2009年10月4日星期日

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Big-play D sends undefeated Saints past Jets 24-10 (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:52 PM PDT

New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith (91) reaches for New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez (6) in the first half of an NFL football game in New Orleans, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Smith caused a fumble and the Saints recovered for a touchdown. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - A vastly improved defense with a penchant for big plays has the New Orleans Saints undefeated through four games for the first time since 1993.

Somalia president condemns Minn. terror recruiting (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:42 PM PDT

Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed talks with a reporter at his hotel room in St Paul, Minn., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Ahmed is meeting with members of Minnesota's Somali community to build support for a stable government in his country. After Minnesota, he'll head to Chicago and Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - The president of Somalia on Sunday denounced the recruiting of young men from Minnesota's huge Somali community for terrorist activity in his war-ravaged homeland, and said he plans to work with the U.S. government to bring those still alive back home.

Firefighters try to protect Calif mountain town (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:27 PM PDT

Heavy fire races over a ridge top as a fire engine assigned to structure protection makes its way along Lone Pine Canyon road in the San Gabriel mountains around 75 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, early Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. A wind fanned wildfire that charred 3,500 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains continued to rage Sunday as firefighters worked to prevent flames from advancing toward a mountain resort community. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)AP - Firefighters launched an aggressive ground and air assault Sunday against a wind-fanned wildfire that erupted in the San Gabriel Mountains and threatened a popular resort community.

Tenn. mom left to wonder when she'll see 4 kids (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 03:39 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 week ago, Maria Gurrolla was celebrating the birth of her fourth child. A blue yard sign announced: "IT'S A BOY!" She visited a local welfare office that helps low-income mothers.

Reggae artist says NYC man slashed him with sword (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 03:25 PM PDT

AP - Jamaican reggae artist Major Mackerel says he's been slashed in the head, arm and hand by a New York City man wielding a 2-foot sword.

Neighbors: Accused Andrews stalker kept to himself (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 03:15 PM PDT

ESPN's Erin Andrews reports from the sidelines during a NCAA college football game between Auburn and Tennessee Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 in Knoxville, Tenn. Auburn won 26-22. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - The man accused of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews kept his yard manicured, played golf and enjoyed cooking on a gas grill on a patio behind his $300,000 suburban Chicago town house.

Samoans flock to churches to mourn tsunami victims (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 01:44 PM PDT

Men scavenge items strewn about at Lalomanu village on Samoa's southeast coast Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, after a deadly tsunami rolled through several South Pacific island nations on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Islanders gathered Sunday to mourn victims of the South Pacific tsunami that obliterated entire villages on the shores of American Samoa and Samoa, leaving at least 176 dead.

Waves of new fund cuts imperil US nursing homes (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 12:14 PM PDT

AP - The nation's nursing homes are perilously close to laying off workers, cutting services — possibly even closing — because of a perfect storm wallop from the recession and deep federal and state government spending cuts, industry experts say.

Ill. treasure hunt halted as possible prank (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 02:03 PM PDT

AP - An Illinois woman who set out on a treasure hunt for buried gold coins after finding a cryptic note in an antique rocking chair may have been the victim of a prolific prankster who died more than 30 years ago.

Car slides under trailer on I-95 in Philly; 4 dead (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 01:06 PM PDT

AP - State police in Philadelphia say a car has gone out of control and has slid under a tractor-trailer on a major highway, killing four people.

NYC Chinatown could get 1st Chinese rep on council (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 11:50 AM PDT

AP - Chinatown is likely to get its first Chinese-American representative on the City Council, and a Taiwanese immigrant is headed for citywide office — a dramatic change for the nation's largest city, which had no Asian-Americans in elected office just eight years ago.

SD town gets rid of 44 tons of stinking bison meat (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 01:39 PM PDT

In this photo taken June 23, 2009, a worker uses a skid loader to remove some of the 44 tons of spoiled kosher bison meat from a locker at Bridgewater Quality Meats in Bridgewater, S.D. (AP Photo/Courtesy of McCook County Emergency Manager Brad Stiefvater)AP - Behind the freezer doors at a meat plant mysteriously abandoned by its owner, the 44 tons of bison meat managed to hold its own for months, masked by the brutal chill of two South Dakota winters.

Devices locate kids, parents find peace of mind (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 11:45 AM PDT

In this photo made Sept. 29, 2009, Joe Nesbitt, 44, and his daughter Helen, 3, are pictured at their home in Henderson, Nev. Nesbitt used a Brickhouse Child Locator when he was separated from his daughter while vacationing at Sea World. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - With a computer or cell phone and an electronic tracking device, you can locate a missing pet, follow the path of a stolen car, find a skier buried in an avalanche and rescue a hiker lost in the woods.

Arizona man's own actions led to murder confession (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:43 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Apache County Attorney on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, William Inmon, center, shows Apache County attorney's office investigator Brian Hounshell, right, the window through which Inmon said he shot 72-year-old William 'Stoney' McCarragher in 2007 in a rural area east of St. Johns, Ariz., while detention Officer Jose Rojas, left, watches. Inmon, 21, has pleaded guilty in McCarragher's death and to two additional murders in eastern Arizona on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Apache County Attorney)AP - A scruffy 21-year-old walked into the police station in the small eastern Arizona town of Springerville, winded after running the 2 1/2 blocks there from his home. He wanted to tell the police chief that cops from out of town were in his jurisdiction.

Fans feast on undead as `Zombieland' opens to $25M (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:42 AM PDT

AP - The undead were alive and well at movie theaters as Woody Harrelson's horror comedy "Zombieland" opened on top with $25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Yale lab tech due in court to face murder charge (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:31 AM PDT

Annie Le's mother, Vivian Le, right, is comforted after the funeral for her daughter, Annie Le, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 in El Dorado Hills, Calif. Annie Le, a Yale University doctoral student found murdered on what was to be her wedding day is being remembered Saturday as a brilliant woman who hoped to change the world through her medical research. (AP Photo/Renee C. Byer, Pool)AP - A former Yale University lab technician is due in court this week on charges that he strangled a graduate student and stuffed her body inside a wall.

Ex-Ala. judge accused of trading sex for leniency (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:23 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2006 file photo Circuit Judge Herman Thomas is shown in Mobile, Ala. Thomas was a rising star in Alabama politics with an enviable track record at the polls: a black Democrat who kept getting elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican. He seemed to have it all. Respect as a circuit judge and at one time the Democratic Party's choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama. Then his career on the bench collapsed — first under allegations that he was bringing inmates into his office and spanking them with a paddle, then with an indictment that accuses him of having sex with male inmates in exchange for leniency. The trial — on charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations that involved oral and anal sex, as well as the spankings — is set to start Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Press-Register, Mike Kittrell, File)AP - Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican. The respected circuit judge once was the Democratic Party's choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama.

Health insurance bills could be hardship for many (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington. Many middle-class Americans would still struggle to pay for health insurance despite efforts by President Barack Obama and Democrats to make coverage more affordable. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, FILE)AP - Many middle-class Americans would still struggle to pay for health insurance despite efforts by President Barack Obama and Democrats to make coverage more affordable.

Southern California forest fire destroys 3 homes (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:55 PM PDT

AP - A fire driven by winds of more than 40 mph destroyed three homes and threatened dozens of others in a rugged warren of mountains and canyons northeast of San Bernardino on Saturday.

Police chiefs endorse anti-terror community watch (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 06:15 PM PDT

Los Angeles Police chief William Bratton talks to the media during a news conference introducing iWatch, a community component of the national terrorism-prevention program, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)AP - A store clerk's curiosity about why Najibullah Zazi was buying large quantities of beauty supply products indicated that something about the transaction wasn't quite right — and it's an example of the kind of citizen vigilance that can combat terror, a police commander said Saturday.

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