2009年11月18日星期三

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Tour bus crashes off Minn. interstate, killing 2 (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 05:25 PM PST

Rescuers work at the scene of a bus accident Wednesday afternoon Nov. 18, 2009 in Freeborn County on Interstate 90 west of Austin, Minn. A tour bus, operated by Strain Bus Line Motorcoach Tours in Rochester, ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch Wednesday. A state official said fatalities were reported but the number of people killed was not immediately known. (AP Photo by Kevin Hanson, Post-Bulletin)AP - A tour bus returning from an Iowa casino ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 21, authorities said.

SC panel says governor should face ethics charges (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 05:36 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 13, 2009 South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford listens to remarks during the Budget and Control Board meeting in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will face charges he violated state laws, according to an ethics panel ruling Wednesday that came after its three-month investigation into his use of state, commercial and private airplanes and his campaign finance practices.

Ex-crewmen: Company wouldn't rename targeted ship (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:20 PM PST

In this April 23, 2009 file photo Mariner John Cronan poses for a portrait at his home in Merion Station, Pa. Cronan was a crewman aboard the Maersk Alabama when pirates attacked off the coast of Somalia in April. He and and at least one other crew member are suing Maersk in Texas. They allege the company was negligent in sending the crew into known pirate territory with inadequate protection. The ship was attacked by pirates again on Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - The company that owns the Maersk Alabama, a freighter targeted by pirates twice in seven months, did not heed a request to rename, repaint or reroute the ship after the first attack off the coast of Africa in the spring, former crew members say.

Calif. requires TVs to be more energy-efficient (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:58 PM PST

Jay Aguas shops for a large, flat screen television at a Best Buy Store in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. The California Energy Commission voted unanimously, Wednesday, adopting a first-in-the-nation mandate to require all new televisions, up to 58 inches, to be more energy efficient, beginning in 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of American households are switching to power-hungry, wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets.

Dad accused of forcing son into field, killing him (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 05:04 PM PST

AP - A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.

Hundreds cheer Palin in Mich. for book tour (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 06:03 PM PST

Todd Shaffer, 38, of East Lansing, Mich., in foreground, waits in line with hundreds of people at a Barnes and Noble bookstore Wednesday morning Nov. 18, 2009 for a wristband that would give them a chance to have Sarah Palin sign their copies of her new book, 'Going Rogue,' at a book signing that evening in Grand Rapids, Mich. Shaffer described himself as a Palin supporter who wanted a chance to meet the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, whom he says has been a pioneer for women in the party. (AP Photo/James Prichard)AP - College students ditched class, employees skipped work and some huddled in the cold overnight just to make sure they get an orange wristband Wednesday that would let them meet Sarah Palin.

Palin and her fans irked by cover shot in shorts (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 04:36 PM PST

Sarah Palin looks at a cover of Newsweek handed to her as she arrives for a book signing of her new book 'Going Rogue' in Grand Rapids, Michigan November 18, 2009. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES POLITICS MEDIA)AP - Of all the adjectives one might use to describe Newsweek's current Sarah Palin cover, "unflattering" probably isn't one of them.

Upscale McDonald's brings European style to NYC (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:23 PM PST

In this Nov. 4, 2009 photo, customers visit a new McDonald's featuring free wifi, a euro-themed design and art deco in New York. The restaurant is a first-of-its-kind in the nation for McDonald's. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Danish Modern furniture. Flat-screen TVs. Free Wi-Fi.

Police: Mo. teen dug grave anticipating murder (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 05:12 PM PST

This picture provided on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 by the Cole County Sheriff's Department shows Alyssa Bustamante. On Wendesday, Nov. 18, 2009, a judge entered a not-guilty plea on behalf of the 15-year-old-girl charged as an adult in the strangulation and stabbing death of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. (AP Photo/Cole County Sheriff's Department)AP - Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said.

Shuttle docks at space station, unloads parts (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:27 PM PST

In this photo provided by NASA, guests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center view the launch of space shuttle Atlantis in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began the 11-day STS-129 mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle will transport spare hardware to the outpost and return a station crew member who spent more than two months in space. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday for a weeklong stay, and the astronauts quickly unloaded a huge platform full of spare parts needed to keep the outpost running for another decade.

Fifth person arrested in NH burglary killing (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:20 PM PST

AP - A New Hampshire man was charged Wednesday with helping two others come up with an alibi in a home-invasion attack that killed a woman and severely injured her 11-year-old daughter.

Navy finds lax behavior aboard sub in collision (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:43 PM PST

AP - The crew of a U.S. submarine made dozens of errors before the vessel collided with an American warship in the Persian Gulf, an accident that exposed lax leaders who tolerated sleeping, slouching and a radio room rigged with music speakers, a Navy review found.

Ariz. prosecutor files 1st employer sanctions case (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:06 PM PST

AP - Maricopa County prosecutors on Wednesday filed Arizona's first civil complaint against a business under a 22-month-old state law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

Iran rejects deal on sending uranium abroad (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 02:27 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2009 file photo, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki addresses the media in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)AP - Iran will not ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for processing, its foreign minister said Wednesday, once again rejecting a U.N. plan aimed at thwarting any attempt by Tehran to make nuclear weapons.

Fatalities reported in Minnesota tour bus crash (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:07 PM PST

AP - Fatalities were reported after a tour bus ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch Wednesday, but a state official said the number of people killed was not immediately known.

Ark. police officer uses Taser on 10-year-old girl (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:52 PM PST

AP - A police officer in a small Arkansas town used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission to do so. Now the town's mayor is calling for an investigation into whether the Taser use was appropriate.

New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor vote (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:58 PM PST

Ryan Schwarz, left, and Rev. Paull Spring, chairman of Lutheran Coalition of Renewal (CORE), talk with reporters about the creation of a new Lutheran church body for those who wish to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, at WordAlone Network offices in New Brighton, Minn., on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - The split over gay clergy within the country's largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Study: CT scans rule out heart attacks faster (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 10:51 AM PST

AP - A CT scan — a kind of super X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.

Big Hubble instruments now Smithsonian artifacts (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:21 PM PST

Still an astrophysical mystery, the evolution of the bulges in spiral galaxies led astronomers to the edge-on galaxy NGC4710. When starring directly at the center of the galaxy, one can detect a faint, ethereal 'X'-shaped structure. Such a feature, which astronomers call a 'boxy' or 'peanut-shaped' bulge, is due to the vertical motions of the stars in the galaxy's bar and is only evident when the galaxy is seen edge-on. This curiously shaped puff is often observed in spiral galaxies with small bulges and open arms, but is less common in spirals with arms tightly wrapped around a more prominent bulge, such as NGC4710. (AP Photo/NASA/ESA)AP - Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

AP IMPACT: NFL players hide, fear concussions (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 02:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2009 file photo, a member of the Washington Redskins training staff, top, attends to running back Clinton Portis after he received a concussion in the first quarter of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta. Thirty of 160 NFL players surveyed by The Associated Press from Nov. 2-15 said they have hidden the symptoms or effects of a concussion so they could continue to play. Portis was not surveyed by the AP. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)AP - Washington Redskins kick returner Rock Cartwright remembers his brain "shaking like a bell" when he was walloped in a game against the New York Giants a few years ago.

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