helicopter in which they had plunged to their deaths.

Ex-Clinton aide named in prison smuggling case (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 03:57 PM PDT

AP - A former chief of staff for Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas faces felony charges accusing her of smuggling a knife and 48 tattoo needles onto the state's death row.

Army Corps finds World War I chemical, halts dig (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 12:41 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is halting its search for World War I-era chemical weapons in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood after workers found an open glass flask containing traces of the chemical agent mustard.

Kidnap victim in Miss. beats alleged sex attacker (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 10:47 AM PDT

AP - Police had been watching Vincent Goff for years, convinced he was the masked man who sexually assaulted couples at gunpoint on the Mississippi coast. But before investigators closed in, they say Goff picked the wrong victim and was beaten nearly to death with his own rifle.

Freak show owner gets cash, but no 5-legged puppy (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:10 PM PDT

In this photo taken on July 16, 2009, Lily, a Chihuahua terrier mix, that has five legs, that was rescued by Allyson Siegel of Charlotte, N.C., licks a bowl. The Charlotte Observer reported Saturday that Siegel, 45, of Charlotte bought the puppy last week because she couldn't bear for the Chihuahua-terrier mix to be sold to a Coney Island, N.Y., sideshow that features disfigured animals. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Jeff Siner)AP - Thanks to a Chicago TV judge, a Coney Island freak show operator is up $4,000 but down a five-legged puppy.

Freed reporter: Spread word of others incarcerated (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:12 PM PDT

AP - One of the two TV reporters who were freed after being imprisoned in North Korea said Wednesday she hopes her story will lead to more public awareness of the plight of journalists held captive around the world.

Stimulus money for weatherization goes unspent (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 01:57 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009 photo, Edwin Aguilar replaces siding during weatherization work on a home in Grafton, Neb. Because of confusion on how workers should be paid, funding for the weatherization is provided from ongoing federal grants, and not from the $5 billion set aside in the stimulus package for everything from new heating systems to sealing windows.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Jackie Harpst expected a busy summer at her nonprofit housing agency, as work crews backed by Nebraska's share of $5 billion in federal stimulus money headed out to seal windows and spread insulation.

Jam-packed crowds press Grassley on health care (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:46 PM PDT

Mike Neutzling, a RN at the Ohio State University Medical Center, asks U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), left, a question about the Obama health plan during a Health Insurance Reform forum Wednesday, Aug,12, 2009, at The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. Brown outlined how health insurance reform will reduce private insurance premiums and out-of-pocket health care expenses. (AP Photo/Terry Gilliam)AP - Sen. Charles Grassley, a Republican who is a key bargainer on health care reform, played to packed crowds across the state who left little doubt that they are not happy with what's on the table.

NY fines health insurer over 'misleading' TV ads (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 01:11 PM PDT

AP - A health insurer whose TV commercials promised "peace of mind" for just $5 a day must stop running the national ads and pay a fine of $700,000 after New York officials accused it of leaving patients only with huge hospital bills.

US, Swiss keep deal on secret accounts under wraps (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 10:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, the logo of the Swiss bank UBS, is seen in Aarau, Switzerland. The U.S. government and Swiss banking giant UBS AG have reached a long-awaited agreement in a case over secret Swiss bank accounts for alleged American tax evaders, lawyers for both sides told a federal judge Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Alessandro Della Bella, File)AP - The Swiss and U.S. governments announced a deal Wednesday to settle American demands for the identities of suspected tax dodgers, despite Switzerland's vaunted bank secrecy. But they kept all details under wraps, including how many of the 52,000 names sought by the IRS from banking giant UBS AG will be revealed.

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