2010年5月4日星期二

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Pakistan native admits to Times Square bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:38 PM PDT

New York City Police stand guard outside of New York Federal Court awaiting the possible arraignment of Times Square bombing suspect Shahzad Faisal. A Pakistani-American arrested for the New York car bomb plot will be charged with international terrorism and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, US officials said Tuesday.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)AP - Seized from a plane about to fly to the Middle East, a Pakistan-born man admitted training to make bombs at a terrorism camp in his native land before he rigged an SUV with a homemade device to explode in Times Square, authorities said Tuesday.

Paranoia, anxiety grow over Gulf Coast oil spill (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:36 PM PDT

In a photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard taken May 3, 2010, a fire-resistant oil-containment boom hangs over the stern as the crew aboard the motor vessel Poppa John train to deploy it off the coast of Venice, La. The crew is being trained to deploy the boom and pass it along to shrimp boats whose captains have been trained to tow it during an in situ burn. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard/Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley)AP - People along the Gulf Coast have spent weeks living with uncertainty, wondering where and when a huge slick of oil might come ashore, ruining their beaches — and their livelihoods.

53 hours, 20 minutes: From terror plot to arrest (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:29 PM PDT

FBI agents remove evidence from a house in Bridgeport, Conn., Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Faisal Shahzad, a U.S. citizen who had recently returned from a five-month trip to his native Pakistan, was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - The license plate had been switched and the vehicle identification number stripped from the dashboard of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder holding a crude bomb in Times Square. Smoke from the faulty firecracker detonators might have ruined evidence.

Nashville waters receding; crews search for bodies (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:23 PM PDT

Pedestrians survey flooded streets as the waters of the Cumberland River slowly started to ebb , Tuesday, May 4, 2010, in Nashville, Tenn. The river and its tributaries had flooded parts of middle Tennessee after a record-breaking weekend storm dumped more than a foot of rain in two days, rapidly spilling water into homes, roads and some of Music City's best-known attractions. (AP Photo/(M. Spencer Green)AP - The Cumberland River finally began receding Tuesday, exposing mud-caked homes and submerged cars as officials searched door to door for more victims of a record-busting flash flood and weekend storm already blamed for nearly 30 deaths.

Philadelphia chief backs officer who Tasered fan (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 04:30 PM PDT

A law enforcement officer chases down a fan that ran onto the field before the eighth inning of a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals, Monday, May 3, 2010, in Philadelphia. St. Louis won 6-3. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - City police are considering whether officers should get involved when unruly but nonthreatening fans sprint onto the field during sporting events, a review begun after a teenager was subdued with a Taser at a Phillies game.

Delicate work unfolds a mile beneath Gulf (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 03:37 PM PDT

FILE - This April 22, 2010 photo provided Sunday, April 25 by the US Coast Guard shows the arm of a robot submarine attempting to activate a shutoff device known as a blowout preventer (BOP) to close off the flow of oil at the Deepwater Horizon well head. Engineers have deployed an armada of remote-controlled submarine robots that are essentially turning wrenches to repair malfunctioning equipment and cap the leak while spraying chemicals from a wand into the muck and mire to disperse the oil. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard)AP - It is a job that requires the expertise of a rocket scientist and the precision of a surgeon.

Smoking bag removed from Houston-Amsterdam flight (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 04:38 PM PDT

AP - A baggage handler in Houston discovered a ruptured, smoking suitcase while loading luggage onto an outgoing international flight Tuesday and fire crews and bomb specialists were examining the bag, officials said.

US takes early lumps in case against Mich. militia (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 02:18 PM PDT

FILE - This combo of eight file photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service on Monday March 29, 2010 shows from top left, David Brian Stone Sr., 44, of Clayton, Mich,; David Brian Stone Jr. of Adrian, Mich,; Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio,; Tina Mae Stone and bottom row from left, Michael David Meeks, 40, of Manchester, Mich,; Kristopher T. Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio; Joshua John Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Mich.; and Thomas William Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshall, File)AP - Federal authorities touted the arrests of nine members of a Michigan militia as a pre-emptive strike against homegrown terrorists, declaring at an initial court hearing that the suspects with "dark hearts and evil intent" wanted to go to war against the government.

Police report details murder suspects 2008 arrest (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:39 PM PDT

In this handout provided by Media Relations University of Virginia, shows YYeardley Love in this undated photo. Police have arrested 22-year-old George Huguely of Chevy Chase, Md. and have charged him with first-degree murder of Love. Police Chief Tim Longo said during a news conference that 22-year-old Yeardley Love's body was found early Monday, May 3, 2010 in her Charlottesville apartment by a roommate. Longo says police were originally responding to a possible alcohol overdose, but quickly discovered it was something worse. (AP Photo/Media Relations University of Virginia)AP - Reports say a University of Virginia men's lacrosse player accused of killing a member of the women's team was shocked with a stun gun by police after resisting arrest for public intoxication.

Largest Lutheran group reinstating 2 gay ministers (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 04:42 PM PDT

Pastor Bradley Schmeling, left, and Pastor Darin Easler, are seen Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Atlanta. The couple, who have been at the center of a battle over the treatment of gay clergy by the nation's largest Lutheran denomination, are being reinstated to the denomination's clergy roster, church officials announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jenni Girtman)AP - A gay Atlanta pastor and his partner who have been at the center of a battle over the treatment of gay clergy by the nation's largest Lutheran denomination are being reinstated to the denomination's clergy roster, church officials announced Tuesday.

Times Square bomb suspect faces terror charges (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Police and pedestrians mix in New York's Times Square. Police have arrested a Pakistan-born suspect trying to board a plane to Dubai after the failed Times Square bomb plot that officials said was designed AP - Authorities have brought terrorism and mass destruction charges against the suspect in the failed Times Square car bombing, saying he has confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan.

Failed terror attack plots leave NY residents wary (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 09:15 AM PDT

In this file photo from Wednesday, March 31, 2010, heavily armed members of the Metropolitan Transit Authority Emergency Service Unit patrol Grand Central Station in New York during the morning rush hour in New York City. There have been at least nine planned terror attacks here since Sept. 11, 2001. Those involved hoped variously to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge, to blow up financial institutions, to smuggle explosive materials into the city, to detonate explosives on the subway, to release cyanide into the subway system, to ignite an airport jet-fuel pipeline, and to collapse Path train tunnels at ground zero. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - Another failed terrorist plot. Another mass sigh of relief.

Mummified baby corpse missing from NH grave site (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 04:04 PM PDT

The grave site where the corpse of mummified body of 'Baby John' had been buried is seen at the Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord, N.H., Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Sgt. John Thomas of the Concord police department said the remains of 'Baby John' had been removed and not recovered yet. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - The mummified body of a baby, kept by a family for nearly a century before a judge ordered the remains to be buried, has been removed from a cemetery, police said Tuesday.

Mass. boil water order ends; investigation planned (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:42 AM PDT

A sign on a glass door at the Capitol Coffee House, in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, advises customers that the cafe continues to serve coffee and tea, but made with bottled spring water instead of tap water, Monday, May 3, 2010. Health officials warned of the risk of a parasite infection if residents used unboiled tap water for brushing their teeth, washing raw vegetables or making ice. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Gov. Deval Patrick promised an investigation into the water main break that had prompted him to issue a boil water order that ended Tuesday morning for about 2 million people in the Boston area.

Suit: Workers kept at sea hours after explosion (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 01:54 PM PDT

AP - Three workers forced to escape on lifeboats after an explosion aboard an offshore drilling platform claimed in a lawsuit Tuesday that they were kept floating at sea for more than 10 hours while the rig burned uncontrollably.

Mountaintop mining mobilizes coalfields musicians (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 02:54 AM PDT

FILE - In a Monday, Sept. 7, 2009 file photo, Ted Nugent appears on the big screen in front of thousands of coal mining supporters at the Friends of America Rally in Holden, W.Va.. The rally is a free Labor Day concert and rally sponsored by the coal industry. Music — honest, unfiltered, often made one person at a time — is once again a weapon in the coalfields. Big-name entertainers are embracing its power in the war over a particularly destructive form of strip mining, mountaintop removal, that forever reshapes the land. (AP Photo/Bob Bird, File)AP - When Elaine Purkey sings — in a lonesome voice that is twangy, angry and thoroughly haunting — she sings for her people. She channels their rage as mountaintop removal coal mines flatten their beloved West Virginia hills to supply the nation with cheap electricity.

Woman in Target stabbing lost custody of child (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 04:15 PM PDT

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Clay Grant Jr., who disarmed and arrested a woman who had allegedly stabbed four people inside a busy Target store, smiles as he talks to the media at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's West Hollywood Station on Monday, May 3, 2010 in West Hollywood, Calif. Grant pulled his gun and ordered the woman to the ground as screaming shoppers ran from the building. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - A brother of the woman who allegedly stabbed four people in a Target store says she started to deteriorate emotionally after she lost custody of her child.

Schwarzenegger ends support for offshore drilling (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 12:36 AM PDT

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he was withdrawing his support for a plan to expand oil drilling off the California coast during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, May 3, 2010. Citing the massive oil spill that resulted from a drilling rig explosion the Gulf of Mexico, Schwazenegger said that no new drilling will take place off the state's coastline in the foreseeable future.(Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will find another way to help close the state's $20 billion budget deficit after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused him to withdraw his support for a plan to expand oil drilling off the California coast.

Tucson City Council suing AZ over immigration law (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:41 PM PDT

AP - The Tucson City Council has voted to sue Arizona in an effort to overturn its new immigration law.

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