2009年9月6日星期日

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2-year-old, 3 others dead in La. murder-suicide (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:12 PM PDT

This mug photo provided by the Livingston Parish sheriff's office shows 50-year-old Dennis Carter Sr. The man shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson to death and seriously wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law Saturday at their rural Louisiana home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over his car 20 minutes later, authorities said. (AP Photo/Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office)AP - A man shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson to death and seriously wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law at their rural Louisiana home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over his car 20 minutes later, authorities said.

About 2,000 turn out for parade for kidnap victim (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:49 PM PDT

Laurie Ault, right holding Jaycee Lee Dugard poster, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., marches in a parade on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009, in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., that followed the reverse route of a march held on the 10th anniversary of Dugard's abduction from a school bus stop. Dugard turned up at a Concord, Calif., police station on Aug. 26, 2009, after being abducted in 1991 at age 11. (AP Photo/Brad Horn)AP - The town where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped 18 years ago celebrated her astounding reappearance with a parade Sunday while she remained secluded with her family in Northern California.

Former cocaine kingpin now serves dogs, not drugs (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 03:23 PM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, Johnny Cappas, co-owner of Johnny's WeeNee Wagon, moves his Lucky Dog, a gift from his girlfriend, outside his hot dog stand in Markham, Ill. Cappas, a one-time 'drug kingpin' as the papers called him, was making $25,000 a week selling cocaine before he went to federal prison in 1989 for what turned out to be a 15-year term. He was released from prison in 2004 and this summer with a partner bought the hot dog stand. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Two decades after customers clamored to buy cocaine from a teenager named John Cappas, they're lined up again to buy what he has to sell: Hot dogs.

Inmates prayed, prepared for death in LA wildfire (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:47 AM PDT

Inmate firefighter Henry Navarro, 28, with the Mount Gleason Conservation Camp 16, is covered in sweat as he and other inmate firefighters walk down a steep hill after eight hours of fighting a wildfire in the Angeles National Forest near Azusa, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. On Aug. 29, the crews had just finished eating a Sunday dinner of salad, turkey and mashed potatoes with gravy when the fire appeared in a drainage area at the southwest edge of camp around 4:45 p.m. Within minutes, the officers decided the blaze had reached a 'trigger point.' Around 5 p.m., Capt. Tedmund Hall and firefighter specialist Arnaldo Quinones radioed that they were heading back to the safety zone. They never showed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - As he reached the door of the chow hall, Henry Navarro looked to his right and uttered an expletive. Then he looked to his left and spat out an even stronger one.

Cougar caught in Seattle being released in wild (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 02:01 PM PDT

Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife Sgt. Kim Chandler, left, looks in the cage of a male cougar in Seattle, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009. The cougar apparently had lived in Seattle for more than two weeks and forced Discovery Park, the city's largest park, to close was captured and returned to the wild, state wildlife officials said. (AP Photo/Kevin P. Casey)AP - A cougar that apparently had lived in Seattle for more than two weeks and forced the city's largest park to close was captured early Sunday and returned to the wild, state wildlife officials said.

Water main break causes flooding in Los Angeles (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:36 PM PDT

Department of Water & Power workers drain the water from a huge hole created when a water pipe burst late Saturday night in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)AP - Crews were cleaning up mud and broken asphalt Sunday after a deluge from a burst water main swept cars down streets, forced people out of their homes and flooded a section of a major Los Angeles boulevard.

AP: Layoffs toughest on young, older workers (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:34 PM PDT

This Sept. 1, 2009 photo shows Marcus Wells looking for work at the State of California Employment Development Department in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Marcus Wells and Shirley Walker view their economic prospects from opposite ends of the age spectrum.

Fallout from nuclear tests leads to health crisis (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:33 PM PDT

Pius Henry, originally from the Marshall Islands, and 30 other Micronesians protest for the continuation of their health care in front of the Hawaii State Capital in Honolulu Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. Henry is a diabetic and receives dialysis treatments three-times-a week. The state of Hawaii is cash strapped and has threatened to cut off him and others to save money. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)AP - Pius Henry fears his adopted government will kill him, that the United States won't live up to a health care obligation to people from Pacific islands where it tested nuclear bombs.

Mass. lawmakers prep for Kennedy successor hearing (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:43 PM PDT

RESEND of a graphic that first moved Aug. 31; graphic shows possible Mass. Senate candidatesAP - Democratic and Republican lawmakers are gearing up for a contentious public hearing over a bill that would allow Gov. Deval Patrick to name a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Kennedy's vacant U.S. Senate seat.

Edward Kennedy's son thanks public for condolences (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 02:23 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photograph provided by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., right, poses for a picture with his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., at the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the Capitol in Washington. Congressman Kennedy took out a half-page ad inside front section of Sept. 6, 2009 edition of The Providence Journal thanking his Rhode Island constituents for their support and sympathy after his father's death. (AP Photo/Sen. Patrick Leahy, file)AP - The son of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy is thanking his Rhode Island constituents for their support and sympathy after his father's death.

Question remains: What will rise at ground zero? (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:45 AM PDT

In this aerial file photo of March 22, 2009, the World Trade Center site, lower center, and New York's financial district are shown. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - The five skyscrapers were all supposed to rise by early next decade to replace the ravaged World Trade Center, with the city's tallest towers set in a spiral evoking the Statue of Liberty's torch.

Shock and caw: Pesky starlings still overwhelm (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:36 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows a flock of European starlings massing in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana in the fall of 2008. Starlings have become a nuisance in several urban areas across the country. (AP Photo/USDA)AP - The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare — or, better yet, a few of his strangest fans.

Crack could keep Bay Bridge closed 1 more workday (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:45 PM PDT

A replacement section slides into place connecting the new detour route during the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge seismic retrofit in San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. The bridge is closed over the Labor Day weekend and expected to reopen before morning rush hour Tuesday. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)AP - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is likely to remain closed at least a day longer than expected as crews race to repair a significant crack in a steel link that holds up part of the span, a state transportation official said Sunday.

Endangered Sumatran rhino dies at Cincinnati Zoo (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2006 file photo, Cincinnati Zoo keeper Renee Carpenter holds a canvas for Emi, a Sumatran rhino who paints with her mouth, at the Cincinnati Zoo. The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden says the 21-year-old Sumatran rhino that had been at the zoo for 14 years, died Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009, after appearing less energetic for several weeks. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman, file)AP - An endangered Sumatran rhino has died at the Cincinnati Zoo, a setback to a program that successfully produced the first calves born in captivity in more than a century.

Chargers LB Merriman arrested in domestic call (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:15 PM PDT

San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman (56) reacts near the end of the Chargers' 27-24 loss in an NFL preseason football game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - San Diego Chargers star outside linebacker Shawne Merriman was arrested Sunday and accused of choking and restraining his girlfriend, reality TV star Tila Tequila, as she tried to leave his suburban home.

'Final Destination' sustains fear factor with $12M (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:07 AM PDT

A scene from AP - Fear has trumped romance at the box office over Labor Day weekend.

Ohio pickup hits Amish buggy, killing 3 siblings (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:41 AM PDT

AP - Law enforcement officials say a pickup truck rammed into the back of an Amish buggy in northeast Ohio, ejecting three siblings and killing them.

Crews work to hold Calif. wildfire's eastern edge (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:22 PM PDT

Lew Johnson, 74, carries a bucket of recovered items as he returns for the first time to the ruins of his home on Stonyvale Road in Big Tujunga Canyon in the Angeles National Forest, in the Tujunga area of Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. He had left his home for Canada on Aug. 28, the day before the Station Fire struck. He had no idea that the blaze, the largest in Los Angeles County history, had destroyed more than five dozen homes, including his own, and claimed the lives of two firefighters. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - With the massive wildfire burning north of Los Angeles more than half contained, hand crews were working Sunday to keep the fire's eastern flank from crossing a rural mountain highway, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said.

Teen says brother innocent in Ga. mobile home case (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 02:58 PM PDT

Tyler Heinze, 16, the brother of Guy Heinze, Jr., who is charged with killing eight people in a Brunswick, Ga. mobile home park, walks away from the media after the funeral of his father, Guy Heinze Sr. and six other victims Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 in Townsend, Ga. Family members prepared Saturday to bury seven people killed in a mobile home park massacre in southeast Georgia, while also grappling with the shocking news that one of their own relatives had been charged in the slayings. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - The brother of a Georgia man charged with slaying his father and seven others in a mobile home insisted Saturday that the suspect would never harm his family, and he also speculated that a dispute over drugs could have prompted the killings.

Great white sharks tagged for first time off Mass. (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:22 AM PDT

This image provided by the Massachusets State Division of Marine Fisheries shows a great white shark swimming in the waters near Cape Cod Mass. in Oct. 2004. Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod — the first time the fearsome fish have ever been tagged in the Atlantic Ocean. The sharks were spotted Saturday Sept. 5, 2009 by scientists investigating sightings off Monomoy Island in Chatham. Sharks are common in Cape waters during summer, though great white sharks are relatively rare around New England. (AP Photo/Massachusets State Division of Marine Fisheries)AP - Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod — the first time the fearsome fish have ever been tagged in the Atlantic Ocean.

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