2009年11月13日星期五

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Ex-congressman gets 13 years in freezer cash case (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 05:34 PM PST

Former Democratic Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, left, arrives at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 for sentencing in his bribery case accompanied by his wife Andrea Jefferson. Jefferson was convicted on charges including bribery and racketeering. Prosecutors said he took in nearly half a million dollars in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - A former Louisiana congressman who famously hid $90,000 cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking bribes, the longest term ever imposed on a congressman for bribery charges.

New Yorkers worry about trial for 9/11 mastermind (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:49 PM PST

AP - The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center?

Police name brothel worker as victim in OKC fire (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:57 PM PST

AP - Oklahoma City police say 22-year-old Brooke Phillips, who worked at a Nevada brothel that featured on an HBO reality series, was among four people found dead in a burning house earlier this week.

Colorado parents plead guilty in balloon boy saga (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:28 PM PST

Richard, left, and Mayumi Heene, right, leave district court in Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Richard Heene pleaded guilty to knowingly and falsely influencing Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden, a felony. Mayumi Heene pleaded guilty to knowingly filing a false report with emergency services, a misdemeanor. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - A Colorado couple who reported their son was aboard a runaway balloon could land in jail after pleading guilty Friday to charges they made up the story to generate publicity for a possible reality TV show.

Splash! NASA moon crash struck lots of water (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:47 PM PST

This image provided Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 by NASA shows the ejecta plume created by the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket about 20 seconds after after impact Oct. 9, 2009. It turns out there's plenty of water on the moon- at least near the lunar south pole, scientists said Friday. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Suddenly, the moon looks exciting again. It has lots of water, scientists said Friday — a thrilling discovery that sent a ripple of hope for a future astronaut outpost in a place that has always seemed barren and inhospitable.

Strippers-on-a-truck promotion halted in Las Vegas (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 05:36 PM PST

AP - Live strippers on the back of a truck is too much — even for Sin City.

Ohio plans execution method untried on prisoners (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:22 PM PST

FILE- This undated photo released by the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation shows Romell Broom. Ohio on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 became the first state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses one drug, a method never before tried on U.S. inmates. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, File)AP - Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method that death penalty opponents praised as a step forward — albeit one that has apparently never been tried on prisoners.

Philly subway hammer attacker gets 4 to 10 years (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:31 PM PST

AP - A man with schizophrenia who attacked a sleeping subway rider with a hammer was sentenced Friday to four to 10 years in prison for the attack, which a prosecutor dubbed "everybody's worse nightmare."

Ohio US attorney: shift some attention from terror (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:42 PM PST

Carter M. Stewart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, talks during an interview at his office in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Stewart says it's time to move some crime-fighting resources to areas other than terrorism now that eight years have passed since the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)AP - Eight years after the 9/11 attacks, the time has come to shift crime-fighting resources to other areas while keeping terrorism as a top priority, a new Ohio federal prosecutor said.

Man charged in Ohio killings arrested last year (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:08 PM PST

Surrounded by sheriff's deputies, Anthony Sowell is arraigned on rape, kidnapping, attempted murder and felonious assault charges Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, in Cleveland. A search of Sowell's home after his arrest Sept. 22, led to the discovery of the remains of 11 women on the property. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - A woman told authorities in December that a man now accused of killing 11 women had beaten her and tried to rape her, and police and prosecutors are blaming each other for abandoning a case that could have led them months earlier to the bodies scattered around the suspect's stench-filled house.

Police: Man admitted kidnapping missing NC girl (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:13 PM PST

This undated photo provided Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office shows Mario Andrette McNeill. McNeill has admitted to kidnapping 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, authorities said Friday, but investigators still have not found the child more than three days after she disappeared from a mobile home park. (AP Photo/Cumberland County Sheriff's Office)AP - A North Carolina man has admitted to kidnapping a 5-year-old girl, authorities said Friday, but investigators still have not found the child more than three days after she disappeared from a mobile home park.

Son of executed DC sniper: 'I am my own man' (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:40 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 2, 2003 file photo, Lindbergh Williams, first son of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, arrives in Chesapeake Circuit Court in Chesapeake, Va.. Williams says he does not want to be judged by his father's crimes. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, file)AP - Three days after his father's execution, the 27-year-old son of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad said Friday that he doesn't want to be judged by the crimes of a father he didn't really know until the shooting spree.

Yale suspect's floor scrubbing raised suspicions (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:17 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Raymond Clark III is arraigned at Superior Court in New Haven, Conn An arrest warrant released Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 says a bloody sock found in the ceiling and an ink pen found under Yale graduate student Annie Le's body links Clark to her Sept. 2009 killing. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, Pool)AP - An animal research technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student raised suspicions when he began scrubbing floors after the crime and tried to move a box of bloody wipes from the view of an investigator, according to an arrest warrant released Friday.

Spoils of Madoff's feast go on the auction block (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:14 PM PST

A water rescue ring buoy painted with 'Bullship N.Y.' is among items shown at an auction preview of property seized from Bernard Madoff, New York, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Almost 200 items seized from the fallen financier's homes are being sold, from furs, dishes and stationery to a historic Rolex dubbed 'the prisoner's watch' made for Allied prisoners during World War II. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - They're the spoils of a feast that's over forever: Bernard Madoff's stuff on a government auction block.

FBI got warning about suspect in Kan. doctor death (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:21 PM PST

FILE - In this July 28, 2009 file photo, Scott Roeder attends his preliminary hearing in court in Wichita, Kan. Roeder confessed to the Associated Press Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 to killing abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, saying he has no regrets. (AP Photo/Jaime Oppenheimer, Pool)AP - More than a month before the shooting of a high-profile abortion doctor, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Kansas City received an anonymous letter warning that the man now charged in the case "would do physical harm" to Dr. George Tiller or any other abortion provider, the agency said.

Ga. judge rejects terror convict's new trial bid (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:23 PM PST

AP - A federal judge in Georgia has rejected a bid for a new trial by a man convicted of terrorism charges earlier this year.

Urn with veteran's ashes stolen from van in DC (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 05:36 PM PST

AP - An urn containing the ashes of a decorated Korean War veteran has been stolen from a van the soldier's family rented to attend his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

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