2009年9月4日星期五

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Firefighters remembered as murder case picks up (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 05:07 PM PDT

Dave Johnson looks over the remains of his home, destroyed by the Station fire, on Stonyvale Road off Big Tujunga Canyon Road in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Johnson, who grew up in the home, says he is debating rebuilding. 'Fifty-one years was a good run. I may have to move on,' he said. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)AP - Investigators worked around-the-clock Friday at a charred hillside as they sought to build a murder case stemming from a huge wildfire that claimed the lives of two firefighters.

Calif. kidnap case prompts look back at cold cases (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:03 PM PDT

Phillip Garrido looks out at the courtroom during his arraignment on 28 felony counts stemming from the abduction of Jaycee Dugard,11, in 1991, in the El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. Garrido pleaded not guilty on charges including forciable abduction, rape, sexual assault and false imprisonment. At left is El Dorado County Public Defender Suan Gellman who represented Garrido.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Police are scouring old records of major unsolved cases in northern Nevada to determine if any match the profile of the man charged in the abduction and assault of a California girl 18 years ago.

Revised formula counts more Americans in poverty (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:22 PM PDT

Simon Norwood, a construction worker who hasn't found work in months, poses in a garage apartment belonging to a friend in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. The official poverty rate for Americans 65 years and older has stood for years at 10 percent, the lowest rate among age groups. But the true rate could be nearly twice that high, according to a revised formula created by the National Academy of Sciences that is gaining favor among public officials, including some in the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.

Man who called 911 charged with mobile home deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 06:05 PM PDT

Guy Heinze Jr. is seen in this undated handout photograph released by the Glynn County Police in southeastern Georgia August 31, 2009. Police have arrested Heinze on eights counts of murder, according to U.S. media reports on September 4, 2009. REUTERS/Glynn County Police Department/Handout (UNITED STATES CRIME LAW HEADSHOT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - A man who told police "My whole family's dead!" in a frantic 911 call was charged Friday with killing the eight people attacked in his family's Georgia mobile home.

Appeals court rules against Ashcroft in 9/11 case (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 05:33 PM PDT

AP - A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11.

In wildfires, it takes a city to save a city (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 05:15 PM PDT

Firefighters and law enforcement officials line up at the Station fire command center to salute a procession for Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Tedmund Hall, who died along with firefighter Arnaldo Quinones, Aug. 30, when their truck plunged down a hillside, Friday, Sept 4, 2009, in Los Angeles. A formal memorial for both is planned for Sept.. 12 at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - "Good morning!" Capt. Chip Paulson shouts from the canvas deck chair beside his fire engine. Never mind that it's just shy of 4 p.m.

Ex-immigration agent accused of cocaine smuggling (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:51 PM PDT

AP - A former high-ranking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was stationed in Mexico before retiring in 2007 was arrested Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.

2 radio towers in Washington state toppled (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:34 PM PDT

AP - Two radio station towers near Seattle that have generated intense local opposition were toppled early Friday in an act of sabotage that bore the initials of the radical Earth Liberation Front.

Sisters of 9/11 activist widow walk similar path (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:47 PM PDT

Susan Bourque, right, and Karen Eckert pose for a photo in East Aurora, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - None of the Eckert sisters ever envisioned walking the halls of Congress, advocating to right wrongs to protect the country from tragedy.

Texas lawmaker: Death row inmate made Web threats (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:42 PM PDT

AP - Prison officials are investigating whether a Texas death row inmate accused of threatening a state lawmaker using a smuggled cell phone is behind an Internet posting that threatens the lawmaker and his family.

Tigers longtime announcer Harwell, 91, has cancer (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT

FILE -In this Sept 15, 2002 file photo, former Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell laughs with his wife, Lulu, during a ceremony honoring Harwell's 55 years as a major-league announcer in Detroit. Harwell has been diagnosed with an incurable cancer on Sept 4, 2009. The 91-year-old Harwell remains upbeat after an inoperable tumor was found in the area of the bile duct. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Ernie Harwell, the 91-year-old Baseball Hall of Fame honoree and longtime broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers, said Friday that he has inoperable cancer.

Ag industry defends itself over grisly chick video (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:31 PM PDT

In this undated image made from video and provided Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 by Mercy for Animals, male chicks are separated from females at Hy-Line North America's hatchery in Spencer, Iowa. An animal rights group is calling on the nation's largest grocery story chains to post warnings on egg cartons that unwanted male chicks are ground up alive, after videotaping the common industry practice at an Iowa egg hatchery. (AP Photo/Mercy for Animals)AP - Paul Lasley cringed when he heard about an undercover video showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa hatchery.

Ex-soldier gets 5 life sentences Iraqi deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green, 24, of Midland, Texas, is taken in the back of the court building in Paducah, Ky. by US marshals Friday Sept. 4, 2009 for formal sentencing to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the shooting deaths of three of her family members. A civilian jury convicted Green in May of rape and multiple counts of murder for the deaths of the al-Janabi family on March 12, 2006. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)AP - A former soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family members.

Ala. man dies when hit by train for second time (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 10:27 AM PDT

AP - A homeless man who survived being struck by a train two years ago has died after being hit by another train as he sat on the tracks.

Mortgage giants struggle a year after takeover (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2008 file photo, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James Lockhart, left, concludes his remarks as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Jr., right, takes his turn at the microphone during a news conference in Washington on the bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A year after the collapse of the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Americans remain almost entirely dependent on the government to keep them and the housing market alive. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)AP - A year after the near-collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants remain dependent on the government for survival and there is no end in sight.

Police: Texas grandma made bomb threat to school (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 09:23 AM PDT

AP - Officials accuse a 51-year-old San Antonio grandmother of phoning a bomb threat to an elementary school that wouldn't let her visit her grandchildren.

Ex-POW returning to German cellar to dig up pilot's wings (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 06:14 AM PDT

WWII bombing pilot Bernard Harding, 90, poses at his home with a photo of his squadron from the 8th Air Force's 492 Bomb Group in Milford, N.H., Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. Sixty- five years after his plane was shot down in Germany, Harding returns to the small town in hopes he can find the lapel wings he buried in the dirt cellar where he was held captive.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Sixty-five years ago, 1st Lt. Bernerd Harding huddled in a cellar with a few other airmen captured by German farmers and buried his pilot's wings, fearful he'd be beaten or shot as an American bomber pilot.

T. rex for sale: Dinosaur fossil on block in Vegas (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:30 PM PDT

AP - Museums and high-rolling natural history buffs will get a crack at buying a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex next month at a Las Vegas Strip auction.

NY researchers give ladybugs a birds-and-bees talk (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:39 PM PDT

This June 18, 2009 photo provided by Cornell University shows a nine-spotted ladybug in a lab at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado. Of particular interest are the nine-spotted, two-spotted and transverse ladybugs, three native species that have declined dramatically in the last decade. (AP Photo/Cornell University, Ellen Woods, HO)AP - A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.

Attorney: Ford settles NJ toxic waste lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 11:41 AM PDT

AP - The Ford Motor Co. has settled a lawsuit filed by residents of a northern New Jersey town over toxic waste dumped there in the 1960s and '70s.

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