2009年8月19日星期三

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Judge stands by closing ahead of death-row appeal (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:11 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 - An embattled Texas judge stood by her decision to close her court before a death row inmate's last-minute appeal was ready, saying at her misconduct trial Wednesday that she would do the same thing again.


US man says no regrets about Myanmar jailing (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:07 PM PDT

John Yettaw of Falcon, Mo. gestures to his traveling companion as he is pushed through O'Hare International Airport, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 in Chicago. Yettaw was freed Sunday after visiting U.S. Sen. Jim Webb met with Myanmar military junta leaders and won his release. Yettaw was convicted and sentenced to seven years hard labor following an unauthorized visit to Myanmar pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's home. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - American John Yettaw said Wednesday he has no regrets about taking a secret swim to the home of Myanmar's detained democracy leader — a decision that landed them both in prison — and indicated that he still believes his bizarre visit somehow saved her from being assassinated.


Sen. Ensign says he did nothing 'legally wrong' in having affair (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2008 file photo Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. speaks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Ensign, dogged by ethics questions and repercussions within his own party after divulging an affair with a staffer's wife and his parents' $96,000 payout to the woman's family, hopes to find some refuge this week in Lake Tahoe. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - Sen. John Ensign told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his affair with a friend's wife was a mistake but not as bad as former President Bill Clinton's relationship with a White House intern because he didn't lie about it under oath.


Reality TV contestant sought in ex-model's death (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Buena Park Police Department shows Ryan Alexander Jenkins, of Calgary, Alberta. Jenkins is a person of interest in the murder of Jasmine Fiore who was found stuffed in a suitcase and thrown in an Orange County trash bin. Lt. Gary Worrall says police want to speak with Jenkins who reported her missing Saturday night Aug. 15, 2009 after he reportedly took her to a poker party in San Diego the night before. (AP Photo/Buena Park Police Department)AP - Ryan Alexander Jenkins was fulfilling his dream of becoming a star, with a small fortune stowed away, a marriage — albeit brief — to a former model, and two gigs in reality TV.


Hurricane Bill looms in Atlantic at Category 4 (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 04:41 PM PDT

Hurricane Bill is pictured moving through the Atlantic Ocean, more than 1,160 miles east of the Lesser Antilles islands of the Caribbean, in this satellite image taken on August 17, 2009. REUTERS/NOAA/HandoutAP - Hurricane Bill howled over the open Atlantic as a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday, and it could be energized by warmer waters as it moves north. Forecasters said Bill should begin pushing large swells toward Bermuda and parts of the southeastern U.S. coast by the weekend, but it wasn't yet clear how close the storm will come to land.


Mass. man: Lawyer parents knew I was drug dealer (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Jonathon Cook, 20, stands during arraignment Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, on drug and weapons charges in district court in Natick, Mass. Cook told police his parents, both lawyers, knew he was growing and selling marijuana at home. The parents' lawyer says they adamantly deny the 'reckless' accusations. (AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh)AP - Two prominent attorneys are under police scrutiny after their son, arrested on charges he was dealing marijuana from home, told investigators his parents knew what he was doing. Police found a small smoking pipe, scale and baggies in their bedroom.


Lutherans move toward more open view on gays (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 04:29 PM PDT

AP - Leaders of the country's largest Lutheran denomination have moved toward a more welcoming view of homosexuality.

Milwaukee mayor says attack got 'ugly' quickly (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 04:18 PM PDT

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett holds a news conference in front of his home Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009,  in Milwaukee. Barrett said Wednesday he was doing what any good citizen should have done when he tried to help a woman screaming for help — even if it led him being beaten by a man. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)AP - Milwaukee's mayor said Wednesday his decision to intervene in a domestic dispute got "very ugly" quickly but he did what any good citizen should do even though it left him with a bloody scab on his face and his shattered right hand bound by a bulky cast.


Md. lawmaker takes heat for marriage proposal (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 04:03 PM PDT

AP - Democratic Delegate Jon Cardin was intent on creating the perfect night to propose to his fiancee, and the evening is certainly one she won't forget. Unfortunately, a fuss over his use of a Baltimore police helicopter and a police boat is likely to dog the couple long after the wedding.

Ind. money manager sentenced for Fla. plane crash (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 03:48 PM PDT

FILE - A  Aug. 31, 2008 file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows investment manager Marcus Schrenker. Schrenker, who pleaded guilty in June to federal charges of intentionally crashing his plane to fake his death and flee financial ruin is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 in Pensacola, Fla.  (AP Photo/File)AP - An Indiana money manger who crashed his plane and parachuted to safety in an elaborate scheme to fake his death and flee financial ruin was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in federal prison.


APNewsBreak: Venus, Serena to own part of Dolphins (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 04:55 PM PDT

AP - Venus and Serena Williams have found a new sport: pro football.

WTC owner says $300K-a-day penalities almost over (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 03:47 PM PDT

Construction workers help lower a 70-ton perimeter column for One World Trade Center at ground zero in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009.  The jumbo column is the first that rises above street level; each column is 60 feet high and will allow workers to start constructing the floors of the tower.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The World Trade Center site's owner says it will soon be able to stop paying a $300,000-a-day penalty for missing deadlines to turn land over to the site's developer.


Army aims to improve soldiers' mental fitness (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 03:18 PM PDT

AP - An Army program developed partly as a response to an increase in soldier suicides will test all active duty, National Guard and Reserve soldiers to determine how they handle stress, assess their resiliency and require follow-up training.

Wrongfully convicted man to get $632,000 from Va. (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:57 PM PDT

Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Del. Lacey  Putney, I-Bedford, center, conducts a vote on the Senate version of a compensation bill on the floor of the House at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. The Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously Wednesday to pay more than $632,000 in restitution to Norfolk man Arthur Whitfield who spent 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - A Virginia man who spent 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit will get more than $632,000 in restitution, following a unanimous decision Wednesday by state lawmakers.


New Tech gunman records fail to predict bloodshed (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the Virginia State Police, Seung-Hui Cho is shown. Missing mental health records for Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho have been found more than two years after the massacre, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said Wednesday, July 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Virginia State Police)AP - Recently discovered mental health records released on Wednesday contain no obvious indications that the Virginia Tech gunman was a year and a half away from committing the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history.


Threats, jeers saturate angry health care debate (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 12:12 PM PDT

FILE -In this Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 file photo, William Kostnic wears a 9mm pistol as he stands outside a town hall meeting on health care held by President Barack Obama, in Portsmouth, N.H.  The images are striking: A congressman's office defaced by a swastika, other congressmen heckled at public meetings, videos likening Barack Obama to Hitler, private citizens with guns joining anti-Obama protests. (AP Photo/Joel Page, File)AP - The images are striking: One congressman's office defaced by a swastika, other congressmen heckled at public meetings, videos and placards likening Barack Obama to Hitler, private citizens with guns joining anti-Obama protests.


Storm fells hundreds of trees in NY's Central Park (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:16 PM PDT

A tree lies snapped at its base in Central Park after last night's fast moving storm of rain, wind and lightning, New York, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.  (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Hundreds of century-old trees lay snapped in half and uprooted throughout Central Park on Wednesday after a severe thunderstorm with winds as high as 80 mph barreled through the city overnight.


Md. police: Man nicknamed 'Hitler' beat black man (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 01:37 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Baltimore Police Department on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, shows Calvin Lockner. Baltimore police say they arrested Lockner, who was one of three white men who beat an elderly black fisherman in a city park, and the attack is being investigated as a hate crime. (AP Photo/Baltimore Police Department, HO)AP - A white supremacist accused of beating a 76-year-old black man has a tattoo of Adolf Hitler on his stomach with the words "He Lives" beneath it, and uses the Nazi dictator's last name as a nickname, according to police and court documents.


Funeral home mix-up: Pa. family mourns wrong body (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 01:48 PM PDT

Rhonda Wearing, displays a program from her father, Kenneth 'Tex' Roberts' funeral, in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. A funeral home brought the wrong casket to the viewing for Roberts' viewing on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim)  PA INQUIRER OUT; METRO OUY; THE EVENING BULLETIN OUT, TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALESAP - The blue suit and black boots were right, but mourners at a retired trucker's funeral suspected they were gazing at the wrong man.


Schwarzenegger tours devastation after prison riot (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:26 PM PDT

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday toured the Southern California prison where 175 inmates were injured in a riot earlier this month, likening the devasation to a scene from one of his movies.
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