2009年10月1日星期四

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Friend: Japanese woman who took kids felt trapped (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:37 PM PDT

In this undated photograph released by the Williamson County, Tenn. Court Clerk and Master's Office, Christopher Savoie is shown with his children Isaac, left, and Rebecca, right, in Franklin, Tenn. Savoie was arrested Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, as he tried to enter the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka, Japan, with the children. Police said he had grabbed the 8-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter as they walked with their mother to school. (AP Photo/Williamson County (Tenn.) Court Clerk and Master's Office)AP - A friend says Noriko Savoie felt trapped — she was a Japanese citizen new to the U.S. whose American husband had just served her divorce papers.


Tenn. baby abduction worries immigrant advocates (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:36 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 - Tips and evidence were being analyzed that police hope lead to a newborn whose wounded mother said was snatched from their home in a crime that had some worried Thursday about the vulnerability of Nashville's immigrant communities.


Suppliers face winter flu vaccine delays, cutbacks (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:56 PM PDT

Belinda Patterson, right, smiles after getting a flu shot from nurse Jobyna Foster, left, at Betty Jean Kerr People's Health Centers Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, in St. Louis. The largest supplier of seasonal flu vaccines to the U.S. says it has shipped more than half of the 50.5 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine ordered by health providers in the states, but the French company has sent notices to customers indicating that additional doses may be delayed. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Waiting for the swine flu vaccine? Well, you might have to wait a bit longer for a seasonal flu shot, too.


Elizabeth Smart says she was raped daily (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:12 PM PDT

Elizabeth Smart, right, walks out of the federal courthouse with her mother Lois Smart after testifying at a competency hearing for her alleged kidnapper,  Brian David Mitchell, Oct. 1 2009, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Colin Braley)AP - Taking the stand for the first time since she was snatched from her girlhood bedroom seven years ago, Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday that her captor raped her three or four times a day, kept her tied up with a cable around her leg, and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape.


Okla. boy's sister says she feared reporting abuse (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:17 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 - The sister of an Oklahoma boy who says his mother locked him in apartment closets over four years said Thursday she would bring her brother food, but would tell him not to chew because their mother would check his teeth to see whether he had eaten.


Topless club owner: Gingrich group rescinded award (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:12 PM PDT

AP - Newt Gingrich's conservative group gave — and then rescinded — a business award to a popular topless club in Texas, the proprietor said Thursday.

Experts: Terror suspect could have killed scores (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:29 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 - The Afghan immigrant accused of buying large quantities of hair dye and nail polish remover to make explosives had the goods to kill scores of people in New York — a devastating attack on a scale with the transit bombings in London and Madrid, according to documents and interviews with former FBI experts.


AP Exclusive: Autopsy shocker: Jackson was healthy (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:41 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 - Michael Jackson's outward appearance was marred when he died with puncture marks to his arms, surgical scars around his body and cosmetic tattoos on his lips and scalp.


Fund OKd for claims against Va. peanut company (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - A $12 million fund is being created for claims against Peanut Corp. of America, the processor at the center of a nationwide salmonella outbreak this year.

FBI probes bomb threats on 2 Miami-Boston flights (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:13 PM PDT

AP - FBI agents are investigating any possible similarities between two recent bomb threats made on American Airlines flights between Miami and Boston, authorities said Thursday.

Piece be with you: Detroit pastors packing heat (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 02:32 PM PDT

Rev. Lawrence Adams is shown outside of the Westside Bible Church in Detroit, Wednesday , Sept. 30, 2009. Responding to a break-in at his church Sunday evening, Adams surprised a burglar carrying out a bag of loot and shot the man in the abdomen after the man swung the bag at him. The burglar survived, for which Adams is grateful, but the reverend said he could have been hurt or killed if he had not been armed. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The Rev. Lawrence Adams teaches his flock at the Westside Bible Church to turn the other cheek. Just in case, though, the 54-year-old retired police lieutenant also wears a handgun under his robe.


NH congressman questions Social Security on glitch (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:06 PM PDT

AP - Rep. Paul Hodes has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate and stop a processing glitch that linked U.S. numbers to those issued in three foreign countries and could be causing credit problems for his constituents.

Cousin of Texas governor killed by deputies (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 02:57 PM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry meets with business leaders and state lawmakers Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. Perry says a climate bill being debated in Congress is 'draconian' and would result in the state losing thousands of jobs in the energy sector. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - A cousin of Texas Gov. Rick Perry was shot and killed over the weekend in his backyard during an exchange of gunfire with sheriff's deputies, officials said Thursday.


Hundreds leave pioneering Fla. megachurch (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:45 PM PDT

AP - Hundreds of congregants have left a pioneering megachurch in Florida to form their own congregation because they were unhappy with leadership at the church that's seen as a bedrock of the religious right.

NORAD: Shooting down stray planes always option (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:57 PM PDT

A single engine plane is seen after it crashed in Albany, Ind., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. The pilot became unresponsive and the plane started to speed up and slow down at dangerous speeds, officials said. The pilot may have had a health problem or have been suffering from a lack of oxygen, officials said. (AP Photo/The Star Press, Jeri Reichanadter from WTHR Chopper 13)AP - The U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command said Thursday that shooting down a small plane that left its flight plan and later crashed in Indiana, killing the pilot, was always an option.


Hudson 'Miracle' pilots reunite for NY flight (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2009 file photo, US Airways flight 1549 Capt. Chesley B Sullenberger III, seated, center, and First Officer Jeffrey B. Skiles, seated, right, receive a standing ovation on Capitol Hill in Washington as they prepared to testify before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The pilots who landed a US Airways jet safely in the Hudson River will reunite in the cockpit Thursday Oct. 1, 2009 for the first time for a flight out of New York, the airline said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - "This is your captain, Chesley Sullenberger."


US resists disclosures in Cuban spy case (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:10 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. is resisting a judge's order that could force disclosure of classified documents and other material sought by three men who are seeking reduced prison sentences for their 2001 convictions in a politically charged spying case.

Police: Bones on Garrido property likely animal (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:35 PM PDT

Convicted US rapist Phillip Garrdo, seen here in a handout from the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office (EDCSO) in California. Jaycee Lee Dugard will testify at the trial of the California man accused of kidnapping and raping her during her 18 years in captivity, a lawyer for her family said Thursday.(AFP/EDCSO-HO/File)AP - Northern California investigators probing two old kidnapping cases say some of the bone fragments found on the property of a man charged in a separate abduction are likely from animals.


Domestic partnership certificates issued in Nevada (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 02:17 PM PDT

Lee Cagley and Larry Davis, right, pick up the state's first domestic partnership certificate at the Secretary of State's Office in Carson City, Nev., on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. A new law passed by the 2009 Legislature extends rights similar to those held by married couples — including community property and the right to seek financial support after a breakup — to cohabitating couples, whether gay or straight. (AP Photo/Sandra Chereb)AP - Nevada's secretary of state issued domestic partnership certificate No. 1 at the state Capitol on Thursday as a state law providing many of the same legal rights as marriage to gay and straight partners went into effect.


Police: Yale retiree brought weapons to campus (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 02:28 PM PDT

AP - A retired Yale University employee who had complained about his benefits showed up at the Ivy League school with a rifle, ammunition and a knife, but his attorney said he had no ill intent.
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