2009年10月6日星期二

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Ga. man ordered to die in boy's molestation, death (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 05:22 PM PDT

David Edenfield listens to Judge Stephen Scarlett after the jury's verdict of guilty was read in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. Edenfield, 61, was found guilty in the 2007 sexual assault and choking death of 6-year-old Christopher Barrios. The jury now must decide whether to sentence Edenfield to death or life in prison. (AP Photo/Bobby Haven, POOL)AP - A Georgia man was sentenced to death Tuesday for molesting and strangling a 6-year-old boy inside a mobile home before the child's body was wrapped in trash bags and dumped near a road.

NY jury convicts man in mugging of centenarian (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:52 PM PDT

AP - A New York City man has been convicted of a hate crime for mugging a centenarian on her way to church.

Parents in prayer death get probation, some jail (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:11 PM PDT

AP - A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin couple to 10 years probation and 30 days a year in jail for the next six years for praying instead of seeking medical care for their dying 11-year-old daughter.

Feds: Biker gang plotted to kill, extort rivals (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 05:13 PM PDT

AP - National Pagans Motorcycle Club leaders and more than 50 members and associates of the outlaw biker gang are accused of plotting to kill and extort rivals to consolidate the club's power in the eastern U.S., according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Palin urges troop buildup in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 05:09 PM PDT

AP - Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is urging President Barack Obama to increase the number of U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan.

Mo. man gets life for killing 3 at Texas farmhouse (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 05:10 PM PDT

AP - A Texas jury has spared a Missouri man the death penalty and sentenced him to life in prison without parole for killing a pregnant woman, her husband and her son.

Records reveal CIA view of accused Cuban terrorist (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 04:06 PM PDT

AP - Recently released CIA files from the mid-1960s show Cuban exile and accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles informed on the violent Miami-based efforts to attack Fidel Castro's fledgling Cuban government even as he was deeply involved in helping them.

Same-sex marriage bill in DC appears unstoppable (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Patricia Hawkins, 69, a psychologist who works in Washington, wipes a tear as a bill allowing same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia is introduced at a city council meeting in Washington, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - A bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry in the nation's capital was introduced Tuesday, a measure that even opponents acknowledged seems almost unstoppable.

Prosecutor: Pediatrician molested male patients (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:42 PM PDT

Dr. Mark Blankenburg, 53, attends jury selection, Monday Oct. 5, 2009, at the Government Services Center in Hamilton, Ohio. Twin brother pediatricians are going on trial on charges that for years they used their practices in a middle-class Ohio community to recruit boys for sex, illegally sold them prescription drugs and bribed them not to tell authorities. (AP Photo/Nick Daggy, Pool)AP - A pediatrician performed oral sex on three teen patients and fondled a younger boy during office visits, slipping the teenagers cash payments of at least $200 as they left, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.

School closings may be root of Chicago teen deaths (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:40 PM PDT

In this Friday Oct. 2, 2009 photo Chicago Police officers watch students as they leave classes at Christian Fenger Academy High School on the city's South Side. The fatal beating two weeks ago of 16-year-old Fenger honor student Derrion Albert prompted President Barack Obama to send Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former Chicago Public Schools chief, and Attorney General Eric Holder to Chicago Wednesday Oct. 7, to meet with school officials, students and residents. (AP Photo/David Banks)AP - Even in the cold rain, Danielle Jones would rather stand on the street and wait for her father to pick her up from her high school on Chicago's South Side than walk or take the bus, fearing the fights that start in school will be settled later on the streets.

Floating house could ride New Orleans' floods (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:02 PM PDT

AP - A house capable of floating atop rising floodwaters made its debut Tuesday in New Orleans alongside more than a dozen other homes built through actor Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation.

La. prosecutor probes ACORN after embezzlement (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:45 PM PDT

AP - Louisiana's attorney general said Tuesday he has stepped up an investigation into embezzlement at ACORN nearly a decade ago, but the prosecutor and community activist group clashed over how much money was taken.

Robert Gates: Borlaug a 'warrior against hunger' (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:27 PM PDT

Members of the Ross Volunteers at Texas A&M University look at medals won by Norman Borlaug outside his memorial service Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 in College Station, Texas. Borlaug was one of only five people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize (1970), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) and the Congressional Gold Medal (2006). (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Colleagues and friends of Norman Borlaug remembered the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday as a humanitarian who "built armies of agricultural workers" to combat famine in the world's developing countries.

Del. GOP rep to seek Biden's former Senate seat (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:52 PM PDT

Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Castle hugs his wife Jane after a news conference in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. Castle announced he will run for the Senate seat vacated by Democrat Joe Biden last year after Biden was elected vice president. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Castle announced Tuesday he will run for the U.S. Senate seat Democrat Joe Biden left to become vice president.

Hold the mayo? Not when it comes to astute pilots (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:26 PM PDT

In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 photo, University of North Dakota researchers Gllenda Lindseth and her husband, Paul, pose for a photo in Grand Forks, N.D. The couple spearheaded a study that shows that pilots performed best in certain situations while eating a high-fat diet. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)AP - Running a marathon, grab a carbohydrate bar. Lifting weights, gulp a protein shake. But climbing into a fighter jet? Butter-soaked lobster might help.

CDC: Spray is here; swine flu shots come next week (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:31 PM PDT

A box of the nasal spray swine flu vaccine is shown here in Oregon City, Ore., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. Children and health workers are the first to receive vaccines from the first batch to hit Oregon.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - The initial swine flu vaccine doses this week will be the nasal spray version, and arm injections will begin next week to help meet demand, health officials said Tuesday.

Island-hopping teen burglar eludes Wash. police (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:01 PM PDT

This Nov. 2007 photo provided Oct. 6, 2009 by the Island County, Wash. Sheriff's Office via the Everette Herald shows Colton Harris-Moore. Harris-Moore is suspected in about 50 burglary cases since he slipped away from a halfway house in April 2008. (AP Photo/Island County Sheriff's Office via the Everette Herald)AP - In the darkness of this sleepy island town, the beam of a deputy's flashlight caught the back of a lanky teenager wanted in a notorious 18-month burglary spree.

3 Americans share Nobel physics prize (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:27 PM PDT

George E. Smith, 79, receives a congratulatory telephone call at his home in Waretown, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, after it was announced that he had won the Nobel Prize in physics. Smith along with Willard S. Boyle, 85, were honored for inventing the eye of the digital camera, a sensor able to transform light into a large number of pixels, the tiny points of color that are the building blocks of every digital image. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.

Drug record limit sought by mom in girl's fatal OD (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:16 PM PDT

AP - A woman accused with her husband of giving their 4-year-old daughter a fatal overdose of prescription drugs is asking a judge to bar testimony about her alleged history of getting more pills than prescribed for the girl.

In its 7th season, CBS' `NCIS' hits the top spot (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:10 PM PDT

AP - The opposite of an overnight success, Mark Harmon's military crime-solving drama "NCIS" has ascended to the position of television's most popular scripted show in its seventh season on the air.

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