2009年10月7日星期三

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Woman accused in Tenn. baby grab staying in jail (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 05:49 PM PDT

Brandon Anderson, a neighbor of Maria Gurrolla in Nashville, Tenn., talks Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, about the response of the neighborhood to Tuesday's abduction of Gurrolla's baby. Gurrolla's newborn son, Yair Anthony Carillo, was found in Alabama Friday after being taken from the home Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - An Alabama woman accused of snatching a newborn from his Tennessee home will remain in federal custody while authorities Wednesday investigate whether she was the only person involved.


Banned from churches, sex offenders go to court (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 05:41 PM PDT

Convicted sex offender James Nichols studies scriptures at the New Life Mission Church Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 in Fayetteville, N.C. Nichols said he was trying to better himself by going to Moncure Baptist Church in Moncure, N.C. But the police who arrested him explained: The church is off-limits because it has a daycare center.  (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Convicted sex offender James Nichols said he was trying to better himself by going to church. But the police who arrested him explained: The church is off-limits because it has a daycare center.


Prosecutors seek DNA sample in Craigslist killing (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 04:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 22, 2009, file photo, former Boston University medical student during  Philip Markoff stands during his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court, Monday, June 22, 2009, in Boston, on charges he killed a masseuse at a Boston hotel that he met through Craigslist. Markoff was indicted Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, in Providence, R.I., on charges that he also assaulted a stripper in Rhode Island.   (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, Pool, File)AP - Prosecutors said Wednesday they are seeking a DNA sample from a former Boston University medical student charged with killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist, but the man's lawyer would not say whether he will turn it over voluntarily.


Pot legalization gains momentum in California (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 06:19 PM PDT

Allan St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML), speaks during a news conference at the group's annual convention in San Francisco, California September 25, 2009. The convention kicked off a state-wide signature-gathering effort aimed to support the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, which advocates said would regulate cannabis like alcohol, and give local governments the ability to tax and regulate its sale. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith  (UNITED STATES POLITICS SOCIETY)AP - Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.


Father of Palin's grandson to pose for Playgirl (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 06:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 9, 2009 file photo, Levi Johnston, 19, is seen during a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Johnston, the former fiance of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter, Bristol Palin will pose for Playgirl. Johnston's attorney, Rex Butler, says a formal agreement has not been reached with the online magazine but adds it's a 'foregone conclusion' it will happen. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, file)AP - Levi Johnston is going for the ultimate exposure — his bare body. The 19-year-old father of Sarah Palin's grandchild will pose nude for Playgirl, his attorney said Wednesday. To get ready for his close-up, Johnston is training three hours a day, six nights a week at an Anchorage gym with a local body builder.


Holder, Duncan plan to fight Chicago teen violence (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 02:44 PM PDT

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, center, addresses the media in Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/John Smierciak)AP - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday pledged federal support to fight a surge in youth violence in Chicago and other cities, calling the brutal beating death of a teenager on the city's South Side a wake-up call for the country.


Thousands mob Detroit center in hopes of free cash (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 06:22 PM PDT

Detroit residents, right, pick up forms to apply for federal stimulus funds at Cobo Center in Detroit, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Scuffles erupted and several people were treated for fainting and exhaustion as thousands of Detroit residents tried to apply for free federal money. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Scuffles erupted as several thousand Detroit residents jockeyed, pushed and shoved Wednesday to get free money being offered to only 3,500 of the city's recently or soon to be homeless.


AP Poll: Third of parents oppose swine flu vaccine (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 01:34 PM PDT

Duncan Barnes, 1, being held by his mother Jennifer Barnes, reacts while receiving vaccine for swine flu from Dr. Susan Henderson, left, and a vaccine for seasonal flu from nurse Allison Ross,  during a swine flu vaccination clinical trial for children at Emory Children's Center Sept., 2, 2009, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - As the first wave of swine flu vaccine crosses the country, more than a third of parents don't want their kids vaccinated, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.


Taped confession to child deaths played in court (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 03:15 PM PDT

AP - A Maryland man calmly described to detectives how he methodically drowned his three young children by holding them underwater in a hotel bathtub for 10 minutes each — a confession that was recorded by police and played in court Wednesday.

Pipe bombs, rifles found in car stopped in Conn. (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 02:38 PM PDT

AP - Two Connecticut men face charges of bomb making and other offenses after police say they found them in a Mercedes with explosives in a residential New Haven neighborhood.

Soprano Sills' estate sells for more than $500K (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 04:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2006 file photo, Beverly Sills smiles during a ceremony at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer-File)AP - An auction of the late soprano Beverly Sills' estate fetched more than a half-million dollars Wednesday — far more than expected for the costume designs, art and other personal items.


Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 05:04 PM PDT

In this 1960s image released by the Irving Penn Studio, photographer Irving Penn is shown. Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, at his Manhattan home. He was 92. (AP Photo/Irving Penn Studio, Inc., Bert Stern)AP - Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92.


Slain Florida couple's daughter appears on `Oprah' (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 03:25 PM PDT

AP - A Florida woman said she is fulfilling a promise she never thought she'd have to keep by raising nine special-needs children her parents had adopted before they were shot to death in their home in July.

Police probe disease exposure at Fla. hospital (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 02:07 PM PDT

AP - Police were looking into possible criminal charges against a nurse at a South Florida hospital where officials say she may have exposed more than 1,800 patients to HIV and hepatitis by reusing medical supplies.

Montana legislator faces 3 felonies in boat crash (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 04:29 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors on Wednesday filed felony charges against a Montana state senator accused of recklessly endangering a U.S. congressman and three others when he allegedly crashed a boat at high speed onto a rocky embankment after a night of drinking.

NYC undercover stings expose 'gun show loophole' (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 01:28 PM PDT

File photo shows hand guns on display at a National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The US Supreme Court will rule next year on a new constitutional challenge over gun rights, reviving debate over one of America's most divisive issues, and examine a law banning AP - Private unlicensed gun dealers were captured on video selling weapons to undercover investigators who admitted they couldn't pass background checks in a sting operation by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to highlight the "gun show loophole."


Ex-astronaut's attorneys get to depose accuser (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - In a Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007 file pool photo, former astronaut Lisa Nowak answers questions during a hearing at the Orange County courthouse in Orlando, Fla. Lawyers for Nowak are asking a judge in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 to toss one of three criminal charges she faces, a charge of 'burglary with an assault or battery with a weapon.' Nowak's attorneys say it isn't applicable because the pepper spray she allegedly wielded isn't a dangerous weapon and didn't touch her alleged victim.   (AP Photo/Red Huber, File)AP - Attorneys for a former astronaut will get another chance to question a romantic rival she allegedly drove 1,000 miles to confront.


Acting head of US Olympic Committee to step down (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 02:12 PM PDT

FILE -- This is a July 15, 2009, file photo showing U.S. Olympic Committee acting CEO Stephanie Streeter posing at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Colo.  Streeter will leave her post within the next five months. Streeter, who took the job when Jim Scherr was forced to resign in March, announced the decision Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, saying she wanted to get back into the corporate world. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - Six months of shaky decisions and turmoil came to a head for the U.S. Olympic Committee on Wednesday when its acting CEO said she would step down, bringing more chaos to an organization that was humiliated when Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Games fell flat.


Fla. mayor's dad jailed after gun confrontation (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 12:28 PM PDT

AP - Police say a Florida mayoral candidate upset because his politician daughter endorsed someone else was arrested after confronting her with a gun.
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