2009年12月11日星期五

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Gun laws are getting looser across much of US (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:06 PM PST

Adam Henderson shops for a shotgun at Guns and Leather, a firearms store and shooting range, in Greenbrier, Tenn. on Friday Dec. 11, 2009. A nationwide review by The Associated Press found that over the last two years, 24 states, mostly in the South and West, have passed 47 new laws loosening gun restrictions. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)AP - It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.

Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in NC (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:45 PM PST

AP - Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government — but he doesn't believe in God. His political opponents say that's a sin that makes him unworthy of serving in office, and they've got the North Carolina Constitution on their side.

Police still looking for missing Utah mom (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, Josh Powell, the husband of Susan Powell, answers questions outside his home in Magna, Utah. Police in Utah say about 30 detectives are looking for leads in the search for Powell, a 28-year-old mother who hasn't been heard from since last weekend. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Laura Seitz) NO SALESAP - About 30 detectives hunted down leads Friday in the search for a mother of two who vanished last weekend in what police are calling a suspicious disappearance.

Official: Lead prosecutor named in Fort Hood case (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:24 PM PST

AP - A senior military official in Washington says the lead prosecutor in the Fort Hood shooting case will be a man who secured the death penalty in a similar case four years ago.

Detroit stripper's killing unsolved 6 years later (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:17 PM PST

In a photo provided by the Greene family via attorney Norman Yatooma, Tamara Greene is seen in an undated photo. On Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will give a deposition in federal court as part of a $150 million civil lawsuit against former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the city and others which was filed by Yatooma on behalf of slain stripper Greene's three children. The suit claims former Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings and the mayor's office stifled a police investigation of the killing. (AP Photo/Greene family via Norman Yatooma)AP - Stripper Tamara Greene has found more notoriety in death than she ever did dancing under the name "Strawberry" in dimly lit topless clubs and private parties around Detroit.

Mass. woman, 98, accused of killing roommate, 100 (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2009 file photo provided by Scott Barrow, his mother Elizabeth Barrow celebrates her 100th birthday at his home in Dartmouth, Mass. Elizabeth Barrow was found on Sept. 24 strangled in her Dartmouth nursing home bed with a plastic bag over her head. The Bristol County district attorney announced Dec. 11, 2009, that a grand jury had indicted Laura Lundquist, 98, with second degree murder in Barrow's death. (AP Photo/Scott Barrow, File)AP - A 98-year-old woman was indicted Friday on a second-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old nursing home roommate after making the victim's life "a living hell" because she thought the woman was "taking over the room."

Fla. judges, lawyers must 'unfriend' on Facebook (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:10 PM PST

AP - Florida's judges and lawyers should no longer "friend" each other on Facebook, the popular social networking site, according to a ruling from the state's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.

Novel drug combo improves breast cancer survival (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:12 PM PST

AP - Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other medicines, doctors reported Friday.

Lawmakers seek emergency steps to halt Asian carp (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:43 PM PST

Graphic locates and describes the electric barrier used to prevent Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan.AP - Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.

Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:12 PM PST

Staff Sergeants, Clifton Crowder, front, Justin Ellis, center, and David Gavula, back, fill out their medical paperwork, prior to receiving the H1N1 vaccine, in the Solomon Center, at the Army's Ft. Jackson Training Center, in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)AP - Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.

NYPD IDs seller of gun in Times Square shooting (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:56 PM PST

Police officers walk through a cordoned off section surrounding the Marriot Marquis Hotel where a shooting took place in the hotel's passenger drop-off area, Thursday, Dec.10, 2009, in New York. An undercover cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanged gunfire with the suspect and killed him near the Marriott Marquis, police said. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - New York City police say the machine pistol used by a street hustler shot dead in a Times Square gunfight was purchased at a gun dealer outside of Richmond, Va.

Ill. campus cop cleared of threat allegations (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

AP - Northern Illinois University has cleared its tough-talking police chief of allegations he threatened an editor of the campus newspaper, and on Friday it reinstated the man seen as a hero after last year's campus shooting as NIU's top cop.

Lifelong criminal tries to put prison behind him (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:09 AM PST

AP - On a rare visit to his childhood home, Eddie Williams is 16 again, peering down a shotgun barrel as he crouches in the kitchen doorway. The intruder then swivels and shoots, and Williams sees his mother, a pastor's widow, tumble face down on the yellow linoleum floor.

For one student, a long path to college degree (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:15 PM PST

Catherine McNamara , center, attends graduation rehearsal at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. On Saturday, McNamara will cross the stage at North Carolina Central University to collect her bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical sciences. Her path took her to five institutions in three states over 17 years and she earned a scholarship here in 2007. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - She looked like a good bet to beat the odds, but her first try at college, nearly 20 years ago, came up short.

Teen charged with running down nurse in NY (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:41 AM PST

AP - A 16-year-old boy accused of running down a nurse outside a Syracuse hospital has been charged with assault and reckless driving.

Casey Anthony sobs at account of daughter's death (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:13 AM PST

Attorneys Jose Baez, left, and Andrea Lyon, right, talk with their client Casey Anthony during a court hearing in Orlando, Fla. on Friday, December 11, 2009. Anthony is charged in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony in 2008. Exactly one year after Caylee Marie Anthony's remains were found, defense lawyers argued why a judge should prohibit prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against the toddler's mother. (AP Photo/ Red Huber, Pool)AP - A Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter sobbed in court Friday as a prosecutor speculated aloud that the toddler was methodically drugged and suffocated with tape.

Legal case debates classiness of Flynt family smut (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:37 PM PST

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is helped by an unidentified assistant, as he leaves the US District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. Flynt took the stand Tuesday in the first day of his federal trademark infringement trial against his nephews, Jimmy Jr. and Dustin, who earlier this year launched their own line of adult films under the name 'Flynt.' Calling their films 'inferior products' and 'knock-off goods,' the porn mogul promptly sued, accusing them of trying to ride on the coattails of his fame and muddying the quality his customers have come to expect from his products. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - When it comes to peddling porn, Larry Flynt wants you to know his videos of people having sex are a cut above other smut on the rack.

Officer slain in Wash. remembered at Pa. funeral (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:24 PM PST

The body of Lakewood, Wash. police Sgt. Mark Renninger is carried on a caisson as it passes his alma matter, Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pa, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Renninger, who was raised in Pennsylvania, and three other Lakeland, police officers were gunned down Sunday by Maurice Clemmons as they worked on paperwork inside a coffee shop. Clemmons was shot to death two days later by a Seattle, Wash., police officer. The other officers who were killed were Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold and Greg Richards. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - Mark Renninger grew up 250 paces from the Boys & Girls Club of Bethlehem. When he heard the lawn mower start up, he would come running — and insist on doing the club's lawn himself.

Snow strands dozens of motorists in western NY (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:28 AM PST

Johnny Kidd returns home from shopping on Bailey Avenue in Buffalo, N.Y. on Thursday Dec. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/John Hickey)AP - About 100 people spent most of the night in snowbound cars on the New York State Thruway southwest of Buffalo and are finally being freed.

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