2009年12月25日星期五

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AP sources: Al-Qaida link in failed plane attack (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 04:28 PM PST

This picture provided by J.P. Karas shows Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the runway after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. A passenger aboard the plane set off firecrackers Friday, causing a commotion and some minor injuries, a Delta official said. Delta and Northwest have merged. (AP Photo/J.P. Karas)AP - A Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria, who said he was acting on al-Qaida's instructions, tried to blow up the plane Friday as it was landing in Detroit, law enforcement and national security officials said.

White Christmas turns into a headache for some (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 05:23 PM PST

Snow plows work to keep I-70 clear Friday, Dec. 25, 2009, near Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - Residents across the Midwest and the Plains who made it home for Christmas were digging out on Friday after a fierce snowstorm while those who spent the night in airports and shelters tried to resume their journeys. Meteorologists warned that roads across the region remained dangerous.

Body of missing Maryland girl found in woods (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 04:46 PM PST

AP - The body of a Maryland girl who authorities say was abducted by a registered sex offender was found Friday in a wooded area near the Delaware state line after thousands of volunteers spent Christmas searching for her.

Salvation Army major shot in front of 3 children (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 03:40 PM PST

AP - A Salvation Army worker was shot and killed Christmas Eve in front of his three young children during an attempted robbery outside the charity's community center in North Little Rock, a Salvation Army official said Friday.

Truck crashes at Ohio nativity scene, killing man (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 05:05 PM PST

AP - A retired fire chief performing in a live nativity scene outside a northeast Ohio church assisted injured spectators after a pickup truck crashed into the small audience, killing one person.

El Paso stays safe, though it's next to a war zone (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 11:47 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2009 file photo, people walk by federal police officers at a crime scene where two women and a man were killed by gunmen at a bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. El Paso, Texas and its neighbor across the Rio Grande, Ciudad Juarez, are the Cain and Abel of the Mexican border. They are like reverse photographic images of each other. One is a model of civic order, the other an urban war zone just a few hundred yards away. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, file)AP - El Paso and its neighbor across the Rio Grande, Ciudad Juarez, are like reverse photographic images of each other.

Fla. family gets white Christmas with crushed ice (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 12:25 PM PST

In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Cyndi Livingston, left, watches grandson Michael Walker play with a snorkeling snowman Friday, Dec. 25, 2009, in Summerland Key, Fla. Although temperatures in the Florida Keys Friday were in the high 70s, about 20 tons of ice were crushed to create snow deposited on the Livingstons' oceanfront property. The family won The Weather Channel's 'Guaranteed White Christmas' contest where entrants submitted videos explaining why their families deserved a white Christmas. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Rob O'Neal)AP - One Florida Keys family is getting a white Christmas, despite temperatures in the upper 70s.

Next for NJ father after legal victory: parenting (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 11:18 AM PST

U.S. David Goldman, top, followed by his 9-year-old son Sean, gestures as he boards a plane at the Galeao airport, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. Brazilian relatives handed the boy over to his father after Brazil's Supreme Court ordered it this week after five years of court rulings and appeals over the custody of the child. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - For more than five years, David Goldman fought to get his son back from Brazil.

Officials: 2 children killed in Ky. Christmas fire (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 01:29 PM PST

AP - Fire officials say two children have died in a Christmas morning fire that destroyed a house in Kentucky.

Mile-long sheen spreads near disabled tugboat (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

The tug Pathfinder is surrounded by a spill containment boom Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009, in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The Pathfinder, a 136-foot tug scouting for ice along Prince William Sound's oil shipping lanes near Valdez, Alaska, grounded on Bligh Reef on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Marc Lester)AP - A mile-long diesel sheen spread across Alaska's Prince William Sound on Friday where a tugboat had run aground near the site of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, the Coast Guard said.

Accused Virginia hostage taker had criminal past (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 06:26 AM PST

Jim Oliver, 41, left, who was taken hostage in a Wytheville, Va. post office on Dec. 23, 2009 speaks to The Associated Press in Wytheville, Va., on Thursday Dec. 24, 2009 along with his mother, Sandy Oliver. Jim Oliver was taken hostage along with two other people for about eight hours before the hostage taker surrendered himself to authorities. Oliver said that Warren Taylor, who Federal officials say was the hostage taker, was angry at the federal government because his son had died in Afghanistan and his beloved truck was about to repossessed. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Stephanie Klein-Davis)AP - As a post office standoff wore on, the people Warren "Gator" Taylor is accused of holding hostage say he slowly opened up to them.

Small, private funeral held for Brittany Murphy (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 01:58 AM PST

This photo provided by Hybrid Productions shows Brittany Murphy while working on the set of 'Abandoned' in Los Angeles in June, 2009. The film is Murphy's final starring role before her recent death. The film is expected to be released in 2010. (AP Photo/Hybrid Productions) NO SALESAP - Brittany Murphy's family says words can't express the devastation they felt as they laid the 32-year-old actress to rest at a private Christmas Eve funeral.

Donkeys escape from live nativity scene in Colo. (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 06:27 PM PST

AP - A living nativity scene in near the Colorado ski resort of Vail almost had to go without two crucial actors when two donkeys escaped.

Animal welfare victories prompt farmers' PR moves (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 12:26 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2009 file photo, Holstein cows wait in the milking parlor 9 in Turlock, Calif. Consumers have been led for years to believe California cows are happy, which is why many were sickened when images surfaced of a washed-up milker, too weak to stagger to slaughter, rolled, pushed and run over by a forklift operator. The suffering cow covertly taped by the Humane Society of the U.S. prompted the biggest beef recall in U.S. history and contributed to sweeping legislation over the past 13 months designed to improve the lives of farm animals. But more important for farmers, it awakened the masses to the stark reality for many animals raised for food. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Lance Iversen)AP - Consumers have been led for years to believe California cows are happy, which is why many were sickened when images surfaced of a washed-up milker, too weak to stagger to slaughter, rolled, pushed and run over by a forklift operator.

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