2009年9月15日星期二

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Police find 'person of interest' in Yale slaying (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:11 PM PDT

Two unmarked police vehicles and a Middletown police car sit side by side monitoring Warfside Commons apartment complex, the home of a Yale animal research technician who worked with murded student Annie Le, in Middletown, Conn., Tuesday, Sept 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police investigating the slaying of a Yale graduate student zeroed in on a "person of interest" Tuesday after keeping tabs on an ever-tightening circle of people connected to the medical lab where her body was found stuffed behind a wall.

Ohio execution delayed week after vein troubles (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:15 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation shows Romell Broom. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland denied clemency Monday. Sept. 14, 2009, to the death row inmate who raped and stabbed to death a 14-year-old girl 25 years ago. Romell Broom, 53, was moved Monday morning from Ohio's death row in Youngstown to the death house in southern Ohio to await his Tuesday,Sept. 15, 2009, execution as two courts reviewed whether the lethal injection should be stayed. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation)AP - Gov. Ted Strickland ordered a weeklong reprieve for a condemned inmate on Tuesday after the Ohio execution team had problems finding usable veins for the lethal injection even after the inmate joined in the effort and tried to help.

Colo. man denies terrorist ties after NYC raids (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 04:35 PM PDT

One of the apartment buildings raided by FBI agents as part of terrorism investigation in the Flushing area of the Queens borough of New York City on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - A Colorado man who's the target of a terrorism probe that led to several police raids in New York City denies he did anything wrong.

NY dad told soldier-son killed in war — he wasn't (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:26 PM PDT

AP - An Army unit is reviewing how it delivers information to families after a call to a western New York couple led them to believe their son had been killed in combat.

Police: Blagojevich aide committed suicide (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 04:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 22, 2009 file photo, Christopher Kelly, the former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, leaves the federal building in Chicago. Kelly, who was a key figure in the federal corruption case against ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, died Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, according to a Stroger Hospital spokesman. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - The former chief fundraiser for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to commit suicide last week after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges, four days before he died of a suspected overdose, authorities said Tuesday.

College student with sword kills burglary suspect (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 04:05 PM PDT

The yard where a Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder in his garage is shown, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 in Baltimore, Md. Two laptops and a Sony PlayStation had been stolen by burglars Monday from the home, on University Parkway just blocks from the school, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Early Tuesday, one of the four Hopkins students who live in the home noticed the garage door was open and took a sword with him to investigate, Guglielmi said. In the garage, the student told police he discovered a man and when the student told the man to get out, the man accosted him, (AP Photo/The Baltimore Sun, Lloyd Fox)AP - A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a suspected burglar in a garage behind his off-campus home early Tuesday, hours after someone broke in and stole electronics.

Obama administration wants more salmon protection (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:12 PM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, July 1, 1999 picture shows the Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River near Burbank, Wash. The Obama administration says it will be more aggressive in protecting declining Pacific Northwest salmon runs and will study breaching some dams as a last resort in a long-awaited management plan. The administration submitted the plan to a federal judge Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 in Portland, Ore. Called a 'biological opinion,' it will guide hydroelectric dam operations and fish conservation programs in the Columbia Basin for the next decade. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston)AP - Calling it an "insurance policy" for Pacific Northwest salmon, the Obama administration on Tuesday offered up a tougher conservation plan for the fish that includes climate-change monitoring and the "last-resort" possibility of removing dams.

Police: Ky. politician said he 'wanted revenge' (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 03:47 PM PDT

AP - A one-time Kentucky political star whose reputation was tarnished by an ex-girlfriend's domestic violence allegations told police of wanting revenge when he was arrested in a cemetery hours after she was shot to death.

Fighting scars linger for dogs seized in raids (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 03:52 PM PDT

In this Sept. 14, 2009 photo, Fay a 5-year-old Pit Bull that was rescued during the July 8 multi-state dog fighting raid is seen in St. Louis. Four eastern Missouri men arrested as part of a federal crackdown on dogfighting in several states pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and other crimes. The four, along with a fifth co-defendant who pleaded guilty Sept. 4, are the first convictions resulting from the largest coordinated multi-state raids on dogfighting in U.S. history. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dawn Majors)AP - Fay looks menacing as her teeth jut out from a mouth without lips, which have been ripped from her face along with part of her nose during vicious dogfights.

Operation Rescue says it's broke, may shut down (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 03:42 PM PDT

AP - Operation Rescue, one of the nation's highest-profile groups in the anti-abortion movement, has told its supporters it is facing a "major financial crisis" and is very close to shutting down unless emergency help arrives soon.

Police again search home in Calif. kidnap case (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:18 PM PDT

Phillip Garrido, center, talks with his attorney Susan Gellman as he is taken from the courtroom following a bail hearing at the El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Garrido, who faces 29 charges related to the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard, was given a $30 million bail but will continue to be kept in custody on a parole hold. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Police investigating two child abductions in the 1980s searched the Northern California home of the couple charged with kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years.

FBI, ATF feuding over bomb investigations, report says (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:18 PM PDT

A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. Violent crime including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault fell in the United States last year compared with 2007, an FBI report showed Monday.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - Agents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are feuding over bomb investigations — racing each other to crime scenes, failing to share information and refusing to train together, according to a draft report obtained by The Associated Press.

$250K top prize up for grabs in Mich. art event (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 02:27 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday Sept. 10, 2009, the founder of ArtPrize.org, Rick DeVos stands in front of Alexander Calder's Le Grande Vitesse in the middle of downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. Thousands of artists are exhibiting work in Grand Rapids to participate in the first annual ArtPrize art competition, the winning work receiving $250,000. (AP Photo/Adam Bird)AP - A school of glimmering, silvery-white fish wriggle high above a downtown river. A few blocks away on a Michigan sidewalk, four stark red piranhas have taken large bites out of a running man's briefcase and rear end. A purple, 10-foot-tall jelly bean stands outside a nearby castle.

Change in the air in birthplace of hippie movement (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 03:39 PM PDT

Jacob Rivers, left, of Minnesota, sells drawings near the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. First, came a moratorium on head shops. Then, neighbors turned out in force to support a new development that includes an upscale grocery store. And the local street fair banned open containers of alcohol. There are signs of new times at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets, the neighborhood that was the epicenter of the hippie movement during the Summer of Love in 1967. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - First came a moratorium on head shops. Then, neighbors turned out in force to support a new development that includes an upscale grocery store. And the local street fair banned open containers of alcohol.

Mass. AG favors change in Senate succession law (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 02:59 PM PDT

The UN refugee agency on Tuesday gave this year's Nansen Refugee award to the late senator Edward Kennedy, seen here in 2007, who championed the cause of those with AP - Massachusetts legislators could vote as early as this week on changing the state's Senate succession law so the governor has free reign to temporarily fill vacancies like the one created last month with the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Ind. man who tried to fake death held on $4M bond (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 02:54 PM PDT

AP - A former Indiana money manager who tried to fake his own death by jumping out of a small plane before it crashed in Florida appeared in court via video on Tuesday to face charges that he bilked a family member, friends and other clients out of $1.5 million.

Slain Michigan protester to receive public goodbye (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 02:11 PM PDT

In an August 2002 photo, anti-abortion activist Jim Pouillon, left, has a heated discussion with a Planned Parenthood employee in Owosso, Mich. Pouillon was shot and killed Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 while he was staging a protest across the street from Owosso High School. (AP Photo/The Argus-Press)AP - James Pouillon was gunned down while doing what he had done for years, holding a sign depicting a graphic image as part of a one-man anti-abortion protest in his Michigan hometown.

Dogs sniff out inmates' illegal cell phones in NJ (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 01:44 PM PDT

AP - As Congress considers whether to allow state prisons to install cell phone jamming devices, New Jersey is grappling with ways to stop inmates from running criminal enterprises from behind bars.

Critics slam Leno, viewers tune in by the millions (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 02:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2009, file photo, comedian Jay Leno attends the NBC Summer press tour party in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)AP - The critics savaged Jay Leno's prime-time experiment. Viewers gave it the biggest audience for an entertainment show since the "American Idol" finale in May.

Report: Great Lakes toxic cleanups lagging badly (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 04:09 PM PDT

AP - Cleanup of the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes is moving so slowly it will take 77 more years to finish the job at the existing pace, according to a federal report.

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