2009年9月8日星期二

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Boy hidden behind wall remains in state custody (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 04:03 PM PDT

Before being taken into a Franklin County Sheriff's squad car Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009 , Shannon Wilfong, 30, responds to a reporter's question about her son in Benton, Ill. Ricky Chekevdia , a 6-year-old boy whose mother, Shannon Wilfong, is accused of hiding him in a crawl space for nearly two years whenever visitors arrived will remain in state custody while he gets counseling meant to eventually reunite him with his father. Ricky and his mother vanished in November 2007. They were found Friday hiding in a small crawl space in his grandmother's two-story home in southern Illinois. (AP Photo/The Southern Illinoisan, Steve Jahnke)AP - A 6-year-old boy whose mother is accused of hiding him in a crawl space for nearly two years whenever visitors arrived will remain in state custody while he gets counseling meant to eventually reunite him with his father.

Management of DNA sample at issue in Wis. killings (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 05:27 PM PDT

An undated photo released by the Milwaukee County Jail shows Walter E. Ellis, 49, of Milwaukee. Ellis faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the killings of Joyce Mims, 41, and Ouithreaun Stokes, 28, who were strangled a decade apart. Authorities say he is suspected in the killings of at least eight women over 21 years in Milwaukee, and has been charged in connection with two of the homicides. (AP Photo/ Milwaukee County Jail via Journal Sentinal)AP - Police investigating a string of cold-case slayings identified their prime suspect after obtaining DNA from his toothbrush late last month, but investigators should have had a sample from him eight years earlier and before the last killing.

Blagojevich: Words on FBI tape out of context (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 04:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2009 file photo, ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is seen leaving federal court in Chicago. On Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, Blagojevich began a media blitz for his new 264-page book, 'The Governor' being released Tuesday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Tuesday that statements he made on secret FBI wiretap tapes were taken out of context by prosecutors and that he might try to call senators and a top White House official as witnesses at his racketeering and fraud trial to back his version of events.

Ex-president seeks to block National Baptist vote (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 04:18 PM PDT

AP - A preacher who wants to resume leading the National Baptist Convention USA after serving a prison term for stealing millions of dollars from the denomination has asked a court to stop an upcoming presidential election.

Aspen confronts bolder bears looking for food (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT

In this Aug. 25, 2009 photo, a bear forages for food in a crab apple tree in the city of Aspen, Colo. Nine bears have been killed by wildlife officers in and near Aspen so far this summer as some bears have gotten more aggressive in looking for food to prepare for hibernation. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - It's nearly 2 a.m. and authorities have found the suspect in a string of break-ins into multimillion-dollar homes. His nose led him right to their trap — a cage filled with barbecue-scented cantaloupe and peaches.

Ky. mother upset by football player son's baptism (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - The parents of a 16-year-old Kentucky football player who was baptized along with some teammates during a trip organized by their coach said Tuesday they believe their son may have felt some pressure to go through with the ceremony.

Minn. man charged with killing toddler at church (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 04:04 PM PDT

This mug photo provided by the Traverse County Sheriff's Office shows David Collins. Two men are being charged in a baseball bat attack at a western Minnesota church that left a 14-month-old girl dead. Darryl Kennedy and David Collins were arrested last week after the incident inside Thy Kingdom Come Church in Wheaton, Minn. Prosecutors on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 are charged Collins with two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of second-degree assault. Kennedy is being charged with one count of second-degree assault. (AP Photo/Traverse County Sheriff's Office)AP - A man accused of killing a 14-month-old girl with a baseball bat in church while trying to settle a score with her father was charged with murdering her on Tuesday.

Federal judge: NY violated rights of mentally ill (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 04:11 PM PDT

AP - New York state violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by housing more than 4,300 mentally ill people in large nursing homes rather than integrating them into the community, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Police: Suspect alone beat 8 to death in Ga. home (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 02:56 PM PDT

File - In this file photo released on Aug. 30, 2009 by the Glynn County Police Department, Guy Heinze Jr. is shown. Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said two new pieces of information led authorities to charge Heinze late Friday Sept. 4, 2009. After a week working a case so murky they could not say whether a killer was on the loose, police said Guy Heinze Jr. was responsible for the slayings he reported and charged him with eight counts of first-degree murder. Among the dead were seven of his relatives, including his father. (AP Photo/Glynn County Police Department, File)AP - A 22-year-old man acted alone when he bludgeoned his father and seven others to death inside a coastal Georgia mobile home, police said Tuesday, though authorities would not say what type of weapon was used.

Space shuttle undocks from space station (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 03:48 PM PDT

In this image made from video provided by NASA astronaut John 'Danny' Olivas, STS-128 mission specialist, center left, shakes hands and thanks the commander of the space station Russia's Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Gennady Padalka before the hatches between the orbiting shuttle and station close Monday Sept. 7, 2009. The shuttle will undock Tuesday. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts pulled away from the international space station on Tuesday and headed home, leaving tons of fresh supplies behind as well as a new face.

Dutch royals visit NY 400 years after Henry Hudson (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 01:14 PM PDT

A replica of Henry Hudson's ship Half Moon makes its way up the Hudson River during a ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 in New York in which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomed Dutch royals Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince of Orange, and his wife, Princess Maxima to New York for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage up the river that now bears his name. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, met dignitaries up and down the Hudson River, lunched with military cadets and lauded their country's long friendship with the United States as they marked the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage.

Swine flu hits Washington State Univ. (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 02:31 PM PDT

A doctor demonstrates how to carry out the flu vaccination against the H1N1. Some 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of swine flu, university officials said, in one of the largest reported outbreaks of the virus on a US college campus.(AFP/DDP/File/Thomas Lohnes)AP - Washington State University is in the midst of a swine flu outbreak since classes started last month, with 2,500 people contacting student health to report flu-like symptoms and officials handing out flu kits around campus.

Obama's back-to-school speech inspires some kids (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 03:51 PM PDT

Third grader Bryce Rees, 7, watches the education speech given by President Barack Obama, at Sequoia Elementary School in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - On the very first day of the school year, 12-year-old Mileena Rodriguez was reminded by President Barack Obama himself that hard work can take you places.

4 women in lover's gluing must stand trial (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 01:59 PM PDT

AP - A man whose penis was glued to his stomach testified Tuesday that a motel tryst with a girlfriend involving a bondage fantasy turned painful and humiliating after his wife, a second girlfriend and another woman burst into the room and harassed him because of his cheating ways.

AP photographer gets subpoena in Katrina probe (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 02:43 PM PDT

AP - An Associated Press photographer has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury probing the death of a man whose burned body was found in a car near a police station several weeks after Hurricane Katrina.

Calif. utility proposes novel wildfire tactic (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 12:28 PM PDT

AP - A San Diego utility has come up with an unusual tactic to prevent wildfires this fall: Turn off the electricity to a vast swath of homes before the flames arrive. It says such a measure could have prevented three major fires that devastated the region two years ago.

US says Tamiflu for the sick, not a preventive (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 02:34 PM PDT

AP - Most people who get swine flu don't need prescription flu drugs, nor do the "worried well," government doctors said Tuesday as they issued new guidelines for medicines in big demand. The drugs Tamiflu and Relenza should only be used to treat people who are sick and at high risk for complications, federal health officials said.

4 cemetery desecration suspects plead not guilty (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 11:48 AM PDT

AP - Four former cemetery workers pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges accusing them of digging up bodies at a historic suburban Chicago graveyard in order to resell the burial plots.

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