2009年12月18日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Storm warnings as snow bears down on mid-Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:11 PM PST

A pizza delivery man crosses a street in the falling snow to make a delivery in the Montford neighborhood in Asheville, North Carolina. Northeastern United States from North Carolina to Connecticut was under a winter storm warning Friday, as a major storm system threatens to dump up to 16 inches (40 centimeters) of snow in the region, weather forecasters said.(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Halleran)AP - A major storm moving up the Atlantic Coast on the last shopping weekend before Christmas threatened to shut down much of the region as officials warned of up to 20 inches of snow and significant power outages.

Some schools are dropping driver's ed to cut costs (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 03:14 PM PST

In this Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 photo, driver's ed student Elliot Nicholson, 15, drives a course at Miami Killian Senior High School in Miami. Because of budget cuts, many schools around the country are leaving driver's ed by the side of the road. They are cutting back on behind-the-wheel instruction or eliminating it altogether, leaving it to parents to either teach their teenagers themselves or send them to commercial driving schools. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - Beginning driver Ashley Crawford grips the worn gray steering wheel and warily begins maneuvering the 1999 Ford Escort through a set of bright orange traffic cones outside Killian Senior High School.

Calif. stimulus czar falling short of expectations (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:46 PM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009, California Inspector General Laura Chick is seen in her office in Sacramento, Calif. Chick was appointed to the newly created position by Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger, last spring, to oversee the estimated $50 billion in federal stimulus funds California is expected to receive.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - As federal stimulus money began to pour in earlier this year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created the nation's first state-level inspector general to serve as a watchdog over California's windfall.

DC mother gets 120 years in decaying bodies case (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 02:56 PM PST

AP - Even as Banita Jacks was sentenced to 120 years in prison Friday for killing four daughters whose bodies were found decomposing in her rowhouse, the girls' lives remained mostly a mystery.

Video game watchdog shuts down, victim of economy (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 02:42 PM PST

David Walsh, founder and director of the National Institute on Media and the Family, talks with a reporter about the institute closing because of a lack of funding, at his office in Minneapolis Minn., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. After years of crusading for safe video games and television shows for children, the institute will close Dec. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - David Walsh said when he was assembling his first report card on video game violence 13 years ago, children were attacking on-screen monsters or aliens with imaginary chain saws and guns.

NC Supreme Court halts release of 2 murderers (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 01:32 PM PST

AP - North Carolina's Supreme Court has temporarily halted the release of two convicted murderers under life sentences.

Texts lead Utah police to 4 dead in murder-suicide (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 12:33 PM PST

AP - Two adults and their two children were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide after friends, relatives and co-workers received text messages from the father saying he had killed his family, police said.

Christmas trees showing up with live 'ornaments' (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 03:04 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, a Pacific Chorus frog is seen. Christmas trees for sale in the Anchorage area are adorned with something truly different this holiday season_ live Pacific Chorus frogs. While the small frogs are plenty cute, measuring an inch or two with lovely moss-colored green sides and black spots, state officials are asking residents to practice some tough love. If you find a Christmas tree frog, kill it. Officials say the frogs could be carrying viruses and funguses, including one that has been killing amphibians on several continents. (AP Photo/Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Stephen E. Clark) NO SALESAP - Forget the plastic icicles, brightly colored balls and tinsel.

Bikers in the buff to protest NY bike lane removal (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 02:08 PM PST

AP - Bicyclists planning a Saturday protest ride are calling it their "Freedom Ride" — free of clothing, that is. And they may be pedaling naked in a fierce snowstorm, if the forecast holds.

Va. man convicted of in-home indecent exposure (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 02:16 PM PST

AP - As Erick Williamson sees it, being naked is liberating, and if passers-by get an eyeful while he's standing in front of a picture window, that's not his problem.

NY woman in pet torture case held on $100K bail (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 01:27 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2009 file photo, Sharon McDonough leaves Central Islip, NY family court after temporarily losing custody of six of her children. A judge ordered Sharon McDonough held on $100,000 bail on Friday Dec. 18, 2009 because prosecutors say some of the 42 dead animals buried in her yard were apparently tortured. (AP Photo/James Carbone, File)AP - A judge ordered a New York woman held on $100,000 bail Friday after prosecutors cited evidence that some of the 42 dead animals buried in her yard had been tortured, with duct tape around their mouths or signs that they had drowned.

Search continues for 2 missing boaters from Fla. (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 01:10 PM PST

AP - The Coast Guard is continuing its search for two missing boaters after a plane flying over an island in the Bahamas photographed what appeared to be a distress signal.

Report: Death sentences decline; death rows shrink (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:25 AM PST

An anti-death penalty activist holds a sign during a rally outside the US Supreme Court in June. The United States executed one convict a week in 2009, but the rate is down by half compared to a decade ago, according to an annual report from the Death Penalty Information Center.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AP - Texas and other states that lead the nation in executions are sentencing many fewer inmates to death, a trend that slowly is reducing the death row population in the United States, a report from an anti-capital punishment group says.

Mom of US hiker in Iran asks for 3 to be freed (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 12:09 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 - Wearing a headscarf, the mother of one of three American hikers jailed in Iran appealed Friday in a new video to the Islamic Republic's supreme leader to release her daughter and her friends for the holidays.

Feds: Arrests in Africa link al-Qaida and drugs (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 03:46 PM PST

AP - Three accused al-Qaida associates taken to New York on Friday are charged with plotting to ferry drugs through the Sahara desert to raise money for terror attacks — evidence of what prosecutors say is a dangerous, growing alliance between terror chiefs and drug lords.

US spending motivates NFL player's Congress run (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 11:27 AM PST

AP - San Diego Chargers offensive lineman Jon Runyan said Friday that concerns about federal spending are a main reason he wants to run for Congress as a Republican.

Domestic violence victim granted asylum in US (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 02:11 AM PST

Rody Alvarado, a native of Guatemala recently granted asylum, looks out looks out at a view of the city in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. After suffering 10 years of extreme sexual, physical and mental abuse at the hands of her husband, Alvarado fled her native Guatemala in 1995 and applied for asylum here. Last week, after a torturous 14-year battle with federal officials over whether domestic violence qualifies for refugee status, an immigration judge granted Alvardo's application was granted and she will remain permanently in the United States. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - After suffering 10 years of horrific abuse at the hands of her husband, Rody Alvarado fled her native Guatemala in 1995 and applied for asylum in the U.S.

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