2009年10月29日星期四

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Texas law on children seeing porn being challenged (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:52 PM PDT

Crystal Buckner responds to a reporters question, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 in Dallas. Buckner is fighting to have a 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show 'harmful material' to their children. A prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against Buckner's former husband, who is accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography. (AP Photo/Amy Gutierrez)AP - A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography.

Race re-emerges in tight Atlanta mayoral election (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:34 PM PDT

Atlanta mayoral candidate, Atlanta city coucil president Lisa Borders, makes calls in her office at her campaign headquarters on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photos/Johnny Clark)AP - A neighborhood activist with crossover appeal on the verge of making history. A city leader with a civil rights legacy. A native son seen by some as the heir apparent to the city's first black mayor.

Big snowstorm moving out of Colorado to Kan., Neb. (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:52 PM PDT

Eileen Hargrave walks her dogs Nessie, left, and Pete in the snow in Denver, Colo., on Thursday, Oct.29, 2009. A slow-moving storm has dumped more than 2 feet of snow on parts of Colorado and much more is expected. It's expected to be the state's strongest October snowstorm in 12 years. Up to 18 inches of snow was forecast in Denver and up to 4 feet was possible in the Colorado mountains. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - A large, powerful autumn snowstorm slowly moved out of Colorado Thursday and trudged toward Nebraska and Kansas, causing blizzard-like conditions on the eastern plains and leaving in its wake treacherous roads and hundreds of canceled flights.

Feds investigating Detroit Islamic group's motives (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:52 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Muslim Alliance of North America shows Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit. The FBI says Luqman Ameen Abdullah was fatally shot Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, after resisting arrest and firing at agents at a warehouse in Dearborn. (AP Photo/Muslim Alliance of North America, Ron Foster Sharif) NO SALESAP - The FBI is trying to determine whether members of a radical Detroit-area Islamic group were homegrown jihadists or merely a "bunch of thugs with bluster," a congressman said Thursday. One thing is certain: They are not mainstream Muslims, the agency said.

Al-Qaida agent sentenced to 8 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2009 photo released by the International Committee of the Red Cross via his lawyer Andy Savage, Ali al-Marri is seen at the Charleston Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C. A two-day sentencing begins Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at federal court in Peoria, Ill., for al-Marri, a former Bradley University student and a married father of five from Qatar who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. He faces up to 15 years in prison. (AP Photo/ICRC via Andy Savage, File)AP - A federal judge sentenced an al-Qaida sleeper agent to a relatively light eight years in prison Thursday because the man received what the judge called "unacceptable" treatment in a U.S. Navy brig.

Ind. soldier was 'free spirit,' champion wrestler (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:49 PM PDT

AP - Sgt. Dale Griffin was the son of a Mormon bishop, a champion wrestler and college student who was struggling to find his way in the world when he turned to the military.

Hundreds arrested in Ky. prescription crackdown (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:42 PM PDT

AP - More than 300 people were arrested and 200 more targeted in a crackdown on a multi-state prescription pill pipeline, a bust that Kentucky officials said Thursday was the largest in the state's history.

Cops: Student threatened 'snitches' in UConn death (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:22 PM PDT

John William Lomax III, center, is arraigned on charges connected with the slaying of UConn football star Jasper Howard, in a courtroom at Rockville Superior Court, in Rockville, Conn., on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/George Ruhe)AP - A University of Connecticut student committed an act terrorism by posting Internet messages telling people to "stop the snitching" after the stabbing death of football player Jasper Howard, university police said Thursday.

College enrollment up, mostly at 2-year schools (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Mike Grace, 24, a student at Wake Technical Community College, is seen in a chemistry lab on the north campus in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. A study of Census data by the Pew Research Center shows the share of Americans age 18-to-24 attending college hit a record high in October 2008. But enrollment in 4-year colleges was flat; virtually all of the increase of 300,000 students nationally over the previous year came at 2-year schools. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Some are there because of the recession, and others despite it. Regardless, more young Americans than ever are in college — especially community college, according to a new report.

Florida man creates giant rubber band ball (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:52 PM PDT

Joel Waul, 28, climbs on top of his rubber band ball on the driveway of his home in Lauderhill, Fla., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Waul who works nights restocking a Gap clothing store, has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape. The Guinness Book of World Records declared it the world's largest rubber band ball in 2008. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that's the size of a Smart car?

DC station airs demo of bare breast self-exams (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:15 PM PDT

AP - The ABC affiliate here is airing a two-part series that takes a close — and unobscured — look at breast self-exams. The series is airing during the fall "sweeps" period critical for a TV station's ad revenue, prompting concern by a parental watchdog group. But WJLA insists it's not just a naked attempt to boost the ratings.

Snowbird manatee flies to balmy Miami for winter (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:42 PM PDT

In this photo released by the United States Coast Guard, Maya Rodriguez, a veterinarian at Miami Sea Aquarium in Miami, keeps a Manatee wet with bottled water during the mammal's flight from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City to the waters off Florida, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. New Jersey Fish and Wildlife captured the manatee on Monday, Oct. 26, rescuing it from the murky waters off Linden, N.J. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lindberg)AP - In a journey familiar to retirees but not sea mammals, Ilya the wayward manatee flew south for the winter Thursday after being rescued from a chilly New Jersey creek.

Police seek shooter who wounded 2 at LA synagogue (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:32 PM PDT

Police tape is shown stretched across the entrance of the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue where a gunman shot and wounded two men Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool)AP - A gunman shot and wounded two men in the parking garage of a North Hollywood synagogue Thursday, frightening worshippers who heard gunshots and screams before the bleeding victims stumbled in during morning services.

Pa. high court dismisses juvenile convictions (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Thursday Feb. 12, 2009 file photo Mark Ciavarella, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out more than five years' worth of cases heard by former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella. He is charged with accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks to send youths to private detention centers. (AP Photo/David Kidwell, File)AP - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed thousands of juvenile convictions issued by a judge charged in a corruption scandal, saying that none of the young offenders got a fair hearing.

Obama girls' vaccine: Favoritism or good example? (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, with daughters Malia, left, and Sasha, right, return to the White House in Washington from Camp David. With dad a world leader, Malia and Sasha Obama surely could have been first in line when vaccinations began for swine flu. The White House says, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, they weren't. But that hasn't stopped complaints online and elsewhere that President Obama's daughters got preferential treatment by scoring hard-to-get vaccinations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - With Dad a world leader and Nobel Prize winner, Malia and Sasha Obama surely could have been first in line when vaccinations began for swine flu. They weren't, the White House says. But that hasn't stopped complaints that President Barack Obama's daughters got preferential treatment.

Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 02:38 PM PDT

Graphic shows percentage of people in each state that reported not getting enough sleep during a 30 day period.AP - Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.

Teen guilty of 4 slayings in Rochester, NY (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 02:08 PM PDT

In this undated mug photo released by the Rochester, N.Y. police and provided by the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Jaquan Clark, 17, of Rochester is shown. A prosecutor says the teenager admitted taking part in two robberies in which four people were shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death over the Christmas holidays, three of them at a jewelry merchant's home. In opening statements in the trial of Clark, the defense agreed Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 that Clark was at both crime scenes, but called him as an unwitting pawn in slayings carried out by an unknown accomplice. Authorities say Clark, who was 17 at the time, killed 62-year-old Donald MacMaster, 33-year-old Jeffrey Szymkowski and 17-year-old Arielle Griffin last Dec. 26 at a jewelry business MacMaster operated from his home. (AP Photo/Rochester Police)AP - A high school dropout, either acting alone or with help, stabbed, shot or bludgeoned four people to death during two robberies over the Christmas holidays last year, a jury decided Thursday.

Construction to begin on King memorial in DC (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 01:52 PM PDT

Christine King Ferris, sister of Martin Luther King Jr., looks at a model of the Stone of Hope, the centerpiece of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, after a ceremony Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 announcing the approval of construction to begin on the memorial on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Construction can finally begin on the long-delayed Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial slated for the National Mall after the National Park Service issued building permits Thursday for the project.

Bullet hits Lou Dobbs' NJ home with wife nearby (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this 2005 file photo provided by CNN, news anchor Lou Dobbs sits on the set of his show, 'Lou Dobs Tonight,' in New York (AP Photo/CNN, Mark Hill, File)AP - Police in New Jersey are trying to determine who fired a bullet that struck CNN commentator Lou Dobbs' home as his wife stood nearby. State police Sgt. Stephen Jones says Dobbs' wife and driver were outside the home Oct. 5 when they heard the gunshot. Jones says the bullet didn't penetrate the siding and fell to the ground outside.

Philly teens sentenced in fatal subway attack (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 01:02 PM PDT

AP - Three teens convicted of beating a man on a dare, causing his fatal asthma attack on a Philadelphia subway platform, were sentenced Thursday to more than 12 years in prison.

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