2009年12月21日星期一

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Despite recession, crime keeps falling (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 02:47 PM PST

AP - WASHINGTON — High unemployment. More folks on food stamps. Fewer owning their homes. Yet for all the signs of recession, something is missing: More crime.

After snow, a race to get gifts — or just get home (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 02:25 PM PST

Angel Pacheco, right, of Danielson, Conn, his wife Jacqueline, center, and daughters Kia, left, and Maya, wait to check in at Logan International Airport in Boston for a holiday visit to family in Mexico, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Shoppers pack malls, shippers fight icy roads to deliver packages and fliers negotiate nightmare delays to get home for Christmas. After a weekend that included a massive snowstorm along the East Coast, a spike in online shopping and even a fire at Macy's in Herald Square, the holiday calendar gets even crazier. This year, the shortest day of the year is also the most frantic.(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - It had the makings of a nightmare before Christmas: a snowstorm that wrecked the last big shopping weekend of the holiday calendar. Holiday travelers lost in a tangle of flight cancellations. Delivery people fighting ice and snow. Zhu Zhu Pets tragically left homeless.

Gov't imposes 3-hour limit on tarmac strandings (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:27 PM PST

A U.S. Airways Express plane is prepared on the tarmac at Reagan National Airport, after a massive snow storm shut down air travel over the weekend, in Washington, on Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. The government has imposed a three hour limit on tarmac strandings at airports. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Stinky toilets, crying babies, airless cabins — the Obama administration said Monday passengers don't have to take it any more. It ordered airlines to let people get off planes delayed on the ground after three hours.

Police arrest adult in NJ child shooting death (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:21 PM PST

AP - Police have arrested a 23-year-old man they say left an illegal, loaded handgun in the bedroom he shared with a 5-year-old child.

2nd baby beluga born at Chicago aquarium in a week (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:48 PM PST

In this photo taken Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009 and provided by the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, a 5-foot, 6-inch long male beluga whale calf weighing 152 pounds swims in his enclosure at the aquarium after being born Sunday. It is the second time in a week a beluga whale at he aquarium has given birth. Officials with the aquarium say the mother, Naya, needed some assistance from animal experts. (AP Photo/John G. Shedd Aquarium, Keith Pamper)AP - Chicago's Shedd Aquarium has welcomed a new baby beluga whale for the second time in a week.

Authorities: Murphy likely died of natural causes (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:27 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2007 file photo, Actress Brittany Murphy, right, and husband, writer Simon Monjack, left, at the BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Fire Department has responded to a 911 call from the home of actress Brittany Murphy's husband. Fire Department spokesman Devon Gale says the call was made at 8 a.m. Sunday from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to British screenwriter Simon Monjack, who is married to Murphy. Gale says one person was transported to a hospital. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)AP - Authorities said Monday it appeared actress Brittany Murphy died of natural causes after becoming ill with flulike symptoms in the days before she collapsed in the bathroom of her Hollywood Hills home.

Astor son gets 1-3 years for looting mom's money (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST

Astor heir Anthony Marshall arrives for sentencing at the Supreme Court in New York, December 21, 2009. Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son was convicted in October of exploiting his philanthropist mother's failing mind and helping himself to her nearly $200 million fortune. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW)AP - The 85-year-old son of philanthropist Brooke Astor was sentenced Monday to as many as three years in prison for exploiting her mental frailty to plunder her millions, but the legal saga surrounding the society doyenne's fortune will persist with planned appeals.

Oral Roberts remembered as charismatic leader (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:27 PM PST

Tears fill Richard Roberts' eyes as he speaks at a memorial service for his father, evangelist Oral Roberts on the campus of Oral Roberts University on Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Roberts died Dec. 15 at the age of 91. (AP Photo/David Crenshaw)AP - For decades, Oral Roberts deftly used television to become one of the nation's most recognized and influential preachers. On Monday, that same medium was used to broadcast the memorial service for the godfather of TV evangelism to tens of millions of homes across the world.

3 friends sentenced in NH Walmart worker slaying (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:27 PM PST

Amber Talbot listens to Christoper Gray's family in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Dec. 21, 2009.Talbot was one of three friends sentenced for their roll in the stabbing death of Christopher Gray last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Denounced as "evil" and "despicable," three young friends who plotted the killing of a developmentally disabled Walmart cashier who had been hitting on a co-worker drew long prison terms Monday.

DC chief slams officer over gun at snowball fight (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 01:38 PM PST

A group takes part in an impromptu snowball fight that took over the intersection of 14th and U Streets during a snow storm in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. The event was organized by a Twitter group calling for people to gather and participate and more then 200 people showed up. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The city's police chief slammed a veteran detective Monday for pulling a gun during a mass snowball fight that had been advertised on Twitter.

Economy, Obama inauguration: Top stories of 2009 (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 11:04 AM PST

-- FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS -- FILE - Hundreds of people wait in line to get into a job fair presented by Jobs & Careers Newspaper and Job Fairs in San Mateo, Calif., in this Feb. 25, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - The convoluted American economy — restoring windfalls to a lucky few while leaving millions jobless and distraught — was the top news story of 2009, followed closely by the inauguration of President Barack Obama, according to U.S. editors and news directors voting in The Associated Press' annual poll.

Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:40 AM PST

In this photo taken on Dec. 19, 2009, Gary Barksdale's home in Norman, Okla. is decorated with a mix of vintage incandescent bulbs and LED lights for the holidays. While acknowledging LEDs are more durable and use up to one-hundredth the amount of electricity as incandescents, Barksdale grows nostalgic sorting through broken bulbs and overloaded fuses every year. 'It's part of the holiday tradition,' said Barksdale. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)AP - To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.

Fla. man on lam for 30 years arrested in Mo. (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:22 PM PST

AP - Oscar Richardson was a 61-year-old father living a low-key life in Missouri, working as a handyman when he was arrested over the weekend, accused of escaping a Florida prison 30 years ago.

Visiting yacht owners balk at Maine's use taxes (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:12 PM PST

AP - A retired Maine businessman thought he was helping the local economy in 2005 when he spent more than $100,000 in Portland on repairs to his 72-foot luxury yacht, newly purchased in Florida. Now he's feeling cheated.

Diane Sawyer begins at ABC's `World News' (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 02:46 PM PST

FILE -This Sept. 8, 2008 file photo shows Diane Sawyer, of 'Good Morning America' at the ABC News/USA Today '50 States In 50 Days' election coverage partnership news conference at Grand Central Station in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)AP - Diane Sawyer follows quickly on the heels of Charles Gibson's retirement to launch a new era as anchor of ABC News' flagship evening newscast on Monday.

Boat driver: Coast Guard vessel sped before crash (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:59 PM PST

AP - Alan DeWeese had just finished watching a fireworks display aboard his 26-foot Sea Ray when he heard an engine roar behind him in San Diego Bay.

Dealmaking is life blood of health care bill (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 02:39 PM PST

AP - Twice, abortion was almost a dealbreaker. This time, it was a dealmaker.

Banks getting bum rap on not lending enough? (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 02:11 PM PST

In this photo released by Heritage Bank, Stan Wilmoth, President of Heritage Bank of Nevada, is shown. Wilmoth credits his grandfather, a Protestant minister, with giving him 'moral fiber.' (AP Photo/Heritage Bank of Nevada)AP - Unlike big-city bankers, Stan Wilmoth didn't make lots of dumb loans during the boom. After the crash, he accepted not a dime of taxpayer money for his bank. His salary? "Substantially less" than the $1 million the former head of Merrill Lynch spent remodeling his office, he says. He credits his grandfather, a Protestant minister, with giving him "moral fiber."

Obama naming Hispanics to top posts at record pace (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 01:22 PM PST

File - In this Aug. 8, 2009 file photo, Sonia Sotomayor smiles after taking the oath of office from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to become the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice. The Obama administration has nominated nearly twice the number of Hispanics as either the Bush and Clinton administrations. Sotomayor served more than a decade as an appellate judge. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide range of the nation's Latino communities, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Colombians.

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