2009年8月22日星期六

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Hurricane Bill's winds weaken as it nears US (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 05:17 PM PDT

A surfer is seen riding a wave at Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York, Saturday, August 22, 2009. The beaches were closed to swimmers due to rough surf caused by Hurricane Bill, but surfers were allowed to stay in the water. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)AP - A weakening Hurricane Bill spun northward Saturday, churning up rough seas, creating dangerous rip tides and closing beaches to swimmers up and down the eastern seaboard, including President Obama's planned vacation spot, Martha's Vineyard.

Police scour Canada for millionaire murder suspect (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 05:25 PM PDT

Former swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore is pictured attending a party in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2006. Police in the United States and Canada were hunting for a television reality show contestant charged with the murder of Fiore, whose mutilated body was found inside a suitcase in a dumpster.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AP - Canadian authorities on Saturday intensified the manhunt for the millionaire reality TV star accused of murdering a former swimsuit model and stuffing her naked, mutilated body in a suitcase.

Post-affair Ensign gets mixed results in Nevada (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 03:43 PM PDT

FILE - In a Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 photo, Sen. John Ensign looks Lake Tahoe during a morning boat ride prior to the start of the Tahoe Summit. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton, File)AP - Two months after a weary looking John Ensign hastily confessed to having an extramarital affair with a former campaign aide who was his best friend's wife, the Nevada senator set out to reconstruct his image before a forgiving crowd in the Fernley Community Center.

Urban schools use marketing to woo residents back (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 01:24 PM PDT

In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, Zatit Alamin, right, Martcus Henry, center, and Corey Vaughn, of the George Wythe Jazz Band, play after Virginia's first lady Anne Holton went door to door in an attempt to recruit students to the public schools in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Jay Paul)AP - Most students try not to think about school during the summer. But a number of them took to the streets on a sweltering August day to talk up public education to people who might normally enroll their children in private or parochial schools.

Hermit who froze mom in ice aims to stay in 'hole' (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 12:32 PM PDT

AP - True to his word, a hermit who encased his dead mother in a block of ice keeps himself in solitary confinement by threatening people, swearing at guards or simply refusing to leave his cell. Philip Schuth told a newspaper when he was sentenced to prison in 2005 that he feared other inmates and wanted to live in solitary confinement.

4 Ky. inmates still hospitalized after prison riot (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 04:55 PM PDT

In this Aug. 21, 2009 photo, multiple fires burn at Northpoint Training Center, a medium-security men's prison near Burgin, Ky., in Mercer County, as inmates riot. Inmates set fire to trash cans and other items inside a central Ky. prison, and damage to some buildings was so extensive that officials were busing many of the facility's 1,200 prisoners elsewhere, police said Saturday. (AP Photo/The Advocate-Messenger, Clay Jackson)AP - Four prisoners remained hospitalized and hundreds of others had to be relocated Saturday after rioting inmates set their central Kentucky prison on fire.

Effort to share Wis., Minn. resources hits snags (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 12:35 PM PDT

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle talks to the media after his announcement Monday, Aug 17, 2009, in Madison, Wis., that he will not seek a third term in 2010 because he believes governors should limit themselves to two terms in office. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - As it turns out, mating gophers and badgers isn't so easy. Just ask the bureaucrats in Wisconsin and Minnesota, who are trying to find efficiencies and save money on everything from sharing amusement ride inspectors to buying ammunition and tires.

Robert Bobb hits streets to coax students back (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 11:45 AM PDT

In this Aug. 19, 2009 photo, emergency financial manager Robert Bobb, left, talks with Felicia Harvey, center, and her niece Jallycia Sherrod, 16, to try and convince them to enroll her children in Detroit Public Schools in Detroit. Harvey has two reasons for sending her children to the Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences: they are learning at the charter and she doesn't trust their education, or safety, to the city's historically poor public schools. Each student coaxed back means $7,550 in state funding. If 1,000 students return, then Detroit gets $7.5 million. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Felicia Harvey has two reasons for sending her children to the Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences: They are learning at the charter school and she doesn't trust their education — or safety — to the city's historically poor public schools.

Neb. man stole Virgin Mary painting for abortion (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 12:45 PM PDT

AP - A Nebraska man who stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to finance an abortion for a teen he raped has been convicted of first-degree sexual assault and felony theft.

NYC school makes harbor its classroom (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 10:50 AM PDT

In this May 28, 2009 photo, Esther Whitmore, first mate, right, talks to students about life aboard the Clearwater, a vintage Hudson River sloop, during a field trip in New York Harbor. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - It was an optimistic gesture by a leading state in the fledgling country. In 1790, Governors Island, a half-mile off the tip of Manhattan, was set aside for the benefit of education.

Bolt wins 3rd gold at worlds, minus world record (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 04:03 PM PDT

United States' Dwight Phillips celebrates winning gold in the final of the Men's Long Jump during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - For once, Usain Bolt ran in a final that didn't produce a world record.

Ga. dog pack shows fine line between pet, predator (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 09:55 AM PDT

FILE-This June 19, 2008 file photo shows Cy,left and Apella,right, part-Wakon malamute wolfdogs owned by Karen Cooper of Edmond .Research shows that in general, how many wolf-like traits a dog has is related to how little or how much a dog looks like a wolf, said Beaver, a veterinarian and professor at Texas A&M University's Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery. (AP Photo/The Edmond Sun,Kimberly Hill)AP - A dog pack blamed for the killings of a Georgia couple is a reminder of the fragility of mankind's pact with canines. Underlying the relationship between the species is a simple expectation: We feed them, they don't kill us.

US families of Lockerbie victims plan next move (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 11:24 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 - Relatives of Americans killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, plan to converge on New York City in September to protest Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's speech at the United Nations.

Countdown begins for Tuesday space shuttle launch (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 02:41 AM PDT

Astronaut Nicole Stott, top left, a mission specialist and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang, of Sweden, members of the space shuttle Discovery crew, arrive at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Discovery is targeted for an early morning launch on Aug. 25.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - NASA has begun the launch countdown for space shuttle Discovery.

2 killed in small plane crash near Ohio school (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 03:56 AM PDT

AP - Officials say two people have been killed when a biplane crashed near a football scrimmage at an Ohio high school.

Pilot pleaded to evacuate stranded passengers (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 07:29 PM PDT

AP - Continental Express Flight 2816 smelled like diapers. It had no food and a full toilet. Its 47 passengers had been stranded on a tarmac in southern Minnesota since after midnight.

Runaway convert to stay in Fla. pending hearing (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 08:32 PM PDT

FILE - In a Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 photo, Mohamed Bary, right, his wife Aysha, center, and their son Rilvan answer questions about their daughter Rifqa during an interview, in Columbus, Ohio. An Orlando judge will hear arguments Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 about whether 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, who ran away from home because she thought she would be harmed for converting to Christianity, should stay in state custody in Florida or be returned to her family in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)AP - An Ohio teen who says she ran away from home because she feared punishment for converting from Islam to Christianity will stay in Florida while custody issues are being settled, a judge ruled Friday.

Seattle mystery man still going by Jon Doe (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 06:33 PM PDT

AP - Little snippets of memories have been coming back to the man who now calls himself Jon Doe: being treated in Shanghai for a kidney stone, a high school girlfriend, a wife who died while pregnant.

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