2009年8月29日星期六

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Kennedy carried to Arlington, laid beside brothers (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 04:58 PM PDT

The funeral procession of Sen. Edward Kennedy crosses the Memorial Bridge as it heads to Arlington National Cemetery from Washington, the Lincoln Memorial is in the background in Arlington, Va. Saturday Aug. 29, 2009. Kennedy died late Tuesday of brain cancer at the age of 77. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was laid to rest alongside slain brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday evening, celebrated for "the dream he kept alive" across the decades since their deaths.

Calif. firefighters wage fierce wildfire battles (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 04:27 PM PDT

A firefighter looks on as they battle the Station fire burning in the Angeles National Forest northeast of downtown Los Angeles on Firday, Aug. 28, 2009. The Los Angles Sheriff's Department says a voluntary evacuation is being urged for nearly 900 homes in the La Canada Flintridge area. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)AP - A growing wildfire sending massive billows of smoke into the sky north of Los Angeles nearly tripled in size Saturday, injuring three residents, knocking out power to homes and prompting evacuations in a number of mountain communities.

7 found slain at Ga. mobile home, 2 badly hurt (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 04:50 PM PDT

The house at New Hope Mobile Home Park in Brunswick, Ga where seven people were found slain Saturday morning is surrounded with police tape Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. Seven people were found slain and two critically injured Saturday at a mobile home located on a historic plantation in southeastern Georgia, police said. (AP Photo/Lewis Levine)AP - Seven people were found slain and two critically injured Saturday at a mobile home park built on the grounds of a historic plantation in southeastern Georgia, police said.

Police review cases for connections to kidnap case (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 02:56 PM PDT

Police officers stand outside the home of alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido as they search the property in Antioch, California on August 28, 2009. Americans are aghast, asking how California authorities managed to miss for 18 years that a convicted sex criminal was holding a girl as a sex slave in his back yard, almost under their noses.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - Police on Saturday searched the home of a California couple charged with kidnapping a little girl 18 years ago looking for evidence linking them to other open cases in the area, including the unsolved murders of prostitutes.

Danny wets East Coast; Pacific storm strengthens (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:41 PM PDT

Paul Ray, of Kitty Hawk, N.C., walks in the surf under Avalon's Fishing Pier in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009 after tropical storm Danny weakened to a tropical depression overnight. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - Heavy rain and dangerous rip currents from a weak tropical system emptied East Coast beaches for a second straight late-summer weekend, while a hurricane that could clip Mexico's coast next week grew stronger in the Pacific.

Latest abduction invokes saga of Elizabeth Smart (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:45 PM PDT

FILE - In a Wednesday, April 30, 2003 file photo, Ed Smart walks with his daughter Elizabeth Smart to the Rose Garden of the White House. Smart told AP Radio Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 that said he's horrified by the parallels between the case of Jaycee Lee Dugard, found this week after an abduction in South Lake Tahoe, Nev. that lasted nearly two decades, and his own daughter's nine months with an alleged kidnapper in 2003. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - The Utah father of Elizabeth Smart said he's horrified by the parallels between the latest abduction story to grip the nation and his own daughter's long journey with an alleged kidnapper.

Shuttle steers closer to space station for hookup (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 04:23 PM PDT

The space shuttle Discovery lifts off on a mission to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida August 28, 2009. REUTERS/Michael BerriganAP - Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts steered closer to the international space station for a Sunday linkup, while checking their ship for any signs of launch damage.

DJ AM in July: 'I'm blessed. I'm alive. I'm here.' (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:30 PM PDT

In this March 18, 2006 photo, celebrity disc jockey Adam Goldstein, also known as DJ AM, spins records at the Moody Blues clothing store opening in Scottsdale, Ariz. A law enforcement official says the celebrity disc jockey known as DJ AM has been found dead in a New York City apartment. .(AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP - For a club deejay, it was unusually early, about 10 a.m. But Adam Goldstein, a.k.a. DJ AM, was bright-eyed and undeniably energized on a late morning last month at a summer session of the Television Critics Association.

Terri Schiavo's father dies in Florida at 71 (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:15 PM PDT

AP - The father of Terri Schiavo, who became a national symbol in a closely watched right-to-die fight, has died, his son said Saturday. Robert Schindler was 71.

Gone 18 years, girl found but questions remain (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 12:33 PM PDT

A tent is shown in the backyard of a home in Antioch, Calif., Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, where authorities say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived. The twisted kidnapping case of a woman held captive for 18 years in a secluded backyard compound took another disturbing turn Friday as authorities searched the home of her alleged captor for evidence in the murders of several prostitutes and new evidence surfaced of missed opportunities to arrest him years ago. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Phillip Garrido's unspeakable private life began unraveling in a very public place: a college campus.

Justifiable homicide defense eyed in Roeder's case (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 12:15 PM PDT

FILE -In this July 28, 2009 file photo, Scott Roeder, left, attends his preliminary hearing in court in Wichita, Kan. Roeder, 51, is charged in the death of Dr. George Tiller. (AP Photo/Jaime Oppenheimer, Pool)AP - The suspect in the killing of abortion provider George Tiller is in talks with a prominent attorney who represents anti-abortion protesters and has long advocated justifiable homicide as a legal defense in such cases.

SC GOP vents anger over gov's extramarital affair (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:12 PM PDT

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford pauses as he speaks to the media about his secret trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina and admits to an extramarital affair at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina June 24, 2009. REUTERS/Tim Dominick/The StateAP - Republican legislators fumed Saturday over Gov. Mark Sanford's affair and questionable travel, though they stopped short of trying to force his resignation or impeachment before they return to the Statehouse in January.

Despite rain, Kennedy mourners flock to church (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 04:21 PM PDT

The casket of Sen. Edward Kennedy is carried into Our Lady of Perpetual Hope Basilica in Boston, Saturday, Aug., 29, 2009 for a Roman Catholic Funeral Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Hundreds of mourners lined the sidewalks near Boston's Mission Church where a funeral Mass was held Saturday for Sen. Edward Kennedy, with some holding signs urging lawmakers to approve health care legislation in his honor, and other saying they just wanted to witness a moment in history.

Arts an easy target as many states cut budgets (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 11:35 AM PDT

AP - Ben Ahlvers is a full-time arts education coordinator, but his passion is with the fanciful creatures, human figures and oversized hammers he fashions from clay.

Thousands attend Jackson birthday bash in New York (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:28 PM PDT

Filmmaker Spike Lee takes pictures of Michael Jackson fans as they gather to celebrate the late pop star's birthday at a party in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - Thousands of Michael Jackson fans danced the rain away in a Brooklyn park on Saturday at a party hosted by filmmaker Spike Lee, marking what would have been the 51st birthday of the late pop star.

Foster parents arrested in disappearance of CA boy (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 10:47 AM PDT

AP - The foster parents who held vigils pleading for the safe return of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy have been arrested on suspicion of murder, Oakland police said Friday.

For immigrants, Kennedy remained tireless advocate (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 06:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 1980 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy gestures as he stands with Cesar Chavez, right, in New York at a meeting of Hispanic American Democrats. As the nation mourns the passing of Sen. Kennedy, historians and immigrant activists say the late senator — perhaps more than any other senator — championed legislation that directly benefited immigrants, their children and their grandchildren. (AP Photo, File)AP - Before 1965, Leticia Hermosa had little chance of crossing the Pacific to the U.S. from the Philippines. Hermosa, a nurse, and others like her just couldn't get through the strict U.S. immigration quota system, which favored Western Europeans and essentially excluded those from Asia and Latin America.

Obama: No turf wars, red tape in Katrina recovery (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:22 PM PDT

FILE - This July 17, 2006 picture shows an old hurricane evacuation route sign in front of the closed Memorial Medical Center in the uptown area of New Orleans. Louisiana's top prosecutor said Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 he will not reopen a probe into allegations of euthanasia at a hospital crippled by Hurricane Katrina, despite new statements from a doctor that he drugged a terminal patient to 'get rid of her faster.' (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama marked the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday by pledging to make sure that turf wars and red tape don't slow the pace of the continuing recovery.

Kidnapping suspect once admitted to sex fantasies (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:03 AM PDT

AP - Phillip Garrido spent the 1970s on one debauchery after another: LSD trips, cocaine binges, pot smoking, public masturbation. Then in 1976, he found a new way to indulge his twisted sexual fantasies.

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