2009年12月6日星期日

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Tiger's troubles widen his distance from blacks (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 06:01 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2003 file photo, Tiger Woods, right, stands near his then-girlfriend Elin Nordegren, left, during the final day of the Presidents Cup 2003 Golf Tournament at the Fancourt Golf Estate in George, South Africa. Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles, the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses, little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer. Except in the black community. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)AP - Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles — the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses — little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer. Except in the black community.

Men, horses killed in Ohio barn fire are mourned (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 02:21 PM PST

Members of the Lebanon Fire Department put out hot spots at the scene of a horse barn fire in Lebanon, Ohio, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. The fire ripped through the horse barn at a county fairgrounds Saturday in southwest Ohio, killing 2 people and many horses, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Enquirer, Tony Jones)AP - Stunned horse owners, trainers and stable hands visited the blackened site Sunday where a barn fire killed two workers and 43 horses at a harness-racing track in southwest Ohio.

Ohio inmate to get 1-drug, slower, execution (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:40 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2007 file photo, Sharon King, left, wipes a tear as Debi Heiss recounts the murder of her sister Tami Engstrom in Warren, Ohio. Condemned Ohio killer Kenneth Biros could become the first person in the country put to death with one dose of an intravenous anesthetic if his execution proceeds Tuesday. The execution method, which replaces the faster-acting three-drug process could propel other states to eventually consider the switch. Biros was convicted of killing Tami Engstrom in February 1991. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)AP - Condemned killer Kenneth Biros could become the first person in the country put to death with a single dose of an intravenous anesthetic instead of the usual — and faster-acting — three-drug process if his execution proceeds Tuesday.

Palin's Iowa stop spurs talk of presidential run (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:42 PM PST

AP - Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin greeted hundreds of admirers in Sioux City on Sunday, fueling speculation about a possible presidential run in 2012.

Kennedy Center honors Springsteen, De Niro, others (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 05:02 PM PST

Kennedy Center honorees Bruce Springsteen, right, Robert De Niro sit in the East Room of the White House in Washington Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - With a little help from Carol Burnett, a new star from the hit TV show "Glee" and other top entertainers, political Washington is saluting five of the nation's top artists with the Kennedy Center Honors this weekend.

1 shot, another beaten in fight at Baltimore hotel (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 03:12 PM PST

AP - One man was shot in the face and another was severely beaten when a fight erupted early Sunday during a birthday party at a downtown Baltimore hotel, police said.

Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 06:26 AM PST

In this photo made Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, Ryan Calo, with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School, stands next to a robot that is being built for medical applications at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.

Battle over mountaintop mining slowly gains ground (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 09:14 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, a mountaintop removal mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. with Coal River Mountain, left, in the background. Environmental activists gained more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive, uniquely Appalachian form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal. But they have yet to mobilize the millions of supporters they want. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, File)AP - Environmental activists gained more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive, uniquely Appalachian form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal, though they have yet to mobilize the millions of supporters they want.

Weezer singer hurt when bus skids off road in NY (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST

AP - The lead singer of the alternative rock band Weezer suffered minor injuries when the group's tour bus hit some ice, skidded across the New York State Thruway, struck a guide rail and slid into a ditch early Sunday morning, police said.

Knox upset, tired; gets family visit in prison (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:27 AM PST

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox is accompanied by a penitentiary police officer prior to a final hearing before the verdict, at the court in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. An Italian jury has begun deliberations in the yearlong trial of American student Knox, who is charged with murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 with her former boyfriend Italian murder suspect Raffaele Sollecito. A verdict is expected later Friday. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Amanda Knox sought comfort from visiting family members Saturday on her first day in prison since being convicted of murdering her British roommate.

Wis. man wanted in double homicides eludes police (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:51 PM PST

This undated photo provided Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 by the Dane County, Wis. Sheriff's Department via the Wisconsin State Journal shows Tyrone Adair. Police believe the fatal shootings of a mother and her young daughter in Madison were connected to the slayings of another woman and young girl in a nearby suburb, and authorities were searching Friday for Adair as a 'person of interest' in all four deaths. (AP Photo/ Dane County Sheriff's Department)AP - Police sought help from the public Saturday as the search for a Wisconsin man wanted in the deaths of his two young daughters and their mothers stretched into its third day.

2 men, 43 horses killed in barn fire in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:17 PM PST

The remains of a horse barn at the Lebanon Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Ohio are shown on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 after a fire ripped through it that killed two people and about sixty horses. Capt. Krista Wyatt with the Lebanon Fire Department said the fire was reported about 5 a.m. Saturday. She said the barn's roof had already collapsed by the time firefighters arrived at the Warren County Fairgrounds, about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati. (AP Photo/The Dayton Daily News, Ron Alvey)AP - A fire ripped through a horse barn at a county fairgrounds Saturday in southwest Ohio, killing two men and 43 horses, authorities said.

Palin pokes fun at herself at journalists' dinner (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:08 PM PST

Sarah Palin, left, arrives at a 'Going Rogue' booksigning in Fort Hood, Texas on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - Sarah Palin poked fun at herself in a speech to journalists Saturday night, drawing laughter when she announced she "came down from my hotel room and I could see the Russian Embassy."

Student charged in Binghamton U. professor's death (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:26 PM PST

AP - A graduate student has been accused of fatally stabbing a 77-year-old Binghamton University anthropology professor.

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