2009年9月20日星期日

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FBI: Notes on bomb-making in Zazi's handwriting (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 05:15 PM PDT

File - Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning on in this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo. FBI agents late Saturday Sept. 19, 2009 arrested Najibullah Zazi, and his father, Muhammad Zazi during a raid Zazi's home in the Denver suburb of Aurora according to a spokeswoman for Najibullah Zazi's defense team.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - Investigators said they found notes describing how to make bombs in the handwriting of an airport shuttle driver arrested as part of a terrorism investigation, and they also discovered his fingerprints on materials — batteries and a scale — that could be used to make explosives.


Insane killer caught in Goldendale, Wash., area (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 05:37 PM PDT

This image provided by the Spokane County Sheriff's Office shows 47-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 - An insane killer who slipped away from the staff of a mental institution on a field trip to the Spokane County International Fair was recaptured Sunday without injury more than 220 miles away in south-central Washington state.


Spinning flywheels said to make greener energy (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 12:34 PM PDT

AP - Spinning flywheels have been used for centuries for jobs from making pottery to running steam engines. Now the ancient tool has been given a new job by a Massachusetts company: smooth out the electricity flow, and do it fast and clean.

Yale student's body returned to Calif. for funeral (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 12:41 PM PDT

This undated photo released by New Haven Police Dept., shows Yale graduate student Annie Le who disappeared on Sept. 8, 2009. Raymond Clark III, 24, a Yale lab technician was arrested Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 and charged with murdering the graduate student in the research building where they both worked.  (AP Photo/New Haven Police Dept.)AP - The body of a Yale student found dead behind a wall on what should have been her wedding day has been returned to Northern California for her funeral.


River heals as lawsuit against Big Poultry looms (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 12:12 PM PDT

David Overbey holds his fish catch next to the banks of the Illinois River, in Scraper, Okla., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a person doesn't have to be to see how much the Illinois River has improved in recent years.


Medical marijuana law creates confusion in Wash. (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 09:46 AM PDT

Marijuana plants are shown Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle. The marijuana is distributed to members of a cooperative of medical patients who have received doctor's authorization to use the drug to treat their illnesses, such as AIDS and multiple sclerosis. Unlike several other states which permit marijuana sales to patients, Washington requires patients to grow marijuana themselves or designate a caregiver to grow it for them. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - In one corner of Washington state, a 62-year-old rheumatoid arthritis patient could face more than eight years in prison for growing marijuana for himself and three others. In Seattle, meanwhile, a collection of grow operations serves 2,000 people with little interference from police.


Wilson shout could reverberate next November (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 09:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this  Sept. 9, 2009 file photo, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The uproar over Rep. Wilson's shouting 'you lie' at President Barack Obama returns to the House floor Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 for what could be a contentious and highly partisan debate over whether to formally criticize the South Carolina Republican.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)AP - Rep. Joe Wilson may have shouted his way into the toughest election fight of his life.


Rapper suspected of killing Va. pastor, 3 others (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 02:40 PM PDT

A man with the Virginia State Police prepares a camera in front of 505 First Avenue in Farmville, Va. Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009, during a quadruple homicide investigation. A 20-year-old man suspected of killing four people in the 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. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Alexa Welch Edlund)AP - A California rapper whose lyrics spoke about the thrill of murder and mutilation has been charged with killing a Virginia pastor, whose body was found along with three others inside the home of his estranged wife, authorities said Sunday.


5 children, woman found dead in Fla. apartment (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 02:56 PM PDT

In this driver's license photo provided by the Collier County Sheriff's Office, Mesac Damas, 33, is shown. Collier County Sheriff's officials say they want to talk to Damas, who is a person of interest in the slaying of a woman and five young children inside a Naples, Fla. apartment. (AP Photo/Collier County Sheriff's Office via the Naples Daily News)AP - The husband of a woman found dead in a Florida apartment along with her five young children boarded a flight for Haiti, and police said Sunday the couple had a history of domestic violence calls to their homes over the past decade.


G-20 security driving away Pittsburgh's bustle (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 11:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this photo taken June 15, 2006 file photo taken with a fisheye lens PNC Park, the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is seen across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh, where the two-day Group of 20 summit will be held Sept. 24 and Sept. 25. The Pittsburgh Pirates have hired extra security for their games scheduled during the summit.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - Nick Mancini Hartner is like a lot of downtown business operators: He doesn't know what to expect if thousands of protesters show up for the Group of 20 economic summit or, for that matter, how many customers will show up either.


Housekeeping chief arrested in NYC hotel killing (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 05:30 PM PDT

AP - A housekeeping manager at a luxury hotel next to Central Park has been arrested in the death of a woman who was found in a room strangled with a knife sticking from her neck, police said on Sunday.

Analysis: NYC mayor king of obscure endorsements (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 11:04 AM PDT

AP - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg is likely to set another spending record in this year's mayoral race, but he appears to be aiming for a more obscure honor as well — the candidate with the most peculiar endorsements.

AP Enterprise: Fire funds pulled before blaze (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 04:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Sept. 4, 2009, Lew Johnson, 74, carries a bucket of recovered items as he returns for the first time to the ruins of his home on Stonyvale Road in Big Tujunga Canyon in the Angeles National Forest, in Los Angeles. Months before a wildfire blackened 250 square miles at the edge of Los Angeles, an little-known group was awarded a $178,000 grant to clear flammable brush and tree limbs to protect a mountain neighborhood in the Angeles National Forest. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Months before a wildfire burned 280 square miles at the edge of Los Angeles, a little-known group was awarded a $178,000 grant to clear flammable brush and tree limbs to protect a mountain neighborhood in the Angeles National Forest.


NY governor ignores pressure to end election quest (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 11:54 AM PDT

File - Then New York Lt. Gov. David Paterson appears at a news conference at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., in this March 13, 2008 file photo.  Two senior New York Democratic advisers say top national party leaders have asked Gov. David Paterson to consider withdrawing from the 2010 governor's race. The New York Times also reported that President Barack Obama requested that Paterson withdraw. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)AP - Gov. David Paterson isn't scrapping his plans to run for the office he inherited 18 months ago, despite growing pressure from Washington and intervention by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has contacted the governor and the White House over his concern.


Experts: Defense in Yale killing has tough job (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 05:05 AM PDT

Raymond Clark III  center, is arraigned at Superior Court in  New Haven, Conn., Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 in connection with the murder of Annie Le, a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed in the wall of the research building where they both worked. At left is Assistant Public Defender Joseph E. Lopez, and Senior Assistant  Public Defender Beth Merkin, right.  (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, Pool)AP - Defending a Yale University lab technician charged with murder against what appears to be a mountain of forensic evidence might mean trying to convince jurors that the crime scene was contaminated because police didn't immediately shut down the lab where the victim was found, legal experts said.


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

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 04:48 AM 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 he and Edwards worked with his campaign finance chairman to hide that secret, according to a newspaper report published online Saturday.


NASA launches rocket, dozens report strange lights (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 09:29 PM PDT

AP - NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.

Iowa councilman attacked at bar, politics blamed (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 09:32 PM PDT

AP - A city councilman in Iowa said a man who attacked him at a bar claimed it was retaliation for comments he made about the man's niece, a political opponent.

Magnitude-5.1 earthquake in Mexico felt in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 10:34 PM PDT

AP - A moderate earthquake in northern Mexico was felt from San Diego to southwestern Arizona, but no injuries or damage were reported.

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

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 08:35 PM PDT

This is the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, top center, on the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009, where the G-20 summit will take place Sept. 24 and Sept. 25.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - An anti-war group plans to set up a tent city during the Group of Twenty economic summit this week to focus attention on the plight of women and children made refugees by war.


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