2009年10月26日星期一

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Jury selection continues in first polygamist trial (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:50 PM PDT

Prospective jurors, including women from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, arrive for the first day of jury selection in the trial of Raymond Jessop Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, in Eldorado, Texas. Prospective jurors lined up in a cold rain Monday outside a municipal building that will serve as a makeshift courthouse for the first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of underage girls. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)AP - More than 150 potential jurors, including 10 women in prairie dresses and braids, crammed into a makeshift courtroom Monday as jury selection began in the first criminal trial stemming from the raid of a polygamist sect's ranch last year.

Balloon mom may have admitted hoax to protect kids (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:43 PM PDT

This photo taken on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, shows Mayumi Heene with her oldest son Bradford arriving at their house in Fort Collins, Colo. Friends say the mother of the little boy at the center of the Colorado balloon case is devoted — even subservient — to her inventor husband and her kids, so why would she allegedly tell sheriff's deputies that the whole thing was a hoax? If Mayumi Heene made that confession — as alleged in a search warrant for the family's home — it may have been to keep her children from being taken away from her, or to spare them from having to testify against her husband, Richard Heene, legal experts said Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Friends say the mother of the little boy at the center of the Colorado balloon case is devoted — even subservient — to her inventor husband and her kids, so why would she allegedly tell sheriff's deputies that the whole thing was a hoax?

2 soldiers struck by car and killed in Fla. (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:31 PM PDT

AP - Two soldiers making a surprise visit to their families in Florida before deployment to Iraq were struck by a car and killed after getting into a fight.

Slain UConn player celebrated at funeral in Miami (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:24 PM PDT

An unidentified man views the body of Jasper Howard, at his funeral, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, in Miami. Howard was a UConn football player fatally stabbed to death outside a dance on Connecticut's campus. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)AP - Slain University of Connecticut cornerback Jasper "Jazz" Howard was talented, yet humble, played football with swagger and heart and deeply loved his family.

Joke's on Bill Cosby as Seinfeld, Rock pay tribute (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo from Aug. 19, 2009, comedian Bill Cosby speaks in the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg, Pa., during a news conference. Cosby will be awarded with the 12th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Oct. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP - Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld will salute fellow funny man Bill Cosby on Monday night with the nation's top humor prize at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, along with two co-stars from "The Cosby Show," Phylicia Rashad and Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

Victim: Harvard coffee poisoning not an accident (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:03 PM PDT

AP - One of six Harvard Medical School researchers sickened after drinking coffee laced with a toxic chemical said Monday he does not see how the poisoning could have been accidental, but has no idea who might be responsible.

Wis. man gets 90 days in jail for $50 million fire (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Attorney Julius Kim, front, speaks to reporters outside of court in Milwaukee Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, while Kurtis Popp looks on. Popp admitted to launching the military flare that sparked a major at a suburban Milwaukee meatpacking plant. He was sentenced Monday to 90 days in jail. The sentence must be served for the month of July in each of the next three years. He also received three years probation and 500 hours of community service. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)AP - Two brothers convicted of firing a military flare that sparked a meatpacking plant fire the day after Independence Day in suburban Milwaukee will celebrate the next three Fourth of Julys in jail to remind them of their crimes.

Another Titanic expedition possible in 2010 (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:39 PM PDT

Titanic survivor Elizabeth Gladys Dean is pictured at the Titanic Voices Exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Southampton in 2002. Friends and relatives of Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic, gathered on Saturday to scatter her ashes at the point where the ill-starred ocean liner set sail in April 1912.(AFP/File/Gerry Penny)AP - The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic wants to make another expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck in 2010.

Jealous teen admits arranging Vt. cashier killing (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:02 PM PDT

Michael Robie, left, sits with his lawyer James Moir in Grafton County Superior court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Oct. 26, 2009. Robie pleaded guilty Monday for his role in a plot to murder Christopher Gray, a developmentally disabled Wal-Mart cashier last year. (AP Photo/Jen Hauck, Pool)AP - A New Hampshire man charged in the murder of a developmentally disabled Wal-Mart cashier who'd been flirting with his girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday to lesser charges, admitting he helped orchestrate the attack from his jail cell.

Madoff associate had heart attack, drowned in pool (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:53 PM PDT

New York swindler Bernard Madoff, pictured in March 2009. Florida investor and philanthropist Jeffry Picower, a Madoff associate accused of making billions of dollars in the Madoff investment scandal, was found dead Sunday in his Palm Beach swimming pool, police said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AP - A man accused of making more than $7 billion off the investment schemes of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff drowned after having a heart attack, authorities said Monday.

Ohio can't find doctors to offer execution advice (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:37 PM PDT

A California Department of Corrections photo of a chamber were prisoners are executed by lethal injection. A US federal judge has postponed a fourth Ohio execution as the state looks at how it puts inmates to death in the wake of a botched attempt on one man.(AFP/CDC/Ho/File)AP - Ohio was on track this year to execute a record number of inmates. One botched execution and several lawsuits later, the death penalty is temporarily on hold.

Statisticians reject idea that Earth is cooling, not warming (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:07 PM PDT

Graphic shows the departure from normal annual world temperatureAP - Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book. Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press.

Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 02:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama stands with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., at a fundraising event in Las Vegas . Reid, already airing TV ads for an election that's more than a year away, tells voters he has the clout to make a difference in their lives. But even in Searchlight, Nev., where Reid is celebrity and neighbor, there are complaints about his politics and personality that mirror polls showing the most powerful Democrat in the Senate is not necessarily a hero at home. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Along a curve of desert highway near the gated home of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, mechanic Bill Johnson is struggling to keep his checkbook balanced.

Ala. judge cleared of sex abuse in inmate spanking (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:51 PM PDT

FILE - Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas is seen in a Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 photo during his trial in Mobile, Ala. Thomas was found not guilty of charges accusing him of paddling and sexually abusing male inmates Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 after more than a week of testimony. A judge threw out the remaining 14 charges.(AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register, Mary Hattler)AP - A former Alabama judge was cleared Monday of charges that he spanked and sexually abused male inmates.

Cheesecake vs. cheesesteak; Miss Liberty vs. Rocky (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:26 PM PDT

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter dances with the Philadelphia Phillies' mascot, Phillie Phanatic, during a rally for the baseball team at City Hall in Philadelphia, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The Phillies take on the New York Yankees in the World Series beginning Wednesday in New York (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - The notion that you can't have too much of a good thing is about to get a major test.

Calendar pokes fun at Mormon mom stereotype (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 03:55 PM PDT

AP - The latest installment of a calendar series that pokes fun at Mormon stereotypes is putting a twist on motherhood.

Minn. family wants court out of son's cancer case (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2009 file photo, Daniel Hauser, 13, arrives at the Brown County Courthouse for a hearing in New Ulm, Minn. The parents of a southern Minnesota teenager who once fled the state to avoid chemotherapy are asking a judge to end the court's role in the case, saying they are following the advice of doctors and making sure their son gets the best medical care. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)AP - The parents of a southern Minnesota teenager who once fled the state to avoid chemotherapy went before a judge Monday and asked for the court's role in the case to end, saying they are following the advice of doctors and making sure their son gets the best medical care.

Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:20 PM PDT

AP - A government-sponsored "public option" for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.

Castro's sister says she collaborated with CIA (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 04:07 PM PDT

FILE - In a Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006 file photo, Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, talks to reporters about her brother in Miami. Castro, 76, Fidel Castro's younger sister, told Univision's WLTV-23 station in Miami late Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 that she collaborated with the CIA in 1964 following the Cuban revolution. She said she initially supported her brother's 1959 overthrow of the Batista dictatorship but quickly became disillusioned by the revolution's vast number of executions and rampant expropriation of private property. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)AP - One of Fidel Castro's sisters says in a memoir released Monday that she collaborated with the CIA against her brother, starting shortly after the United States' failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.

Jordanian pleads not guilty in Dallas bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 10:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Ellis County Sheriff's Department, Hosam Maher Smadi is shown. Smadi, a Jordanian teenager accused of attempting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. He is charged with attempting to use of a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public place. If convicted, he could face life in prison. (AP Photo/Ellis County Sheriff's Department, File)AP - A Jordanian man accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper with what he thought was a car bomb pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Monday.

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