2010年4月7日星期三

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AP: Major safety lapses at mine long before blast (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT

Graphic shows safety citations at Upper Big Branch South Mine in West VirginiaAP - Federal inspectors found a string of safety violations at a sprawling West Virginia coal mine in the months and days leading up to an explosion that killed 25 this week, including two citations the day of the explosion. Miners were so concerned about the conditions that several told their congressman they were afraid to go back into the mine.


US woman silently pleads not guilty in terror case (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:19 PM PDT

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams is seen outside the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Paulin-Ramirez, charged in a global terrorism plot, has pleaded not guilty to aiding terrorists at a hearing in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - With a shake of the head, a pregnant Colorado woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge of helping foreign terrorists who authorities say were plotting to kill a Swedish artist.


FBI arrests Calif man for alleged Pelosi threats (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:13 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks about health care reform during a news conference after she spoke to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A California man angry about health care reform allegedly made threatening and harassing phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including at least one call in which he got through and spoke to her directly, law enforcement officials said.


Lethal gas stops rescuers from entering W.Va. mine (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:09 PM PDT

A coal miner who would only identify himself as Chris speaks about the miners who died in a Monday evening explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s sprawling Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W.Va. Wednesday, April 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)AP - Two full days after the worst U.S. mining disaster in a generation, dangerous gases underground prevented rescuers Wednesday from venturing into the Upper Big Branch coal mine to search for any survivors of the explosion that killed at least 25 workers.


LA mayor backs down, says shutdown a last resort (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:25 PM PDT

The exterior of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power building is shown in Los Angeles Wednesday, April 7,  2010. A Chief Legislative Analyst Gerry Miller, a top city analyst says Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa does not have the power to unilaterally shut down city services two days a week, that such a move would have to be approved by the council.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa backed down from his hardline stance over the budget crisis Wednesday, admitting he cannot shut down city services without the City Council's approval and requesting $20 million from the power utility to keep the city solvent.


3rd ex-officer pleads guilty in Katrina probe (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:19 PM PDT

AP - A former New Orleans police officer told federal authorities he saw a fellow officer shoot and kick unarmed, wounded civilians in a deadly incident on a bridge in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, marking the first time an officer has provided federal authorities with an eyewitness account of the events.

Mich. Muslim leader: Pix of slain Imam troubling (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:00 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Muslim Alliance of North America shows Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit. A Muslim civil rights group has released photos of the bloodied body of a Detroit mosque leader shot 20 times by FBI agents last year as they were trying to arrest him. The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Wednesday April 7, 2010 released five photos of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah that the group obtained from the medical examiner's office. (AP Photo/Muslim Alliance of North America, Ron Foster Sharif) NO SALESAP - A Muslim civil rights group released crime scene photos Wednesday of the body of a mosque leader shot 20 times during an FBI raid — images the group's director says suggest the imam likely had to defend himself against a vicious dog attack before he was killed.


Ala. dental spat may foreshadow Obama plan effects (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:33 PM PDT

This photograph taken on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, shows a Sarrell Dental Center office in a depressed neighborhood in Bessemer, Ala. Sarrell Dental, a non-profit corporation that treats young people on Medicaid, is at odds with the Alabama Dental Association after years of quick growth. A dispute between established Alabama dentists and a nonprofit corporation that treats the needy could be a sign of what's to come under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, advocates say.  (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)AP - Alone in a meeting room, trustees of the Alabama Dental Association complained about Sarrell Dental Center, a nonprofit corporation that treats thousands of needy children on Medicaid.


Fire danger threatens where Northeast floods hit (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 05:10 PM PDT

Matt Cavaco, left, of South Kingstown, R.I., Jackie Brough, center, and Paul Samuel, right, both of Cambridge, Mass., lie in the sun on Boston Common, Wednesday, April 7, 2010, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - Officials in southern New England have issued fire danger warnings for some of the areas put underwater by record flooding just days ago.


Va. man acquitted of indecent exposure in his home (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:23 PM PDT

AP - A man charged with indecent exposure after two women said they saw him naked inside his own home was acquitted Wednesday by a Virginia jury.

Developing test to warn smokers of cancer danger (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:51 PM PDT

In this photo taken April 6, 2010, released by Boston Boston University School of Medicine, David Lowney, left, undergoes a bronchoscopy by Boston University School of Medicine researchers Dr. Avrum Spira, center, and Dr. Frank Schrembi, right, in Boston. The procedure is part of a test to measure a genetic change inside patients' windpipes to try to tell which smokers are it the highest risk of developing lung cancer. (AP Photo/Boston University School of Medicine, David Keough)    NO SALES. FOR USE ONLY WITH AP STORY BY LAURAN NEERGARRD ABOUT THIS RESEARCHAP - Scientists may have found a way to tell which smokers are at highest risk of developing lung cancer: measuring a telltale genetic change inside their windpipes.


Denali details its pitch for $35B Alaska gas line (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:06 PM PDT

AP - Everyone seems to agree there's room for only one major pipeline to move natural gas from Alaska's prodigious North Slope to North American markets. Now a high-stakes showdown is taking shape over who will be in charge and what it will take to make the long-hoped-for project economical and a reality.

Family men, outdoorsmen among W.Va. mine victims (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 03:57 PM PDT

An undated photo provided Tuesday, April 6, 2010 by the Quarles family shows Gary Quarles, 33, of Naoma, W.Va.  On Monday Gary Quarles, 33, was killed in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine. (AP Photo/via Quarles family)AP - As some families prayed that their loved ones might still be alive in West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine, others grappled with the certainty that they had lost a father, brother or cousin.


2 more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:26 PM PDT

This 2009 picture made available by the U.S. Geological Service shows the remnants of the Jackson Glacier at Glacier National Park in Montana. The park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, a government researcher said Wednesday, April 7, 2010. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Service, Lisa McKeon)AP - Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.


W.Va. basketball coach visits miners' families (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:10 PM PDT

West Virginia basketball Head Coach Bob Huggins arrives via helicopter with food and other items, to meet with mining families, Wednesday, April 7, 2010, in Montcoal, W.Va.  (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock)AP - West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins delivered homemade pasta and Mountaineer T-shirts on Wednesday to the families of miners who have been killed or are missing following an explosion.


Abuse scandal means tough checks for future pope (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:23 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI flanked by personal secretary Georg Gaenswein delivers his blessing during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - The sex abuse crisis engulfing the Catholic Church will mean more vigorous background checks when it comes to appointing cardinals, and future popes. Among the requirements: no taint of scandal and the ability to speak comfortably to the world and the media.


Sister: Man in Murray threat wasn't an intimidator (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:49 AM PDT

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., talks to reporters in Seattle after she took part in a roundtable discussion at the non-profit Casa Latina, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Murray took part in the scheduled event as planned, despite the arrest of a man in Yakima, Wash., earlier in the day who was charged with threatening to kill Murray over her support for health care reform. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - The sister of the Washington state man charged with threatening to kill Democratic Sen. Patty Murray over her support for health care reform said her brother has no history of intimidation.


Feds cited Massey mine twice on day of explosion (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:51 PM PDT

AP - The Massey Energy coal mine where 25 people died in an explosion was cited for violating two federal safety rules on the day of the blast.

Census ads seek to boost minority participation (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:21 AM PDT

This image provided by the U.S. Census Bureau shows an advertisement promoting minority involvement in the 2010 Census. During the 2000 Census, when the bureau used paid advertisements for the first time in its history, critics accused the agency of adopting an overly generic one-size-fits-all approach in its efforts to reach minorities.  (AP Photo/US Census Bureau)AP - Radio commercials blare ranchera tunes, beseeching Mexican-Americans to fill out their census forms. Print ads with a portrait of a Thai family with a carved elephant in the background implore Thais to do the same. So does a Congolese basketball hero in another.


W.Va. miner talks about underground explosion (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:54 PM PDT

Melvin Lynch speaks to a reporter at his home, Wednesday, April 7, 2010, in Mount Hope, W.Va. Lynch was working in the Upper Big Branch mine when a section of the mine exploded. Lynch's brother Roosevelt was killed in the explosion. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - A West Virginia miner working underground when an explosion killed 25 colleagues saw the power go out, but only learned of the devastation when crews told him of flying debris.


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