2009年9月16日星期三

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FBI searches home of Colorado man in terror probe (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 04:46 PM PDT

A boy looks out the window of an apartment raided by FBI agents as part of a terror investigation in the Flushing area of the Queens borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. No arrests were announced. ( AP Photo/David Karp)AP - Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a suburban Denver man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida, carting away several boxes of evidence. FBI special agent Kathleen Wright confirmed that agents had a search warrant for the home of Najibullah Zazi. Residents of neighboring apartments were evacuated as a precaution, Wright said.

DC sniper mastermind's execution set for November (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:57 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 9, 2004 file photo, convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, center, addresses the court along with his attorney's Peter Greenspun, left, and Jonathan Shapiro prior to being sentenced to death for the shooting of Dean Meyers at the Prince William County Circuit Court in Manassas, Va. A Virginia judge on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, set a Nov. 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)AP - A Virginia judge on Wednesday set a Nov. 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead.

Police: Mom stabs 2 young daughters at Calif. home (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:35 PM PDT

AP - A 5-year-old girl is in a medically induced coma after her mother allegedly stabbed her and her 3-year-old sister in Southern California.

Feds pulled SC gov's security status for a week (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 04:25 PM PDT

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford addresses the media at a news conference at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina September 10, 2009. 61 South Carolina House Republicans recently asked Sanford to resign after earlier reports this year surfaced about his affair with a mistress in Argentina, and investigations of his government and private, travel. REUTERS/Joshua Drake (UNITED STATES POLITICS)AP - The Department of Homeland Security suspended South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's security clearance following his emotional confession to an affair with an Argentine woman due to concerns about his trustworthiness, according to documents a newspaper obtained through an open records request.

Audit: Wisc. database missing DNA of 12K felons (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 04:14 PM PDT

Milwaukee County Sheriff deputies lead into court suspected serial killer Walter Ellis for his initial court appearance, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, in Milwaukee. Ellis was ordered held on $1 million bail in connection with the murders of two Milwaukee women. Police have said Ellis' DNA matches that found on nine women ages 16 to 41 who were killed in the area from 1986 to 2007. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)AP - Mandatory DNA profiles of at least 12,000 Wisconsin felons are missing from a statewide database, according to an audit released Wednesday. The audit was conducted after officials discovered no DNA was on file for a convicted felon now suspected in a string of Milwaukee killings.

College students protest coal use on campuses (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Sky Robinson a Sophmore at the University of Missiouri speaks out against coal burning power plants as other students protest behind her Wednesday September 16, 2009, in Columbia, Missouri. The protest was part of a national Sierra Club campaign to reduce reliance on coal for energy starting with campus power plants such as the one at MU. (AP Photo/Columbia Daily Tribune, Gerik Parmele)AP - College students from Missouri to Oregon are urging their schools to stop using coal produced at campus power plants or purchased from private utilities in favor of cleaner energy sources ranging from wood chips to geothermal power.

Feds probe attack on Ga. reservist as hate crime (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:44 PM PDT

This police photo released on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 by the Morrow, Ga., police department shows 47-year-old Troy D. West of Poulan, Ga. Federal authorities are investigating the beating of a black female Army reservist outside a Georgia restaurant as a possible hate crime. Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Stephen Emmett said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division has initiated a probe into the Sept. 9 incident at a Cracker Barrel in Morrow. Police say West became enraged after Tashawnea Hill told him to 'be careful' when he nearly hit her 7-year-old daughter while opening the restaurant's door. Police say West punched and kicked the 35-year-old Army reservist while screaming racial slurs. (AP Photo/Morrow Police Department)AP - A black female Army reservist said Wednesday she hasn't been able to sleep since she was beaten by a white man in front of her 7-year-old daughter last week, and federal authorities said they were investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Must-know figures could change for Texas students (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:23 PM PDT

FILE- In this March 26, 2009 file photo former State Board of Education chairman Don McLeroy, left, talks with his replacement, Gail Lowe, right, during a meeting of the board in Austin, Texas. McLeroy, from College Station, is an ardent conservative whose appointment to a second term as chairman was rejected earlier this year by the state Senate. Critics complained that McLeroy had sown discord on the board, mostly with his outspoken views on creationism and support of teaching students weaknesses of evolutionary theory. Lowe, from Lampasas, was appointed to the spot last month by Gov. Perry. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)AP - Does civil rights activist Cesar Chavez belong alongside Benjamin Franklin as an example of a model American citizen? Should Texas schoolchildren be required to identify Rush Limbaugh? How big a place does the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall — most famous for his victory in integrating the nation's schools — deserve in the history books?

Calif. case casts harsh spotlight on sex offenders (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 01:30 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 4, 2009, Kenneth Barillas is interviewed under a sign attached to his home, near the residence of sex offender Donald Robinson, in East Palo Alto, Calif. On Aug. 27, after being locked away for 25 years for sex crimes, Donald Robinson, now 57 years old, moved to a little block of unassuming homes in East Palo Alto. The timing was particularly bad. The day before, Philip Garrido's arrest for allegedly kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard and keeping her for 18 years made headlines around the world. The spotlight was on sex offenders. And Robinson, who had spent 12 years after his 1997 release from prison in a state mental hospital for recidivist sex offenders, remained under state-sponsored treatment as an outpatient. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - After being locked away for 25 years for sex crimes, Donald Robinson moved to a little block of unassuming homes in this city on the San Francisco Peninsula on Aug. 27.

Ohio police: Woman spanked stranger's toddler son (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 01:28 PM PDT

AP - A woman took a stranger's toddler son over her knee and spanked him three times inside a Salvation Army store after he said something that annoyed her, police said Wednesday.

NY prosecutor: Astor's son is 'depraved' (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT

AP - Anthony Marshall plundered his mother Brooke Astor's estate because he was greedy and couldn't wait for her to die, a prosecutor charged Wednesday.

Slain Mich. activist remembered as unwavering (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:09 PM PDT

Bud Churchill wears red tape over his mouth to remember anti-abortion protester James Pouillon, 63, who was killed in a drive-by shooting last week during a memorial Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 in Owosso, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - An anti-abortion activist gunned down in a drive-by shooting was praised Wednesday as an unwavering worker for his cause, even if some people didn't agree with his approach of holding a sign depicting a dead fetus.

Ohio inmate spends long day near death chamber (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:21 PM PDT

AP - Some events leading to Gov. Ted Strickland's decision to stop the Tuesday execution of Romell Broom because of difficulties finding a usable vein:

Mass. Senate focus turns to whom Patrick may pick (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:51 PM PDT

UPDATE of a graphic that first moved Aug. 31; graphic shows possible Mass. Senate candidatesAP - Massachusetts Republicans vow to delay Democratic efforts Thursday to change the state's Senate succession law, but the likelihood lawmakers will ultimately give Gov. Deval Patrick the power to temporarily replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy has prompted discussion about whom he may pick.

Blagojevich blasts prosecutors over friend's death (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 01:26 PM PDT

The casket of Christopher Kelly, ousted Illinois Gov., Rod Blagojevich's former chief fundraiser enters the church Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, in Western Springs, Ill. Kelly died Saturday, Sept. 12 of a suspected overdose, less than a week after he was due to enter prison to begin serving a three-year sentence for tax fraud. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - To hear ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tell it, his war with federal prosecutors now has a casualty.

SC man died hungry, solo in tent, baffling friends (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 09:38 AM PDT

In this Sept. 9, 2009 photo, discarded medical gloves, old clothing and stakes used for a tent are all the remains on the shoreline of Lake Harwell near Anderson, S.C. David Condon died broke and alone in a zipped-up tent on the banks of a South Carolina lake, his stomach empty and his lungs filling with fluid. His friends and family hadn't seen the bright but reclusive Civil War buff in more than two months. He lost his job as a program coordinator at the local museum last year fell behind on his apartment rent and seemed to retreat even more into himself than usual. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - David Condon died broke and alone in a zipped-up tent on the banks of a South Carolina lake, his stomach empty and his lungs filling with fluid.

No retrial for condemned man after judge-DA affair (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:19 PM PDT

FILE -This file photo originally provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Charles Hood. Hood, won't be able to argue for a new trial, despite admissions of an affair between his trial judge and the prosecutor. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a ruling Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, that convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood should have raised concerns about the affair between the now retired court officials in earlier appeals. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)AP - A Texas death row inmate won't be able to argue for a new trial, despite admissions of an affair between his trial judge and the prosecutor, a court announced Wednesday.

'Laugh-In' actor Henry Gibson dies at 73 (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 2, 2002 file photo, former 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In' cast members Joanne Worley, left, and Henry Gibson share a kiss during a ceremony honoring comedian Dick Martin and his late comic partner Dan Rowan with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, file)AP - Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," has died. He was 73.

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