2009年12月5日星期六

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2nd gay bishop for Episcopal Church, Anglicans (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:58 PM PST

Delegates raise their ballots for Bishop Suffragan during the 114th Annual Meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles for the Episcopal Church held in Riverside, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the first female bishop, Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, in its 114-year history. (AP Photo/Francis Specker)AP - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a lesbian as assistant bishop Saturday, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, which is already deeply fractured over the first.


Baucus: Girlfriend merited US attorney nomination (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:34 PM PST

Senator Max Baucus, D-Mont, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, leaves the Seante floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Senate Democrats on Saturday defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his one-time staff member and the former state prosecutor is "highly qualified" but eventually withdrew her nomination.


First US ambassador to the Vatican dead at 95 (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:17 PM PST

AP - William A. Wilson, the first American to serve as ambassador to the Vatican and a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers, has died. He was 95.

AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

Clark Norris, left, and his son Todd Norris, right, are shown inside Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant in Conover, N.C., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Legacy's recent success highlights a trend: Counties with the heaviest reliance on manufacturing income are posting some of the biggest employment gains of the nation's nascent economic recovery. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - As record numbers of orders flow through Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant, workers toil between towers of piled foam and incomplete end tables precariously stacked five pieces high.


Election board certifies Atlanta mayor vote (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:18 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2009 file photo, Atlanta Mayoral candidate Kasim Reed, left, celebrates with Lisa Borders, Atlanta city council president, center, during his runoff Election Night Party  in Atlanta. When the final votes are counted, it's likely the black political machine that integrated Atlanta's City Hall — and kept it that way for four decades — will have pulled through one more time to deliver a fifth consecutive black mayor. Barely. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)AP - A Georgia elections board has certified the vote making former state Sen. Kasim Reed Atlanta's mayor-elect.


`Junior' Gotti's 4th mob mistrial may be his last (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:50 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo of Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, John 'Junior' Gotti  smiles as he speaks to reporters outside Manhattan federal court in New York after a judge declared a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a verdict against the son of the notorious Gambino crime family mob boss - the case's fourth hung jury in five years. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - A new judge, new charges, new star witness and a new jury added up to a familiar result — a mistrial for John "Junior" Gotti on racketeering charges. This one, though, might be his last.


Snow dusts the South from Louisiana to Georgia (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:42 PM PST

Snow is seen falling at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Louisiana got its earliest snowflakes ever as people across the South awakened to a dusting of powder.


1 dead, scores injured in Wyoming bus crash (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:38 AM PST

AP - A bus driver was killed and about 40 passengers injured Saturday morning when the bus crashed into an overturned tractor-trailer blocking Interstate 25 in central Wyoming.

Vermont church selling Tiffany window to stay open (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:23 PM PST

In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 photo, Rev. Suzanne Andrews stands under the Tiffany & Co. stained glass window at the First Baptist Church in Brattleboro, Vt.  Pressed for cash, the First Baptist Church has reluctantly decided to seek bids on a Tiffany & Co. stained glass window that's been part of the building since 1910. The 9-foot tall window, which depicts St. John the Divine, will be removed and sold if a successful bidder comes forward, although pastor Rev. Suzanne Andrews says she's hoping a miracle will make that unnecessary. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - For almost 100 years, the multicolored image of St. John the Divine has gazed down from a stained glass window in the choir loft of First Baptist Church.


Va. Tech report: Staff warned their families first (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 05:25 AM PST

FILE - In this undated photo released by the Virginia State Police, Seung-Hui Cho is shown. Seung-Hui, 23, is identified by police as the gunman suspected in the massacre that left 33 people dead at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 16, 2007. An updated report released Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 says that some Virginia Tech officials warned their own families and the president's office was locked down well before a campus-wide alert was issued in the 2007 slayings of 32 people, according to a revised state report that details new fumbles in the response to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.  (AP Photo/Virginia State Police, File)AP - New details on the response to the first shootings of what would become the Virginia Tech massacre show that at least two administrators alerted their family members well before the rest of the campus was notified that a gunman was on the loose.


Colorado State University bans guns on campus (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:36 AM PST

AP - Joining most major colleges nationwide, Colorado State University has banned concealed weapons on campus with a vote that pitted faculty asking for a prohibition against students demanding the right to carry guns.

Brooke Astor's son: I'm too sick to be imprisoned (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:00 AM PST

FILE - In this  Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 file photo, Anthony Marshall and wife Charlene exit the courtroom following the verdict at Manhattan State Supreme Court, in New York.  Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son said in court papers filed Friday that he's too sick and doesn't deserve to go to prison for plundering his philanthropist mother's fortune, enlisting such famous friends as Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker in a bid to stay free.   (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file)AP - Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son has turned to friends in high places — including Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker — to help him make the case that he is too sick and doesn't deserve to go to prison for plundering his philanthropist mother's fortune.


Man reported car problems just before 4-dead crash (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:26 AM PST

AP - A customer complained of gas-pedal problems with a dealership's loaner Lexus three days before the same car accelerated out of control and killed a California Highway Patrol officer and three family members, a report obtained Friday said.

Pawlenty, other aspirants travel for foreign cred (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:28 AM PST

AP - Gov. Tim Pawlenty can't see Russia from his house.

In Tuesday speech, Obama to promote new job ideas (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:25 PM PST

President Barack Obama waves goodbye as he boards Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Hanover, Pa, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - In his latest job creation effort, President Barack Obama is trying to find practical and politically feasible ways of spurring hiring among skittish employers.


1 killed, 2 injured in Texas refinery accident (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:33 AM PST

AP - One worker was killed and two others were injured when a boiler failed at a Valero petroleum refinery in eastern Texas.
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