2009年8月20日星期四

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Ailing Kennedy seeks to change law on succession (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 05:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2007 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., gestures as he answers a question following his speech at the National Press Club in Washington. A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - For nearly half a century, Sen. Edward Kennedy has guarded his family's political legacy. Stricken with cancer and as Congress takes up his signature issue, he is tending to his own.

Seattle mayor fighting to hold onto his job (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 04:57 PM PDT

AP - Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has been hailed as a visionary and a leader on environmental issues, helping persuade nearly 1,000 mayors around the country to abide by the standards of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.

Milwaukee rallies around its new hero — the mayor (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 02:53 PM PDT

This artist rendering provided by Brew City Brand Apparel on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009 shows the design for a T-Shirt Brew City Brand Apparel started selling in honor of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett who is recovering from a beating over the weekend. Tom Barrett's niece called 911 after a man beat him severely while he intervened in a domestic dispute, saying her uncle was bleeding a lot. 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. Profits will go to the Milwaukee Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. (AP Photo/Brew City Brand Apparel)AP - Milwaukee's mayor has bloody cuts on his face, smashed teeth and a fractured hand — but he's not exactly hurting politically. Ever since he confronted a metal-bar wielding man near the state fair, Tom Barrett has become a sort of urban folk hero, with T-shirts comparing him to Superman or saying "Our Mayor Ain't No Cream Puff."

Police: Model's body had no fingers, teeth (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 05:03 PM PDT

This image provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows Jasmine Fiore, who has been identified as the woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase and placed in a dumpster and discovered Aug. 15, 2009. Police said Ryan Alexander Jenkins, 32, a reality TV personality, is a 'person of interest' in her death. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department)AP - Police investigating a reality TV contestant in his ex-wife's death say her fingers and teeth had been removed when her body was found in a California trash bin.

SC Powerball ticket wins $259.9 million jackpot (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:53 PM PDT

Amber Baldwin, right, assistant manager at the Murphy USA store in Columbia, S.C. sells a South Carolina Education Lottery ticket to Laura Myers, 60, of Columbia. This is the store that sold the winning $259.9 million Powerball ticket. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in South Carolina is a whole lot richer.

Kin of victims: Release of terrorist 'sickening' (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Susan Cohen sits with Archie, one of her cats, in her home in Cape May Court House, N.J. on Thursday, August 20, 2009. Her daughter Theodora was one of the passengers killed in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988. More than two decades after a terrorist bomb blew a Pan Am jetliner out of the sky, victims' relatives watched in anger as the only man ever convicted in the attack boarded another flight to his freedom in Libya. It's appalling, disgusting and so sickening I can hardly find words to describe it,' said Cohen.' Lockerbie looks like it never happened now — there isn't anybody in prison for it.' (AP Photo/Curt Hudson)AP - Some stared at their televisions in disbelief. Others were too furious to process the news.

US Jews protest Catholic document on salvation (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:48 PM PDT

AP - Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because of a recent U.S. bishops' statement on salvation.

Judge rejects challenge to overseas wiretap law (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:43 PM PDT

AP - A judge rejected a challenge to a law letting the United States eavesdrop on overseas conversations Thursday, saying fears by Americans that their conversations will be monitored and their rights violated were "purely subjective."

Stanford scientists scan 2,500-year-old mummy (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 04:16 PM PDT

AP - Scientists in California are using computer scans to help unwrap the mysteries of a more than 2,500-year-old mummy.

Veterans start over as colleges ignore experience (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 02:16 PM PDT

AP - Twelve years of military service left Donald Spradling highly trained in satellite imagery, nuclear engineering and foreign intelligence analysis. None of that made a difference to the University of Missouri.

Army medic-training home fending off Texas sprawl (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 02:24 PM PDT

This Aug. 5, 2009 photo shows suburban homes along the border line of Camp Bullis in San Antonio. The army says suburban sprawl is endangering the 2,800 acre training ground in San Antonio where all U.S. military medics will soon be trained. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - The U.S. Army is turning to an unlikely weapon in a fight against sprawl in Texas. An endangered songbird.

Bermuda under storm warning as Bill revs up (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:40 PM PDT

Graphic shows the location and projected path of Hurricane Bill as of 5 a.m., ThursdayAP - Bermuda issued a tropical storm warning Thursday as Hurricane Bill regained some of its muscle, while dangerous waves and riptides were likely along most of the eastern U.S. coast over the weekend.

2nd lawsuit filed in Conn. prep school sex scandal (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:39 PM PDT

AP - A second lawsuit has been filed against an exclusive Connecticut boarding school where a former dean has been charged with molesting three students.

Md. police arrest 2 teens in alleged hate beating (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 02:51 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 - Two teenagers were charged as adults Thursday in what police say was the racially motivated beating of an elderly black fisherman.

Biden: US closer than ever to health care reform (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:05 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, speaks before participating in a roundtable discussion with health care professionals on health insurance reform, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday the nation has never been closer to substantial health care overhaul despite "all the shouting and all the political turmoil" of recent weeks.

Mich. residents voice opposition to Gitmo inmates (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 04:03 PM PDT

A view of the Guantanamo detention center in January 2009. Six detainees at the US war on terror camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were due to leave in coming days, the White House said Thursday.(AFP/POOL/File/Brennan Linsley)AP - Opponents dominated a public meeting Thursday on moving terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay to a prison in this small town, many accusing President Barack Obama of making Michigan a target for killer jihadists.

Newspaper photo helps ID Seattle man with amnesia (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:32 PM PDT

AP - When he walked out of a Seattle park three weeks ago, the mystery man knew this much about himself: He is fluent in several languages and has traveled to other countries.

In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 03:02 PM PDT

Luis Torres, right, plays with his son Angel, 6, in the waters off Pine Point Beach Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 in Scarborough, Maine. The world's oceans this summer are heating up to their warmest on record. (AP Photo/Joel Page)AP - Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean Sunday — in Maine. The water temperature was 72 degrees — more like Ocean City, Md., this time of year. And Ocean City's water temp hit 88 degrees this week, toasty even by Miami Beach standards.

Chief: Tampa police-killing suspect is ex-officer (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 02:13 PM PDT

AP - Police in Florida say a decorated officer was gunned down in the line of duty by a man who was once a police officer in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Citizens want to know if SC gov can focus on job (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 02:07 PM PDT

In this file photo, Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, speaks about her husband's affair admission at the family beach house in Sullivans Island, S.C., on June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)AP - Even South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's supporters are asking if he can remain focused on state business during his final 16 months in office.

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