2009年12月23日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Winter storm starts to spread across Midwest (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:27 PM PST

A tree is coated with ice as vehicles travel a slick Interstate 80 in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. A major winter storm is promising to bring a white Christmas to much of the nation's midsection, though countless holiday travelers faced slick roads and scattered flight delays and cancellations Wednesday that only looked to get worse.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Holiday travelers battled slick, icy roads and flight cancellations and delays on Wednesday as a major winter storm began to spread across much of the nation's midsection — and the worst of the weather was still expected to come.

5 held hostage at rural Virginia post office (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:54 PM PST

Police gather at the Wytheville Post Office Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. A hostage situation is ongoing at the post office in the southwest Virginia town. (AP Photo/ Jeffrey P. Simmons, Wytheville Enterprise)AP - An armed man in a wheelchair took five hostages Wednesday at a post office in western Virginia, forcing officials to cordon off three blocks of a downtown filled with holiday shoppers.

Northeast train problems strand holiday travelers (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 03:48 PM PST

Sisters Shea, 8, left, and Erin Dermody, 7, pass the time while waiting for their delayed Amtrak train to Boston at Penn Station in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. Power has been restored to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor after a three-hour train stoppage stranded commuters and holiday travelers. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - An electrical malfunction outside New York City brought train service to a standstill Wednesday and spotlighted problems on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor that persist despite a long-term effort to upgrade its aging power supply system.

More than 100 could be victims of pediatrician (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:09 PM PST

In this photo released Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009 by the Delaware State Police, Dr. Earl Bradley is shown. Bradley, a Delaware pediatrician accused of molesting at least 16 patients is due in court, Wednesday. Bradley, of Lewes, Delaware, faces 29 charges, including rape. He was charged last week with sexually abusing nine girls and is being held on $2.9 million bond. (AP Photo/Delaware State Police)AP - A pediatrition charged with sexually abusing his patients likely attacked more than 100 children at an office he had decked out with a merry-go-round and a ferris wheel, a state official said Wednesday.

Balloon boy parents are sent to jail for hoax (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:27 PM PST

Richard Heene, center, looks up as he sits in the courtroom with his wife Mayumi, right, and attorney David Lane, left, before he and his wife were sentenced in connection with the balloon boy hoax on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009, in Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Photo/Rich Abrahamson, Pool)AP - The parents who pulled the balloon boy hoax in hopes of landing a reality TV show were sentenced to jail Wednesday — 90 days for him, 20 days for her — and barred from profiting from their newfound celebrity status for the next four years.

2 dead, 1 wounded in La. office shooting (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

AP - A former employee of a Baton Rouge construction company was arrested Wednesday in the shooting deaths of two people and the wounding of a third at the company's offices, authorities said.

Colleague: Fla. pastor ignored advice on convert (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:55 PM PST

FILE - This Sept. 3, 2009 photo shows Rifqa Bary in the courtroom at the Thomas S. Kirk Juvenile Justice Center in Orlando, Fla. A former colleague says a Florida pastor ignored warnings that he was breaking the law when he housed a teen who had fled Ohio after converting to Christianity. In an affidavit filed in Franklin County juvenile court Tuesday, former church administrator Brian Smith says he was told at a July staff meeting that 17-year-old Rifqa Bary feared her suburban Columbus parents would kill her for leaving Islam. (AP Photo/Pool, Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda)AP - A Florida pastor ignored warnings that he was breaking the law when he housed a runaway teenage girl who converted from Islam to Christianity, a former colleague said.

Texas mayor wasn't target of drive-by in Mexico (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 03:18 PM PST

AP - A Texas border mayor said Wednesday he doesn't think he or the Mexican officials he was with Tuesday were the targets of a drive-by shooting that killed a woman in front of a popular restaurant in Piedras Negras, Mexico.

Aide: Brazilian family giving up fight for US boy (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:27 PM PST

David Goldman, left, and US Representative Chris Smith speak to the press in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Late Sunday Brazil's Supreme Court said in an Internet statement that Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes would rule Monday on appeals made by Goldman and Brazil's attorney general seeking to lift a stay on a lower court's order that Goldman's son be handed over to him. Goldman's son Sean was taken to Brazil in 2004 by his then-wife Bruna Bianchi, who divorced Goldman and remarried before dying while giving birth to a daughter in 2008. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - David Goldman's bitter five-year battle to regain custody of his son neared conclusion Wednesday, when the child's Brazilian family halted its legal efforts as a court-ordered deadline for delivering the boy loomed.

NY court: Consider harsher sentence in terror case (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:35 PM PST

AP - A federal appeals court on Wednesday took a sterner stance toward the upcoming resentencing of a former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case, saying it has "serious doubts" whether her sentence of just over two years in prison was reasonable.

'Ignored' patient sues Las Vegas hospitals (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:03 PM PST

AP - A woman and her fiance filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against two Las Vegas hospitals, saying they were ignored in a hospital emergency room so long that they returned home where the woman gave birth to a premature baby who died.

Mental exam ordered in first lady threatening case (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 03:55 PM PST

AP - A mental competency examination has been ordered for a woman accused of threatening to kill first lady Michelle Obama.

Madoff moved from federal prison to medical center (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:59 AM PST

Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff, pictured in March 2009, has been moved to a prison hospital from his cell where he is serving a 150-year jail sentence, US prison authorities said Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AP - Bernard Madoff has been moved from a North Carolina federal prison to a prison medical facility.

Texas man freed by DNA sues over 'excessive' fees (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 03:10 PM PST

AP - A second wrongly convicted man freed by DNA evidence has sued his civil lawyer and an Innocence Project of Texas official in a dispute over attorney fees in DNA exoneration cases.

Ex-President Carter offers apology to Jews (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 03:18 PM PST

FILE -In this Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001, file photo, Former President Jimmy Carter, speaks at the opening of the Joan B. Kroc Institute For Peace and Justice on the campus of the University of San Diego, in San Diego. Carter is offering the Jewish community an apology for any of his 'words and deeds' that may have upset them. Carter writes in an open letter to the Jewish community this week in 2009, that he hopes the new year will bring peace between Israel and its neighbors. He says 'we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel.' (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - Former President Jimmy Carter apologized for any words or deeds that may have upset the Jewish community in an open letter meant to improve an often-tense relationship.

Calif. pastor accused of student visa conspiracy (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 01:14 PM PST

AP - A Southern California pastor has been accused by immigration authorities of helping foreigners fraudulently obtain student visas and handing out phony diplomas at a fake graduation ceremony on a campus where they never attended class.

Ohio mom calls cops on her shoplifting 6-year-old (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 12:29 PM PST

AP - An Ohio woman who asked that police be called after she caught her 6-year-old daughter shoplifting a package of stickers said Wednesday that she was just trying to teach the girl a lesson early in life.

Yemen is growing front in al-Qaida battle (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 02:05 PM PST

Yemeni soldiers flashing the V for 'victory' sign. Two people were killed and 10 wounded in two explosions at the site of a suspected Al-Qaeda training camp in southern Yemen which was hit by an air strike last week that also killed 49 civilians.(AFP/File/Khaled Fazaa)AP - The secretive U.S. air strike against suspected al-Qaida in Yemen last week is the latest in what has been a fast-growing campaign to better equip and fund Yemeni forces so they can eliminate the expanding al-Qaida safe havens there.

Teen charged with starting 2 California wildfires (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:02 AM PST

AP - A 16-year-old Southern California boy was charged Wednesday as an adult for allegedly starting two arson wildfires in San Bernardino County earlier this year.

Panic — but no deaths — in jet accident in Jamaica (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 01:14 PM PST

A soldier walks near the wreckage of American Airlines flight AA331, which crashed upon landing at Kingston's Norman Manley International Airport, late December 22, 2009. The American Airlines Boeing 737 overshot the runway while landing in driving rain at the international airport in Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday night, but the company said there were no fatalities or serious injuries. The Jamaica Observer newspaper reported 40 injured passengers but did not give details about their condition. CNN said four of the passengers were in serious condition. REUTERS/Andrew P. Smith (JAMAICA - Tags: DISASTER SOCIETY TRANSPORT)AP - Passengers on American Airlines Flight 331 had endured the crowded airports and delays of holiday travel, and were moments from their Caribbean destination. Suddenly, everything seemed to spin out of control.

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