2009年12月9日星期三

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SC lawmakers nix Sanford impeachment, back rebuke (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 04:48 PM PST

FILE - In a Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford meets with the members of the State Budget and Control Board, in Columbia, S.C.  A panel considering whether to recommend ousting the two-term Republican on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 said questions over his trip to see his Argentine mistress and his use of state planes did not merit removal from office.  Instead, the seven lawmakers unanimously sent to a full legislative committee a measure that would censure Sanford.    (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford dodged impeachment Wednesday but was scolded by legislators for his travels to see a mistress in Argentina and his misuse of state planes.


Storm dumps snow on Midwest, bitter cold to follow (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 05:17 PM PST

A passing motorist helps push a car out of a snow drift, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, in Des Moines, Iowa.  More than a foot of snow was expected in parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, where the National Weather Service warned of 'extremely dangerous blizzard conditions' and near whiteout driving conditions. Wind gusts of up to 50 mph could build snow drifts between 8 and 15 feet tall. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - A gigantic storm dumped more than a foot of snow across much of the Midwest and New England as it marched eastward Wednesday, creating blizzard conditions, burying cars under huge drifts and providing ammunition for a massive campus snowball fight in Wisconsin.


Giant oil spill in Alaska likely caused by ice (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 05:15 PM PST

In this Dec. 7, 2009 picture provided by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, crews use steamer equipment to melt contaminated material for collection with a vacuum rig. Oil company BP says ice plugs in a pipeline caused a rupture that spilled 46,000 gallons of crude and water in an oil field on Alaska's North Slope. (AP Photo/Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, B. Fultz)AP - Officials believe that ice plugged up a pipeline and likely caused a rupture that sent 46,000 gallons of crude oil and water gushing onto snow-covered tundra on Alaska's North Slope late last month.


California city gets Charlie Brown Christmas tree (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 02:10 PM PST

AP - Oh Christmas tree, how puny are your branches.

Judge: Ohio inmate's execution appeal has limits (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 01:54 PM PST

FILE- This undated photo released by the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation shows Romell Broom, an Ohio inmate fighting execution.  Ohio overhauled its procedure after the failed attempt at rapist  Broom's execution, which was halted by Gov. Ted Strickland in September. Executioners tried for two hours to find a usable vein for injection, hitting bone and muscle in as many as 18 needle sticks that Broom said were very painful  (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, File)AP - An Ohio inmate fighting the state's second attempt to execute him will be limited to a simple argument, a federal judge said Wednesday: Does the state, having failed once, have the legal right to try again?


Mo. teen charged with murder seeks to move trial (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 01:59 PM PST

Alyssa Bustamante, 15, listens as her public defender, Jan King, right, enters not guilty pleas on her behalf to charges of armed criminal action and first-degree murder Tuesday morning, Dec. 8, 2009, in Jefferson City, Mo. Last month, Bustamante was certified to stand trial as an adult in the Oct. 21, 2009, killing of her 9-year-old neighbor, Elizabeth Olten, of St. Martins.(AP Photo/Kelley McCall, Pool)AP - A Missouri teenager charged with killing a 9-year-old neighbor cannot get a fair trial in her home county because residents are biased against her, the teen's attorney said.


Chicago man pleads not guilty in attacks (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 01:39 PM PST

In this courtroom drawing David Coleman Headley, left, pleads not guilty before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, in Chicago to charges that accuse him of conspiring in the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and of planning to launch an armed assault on a Danish newspaper. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock)AP - A Chicago man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he conspired in the November 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that left 166 people dead.


Anti-gay rhetoric rises in race for Houston mayor (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 12:58 PM PST

AP - Annise Parker's mayoral campaign Web site bio reads like a catalog of campaign catchphrases: She has been Houston's city controller and a member of City Council. She's for job creation, against irresponsible spending and tough on crime.

Ky. clinic killing highlights region's drug issues (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 02:54 PM PST

Dr. Dennis Sandlin is seen in an undated photo. Sandlin, 57, was shot and killed Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 while at  Leatherwood-Blackey Medical Clinic in rural sotheastern Kentucky, where he'd worked for nearly two decades. John Combs, 46, charged with the murder, pleaded not guilty Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/The Mountain Eagle)AP - As the only doctor in a 30-mile swath of Appalachia, Dennis Sandlin was committed to using a tracking system designed to curb prescription drug abuse, an epidemic in the area he had served for nearly two decades.


Police: Va. student's rifle jammed after 2 shots (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 05:26 PM PST

In this booking photo provided by the Prince William County Police Department, Jason Michael Hamilton, 20, of Manassas, is shown. Hamilton was arrested soon after shots were fired in a classroom at Woodbridge, Va. campus of Northern Virginia Community College and charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm in a school zone. He was being held without bond.  (AP Photo/Prince William County Police Department)AP - A community college student was upset about his grades when he walked into a classroom and fired two shots at his professor before his new rifle jammed, police said Wednesday.


Suit: NY wrong-way victims suffered terror, pain (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 04:50 PM PST

AP - Two victims of the wrong-way crash that killed eight people on a New York highway suffered terror and pain before they died, a lawsuit claims.

NYC passes energy-efficiency bills for buildings (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 02:46 PM PST

AP - New York City passed a package of legislation Wednesday intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, which are the city's largest source of heat-trapping gases.

Alabama's King now highest paid attorney general (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 02:19 PM PST

AP - Alabama is neither the richest nor the biggest state in the U.S., but it now has the highest paid state attorney general.

Santa letters aren't all about toys — or manners (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 12:34 PM PST

This photo taken Dec. 23, 2009 shows Carole Slotterback, Ph.D, a psychology professor at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, posing with a new book she authored on  'The Psychology of Santa', which analyzes hundreds of letters written to Santa Claus. (AP Photo/David Kidwell)AP - A microscope. A new puppy. A mother. And absolutely, positively NO CLOTHES.


Ex-state Sen. Kasim Reed elected Atlanta mayor (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 12:46 PM PST

AP - Former Georgia state Sen. Kasim Reed will be sworn in as Atlanta's next mayor after a Wednesday recount confirmed his slim margin of victory over opponent Mary Norwood.

After 30 years, NJ quadriplegic hunter takes aim (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 05:49 AM PST

James Cap, a quadriplegic since a Nov. 4, 1979 high school football accident, holds the tube in his mouth that he uses to aim and fire his shotgun as he sits in his wheel chair in a shed where he hunts Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, in Manville, N.J. Recently Cap won a two-and-a-half-year legal battle to allow him to use a  shotgun special ly mounted on his wheelchair and operated  by a breathing tube. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - In a wooded area up a dirt road off an interstate highway, Jamie Cap peers down the sight of his new shotgun at a target about 40 yards away. He adjusts the angle by nudging a toggle switch, then fires.


Neo-Nazi in murder trial gets makeover for trial (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 06:57 AM PST

AP - John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 6-inch swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his face, and an extreme and very personal vulgarity scrawled on one side of his neck.

WWII veteran had Hitler's art book on bookshelf (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 03:19 PM PST

This Dec. 2, 2009 photo taken in Dallas shows a lost album that once belonged to Adolf Hitler, part of a series compiled for Hitler featuring photographs of art he wanted for his 'Fuehrermuseum,' a planned museum in Linz, Austria. The book, taken by U.S. serviceman  John Pistone  during World War II from Hitler's home, is expected to be formally returned to Germany in a ceremony at the U.S. State Department in January. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)AP - After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler's home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close.


4 slain Wash. officers honored at memorial (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 12:22 AM 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 - Thousands of officers from across North America came to Washington state to honor four Lakewood Police officers who were gunned down in a coffee shop.


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