2009年9月28日星期一

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AP source: NYC terror probe focuses on accomplices (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:32 PM PDT

In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colo., Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Zazi was sent to New York to face charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in a plot law enforcement has said was focused on blowing up commuter trains. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)AP - After interrupting what they believed was a terrorist plot on New York City with a series of raids and arrests, authorities have intensified their focus on possible accomplices of the suspected al-Qaida associate at the heart of the case, a law enforcement official said Monday.


Okla. teen claims he was held in closet for years (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:32 PM PDT

In this undated police mug photo provided by the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office, Larhonda Marie McCall, 37, is shown in Oklahoma City. McCall and Steve Vern Hamilton, 38, were arrested Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 on complaints of child abuse and child neglect after a 14-year-old boy told police he escaped from McCall's home, where he said he'd been kept for years, mostly locked inside a bedroom closet. (AP Photo/Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office)AP - A woman was arrested after her 14-year-son told authorities he escaped from a home where he'd been kept for 4 1/2 years, spending most of his time locked in a bedroom closet, police said Monday.


3 plead guilty in New Hampshire murder plot (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:35 PM PDT

AP - It was a murder plot hatched over what happened at a Wal-Mart.

Palin finishes memoir, 'Going Rogue,' out Nov. 17 (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:46 PM PDT

FILE- This Sept. 24, 2009 file photo shows former U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin arriving at the check-in counter at Hong Kong airport. Palin has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced. Her publisher says the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, file)AP - That was fast.


Stanford being moved from site of Texas jail fight (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:21 PM PDT

AP - Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, awaiting trial on charges he ran a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, will be moved from the lockup where he got into a jail fight that resulted in him being hospitalized for a concussion.

Video shows teens beating Chicago student to death (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 03:49 PM PDT

This image from video provided by WFLD Fox Chicago on Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 shows a person swinging a wooden two-by-four during a fight on Chicago's South Side on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. Prosecutors have charged three teenagers with first-degree murder in the beating death of Chicago student Derrion Albert who was walking home from school when this fight occurred. Family members believe the 16-year-old was fatally beaten Thursday for refusing to join a gang. But some witnesses say he was a bystander who was swept into a violent fight. (AP Photo/WFLD Fox Chicago)AP - Cell phone footage showing a group of teens viciously kicking and striking a 16-year-old honors student with splintered railroad ties has ramped up pressure on Chicago officials to address chronic violence that has led to dozens of deaths of city teens each year.


Prominent family's troubles revisit a NY bridge (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:59 PM PDT

FILE -- Anne Morell Petrillo is shown during a news conference in this March 31, 1994 file photo. A body believed to be Petrillo's was found Sunday in the Hudson River, beneath the Tappan Zee Bridge 24 miles north of New York City. Her BMW had been found on the bridge Thursday with a suicide note inside. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)AP - A family tragedy came eerily full circle in the waters of the Hudson River when the daughter of a newspaper heiress leapt to her death after parking her BMW on a busy bridge north of New York City.


Beleaguered SC gov seeks info on school plane use (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 03:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 26, 2009 file photo, Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, speaks during an interview at Sullivans Island,  S.C. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney, file)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is reviewing how three state-funded universities use their airplanes even as he faces scrutiny for his own travel practices.


Pastor shoots, wounds intruder at Detroit church (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:39 PM PDT

AP - A retired police officer-turned-pastor shot and wounded a man who broke into his Detroit church, police said Monday.

LA harbor plan would mix leisure with industry (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 12:36 PM PDT

AP - The hulking container ships that ply the Port of Los Angeles already provide Southern California with a major source of revenue. Soon they could also provide the scenery for what port officials hope will be the region's newest tourist destination.

Houston Ship Channel reopens after oil spill (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:13 PM PDT

AP - The Coast Guard says three miles of the Houston Ship Channel are reopened after a 10,500-gallon oil spill closed the section during the weekend.

Video captures Jackman chiding cell phone offender (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 01:19 PM PDT

In this theater publicity image released by the Hartman Group, Daniel Craig, left, and Hugh Jackman from 'A Steady Rain,' is shown. Jackman and Craig star in Keith Huff's play about two Chicago policeman, opening Sept. 29 at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York.  (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Greg Williams)AP - Hugh Jackman knows how to stop the show.


Leaky dam causes flood worries in Seattle area (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:41 PM PDT

In this Sept. 23, 2009 photo, the downstream side of the Howard Hanson Dam is shown as viewed from the top of the dam, near Ravenswood, Wash. The Howard Hanson Dam began showing disturbing signs of vulnerability after a torrential rainstorm in January, and officials have been warning residents to buy flood insurance, stow valuables in safe places and be ready to flee. Residents face the all-too-real prospect that the river will gush past a leaky upstream dam and swallow up their homes once the rainy season starts in November, devastating a heavily developed area in the Seattle suburbs that is a vital hub of commerce. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - For nearly 25 years Kathy Gladden has lived about 100 feet from the Green River, a normally placid stream that meanders past the many homes, offices, warehouses and shopping malls that blanket the area.


Fla. conductor breaks back in opening-night fall (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:33 PM PDT

AP - A Florida Panhandle conductor is recovering after falling 14 feet into the empty space below a moveable orchestra pit on the opening night of an opera he had written.

Ex-CEO of Pa. drinks-maker charged in $806M fraud (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:26 PM PDT

AP - A federal grand jury accused the former chief executive officer of a defunct soft-drink-maker and four others connected to the company of perpetrating an $806 million bank fraud, much of which went to the ex-CEO and his family.

Fla. magnate's empire collapsed before shooting (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:30 PM PDT

This Sept. 22, 2009 booking photo provided by the Orange County Fla. Corrections Dept. shows developer J. Robert Ward, 61, who was arrested Sept. 22, 2009 and charged with second degree murder in his wife's shooting death. (AP Photo/via Orange County Fla. Corrections Dept.)AP - The Orange County Jail is a far cry from J. Robert Ward's seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom home in the exclusive gated community that is home to Tiger Woods and Shaquille O'Neill.


Texas trial begins for man accused of killing 6 (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 12:17 PM PDT

AP - A man accused of killing six people in two states called a friend the night of the first five killings and said he had "done something bad and there was no going back," the friend testified Monday as the man's murder trial began.

Activists protest Va. strip club's Obama banner (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 12:16 PM PDT

AP - Activists gathered outside a downtown strip club Monday to denounce as racist a banner depicting President Obama as the Joker from Batman.

Dead humpback whale found floating in Va. river (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 12:32 PM PDT

AP - Biologists are trying to figure out what killed a humpback whale found floating in a Virginia river.

12 charged in NY with Colombia terror link (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:07 PM PDT

AP - A dozen members of a Colombian organization have been charged with conspiring to aid a foreign terrorist group and taking a U.S. citizen hostage last year in Panama, authorities announced Monday.
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