2009年8月30日星期日

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Vanessa Williams to put on a show at Daytime Emmys (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 05:14 PM PDT

Ellen DeGeneres, right, and Portia de Ross arrive at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday Aug. 30, 2009, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - The Daytime Emmys are going retro-glam.


Police arrest man who reported 7 dead in Ga. home (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 05:09 PM PDT

Glynn County investigators work on the porch of the house at New Hope Mobile Home Park in Brunswick, Ga where seven people were found slain Saturday morning 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/The Florida Times-Union, Terry Dickson)AP - The man who reported the gruesome slayings of seven people in a Georgia mobile home faces charges of lying to police and tampering with evidence, and authorities said Sunday they haven't ruled him out as a suspect in the killings.


Calif. wildfire heads north, threatens thousands (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 05:09 PM PDT

Residents help Roberto Bombalier evacuate a 2-year-old horse on foot as the Station fire burns in the Angeles National Forest above Acton, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. The horse had not been trained for trailer travel yet.  (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)AP - Wildfire threatened 12,000 suburban homes and rained ash on cars as far away as downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, spreading in all directions in hot, dry conditions. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged those in the fire's path to listen to authorities and get out.


USS Missouri to get Pearl Harbor shipyard makeover (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 03:09 PM PDT

Michael Carr, president of the Battleship Missouri Memorial, speaks on the deck of the historic World War II vessel in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. The now decommissioned ship, where Japan formally surrendered to end World War II in 1945, is scheduled to go into  dry dock on Oct. 14 for repainting and other regular maintenance.  (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)AP - The "Mighty Mo," the World War II battleship best known for hosting the formal surrender of Japan in 1945, is heading to the shipyard for repairs.


Kennedy remembered for his years in the Senate (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 10:48 AM PDT

Sen. Edward Kennedy's grandchildren and family members kneel over his coffin during his burial service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. Kennedy, 77, died Tuesday, Aug. 25 more than a year after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, laid to rest alongside his slain brothers John and Robert, was remembered as a "veritable force of nature" who worked tirelessly in the Senate for nearly five decades on the causes he cared about deeply.


Fortune helped fuel Kennedy family legacy, agenda (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 01:15 PM PDT

The flag-draped coffin of  Sen. Edward Kennedy is carried by a joint service military honor guard at Arlington National Cemetery 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 Kennedy's family fortune not only fueled his brothers' presidential campaigns and his eight terms in the U.S. Senate, it also helped drive the family's liberal legacy and forge Kennedy's lifelong crusade for universal health care.


Kidnapped girl's story gives hope to some parents (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 12:07 PM PDT

In this Aug. 28, 2009 photo, Jerry Wetterling and wife Patty, right, show a photo of their son Jacob Wetterling, who was abducted in October of 1989 in St. Joseph, Minn., and is still missing, in Minneapolis, Minn. Wetterling keeps a scrapbook of news clippings about abducted children being reunited with their families years later. It's a source of hope for Wetterling, whose son, Jacob, was abducted nearly 20 years ago in central Minnesota. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - Patty Wetterling keeps a scrapbook of news clippings about abducted children being reunited with their families years later. It's a source of hope for Wetterling, whose son, Jacob, was abducted nearly 20 years ago in central Minnesota.


Calif. police expand search in kidnaping case (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 03:25 PM PDT

This undated file photo obtained August 27, 2009 from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows Jaycee Lee Dugard. Police on Sunday continued to seek answers to how a convicted sexual predator was able to kidnap a young girl and keep her, along with the two children she bore him in captivity, for nearly two decades.(AFP/FBI/File)AP - Armed with rakes, shovels and chain saws, about 20 officers on Sunday combed the backyard of a couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard and used cadaver dogs to search an adjoining property where neighbors say one of the suspects once served as a caretaker.


Kidnapped girl etched in Tahoe community's heart (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 07:49 AM PDT

This is a home in Antioch, Calif., Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, where authorities say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived. Dugard, was 11 when she was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Some knew her, others only knew of her. But they will never forget the day 18 years ago when the blonde, blue-eyed 11-year-old was snatched in broad daylight on her way to a bus stop.


Bush daughter Jenna Hager becomes 'Today' reporter (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 11:57 AM PDT

In this July 23, 2009 photo, Jenna Bush Hager poses for a portrait in New York. NBC's 'Today' show has hired Hager as a correspondent. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)AP - NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent — former first daughter Jenna Hager.


10-year-old NM boy accused of murdering father (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 11:49 AM PDT

AP - Police in New Mexico say a 10-year-old-boy will be charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his father.

State fairs offer many people badly needed jobs (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 11:47 AM PDT

In this Aug. 28, 2009 photo, Richard Briggs, 38, of Mendota Heights, Minn., an out-of-work financial analyst, cleans buildings during his temporary job at the Minnesota State Fair in St Paul, Minn. A year's worth of failed job leads prepared Briggs for anything, including night shifts as a Minnesota State Fair custodian. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - A year's worth of failed job leads prepared Richard Briggs for anything, including night shifts as a Minnesota State Fair custodian.


Firefighters battle blaze near small Utah town (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 04:30 PM PDT

AP - About 275 more homes were evacuated Sunday as a wildfire that already destroyed three houses and blackened more than 15 square miles continued to threaten this rural southwestern Utah town.

Conn. and Pa. state budgets still in limbo (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 10:10 AM PDT

AP - A program that helps thousands of Connecticut welfare recipients find work has been in limbo for two months. Family resource centers, which provide child care, adult education, and other services, have shut their doors.

Category 4 hurricane threatens Mexico's west coast (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 02:08 PM PDT

Map tracks Hurricane Jimena in the Pacific Ocean as of 11 a.m. EDT SundayAP - Jimena strengthened into a dangerous Category 4 hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast Sunday, and forecasters said it could hit the Baja California peninsula as a major storm in the coming days.


3 Texas boaters missing for a week rescued at sea (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 02:54 PM PDT

AP - Three Texas boaters missing for a week were reunited with their families early Sunday after they were found alive, sitting on top of their capsized catamaran 180 miles from land, the Coast Guard said.

Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington, beside brothers (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 10:47 AM PDT

Family members gather at the coffin of Sen. Edward Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. Kennedy, 77, died Tuesday, Aug. 25 more than a year after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool)AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was laid to rest Saturday night alongside slain brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery, celebrated for "the dream he kept alive" across the decades since their deaths.


Coroner report: Teen's football death an accident (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 09:48 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Gilpin family, Max Gilpin is shown during his 15th birthday party, in July, 2008, in Louisville, Ky. After two-plus hours of practice, Pleasure Ridge Park football coach David Jason Stinson had enough goofing off. The first-year head coach ordered the 100 or so players to run sprints until someone quit the team. Five got sick, two eventually quit and 15-year-old offensive lineman Max Gilpin collapsed, dying three days later at a hospital. A year later, as Stinson prepares for a closely watched criminal trial. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Courier-Journal)AP - A coroner's report completed months before a high school football coach was charged with reckless homicide in a player's death declared the death an accident.


Shuttle Discovery almost at space station (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 04:22 PM PDT

The space shuttle Discovery lifts off from launch pad 39-A on August 28, 2009 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The US shuttle Discovery on Sunday was closing in on the International Space Station to deliver food, a lab freezer and a treadmill to the orbiting outpost.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AP - Space shuttle Discovery closed in fast on the international space station for a Sunday night linkup more than 200 miles above the planet.


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