2009年9月23日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Sheriff: Slain Ill. family members were not shot (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:57 PM PDT

Police tape surrounds a house in Beason, Ill., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, where five members of a family were found slain in their home and a search is still under way for a suspect. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - A sheriff said Wednesday that autopsies on five members of a family found slain in their central Illinois home revealed that none of the victims had been shot, but he refused to reveal the cause of death.


AP source: Hanged Census worker had 'fed' on chest (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 05:41 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.

3 killed when Guard Humvee crashes on Tex. highway (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT

A Texas Department of Public Safety officer looks at a wrecked military Humvee on Interstate 35 in Troy, Texas on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. The Humvee vaulted into an oncoming lane of a Central Texas expressway, triggering a six-vehicle crash that killed three people. (AP Photo/The Waco Tribune-Herald, Jerry Larson)AP - A National Guard Humvee went airborne on a Texas interstate Wednesday and vaulted into an oncoming lane, triggering a six-vehicle crash that killed a soldier and two other drivers, authorities said.


How the ACORN 'pimp and hooker' videos came to be (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:44 PM PDT

This image made Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 from undated hidden-camera video taken from the web site Biggovernment.com, shows James O'Keefe III, right, and Hannah Giles in a hidden-camera video. In the video, created by Giles and O'Keefe, the two pose as a pimp and prostitute and talk to ACORN employees who give them advice about establishing a brothel with underage prostitutes from Central America. O'Keefe and Giles were no strangers to Washington's conservative establishment; as far back as 2006, well before the videos became a national sensation and right-wing rallying cry, they connected with a pair of institutions that boast programs training ideological journalists. (AP Photo/Biggovernment.com)AP - Much of America discovered James O'Keefe III and Hannah Giles through their hidden-camera, make-believe pimp and prostitute videos of ACORN employees giving advice about establishing a brothel with underage hookers.


Milwaukee man ordered to trial in serial killings (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Cornelius Thomas, right, and Korona Richmond cry in the hall during a break in the preliminary hearing for Walter Ellis Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, in Milwaukee. Judge Rebecca Dallet ruled after the hearing that there was enough evidence to try Ellis. He is charged with five counts first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of first-degree murder. Thomas is the father of victim Florence McCormick and Richmond the daughter. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - A judge has ordered a Milwaukee man accused of killing seven women over 21 years to stand trial.


In Dairyland, Pollan's 'Food' book sparks debate (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 05:07 PM PDT

This Tuesday, June 9, 2009 picture shows Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley and author Michael Pollan at a special screening of 'Food Inc' at the Angelika Film Center in New York. One best-selling book advocating fresh, local foods is shaking up America's Dairyland. Pollan's book titled 'In Defense of Food' urges readers to 'eat food, mostly plants,' and is the subject of a new program in which incoming freshmen can get the book free and many professors are using it in classes. Pollan will give a lecture Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)AP - One best-selling book advocating fresh, local foods is shaking up America's Dairyland.


Slain Va. mom, daughter had counseling over music (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:57 PM PDT

An April 21, 2009 photo provided by Longwood University, shows Debra Kelley, assistant professor of criminal justice at Longwood University. Kelley was named Tuesday, Sept. 22 2009 as one of the four people found slain in Farmville, Va. (AP Photo/Longwood University)AP - A criminal justice professor and her daughter, who police say were slain by a horrorcore rapper, were in counseling over the teenager's obsession with the macabre music, and the mother took her daughter to the concerts to keep an eye on her, a family friend said Wednesday.


Police: Agents felt trapped in border gun battle (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:12 PM PDT

AP - An investigator says federal agents felt trapped when they fired guns at a van packed with suspected illegal immigrants at the nation's busiest border crossing.

As Gadhafi deal goes south, should Trump be fired? (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 03:56 PM PDT

People gather around a tent Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 on a property known as Seven Springs estate owned by real estate magnate Donald Trump in Bedford, N.Y. The Libyan government has pitched a tent on the property that leader Moammar Gadhafi may use for entertaining, according to a State Department official.  Gadhafi is due to address the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - Did The Donald and the dictator made a backdoor deal? If so, the plan to pitch a tent in this suburb for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi went south pretty fast. Maybe someone should be fired.


Cox to retire as Braves manager after next season (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:42 PM PDT

Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox stands in the dugout after announcing that he will retire after the 2010 season before the Braves baseball game against the New York Mets at Citi Field in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Bobby Cox will retire as manager of the Atlanta Braves after next season, ending an illustrious career in which he guided the team to 14 consecutive postseason appearances and the 1995 World Series title.


Grandmother gets 44 months in green-card scam (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:42 PM PDT

Maria Refugia Camarillo leaves the federal courthouse in Dallas, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. The Fort Worth grandmother has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for running a scheme in which her family members married foreigners seeking to stay in the United States. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)AP - A Texas grandmother who acknowledged running a scheme in which her family members married scores of foreigners seeking to stay in the United States was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four years in prison.


Teacher killed at Texas high school; teen held (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:20 PM PDT

AP - A special-education teacher who had a passion for music was fatally stabbed Wednesday morning in a Texas high school classroom, and police took a 16-year-old student into custody.

Trial in dispute between Apple, Eminem's publisher (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 03:50 PM PDT

Eminem accepts the award for best hip hop video for AP - Apple Inc. and Eminem's music publisher have failed to settle a dispute over 93 songs on iTunes, clearing the way for a trial in the rapper's hometown of Detroit.


Ga. residents warned of stagnant water after flood (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:48 PM PDT

Mud encased bicycles lay strewn in front of a house in Lilburn after flood waters from the Yellow River receded from it, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, in Austell, Ga. A newly built deck on the back of the house was nowhere to be found. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Georgia residents returning Wednesday to homes soaked by days of torrential rains were warned of a hidden danger — disease-causing bacteria and jagged debris harbored by stagnant, murky water.


3 charged in Ill. dogfighting ring at day care (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:10 PM PDT

AP - A home day care was the site of a dogfighting ring, authorities said Wednesday, and investigators who raided the house found a blood-spattered garage floor and battered and malnourished dogs not far from where the children played.

Mayoral candidate in Md. capital drops out — again (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 03:17 PM PDT

Democratic Annapolis mayoral nominee Zina Pierre talks during a news conference, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, in Annapolis, Md. Pierre, a former White House aide in the Clinton administration, announced she was dropping out of the race. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - A former White House aide has dropped out of the race to be mayor of Maryland's capital city — again — and apparently it's for keeps this time.


Fed education chief to dads: Turn off TV, read (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:50 PM PDT

Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks during a forum on responsible fatherhood in Manchester, N.H., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Getting fathers involved in their children's education will take turning off the TV at home and opening the school doors to them, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.


Ex-girlfriend: Yale murder suspect was controlling (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:37 PM PDT

Raymond Clark III 24, 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 Jospeh E. Lopez. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, Pool)AP - A former high school girlfriend of a Yale University lab technician charged with murder said Wednesday that he was extremely controlling, telling her what clothes she could wear, where she could go and what friends she could have.


A Russian owner in NBA: Tycoon buying NJ Nets (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 03:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 31, 2007, file photo, Mikhail Prokhorov speaks at a news conference in Moscow. Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov says in his personal blog that he has made an offer to buy the New Jersey Nets basketball team. Prokhorov, considered Russia's richest man, said Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009,  on his blog that he sent team shareholders an offer over the weekend.  (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)AP - Could the New Jersey Nets become the Nyets?


Official: More questioned in NYC terror probe (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:18 PM PDT

A police officer keeps watch inside Grand Central Station Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 in New York.  (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - Hundreds of federal agents and police officers widened their investigation of a potential terrorism plot involving an alleged al-Qaida associate on Wednesday as questions lingered about whether early missteps might have made the chore harder.


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