2009年12月15日星期二

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Authorities: Little chance Ore. climbers are alive (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:52 PM PST

Teri Preiss, right, aunt to missing climber Anthony Vietti, is hugged by Portland Mountain Rescue team leader Steve Rollins with cloud-covered Mount Hood visible in the background at Timberline Lodge in Government Camp, Ore., Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. Weather conditions improved early in the day allowing searchers a window of opportunity to search for two missing climbers Anthony Vietti, 24, of Longview, Wash., and Katie Nolan, 29, of Portland, before a large winter storm blows in later in the day. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Authorities say there's little chance two missing Mount Hood climbers are alive.

DC City Council votes to legalize gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

L. Page 'Deacon' Maccubbin, left, proposes to his partner of 32 years, Jim Bennett, after the District of Columbia city council approved gay marriage in their final vote on a bill legalizing the unions in Washington, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. Gay couples could be marrying in the nation's capital as early as March. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - After suffering setbacks from California to New York, Maine to New Jersey, same-sex marriage supporters got a victory Tuesday with the City Council's vote to legalize gay marriage in the District of Columbia.

Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91 (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST

FILE - In this April 5, 1987 file photo, evangelist Oral Roberts gives a sermon to members of the Church on the Rock, in Rockwall, Texas. Evangelist Oral Roberts, who rose from tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar organization and an Oklahoma university bearing his name, died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. He was 91. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium — and his message of God's healing power — to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Ill. town welcomes plan to house Gitmo detainees (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, an aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center is seen in Thomson , Ill. The White House plans to announce Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009, that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the new home for a limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - The White House decision to move up to 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees to this dying Mississippi River town has folks here seeing dollar signs, not suspected terrorists.

Energy-efficient traffic lights can't melt snow (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Oswego Police, was taken after a fatal crash in Oswego, Ill. on April 6, 2009. Oswego police Detective Rob Sherwood said the wind had blown the snow over the red light, causing a driver run the light and hit the vehicle of 34-year-old Lisa Richter, who was making a left turn. She was killed. (AP Photo/Oswego Police)AP - Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don't burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.

Boeing's 787 jetliner makes first test flight (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST

Boeing Co. employees cheer as a Boeing Co. 787 airplane takes off on its first flight Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. Pilots Michael Carriker and Randall Neville lifted off in the big blue and white jet at about 10 a.m. PST from Everett's Paine Field on a four-hour flight over Washington state, beginning the extensive flight test program needed to obtain the plane's Federal Aviation Administration certification.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Boeing's new 787 jetliner finally got airborne Tuesday, the long-delayed inaugural flight of the world's first commercial plane constructed with half its components made from lightweight composite materials.

Pa. police accused of cover-up in immigrant attack (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:37 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2008 picture, Brandon Piekarsky is escorted into the Schuylkill County Courthouse in Pottsville, Pa. Federal hate crime indictments against Derrick Donchak and Piekarsky were unsealed Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 for the fatal beating of Luis Ramirez in July 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP - Court papers say Pennsylvania police officers accused of covering up the killing of a Mexican immigrant had personal ties to high school football players accused of a hate crime in the case.

Pa. House whip, official who resigned are charged (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:52 PM PST

Attorney General Tom Corbett holds a news conference, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, in Harrisburg, Pa. Corbett says state Rep. Bill DeWeese, D- Greene, and former Revenue Secretary Stephen Stetler and an aide to DeWeese face theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest charges. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - State prosecutors added more defendants Tuesday to their expanding legislative corruption case, accusing a longtime House Democratic leader and former legislator serving in the governor's cabinet of illegally using taxpayer-paid employees to perform campaign work.

4 family members found dead in upscale Calif. home (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:42 PM PST

Authorities transport multiple fatalities from a home in San Clemente, Calif. Monday evening, Dec. 14, 2009. Authorities said a domestic dispute inside a gated community came to a bloody end Monday with several family members left dead in the hallway of a rented home. (AP Photo/H. LORREN AU JR./The Orange Country Register)AP - A Houston-area attorney involved in a bitter custody dispute was found fatally shot along with her two young daughters and mother in an apparent murder-suicide after she was ordered to bring the children to a court hearing, authorities said Tuesday.

Kids' Swine flu shots recalled; not strong enough (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:54 PM PST

A public health nurse prepares a dose of H1N1 vaccine at the Balboa Park Community Center in Encino, California in this October 23, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Mark Boster/Pool/FilesAP - Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday.

Mass. ex-gov: Grudge led to Ky. college bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:32 PM PST

FILE - In this June 6, 2006 file photo, Republican gubernatorial hopeful William Weld announces in New York his withdrawal from the race for New York governor. Weld is alleged Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, that Decker College, a private college he once headed in Kentucky, was unjustly decertified and went bankrupt in 2005 after pressure from a federal education official harboring a vendetta because Weld once prosecuted his former boss. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)AP - A federal official upset about losing his job gained revenge by triggering the 2005 bankruptcy of a Kentucky college run by former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld, two attorneys allege.

Chicago man accused in terror plot denied bond (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 02:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 file courtroom sketch, Chicago terrorism suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, appears before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan, in Chicago. Federal prosecutors say Rana knew in advance about the deadly Mumbai terror attacks, and offered congratulations to the killers. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A federal judge on Tuesday declined to release on bond a Chicago man accused of planning to attack a Danish newspaper and of knowing beforehand about last year's terrorist attacks on Mumbai.

'Coastie Song' stirs up U. of Wisconsin campus (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 02:18 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 11, 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison students Cliff Grefe, left, and Quincy Harrison are interviewed at the school's Memorial Union in Madison, Wis. The two undergraduate students have stirred up campus with their popular rap song and video, 'Coastie Song,' which some see as anti-Semitic and others call funny. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)AP - When two students recorded their first rap song together, they wanted to have fun with a cultural icon unique to the University of Wisconsin-Madison: the coastie.

SF mayor backs radiation labels for cell phones (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 12:50 PM PST

AP - Mayor Gavin Newsom is endorsing a proposal that would make San Francisco the first city in the country to require radiation labels for cell phones.

Detroit artists use city's blight as their canvas (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:28 AM PST

A scene at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit is seen on Dec. 2, 2009. Two decades ago artist Tyree Guyton transformed a deteriorating Detroit neighborhood into a colorful, outdoor polka-dot art gallery. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Houses with dreary urban facades covered in polka dots. A traveling dollhouse made from the remnants of abandoned homes. A dilapidated residence covered in ice.

32 accused of $60M in Medicare fraud in 3 states (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:15 PM PST

Federal agents load boxes of records seized from Courtesy Medical Group, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 in Miami. Federal agents arrested several suspects and expected to roundup about 30 in three states Tuesday on charges related to Medicare fraud totaling $61 million as the government cracks down on waste under health care overhaul plans. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a major crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million in separate scams.

Report: Doctor being investigated in PED probe (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 09:30 AM PST

FILE - This Dec. 16, 1999, photo shows Dr. Anthony Galea treating a patient with shock wave therapy at the Institute of Sports Medicine in Toronto. The New York Times reported on its Web site Monday night, Dec. 14, 2009, that Galea was found with human growth hormone and Actovegin, a drug extracted from calf's blood, in his bag at the U.S.-Canada border in late September. He was arrested Oct. 15 in Toronto by Canadian police. Galea, who has treated golfer Tiger Woods, swimmer Dara Torres and NFL players, is suspected of providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, according to a newspaper report. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press/The Toronto Star, Rick Eglinton)AP - A Canadian doctor who has treated golfer Tiger Woods, swimmer Dara Torres and NFL players is suspected of providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, according to a newspaper report.

Police: Atlanta's Babineaux smoked pot as he drove (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 01:24 PM PST

AP - Embattled Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux was smoking marijuana as he and a friend were driving through the northeast Atlanta suburbs, according to a police report.

Mass. 2nd-grader sent home for crucifix drawing (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:28 PM PST

This drawing, released by Chester Johnson, of Taunton, shows a sketch of Jesus on the cross created by his son as part of school work, in Taunton, Mass. on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. The 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and sketched what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday.

Vermont AG seeks clues on dairy monopoly claims (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:45 AM PST

AP - Vermont's attorney general said Monday he wants more information from dairy farmers who say they have been squeezed by milk processors, and that he will review whether to take action or ask federal authorities to investigate the alleged anticompetitive activity.

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