2009年9月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Officials: NY men being watched in terrorism probe (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:19 PM PDT

File - Terrorism suspect  Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning in this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo. Zazi plotted for more than a year to detonate homemade bombs in the United States, an indictment charged Thursday Sept. 24, 2009.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - A "handful" of men in New York are possible associates of the chief suspect in a suspected plot to use homemade bombs to attack New York City commuter trains, and investigators have them under heavy surveillance, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.


Police: Okla. mom accused of abuse has NYC record (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:02 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 - An Oklahoma mother accused of locking up her 14-year-old boy in a closet for 4 1/2 years was previously convicted in the death of her 2-year-old child in New York, investigators said Wednesday.


Search on for Tenn. baby snatched by fake agent (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:30 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Nashville Police Department shows Yair Anthony Carillo of Nashville, Tenn. The baby's mother, Maria Gurrolla, said her newborn son was taken from her home Tuesday by a woman who stabbed Gurrolla multiple times when Gurrolla answered the door. Gurrolla said the woman claimed to be an immigration agent. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - A newborn snatched from a Nashville home was missing and his mother recovering from stab wounds she said happened when she struggled with the woman kidnapper posing as an immigration agent, authorities said Wednesday.


Key figure in Polanski documentary says he lied (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 19, 2007 file photo, French director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of the film 'No Country For Old Men,' at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France. Polanski was taken into custody, Swiss police confirmed Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 on a 1978 U.S. arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)AP - A former prosecutor who told a documentary film crew that he advised a judge handling Roman Polanski's case now says he lied about that.


Pilot killed when plane crashes into Ind. field (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:14 PM PDT

In this cell phone photograph provided by David Lykins, a single engine plane is shown after crashing in Randolph County, Ind., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. U.S. military officials say a small, single-engine plane crashed near Muncie, Indiana, after operating erratically. The pilot may have had a health problem or was suffering from a lack of oxygen, they said. (AP Photo/David Lykins)AP - A single-engine plane crashed into an Indiana cornfield Wednesday after the pilot, who was seen slumped over at the controls, lost consciousness and the aircraft flew out of control, officials said.


Some Chicago residents hoping Olympics bid a bust (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:23 PM PDT

Opponents of Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics rally outside City Hall in Chicago on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. (AP photo/John Smierciak)AP - The mayor, the president and Oprah Winfrey may hope to return to Chicago from Copenhagen with the 2016 Olympic Games, but some around town hope the International Olympic Committee deems the Second City the second city. As in second to Rio de Janeiro. Or Tokyo. Or Madrid.


NY judge: CIA can keep 9/11 videotape info secret (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:10 PM PDT

AP - A judge cited national security concerns in ruling Wednesday that the CIA does not have to release hundreds of documents related to the destruction of videotapes of Sept. 11 detainee interrogations that used harsh methods.

Hopi, Navajos say environmentalists not welcome (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:31 PM PDT

AP - The leader of the country's largest Indian reservation threw his support behind the neighboring Hopi Tribe, whose lawmakers declared environmental groups unwelcome on the reservation.

NYPD: Suspect in NYC stabbing found dead in Philly (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:05 PM PDT

AP - A man suspected of killing someone he bumped into on a sidewalk outside New York City's main post office has been found dead in Philadelphia, police said Wednesday.

Robbery suspect escapes from NYC courthouse (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:46 PM PDT

AP - Police are looking for a well-dressed robbery suspect who walked out of a Manhattan courthouse after an officer apparently mistook him for a lawyer.

Ga. prosecutor: Boy, 6, begged his killers to stop (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:39 PM PDT

Special Assistant District Attorney John B. Johnson, right, holds up a map of the trailer park that Michael Barrios, left,  lived in when his son, Christopher Barrios, 6, was killed, during the trial of David Edenfield at the Glynn County Courthouse Wednesday, September 30, 2009 in Brunswick, Georgia. Edenfield is being tried for Christopher Barrios' murder in March 2007.  (AP Photo/Will Dickey, POOL)AP - Jurors in a Georgia courtroom Wednesday heard a horrific videotaped confession from a man who admitted he and his adult son stripped, sexually assaulted and strangled a 6-year-old boy inside a mobile home as the child pleaded with them to stop.


Book about Conn. home invasion sparks complaint (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:37 PM PDT

AP - A lawyer for one of two men charged with murder in a deadly home invasion in Connecticut wants the other defendant held in contempt of court for talking to an author about the case, saying it jeopardizes his client's right to a fair trial.

Killer of Fla. 9-year-old dies of natural causes (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:03 PM PDT

FILE- In a  Tuesday, July 11, 2006 file pool photo, John Evander Couey sits in court during the second day of jury selection in his trial, at the Lake County Courthouse in Tavares, Fla. Florida prison officials say John Evander Couey, 51, the man who kidnapped, raped and buried alive 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, died of natural causes Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 at a Jacksonville, Fla. hospital.  (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz, Pool, File)AP - John Evander Couey, a convicted sex offender awaiting execution for kidnapping, raping and burying 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford alive, died of natural causes Wednesday.


3 Texas commissioners looking into arson dismissed (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:00 PM PDT

AP - A report concluding a faulty investigation led to a Texas man's execution won't be reviewed by a state board as planned Friday after Gov. Rick Perry abruptly removed three people from the panel, forcing the meeting's cancellation.

Casey Anthony seeks to have murder charge dropped (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:50 PM PDT

AP - Attorneys for a Florida woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter want to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty and said Wednesday that charges against her should be dropped.

Couples allege Ponzi-like adoption scam by NY man (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:25 PM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. photo released by the Nassau County District Attorney's Office in Mineola N.Y., Long Island adoption attorney Kevin Cohen is shown. Cohen is accused of running an adoption Ponzi Scheme on as many as a dozen couples, who paid him tens of thousands of dollars in adoption fees, only to be given bogus excuses why the baby was ultimately not available. They would then receive partial refunds from money he collected from subsequent couples seeking a child, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said. (AP Photo/Nassau County Prosecutor's Office)AP - An attorney who claimed his own experience as an adopted child motivated him to help people seeking to start families is suspected of running a Ponzi-like scheme that ripped off couples from New York to Texas, promising children that didn't exist.


Father arrested in Japan had asked for court help (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:51 PM PDT

AP - An American father arrested in Japan for snatching his children had tried for a year to persuade a judge in Tennessee that his ex-wife was likely to flee the U.S. with them, divorce records said.

Family of Americans killed in Air France crash sue (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:49 PM PDT

AP - The families of two Americans killed in the crash of an Air France flight off the coast of South America in June filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming the airline and the plane's various manufacturers knew the aircraft had defective parts that could have caused the accident.

Conditions combined for devastating tsunami (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:15 PM PDT

Map locates American Samoa which was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunamisAP - Because of a lethal combination of geology and geography, the people of American Samoa didn't stand much of a chance.


Biden welcomes son home from guard service in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:45 PM PDT

Capt. Beau Biden kisses his son Hunter, 3, after an official welcome home ceremony for members of the Delaware Army National Guard 261st Signal Brigade, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, in Dover, Del. Biden, the son of Vice president Joe Biden, is also the Attorney General of Delaware.  (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - Having been welcomed home by his father, Vice President Joe Biden, Delaware's attorney general traded hugs and handshakes Wednesday with other members of his Army National Guard unit after a yearlong deployment in Iraq.


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