2009年9月9日星期三

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61 SC House Republicans call on governor to resign (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:19 PM PDT

Gov. Mark Sanford field questions from the public during WVOC radio personality Keven Cohen's radio show Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Sixty-one South Carolina House Republicans asked Gov. Mark Sanford to resign Wednesday, questioning his ability to lead the state since his unannounced summertime trip to see a mistress in Argentina and investigations of his state and private travel that followed.

Weather hinders backfire plan on Calif. wildfire (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:36 PM PDT

This image provided by NASA's Terra satellite on Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009, shows a satellite image of the Station Fire burning in Southern California. The fire started on August 26 in La Canada Flintridge near NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.,and soon grew to become the largest fire in Los Angeles County's history, consuming more than 160,000 acres (251 square miles), leaving behind a charred, blackened landscape (center area) as it spread eastward. Smoke from the actively burning area can be seen on the right hand side of the image. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Unfavorable weather brought further delay Wednesday to plans to set backfires in the battle against the giant 15-day-old wildfire burning in Southern California's Angeles National Forest.

NJ: 29 hepatitis cases tied to 1 doctor's office (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 05:01 PM PDT

AP - Several thousand patients of a New Jersey doctor should get tested for blood-borne diseases because of an outbreak linked to his office that has led to more than two dozen being diagnosed with hepatitis B, state health officials said.

Immigrant gets prison for killing 2 in NYC crash (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:51 PM PDT

AP - A drunken driver who slammed into a New York City livery cab and killed two people has been sentenced to 3 1/2 to 10 1/2 years in prison. The wreck came after he was ordered deported and charged in a deadly beating.

Judge faults removal of wolf from endangered list (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:44 PM PDT

AP - Hunters can keep stalking gray wolves for now in the Northern Rockies, but the killing may be short-lived after a federal judge found problems with the recent removal of the animal from the endangered species list.

Card says he is considering run for Kennedy's seat (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:44 PM PDT

AP - Former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says he is "thinking very seriously" about running for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's vacant Senate seat.

Former Pa. judges indicted in kids-for-cash scheme (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, Michael Conahan, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa. Two former Pennsylvania judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella Jr., were indicted Wednesday Sept. 9, 2009 on federal racketeering charges in connection with the alleged improper placement of juveniles in privately owned detention centers. (AP Photo/David Kidwell, File)AP - Two former Pennsylvania judges were indicted Wednesday on federal racketeering charges in connection with a scheme to place juvenile offenders in privately owned detention centers.

Defense rests in Brooke Astor trial in NYC (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:36 PM PDT

FILE- In this April 27; 2009 file photo, Anthony Marshall, son of late philanthropist Brooke Astor, appears in state Supreme Court where he is accused of stealing from his mother's $198 million estate. Marshall's defense rested on Wednesday, Sept. 9, without calling a single witness. Closing arguments in the 18 week long trial are expected in the early part of the following week. (AP Photo/Marc A. Hermann, Pool)AP - Prosecutors in the fraud case against Brooke Astor's son called 72 witnesses during the past 18 weeks of trial, including an array of celebrities, politicians and high-society dames. On Wednesday, his defense rested — without calling a single witness.

Hot Springs to be featured first on new quarters (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:26 PM PDT

AP - Quarters dropped into fountains at Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas next year could feature the park itself.

Group to improve conditions on its part of National Mall (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:56 PM PDT

Jan Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, points out where grass is growing out over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial announced Wednesday that they will be taking over lawn care for 13.5 acres of the National Mall around the monument. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Frustrated with poor maintenance by the federal government, the group that built the Vietnam War memorial is aiming to improve its little corner of the National Mall by taking over lawn care for 13.5 acres marred by weeds, moss and brown spots.

Body with severed arms in Mexico ID'd as Texas man (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:50 PM PDT

AP - A body found with its severed arms crossed and placed on its chest in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was identified by authorities Wednesday as a Texas man kidnapped from his home.

Families slowly leaving Texas detention facility (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT

FILE- In this Feb. 9, 2007, file photo, a guard holds open a door during a media tour of the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. So while advocates hail the Obama administration's announcement this month to stop sending men, women and children to the much disparaged Hutto facility, they also wonder how the government will decide which families to detain, when to release them, how they will be transported and whether they'll fare better elsewhere. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)AP - As immigrant children and their parents depart a disparaged former Texas prison that housed them while they awaited decisions in their immigration cases, advocates are questioning if the government has fully thought out what happens to the families now.

Dems cite health care in Kennedy-successor debate (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 02:58 PM PDT

Sen. John Kerry, D. Mass., speaks during a public hearing before the Joint Committee on Election Laws at the Statehouse in Boston to press lawmakers to allow Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim replacement to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)AP - The governor should be allowed to name an interim replacement to the late Edward Kennedy's vacant Senate seat because it would help ensure health care overhaul legislation gets passed, Democrats told a packed Statehouse public hearing Wednesday.

Calif. GOP lawmaker quits over taped sex comments (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:49 PM PDT

AP - A Republican state lawmaker from Southern California resigned Wednesday amid growing outrage over a videotape that caught him bragging in graphic detail about having sex with a female lobbyist and another woman.

Nonprofit law group sues US in Cuban 5 spy case (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 02:57 PM PDT

AP - A nonprofit law group on Wednesday sued the U.S. government, demanding more information about contracts the government had with journalists it paid while they were reporting on the prosecution of five Cuban intelligence agents in Miami.

Rehberg returns to work with walker, crutches (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:47 PM PDT

AP - Rep. Denny Rehberg on Wednesday provided the harrowing details of a boat crash after dinner and drinks two weeks ago as he returned to Washington using a walker and on crutches, saying he crawled out of the wreckage with only his cowboy boot holding his shattered ankle in place.

Defense: DNA clears man convicted of murder, rape (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 02:06 PM PDT

AP - A Florida man was set to be released from prison this week after his defense says DNA evidence shows he was wrongly convicted of murder and rape 26 years ago.

States scramble for reform to get stimulus money (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 01:23 PM PDT

In this Aug. 25, 2009 photo, high school teacher, Dave Harswick, stands in front of the Green Bay Education Association office in Green Bay, Wis. Harswick says he favors Wisconsin changing it's law in order to qualify for education stimulus money, but he wants to be sure that if student test results are used to evaluate teachers it's one of several measures and not the only one. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)AP - Three cash-strapped states may find themselves left at the starting line in the competition for more than $4 billion in education stimulus funding if they don't amend laws that prevent student test results from being tied to teacher evaluations.

Minn. girl killed in church bat attack remembered (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 01:29 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Brownlow family and provided by Thy Kingdom Come World Ministries, 14-month-old Aundrea Brownlow, who died after being struck in the head with a baseball bat swung by a man attacking her father in church in Wheaton, Minn., on Sept. 3, 2009, sits in a pool. Two men are being charged in the attack at the western Minnesota church that left the 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 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/Brownlow Family via Thy Kingdom Come World Ministries)AP - A 14-month-old girl who was fatally struck by a baseball bat during an attack on her father at a church was remembered Wednesday as a bright and bubbly, as the church pastor used the occasion to rail against the evils of alcohol addiction.

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