2009年12月17日星期四

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Cops: Missing Utah mom's son confirms camping trip (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 06:16 PM PST

Chuck Cox, right, the father of Susan Powell, who was reported missing Dec. 7, 2009, in Utah, is comforted his wife Judy, as he and other family members talk to reporters, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, in Puyallup, Wash. Powell's family said Thursday they are saddened but not surprised that her husband Josh Powell has been named a person of interest in the investigation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Police searched the home of a missing Utah mother on Thursday as family members held a tearful news conference in which they expressed their sadness that the husband has been named a person of interest in the investigation.

US doc accused of fraud found on Italian mountain (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 05:51 PM PST

In this image provided by 'America's Most Wanted' web site via Kenneth Allen and Associates, shows Dr. Mark Weinberger, 46, of Merrillville, Ind., who was arrested earlier this week on a mountain in Val Ferret, Italy where he was living in a tent, police in the nearby town of Aosta said. An American doctor on the run for five years as charges of fraud and malpractice mounted against him back home has been arrested as he was camping on a snowy mountain in northern Italy, and stabbed himself in the neck as he was taken into custody, police said Thursday Dec. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/America's Most Wanted via Kenneth Allen and Associates)AP - An American doctor on the run for five years as charges of fraud and malpractice mounted against him was arrested as he hid out on a snowy mountain in northern Italy, and stabbed himself in the neck as he was taken into custody, police said.

Police: Vt. woman killed mom, had son bury remains (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 03:19 PM PST

This undated photo released by Vermont State Police shows Jeanne Sevigny, 59. Sevigny told police that her mother suffered from Alzheimer's disease and wandered from their home Nov. 9, 2006, but police say Sevigny killed her and had her son, 30-year-old Greg Sevigny, dispose of the body. (AP Photo/Vermont State Police)AP - A woman fatally shot her Alzheimer's disease-suffering mother three years ago, burned the body and then had her son bury the remains — which she had placed in a suitcase — before filing a missing person report, authorities said Thursday.

Bengals' Chris Henry dies day after dispute (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009, file photo, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry looks on during pre-game warmups against the Cleveland Browns in an NFL football game in Cleveland. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say Henry has died Thursday Dec. 17, 2009, one day after suffering serious injuries upon falling out of the back of a pickup truck in what authorities describe as a domestic dispute with his fiancee. Henry was 26. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP - Chris Henry was no stranger to trouble.

3 family members found dead in Manhattan apartment (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 05:53 PM PST

New York City Police gather at the entrance to a building on New York's Upper West Side,Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, where police say a man, his son and his grandson were found shot to death in an apartment in an upscale Manhattan neighborhood Thursday, with a female relative wounded and a fourth man, possibly the gunman, found dead in the backyard, police said. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - A rampaging gunman killed an elderly man, his son-in-law and grandson in their apartment Thursday, then fell off a fire escape to his death while trying to flee the scene, police said.

Moms of US hikers in Iran left in dark about case (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 03:36 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo released by freethehikers.org, shows Americans Shane Bauer, left, and Sarah Shourd. Iran said Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, it would try Americans Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27 who were detained by Iranian authorities after crossing an unmarked border from northern Iraq in July. (AP Photo/freethehikers.org, File) NO SALESAP - The mothers of three Americans detained in Iran said Thursday they've held off on hiring a lawyer for their children and are still hopeful they will be freed without being put on trial despite being left in the dark by authorities about their case.

Robot records deepest erupting undersea volcano (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 06:02 PM PST

In this image taken from a May 7, 2009 video and provided by the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a plume of sulphur and molten lava erupts from the West Mata Volcano nearly 4,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean, south of Samoa. Scientists have captured on video fiery bubbles of molten lava, calling it a major geological discovery. Federal ocean scientists are presenting the video in San Francisco at a geophysics conference on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/NSF NOAA)AP - Scientists have recorded the deepest erupting undersea volcano ever seen, capturing for the first time video of fiery molten lava bubbles exploding 4,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Roll up the pavement: Gravel is making a comeback (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 12:45 PM PST

Women walk down a road in Vienna, Maine, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. The high cost of pavement has the town considering changing some of it's 14 miles of paved roads back to gravel, which is cheaper to maintain. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Ever since the invention of the automobile, paved roads have meant progress. Now some cash-strapped towns and counties are finding progress too expensive, and they are tearing up battered roads and putting down gravel.

Brazilian court delays 9-year-old's return to American father (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 05:53 PM PST

U.S. citizen David Goldman, left, arrives at Rio de Janeiro's airport Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Goldman, the U.S. father who won another round in his legal fight to regain custody of his 9-year-old son living in Brazil with his grandparents after his Brazilian mother died, hopes to bring the boy to New Jersey in time for Christmas. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Brazil's Supreme Court delayed the return of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father only hours after the man arrived from New Jersey on Thursday in hopes of taking the boy home for Christmas.

Foreign adoptions by Americans hit 13-year low (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:47 PM PST

FILE - In a Tuesday, May 27, 2008 photo, an unidentified woman holds a child for adoption as she waits outside the Attorney General's office in Guatemala City. The number of foreign children adopted by Americans plunged by 27 percent in the 2009 fiscal year, reaching the lowest level since 1996. Big declines were recorded for all three countries that provided the most adopted children in 2008. In China and Russia, government officials have been trying to promote domestic adoptions. In Guatemala, a once-bustling but highly corrupt international adoption industry was shut down while reforms are implemented. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File )AP - The number of foreign children adopted by Americans plunged more than a quarter in the past year, reaching the lowest level since 1996 and leading adoption advocates to urge Congress to help reverse the trend.

Dude, they're putting pot in more than brownies (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:59 PM PST

AP - Any slacker living over his parents' garage can make pot brownies. Gourmet chefs are taking the art of cooking with marijuana to a higher level.

Ashanti's mom says crazed fan terrorized her (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 03:38 PM PST

AP - A fan obsessed with R&B star Ashanti composed a barrage of creepy text messages detailing his lewd fantasies about the multiplatinum-selling singer, her mother testified Thursday at the man's trial.

Calif. apartments evacuated as cliff crumbles (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 03:19 PM PST

People look toward an apartment building that is being evacuated in Pacifica, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. A crumbling cliff is forcing residents of an apartment building atop a Northern California coastal bluff to flee over fears their homes could slide into the Pacific. Building officials in Pacifica ordered residents to leave by midmorning Thursday as large chunks of cliff plunged into the ocean, leaving just 10 feet between the 12-unit building and the cliff's edge. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - A crumbling cliff forced residents to grab what they could and flee an apartment building atop a Northern California coastal bluff over fears it could slide into the Pacific.

Calif. girl admits killing mother with hammer (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:58 PM PST

AP - A 16-year-old girl has admitted killing her mother by repeatedly beating her head with a claw hammer in San Diego.

Tenn. boy, 4, caught with beer, stolen gifts (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:20 PM PST

AP - Tennessee investigators say a 4-year-old boy was found roaming his neighborhood in the night, drinking beer and wearing a little girl's dress taken from under a neighbor's Christmas tree.

Sheriff: Deputy arrived just before murder-suicide (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:43 PM PST

AP - A sheriff's deputy arrived at a Southern California home moments before a door was slammed shut and gunshots were fired in an apparent murder-suicide that left four dead, an official said Thursday.

Police: 2 dead in shooting at Texas elderly center (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 01:58 PM PST

AP - A gunman opened fire at an elderly care center in Texas on Thursday, killing a 78-year-old man before police shot and killed him, authorities said.

Cremated remains found in Atlanta-area storage (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 03:20 PM PST

AP - A legal team that was seeking a bankrupt funeral home's financial records instead made a macabre discovery: nearly 100 boxes of cremated remains, some dating back more than two decades, stashed in a suburban storage unit.

Global warming a tough sell for the human psyche (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:29 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks to the Prime Minister of Denmark Lar Lokke Rasmussen during the climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Claus Bjorn Larsen, Pool)AP - The Copenhagen talks on climate change were convened with a sense of urgency that many ordinary folks don't share. Why is that? One big reason: It's hard for people to get excited about a threat that seems far away in space and time, psychologists say.

US agency probes possible gender bias at colleges (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 01:28 PM PST

AP - A federal civil rights agency investigating possible gender discrimination in college admissions will subpoena data from more than a dozen mid-Atlantic universities, officials said Thursday.

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