2009年12月8日星期二

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Ohio executes inmate with one-drug injection (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

The hearse carrying the body of Kenneth Biros leaves the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility after his execution Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, in Lucasville, Ohio. Ohio executed Biros through the first U.S. lethal injection using a single drug, a longer but supposedly less painful method than previous executions that required three drugs. Biros was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m. EST Tuesday. Biros, 51, killed 22 year-old Tami Engstrom near Warren, Ohio in 1991. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - An Ohio killer was put to death in an efficient 10 minutes Tuesday in the first U.S. execution to use a single drug injection instead of the standard three-chemical combination that has come under legal attack because it can cause excruciating pain.

Accused terrorist bridged two different worlds (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:31 PM PST

AP - Part American and part Pakistani, the Chicago man accused of conspiring in the bloody terrorist attacks in Mumbai has followed a twisted trail through two different worlds.

Fierce winter storm hits Midwest with snow, wind (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:33 PM PST

A snow plow works on Interstate 80, west of Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Much of the Upper Midwest was covered in deep snow, and strong winds Tuesday night were expected to create blizzard conditions. The storm had already blanketed much of the mountain west and drenched Southern California with rain.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - A fierce winter storm hammered more than a dozen states Tuesday with dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds that threatened to create 15-foot drifts in parts of the Upper Midwest.

4 slain Wash. officers honored at memorial (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:36 PM PST

Officers move into position to stand watch at the caskets of four slain Lakewood police officers before a memorial service Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wash. The memorial is being held a week after the officers were gunned down in a coffee shop before the start of their shift, Nov. 29. Killed were Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and officers Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - A procession of 2,000 cars followed the flag-draped caskets of four slain police officers to a memorial service Tuesday as thousands of mourners, mostly members of law enforcement from across the country, lined the streets.

Woods' mother-in-law released from Fla. hospital (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:47 PM PST

Security guards check in visitors to the exclusive, gated community of Isleworth, where golfer Tiger Woods is a resident, in Windermere, Fla., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. A woman was transported from his home overnight to a local hospital. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)AP - Tiger Woods' mother-in-law collapsed at his home and was rushed to a hospital early Tuesday, touching off the second media frenzy in two weeks surrounding the pro golfer's carefully guarded private life.

Student opens fire in Va. classroom; no injuries (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:16 PM PST

AP - A 20-year-old student opened fire in a community college classroom, but did not hit anyone and was arrested in a hallway, police said Tuesday.

Sen. Brown wins Mass. Senate Republican primary (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:28 PM PST

Poll worker Warren Goodman, left, watches Democratic senatorial hopeful Alan Khazei, right, and his daughter Maribell, 7, feed a ballot into the machine while Khazei's wife Vanessa Kirsch , center, holds their son Reece, 17 months, after voting in the primary to fill the seat held by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy at the Town Hall in Brookline, Mass., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper)AP - State Sen. Scott Brown has won the Republican nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Episcopal lesbian bishop calls election liberating (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:16 PM PST

In this undated portrait provided by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, the Rev. Mary Glasspool is shown. Glasspool won election as assistant bishop in Los Angeles in voting Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, making her the second openly gay bishop in the national church and the world Anglican fellowship. (AP Photo/Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles) NO SALESAP - The lesbian priest who was elected assistant bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles said Tuesday that she was upset by claims that her role in the church is divisive.

Doctor shot to death at rural Ky. medical clinic (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:55 PM PST

AP - A "disgruntled patient" fatally shot a doctor Tuesday at a southeastern Kentucky health clinic and was later arrested, officials said.

Senator: Va. medal winner can keep his flagpole (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:20 PM PST

Medal of Honor recipient Col. Van T. Barfoot, 90, lowers the flag outside his home in the Sussex Square subdivision in western Henrico County, Va., on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. According to the subdivision's homeowner association's board, Col. Barfoot is in violation because he flies the flag from a flagpole instead of a pole attached to his porch or doorway. Col. Barfoot has been ordered to remove the pole by 5pm on Friday or face legal action. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Eva Russo)AP - A 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner can keep his 21-foot flagpole in his front yard after a homeowner's association dropped its request to remove it, a spokesman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday.

Conn. ex-cop acquitted of manslaughter, assault (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:51 PM PST

Former Hartford police Detective Robert Lawlor speaks outside the Hartford Superior Court after was found not guilty of manslaughter Tuesday Dec. 8, 2009 in Hartford, Conn. Lawlor was acquitted Tuesday of manslaughter and assault for shooting two unarmed black men, angering the victims' families and prompting a call for peace from the city's mayor. (AP Photo/Hartford Courant, Bettina Hansen)AP - A white retired police officer was acquitted Tuesday of manslaughter and assault for shooting two unarmed black men, angering the victims' families and prompting a call for peace from the city's mayor.

Holy mackerel! 1 year since Blagojevich arrest (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 02:36 PM PST

AP - When the news arrived, Rep. Bill Black thought at first it was somebody's lame idea of a joke. But it was true: The FBI had arrested the governor of Illinois, hauling him away wearing a track suit and handcuffs.

How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:34 PM PST

Security researcher Jim Stickley displays logs on his laptop from Internet scams he created for a study for a California financial institution at his home in La Mesa, Calif., Monday Dec. 7, 2009. Stickley's study showed some of the most trusted Internet search engines gave high ratings to fraudulent web sites. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams.

App in the hand finds birds in bushes as you roam (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:47 PM PST

Jory Langner shows off the BirdsEye application on his iPhone in Delmar, N.Y., on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. BirdsEye, recently released for iPhone and iPod Touch at a cost of $19.99, was developed through a collaboration of some of the top ornithologists in the country using content from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, the Academy of Natural Sciences and field guide author Kenn Kaufman. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - When Jory Langner finds time for a field trip during an upcoming visit to Washington, he won't have to ask local birders where to find candidates to add to his life list of birds sighted.

Conn. lifer seeks DNA testing — on murder victim (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:48 PM PST

This undated photo released by the Connecticut Department of Correction shows Thomas Marra Jr., serving a 125-year prison sentence after he was convicted in the 1984 killing of Alex Palmieri in Bridgeport, Conn. A state appeals court will hear arguments for a new trial Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, as Marra attempts to get access to DNA evidence to prove authorities never found the victim of the crime. (AP Photo/Connecticut Department of Correction)AP - Alex Palmieri was 15 when witnesses say he was repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat in a Bridgeport garage in 1984.

Tenn. mayor sorry for Obama 'Peanuts' accusation (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:56 PM PST

AP - A Tennessee mayor is apologizing for writing on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama deliberately timed a speech last week to block the "Peanuts" Christmas special.

Nation's 1st innocence panel faces crucial test (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:01 PM PST

In this Sept. 21, 2009 photo, Greg Taylor is photographed in the library he manages at the Johnston Correctional Institute in Smithfield, N.C. Taylor has been imprisoned 16 years for a murder he says didn't commit. The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission voted unanimously on Sept. 4, 2009 that they believed Taylor to be innocent. His case will now move on to a three-judge panel to be convened by the chief of the State Supreme Court. Craig Taylor, an inmate at Scotland Correctional Institute, says he committed the 1991 killing. (AP Photo/News & Observer, Shawn Rocco)AP - After North Carolina was forced to release a series of wrongly convicted people from prisons early in the decade, leaders established a pioneering agency to swiftly assess claims of innocence.

Mo. teen pleads not guilty to killing neighbor, 9 (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:44 AM PST

Alyssa Bustamante, 15, listens during a brief hearing where her attorney entered not guilty pleas on her behalf to charges of armed criminal action and first-degree murder Tuesday morning, Dec. 8, 2009, in Cole County Circuit Court in Jefferson City, Mo. Bustamante is accused in the Oct. 21, 2009, killing of her 9-year-old neighbor, Elizabeth Olten, of St. Martins, Mo. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall, Pool)AP - A 15-year-old Missouri girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing a 9-year-old neighbor who authorities say was slain because the teen wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.

S.C. first lady: Wouldn't have appeared with gov. for cameras (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 08:51 AM PST

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, left, and first lady Jenny Sanford, second right, welcome guests at the Governor's Mansion in Columbia, S.C., for a Christmas Open House on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)AP - Even if her straying husband had asked her to, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she wouldn't have stood with Gov. Mark Sanford when he faced cameras to tell the world about his affair with an Argentine woman.

Swine flu toll includes a few pets (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:22 PM PST

FILE-This Dec. 1, 2009 file photo shows pet dogs wearing masks after local media reported that two dogs were infected with H1N1 flu virus in Beijing. (AP Photo)AP - A handful of pets have been sickened with swine flu in recent weeks, but here are doctors' orders: Wash your hands and don't panic.

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