2009年9月19日星期六

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Police arrest suspect in 4 killings in central Va. (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:31 PM PDT

AP - A 20-year-old man suspected of killing four people in a central Virginia college town was arrested at an airport Saturday, where he apparently tried to catch a flight to his home state of California, authorities said.

Racially charged killing ignites Ill. community (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:01 PM PDT

AP - The anger spread almost as quickly as the news: an unarmed black man was fatally shot by two white police officers inside a northern Illinois church-run day care filled with children.

Ex-aide says Edwards fathered mistress' child (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, Rielle Hunteris leaves the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse in Raleigh, N.C., A man who once claimed he fathered the child of John Edwards' mistress now says in a book proposal that the former presidential candidate is the baby's father. The New York Times reported Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009, that political donors made payments to the woman. The claims are all in a book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young, who says he facilitated the affair between Edwards and Rielle Hunter. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds, file)AP - A man who once claimed to have fathered the child of John Edwards' mistress says in a book proposal the former presidential candidate is the real father and that Edwards and worked with his campaign finance chairman to hide that secret, according to a newspaper report published online Saturday.

Atty: Estate deal possible in Michael Jackson case (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 17, 2005 file photo, pop star Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, file)AP - Katherine Jackson's attorney says a judge's ruling that she can challenge the administrators of her son's estate could result in a deal that will determine control of the singer's gargantuan assets.

Chicago mobster Al Capone's Wis. hideout for sale (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 11:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 1931 file photo, Chicago mobster Al Capone is seen at a football game in Chicago. The buyer of a scenic property in northern Wisconsin will get more than just its bar and restaurant: They'll have a former hideout of Chicago mobster Al Capone. The 407-acre wooded site, complete with guard towers and a stone house with 18-inch-thick walls, goes on the auction block this month at a starting bid of $2.6 million. The bank that foreclosed on the land near Couderay, about 140 miles northeast of Minneapolis, said Capone owned it in the late 1920s and early 1930s during Prohibition. (AP Photo/File)AP - The buyer of a scenic property in northern Wisconsin will get more than just its bar and restaurant: They'll have a former hideout of Chicago mobster Al Capone.

Protesters hope to highlight issues at G-20 summit (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 11:16 AM PDT

AP - An anti-war group plans to set up a tent city during the Group of Twenty economic summit next week to focus attention on the plight of women and children made refugees by war.

Cursive writing may be fading skill, but so what? (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 06:44 AM PDT

This Sept. 16, 2009 photo shows a student practicing both printing and cursive handwriting skills in the six to nine year old's classroom at the Mountaineer Montessori School in Charleston, W.Va. The decline of cursive is happening as students are doing more and more work on computers, including writing. In 2011, the writing test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress will require 8th and 11th graders to compose on computers, with 4th graders following in 2019. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)AP - Charleston resident Kelli Davis was in for a surprise when her daughter brought home some routine paperwork at the start of school this fall. Davis signed the form and then handed it to her daughter for the eighth-grader's signature.

School gives chronically ill students a chance (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 11:09 AM PDT

In this photo taken May. 19, 2009, Cecilia Reyes, a student in DePaul University's Chronic Illness Initiative program who suffers from multiple sclerosis, takes an infusion treatment at the Multiple Sclerosis Center Infusion Facility at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The program which is part of DePaul's School of New Learning allows students with chronic illnesses to take courses in the classroom or online. They also can take time off, even abruptly when the symptoms of their illness hit, and finish coursework later with no penalty or tuition loss. Reyes, who started at DePaul in 2001 credits the one-of-a-kind program with allowing her to graduate with a degree in psychology in 2009. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Cecilia Reyes stepped onto the auditorium stage, a bit unsteadily. Her legs were tired. She was so nervous, she hardly smiled.

Union says it warned about mental patient outings (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:41 PM PDT

This image provided by the Spokane County Sheriff's Office shows 57-year-old Phillip Arnold Paul. Phillip Arnold Paul, a killer committed to a mental institution has escaped during a field trip to the Spokane County Interstate Fair, in Spokane, Wash. (AP Photo/Spokane County Sheriff's Office)AP - Two days after an insane killer escaped from a field trip organized by his mental hospital, the union that represents mental hospital workers said it had become concerned about the type of patients allowed to participate in such outings.

Officials at odds over Badlands site designation (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 10:38 AM PDT

AP - Federal and state officials are at odds over listing about 12,000 acres of scenic North Dakota Badlands on the National Register of Historic Places to recognize an area that inspired Theodore Roosevelt.

College band musicians suspended in hazing probe (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 09:49 AM PDT

AP - Jackson State University officials say about 20 members of the school's marching band are accused of being involved in hazing and have been suspended.

NJ police: Dad tells 4-year-old cocaine is candy (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 08:56 AM PDT

AP - New Jersey police say a 4-year-old boy shared cocaine with his friends at day care because his father told him it was candy.

Vexing long-term health care absent from US debate (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 08:36 AM PDT

AP - Gillian Lloyd's parents did everything right: They saved compulsively for their retirement and brought aides into their home when they needed help. Yet they still face impossible questions of how to continue paying for care in their final years.

Dog leaps out window during NY robbery, hangs self (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 10:23 AM PDT

AP - New York City police say two men escaped a gang of armed robbers by jumping out a second-story window, but a pit bull died after he leaped after his owner and hanged himself from his chain.

ADM's price fixing movie opens in firm's hometown (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 10:23 AM PDT

AP - In Decatur, soybeans and corn are big business, and nobody is bigger than Archer Daniels Midland Company.

States send mixed message on texting and driving (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 08:31 AM PDT

A bill board that encourages people not to text while they drive is shown in the northside of Indianapolis, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. Indiana drivers under age 18 are banned from using a cell phone while driving. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Fiddling with your iPhone behind the wheel can get you fined across much of the nation. But many states are more than happy to tweet you with up-to-the-minute directions on how to steer clear of a traffic jam.

2 dozen motorcycles crash on I-5 in Ore. (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:31 AM PDT

AP - Oregon State Police say more than two dozen motorcycles, most of them belonging to the Brother Speed motorcycle club, crashed on Interstate 5 on Friday afternoon, blocking freeway traffic for hours.

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