2009年11月12日星期四

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Feds move to seize 4 mosques, tower linked to Iran (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 05:05 PM PST

The Islamic Education Center is seen in Potomac, Md. on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The center rents this building from the Alavi Foundation, which owns the building but does not run the center. Federal prosecutors filed a complaint Thursday seeking to seize the assets of the foundation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.


Jury: Fmr. slaughterhouse manager guilty of fraud (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:39 PM PST

AP - A federal jury Thursday convicted the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse, which was the site of a massive immigration raid, on 86 of 91 financial fraud charges.

Fort Hood suspect charged with 13 counts of murder (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:57 PM PST

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor identified by authorities as the suspect in a mass shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from a pdf file of the U.S. Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences downloaded on November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/HandoutAP - The Army psychiatrist in the Fort Hood massacre was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder Thursday as he lay in a hospital bed and President Barack Obama ordered a review to determine if the government fumbled warning signs of the shooter's contacts with a radical Islamic cleric.


Ida's torrents dump floods along Atlantic coast (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:49 PM PST

A motorist tries to repair his car flooded in high water along a roadway in the Ocean View area of Norfolk as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - A drenching, wind-driven rain lashed much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, flooding streets, closing schools and causing three deaths in hard-hit Virginia and one in North Carolina.


Family: Mo. child sex abuse claims are `repulsive' (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:31 PM PST

Investigators search for evidence in a wooded area behind a home on a rural property near Bates City, Mo. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Authorities were searching for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members of their own family. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - Family members of five men charged in a bizarre child sex abuse case reacted with disbelief and sadness Thursday to the "unspeakable" string of alleged atrocities spanning two decades.


AP sources: Insurance probed in census taker death (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:10 PM PST

AP - A census taker found hanging from a tree had named his son as his life insurance beneficiary, and investigators are looking into whether the father manipulated the death scene to make a claim possible, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press Thursday.

Scuttled WWII Japanese subs found off Hawaii (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:48 PM PST

AP - Two captured Japanese submarines scuttled by the U.S. Navy just after World War II have been discovered in the Pacific Ocean south of Pearl Harbor.

US reports largest mumps outbreak in 3 years (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:39 PM PST

AP - U.S. health officials say the largest U.S. outbreak of mumps in three years is occurring in New York and New Jersey.

Lawyers: Colo. balloon boy parents to plead guilty (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:59 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, Falcon Heene, 6, front, is guided back to a news conference by his mother, Mayumi, outside the family's home in Fort Collins, Colo. The attorney for Richard Heene, who reported his son Falcon floated away in a helium balloon, says his client and the boy's mother Mayumi will both plead guilty to charges in the case. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)AP - The parents accused of pulling a spectacular hoax by reporting that their 6-year-old son had floated away aboard a helium balloon have agreed to plead guilty in a deal that could send them both to jail but protect the wife from deportation.


Fla. man gets deal in dementia-plagued dad's death (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:25 PM PST

This undated photo released by the Broward County Sheriff's office, shows Bobby Yurkanin Jr., who is awaiting trial on a charge of first degree murder in the death of his father in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., June 15, 2007. Yurkanin is accused of forcing his 84-year-old father into the ocean. Yurkanin was caring for his father who suffered from Alzheimer's. (AP Photo/Broward County Sheriff's Office)AP - A man charged with killing his dementia-plagued father by dragging him into the ocean has reached a plea deal, his attorney said Thursday, in a case that illuminated the stresses faced by those who care for people with Alzheimer's disease.


Va. gov out of town for DNC as his state floods (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:21 PM PST

AP - With his state under an emergency declaration because of heavy rain and floods Thursday, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine was in Arkansas for a Democratic fundraiser.

Animal house of horrors is uncovered outside NYC (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:02 PM PST

In this Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 photo, officers from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals unearth animal remains in the backyard of Sharon McDonough's Selden, N.Y. home. Authorities are trying to determine whether any of the 20 dead dogs found buried in a New York woman's backyard might have been pets stolen from neighbors. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)AP - A mother of seven is accused of running a house of horrors for pets at her suburban Long Island home, forcing her children to help torture them and burying at least 20 dogs in her backyard — animals neighbors now fear were beloved pets that mysteriously disappeared over the years.


Japan drops child-snatching case against Tenn. man (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:59 PM PST

FILE - An undated file photograph released by the Williamson County, Tenn. Court Clerk and Master's Office shows Christopher Savoie, center, with his children Isaac and Rebecca in Franklin, Tenn. A spokesman for a Tennessee father arrested in Japan when he snatched his children from his ex-wife said Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 authorities are dropping the case. (AP Photo/Williamson County Court Clerk and Master's Office, File )  NO SALESAP - Authorities have dropped the case against a Tennessee father arrested in Japan when he snatched his children from his ex-wife, the man's spokesman said Thursday.


Delta suspends GA pilot charged with plane assault (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:57 PM PST

AP - Delta Air Lines has suspended a pilot who was charged with trying to strike officers with his plane at a Georgia airport.

ACORN lawsuit raises question: Can it survive? (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:54 PM PST

State investigators remove computers from the ACORN offices in New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. A warrant was obtained to seize computers, hard drives and other documents after ACORN attorneys said two unidentified former employees took computers and other items when they left the organization. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - ACORN has been cut off by banks, the government and most of its private foundation funders, severely hampering its housing operations and raising the possibility that it will not survive in its current form, according to a lawsuit the group filed Thursday against the U.S. government.


Friday the 13th phobia? You have plenty of company (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:55 PM PST

FILE-This July 1942 file  photo shows automobile manufacturer Henry Ford.  Ford, as the story goes, refused to do business on Friday the 13th, and this week marks the third time this year that the 13th will fall on a Friday, the most times it can happen in one year.(AP Photo/File)AP - Henry Ford would have hated 2009, and not just because it's been a tough year to sell cars.


Prosecutors: Receipts prove Md. mayor stole gifts (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:42 PM PST

Baltimore mayor Sheila Dixon enters the courthouse for opening statements in her trial, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, in Baltimore. Dixon is accused stealing gift cards donated for needy families. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - Store receipts prove Mayor Sheila Dixon used gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees, prosecutors said Thursday, though defense attorneys argued they were intended for her use.


NC man says he's not guilty in girl's kidnapping (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:29 PM PST

AP - A North Carolina man charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old girl told a judge he is not guilty Thursday as investigators scoured the town for any sign of the missing child and said they assume she is in danger.

NYC man's 1992 murder conviction tossed out (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:18 PM PST

AP - A judge Thursday threw out a murder case against a man imprisoned for nearly two decades and declared he was innocent, saying a key witness lied and others influenced one other into identifying him as the shooter.
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