2009年8月17日星期一

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Sunday school teacher indicted in CA girl's death (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:24 PM PDT

AP - A San Joaquin County grand jury has indicted a Sunday school teacher on charges she kidnapped, raped and killed an 8-year-old girl and drugged two other people.

ICE boss says he suspended use of arrest quotas (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:34 PM PDT

AP - The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday the agency is no longer using arrest quotas in a program aimed at tracking down immigrants who have ignored court orders to leave the country.

Infants' remains in Ill. car trunk in plastic bags (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:52 PM PDT

This photo released Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, by the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department shows Katie L. Stockton, 28, of Rockton, Ill. Autopsies are planned on the skeletal remains of two infants found last week in the trunk of a car owned by Stockton to determine how the infants died and if they are related to her. Stockton was arrested Aug. 5 in Merriam, Kan., after authorities developed enough evidence to charge her in the freezing death of a newborn left along a roadway in 2004. (AP Photo/Winnebago County Sheriff)AP - Two infant skeletons found in the trunk of an impounded car owned by an Illinois woman charged with leaving a newborn to freeze on a roadside were wrapped in cloth and stuffed in separate plastic bags, authorities said Monday.

Documents detail of Fla. couple killings (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:02 PM PDT

AP - A 10-year-old adopted son with Down syndrome was sleeping with his parents in their bed when masked gunmen shot and killed the couple in their bedroom last month, according documents released Monday in the deaths of a Panhandle couple known for adopting children with special needs.

Milwaukee mayor leaves hospital after beating (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:45 PM PDT

AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett went home from the hospital on Monday after a man shattered his hand and knocked two of his front teeth out as the mayor tried to defend a grandmother who was screaming for someone to call 911.

Hurricane Bill gathers strength out in Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:08 PM PDT

Erosion from the high tides of Tropical Storm Claudette is shown along the beaches of Destin, Fla. on Monday Aug. 17, 2009 as members of the Destin Fire Beach Safety Patrol do a training run and swim in the chopped up surf. (AP Photo/Mari Darr-Welch)AP - The first hurricane of this year's Atlantic season gathered force far out to sea Monday, while two weaker storm systems drenched the northeastern Caribbean and the Florida Panhandle with rain.

Marriott drops blame-victim defense in Conn. rape (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:42 PM PDT

A sign leading to The Marriott Hotel and Spa in Stamford, Conn. is seen Monday Aug. 17, 2009. A Marriott International hotel is abandoning its defense in a lawsuit brought by a Connecticut woman raped at gunpoint in a garage in front of her children that she was careless and partially at fault for the 2006 attack.(AP Photo/Douglas Healey).AP - The Marriott hotel chain on Monday abandoned its legal claim that a Connecticut woman raped at gunpoint in a hotel parking garage, in front of her young children, had been careless and was partly at fault.

Clerk: Judge didn't shut court to death-row appeal (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:18 PM PDT

Judge Sharon Keller waits for her trial to begin at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals, faces judicial misconduct charges after she refused to keep her court open late to accept a condemned man's last-minute appeal. Keller faces five charges of judicial misconduct. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - The ethics trial of a Texas judge who closed her court before a death row inmate could file an appeal began Monday with her lawyers suggesting she wasn't the only judge who knew a last shot at a reprieve was in the works.

Supreme Court says Ga. man should get hearing (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, giving the condemned killer a chance to present evidence his lawyers say could clear him in the murder of an off-duty police officer almost 20 years ago.

Attorney: Slaying suspect a 'coward,' not a killer (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT

This Dec. 31, 2006 family photo shows Channon Christian, right, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, both of Knovxville, Tenn. The couple was carjacked, raped and slain Jan. 6-8, 2007, in Knoxville. The first of four defendants charged in their deaths, Letalvis Cobbins, stands trial beginning Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, in Knoxville. (AP Photo/Christian Family photo)AP - One of four people facing a possible death sentence in the carjacking, rape and murder of a young Tennessee couple was a "coward" who should have stopped the killings, his attorney said as his trial began Monday.

Sen. Hutchison harshly criticizes Texas Gov. Perry (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:59 PM PDT

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas center, talks with La Marque High School cheerleaders after a news conference officially announcing her candidacy for Texas governor Monday, Aug. 17, 2009 in La Marque, Texas. Hutchison is planning to give up her Senate seat this fall so she can focus on the governor's race full-time. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)AP - If there was any doubt that Texans would witness a red-hot Republican race for governor, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison removed it Monday when she kicked off a five-day announcement tour and delivered her harshest attack ever on Gov. Rick Perry.

Wis. gunman convicted in previous violent attacks (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:43 PM PDT

In this undated photo released Monday, Aug. 17, 2009 by the Menomonie Police Department, Geu Tou Vang of St. Paul, Minn., is shown. Police say Vang, 23, suspected of fatally shooting three brothers at a birthday party in western Wisconsin died Monday morning at an area hospital. Police have said Vang shot and killed the brothers late Saturday and wounded another man before shooting himself. (AP Photo/Menomonie Police Department, via Eau Claire Leader Telegram)AP - A man police say shot and killed three brothers at a weekend party before fatally shooting himself was a member of a Minnesota gang who had been convicted of two previous violent attacks, including one on a 15-year-old boy in a park.

Walt Disney star Virginia Davis dies at 90 (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 03:57 PM PDT

In this 1924 publicity image released by the Walt Disney Co, Virginia Davis is shown in character in 'Alice's Wild West Show.' Davis, 90, who starred in the 1920s 'Alice' films under a young director named Walt Disney, died from natural causes, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009, at her home Saturday in Corona, Calif., according to The Walt Disney Co. (AP Photo/Disney)AP - Virginia Davis, who appeared in Walt Disney's pioneering "Alice" films, has died at age 90.

Military enthusiasts begin re-enacting Vietnam War (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:46 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday, July 25, 2009, Tom Gray, of Altoona, Pa., living historian, yells to his fellow soldiers as he portrays American combat troops 'in country' in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Pa. The dirt paths that lead to Alpha Company's field headquarters are lined with overgrown grass and weeds. The canvas tent stands protected by machine guns, sandbags and Army-green storage boxes. But these aren't the jungles of southeast Asia, just the woods of Pennsylvania, where 40 years after the fall of Saigon, military enthusiasts are re-enacting the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - The dirt paths that lead to Alpha Company's field headquarters are lined with overgrown grass and weeds. A canvas tent is protected by machine guns, sandbags and Army-green storage boxes. And lurking somewhere outside is the enemy: the Viet Cong.

Boyfriend heard struggle before woman's abduction (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:08 PM PDT

AP - The boyfriend of a Georgia woman who vanished near her parents' home said he overheard a struggle as the two talked by cell phone, and police are investigating whether her former job as a probation officer played a role in the disappearance.

'Dancing With the Stars' cast includes Tom DeLay (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:04 PM PDT

FILE -In this Tuesday, April 4, 2006 file photo, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, leaves the Cannon House Office Building, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. DeLay will join 15 celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sports in kicking up their heels on the new season of 'Dancing With the Stars.' The show's largest cast ever, announced Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, features singers Mya, Macy Gray and Aaron Carter; actors Ashley Hamilton, Melissa Joan Hart and Debi Mazar (MAY'-zahr); and models Joanna Krupa and Kathy Ireland. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP - Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay will join 15 celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sports in kicking up their heels on the new season of "Dancing With the Stars.

Fla. population drops for 1st time since 1946 (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 01:14 PM PDT

AP - Researchers say Florida's population has declined for the first time in 63 years and economists are blaming — what else? — the recession.

Catholic sisters under Vatican review want answers (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 12:55 PM PDT

AP - An association of U.S. Roman Catholic sisters raised questions Monday about why they are the target of, and who is paying for, a Vatican investigation that is shaping up to be a tough review of whether sisters have strayed from church teaching.

Ex-Marine gets life in prison for drug deal murder (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 11:43 AM PDT

AP - A 22-year-old former U.S. Marine has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of a Long Beach man in a drug deal dispute.

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