2010年8月7日星期六

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Well plugging brings relief but abandonment fears (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 03:38 PM PDT

In this Aug. 5, 2010 photo, Dan Wolfrer prepares to paint the hull of a shrimp boat in a boat yard in Empire, La., to ready the vessel for the opening of brown shrimp season in Louisiana. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)AP - The gusher has finally been beaten back, and from 400 miles up government satellites assure that the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing. But Dave Marino only wishes he could put that kind of distance between himself and the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Pasadena school dogs chronic dropouts (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 11:03 AM PDT

In this July 21, 2010 photo, Anthony Morris, 27, top, a chaser and security guard at the Learning Works! Charter School, and Edgar Rodriguez, 17-year-old high school dropout, joke around during their lunch break in Pasadena, Calif. The school was founded two years ago by Mikala Rahn to serve Pasadena’s highest risk youth, gangbangers, teen mothers, parolees, with one goal in mind, to get them to graduate high school. The school employs former dropouts as 'chasers.' The chasers round up the students, covering every excuse they use to not attend school. They will bring them to school, take them to planned parenthood appointments, to see parents in jail, to attend court hearings and even pick them up from juvenile hall and police stations. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - School has long since started for the day when Jose Ramirez pulls up to a small bungalow and yells out to a tardy student. Anthony Gonzalez limps to the door, shirtless with a head of bed-tousled hair.

Small plane crashes into Pa. home; 2 bodies found (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT

AP - A twin-engine plane slammed into a house in western Pennsylvania minutes after takeoff on Saturday, killing two men, and narrowly missing a man sleeping on his couch with his dog and setting the residence on fire.

3rd spacewalk needed to restore cooling system (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 04:29 PM PDT

In this image taken from video and made available by NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, foreground begins the first of two spacewalks to replace a broken ammonia pump Saturday Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A pair of space station astronauts had to hammer loose a stuck connector during an urgent spacewalk to restore a crucial cooling system Saturday, then an ammonia leak erupted and hampered the entire repair effort.

70 people involved in brawl at DC transit station (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:36 PM PDT

AP - A Metro spokeswoman says a brawl at a rail station in the nation's capital involved 70 people and three people have been arrested.

Beer warehouse shooter long complained of racism (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:00 PM PDT

**ADDS LOCATION PHOTO WAS TAKEN** This June 2010 cell phone photo provided by Kristi Hannah, shows her boyfriend Omar Thornton in Niantic, Conn. Police said Thornton killed eight people and wounded two, then turned the gun on himself in a rampage Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in Manchester, Conn. (AP Photo/Kristi Hannah) NO SALESAP - To those closest to him, Omar Thornton was caring, quiet and soft-spoken. He was excited to land a well-paying job at a beer delivery company a few years ago and his longtime girlfriend says they talked of marrying and having children.

Prince George's County police charge 2 in slayings (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 12:13 PM PDT

Police and officials work by the scene where four bodies were found, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, in Lanham, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Police say they have charged two people with murder in the slayings of two women and two children found in a trash-filled apartment in the Washington area.

In turnabout, Ohio ex-con gets data on neighbors (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 09:26 AM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Ohio Department of Corrections show Pearly Wilson. Neighbors routinely are provided with a mug and a name when a sex offender moves next door. Now an Ohio sex offender says he got information on his neighbors, including their Social Security numbers.The material, provided to The Associated Press by convicted rapist Pearly Wilson, also contains the names, addresses and birth dates of nine of Wilson's one-time neighbors on Columbus' east side.(AP Photo/Ohio Department of Corrections)AP - Neighbors routinely get a picture and a name when a sex offender moves next door. In a turnabout, an Ohio sex offender has received private information about his neighbors, including their Social Security numbers.

Colin heads for Bermuda; Estelle forms in Pacific (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:34 AM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, August 05, 2010 at 01:45 PM EDT shows a circular cloud structure produced by the remnants of Tropical Storm Colin. It currently sits about 300 miles north of the Virgin Islands and has slightly re-organized. Hurricane hunter aircraft found tropical storm force winds in the northeast quadrant of the storm. This system has a moderate, 50% chance of re-strengthening into a tropical storm as it moves northwestward at 20 mph. Also, a tropical wave in the southern Caribbean Sea kicks up showers and thunderstorms,which are not well organized. This system has a low, 10% chance of tropical storm formation as it continues moving westward into Central America at 15-20 mph. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Tropical Storm Colin is heading toward Bermuda, while Tropical Storm Estelle has formed in the Pacific.

Conn. woman arrested over stolen beer from shooter (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 08:26 PM PDT

A sign at the entrance to Hartford Distributors, in Manchester, Conn., is seen behind warning tape, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Eight people were killed Tuesday when Omar Thornton opened fire after a disciplinary hearing at the beer distributorship in Manchester, before killing himself. Flowers and candles rest on top of the sign. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Police on Friday arrested a woman suspected of accepting stolen beer from a delivery truck driven by the man who fatally shot eight co-workers at a Connecticut beer distributor.

Orphaned Alaska sea otter now at New York Aquarium (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 09:49 PM PDT

AP - An orphaned sea otter from Alaska has arrived at the Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Aquarium.

Disfigured Afghan teen to have surgery in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 08:30 PM PDT

This photo provided by Time magazine show's the cover of the August 9, 2010 issue, with a photo of Aisha, an 18-year-old Afghan woman. Aisha's nose and ears were sliced off in 2009, under orders from a local Taliban commander acting as a judge, as punishment for fleeing her husband's home. (AP Photo/Time Inc.) NO SALES; MAGAZINES OUTAP - The disfigured Afghan teenager whose photo was recently featured on a Time magazine cover has arrived in Southern California where a foundation has arranged for reconstructive surgery.

Amtrak train hits truck in Calif.; 20 injured (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 09:32 PM PDT

AP - Police say an Amtrak train hit a big-rig truck at a California crossing, sending 20 people to hospitals for treatment for minor injuries.

Unique exercise to test US-Russia hijack response (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 11:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2007 photo, an A-50, the Russian equivalent of the American AWACS aircraft based on the Ilyushin Il-76 freighter, NATO reporting name: Mainstay, flies escorted by MiG-31 interceptor jets, over Monino, Russia, east of Moscow. U.S. and Russian jet fighters will take turns pursuing a civilian plane across the Pacific next week in a first-of-its-kind exercise to test their response to a potential international hijacking. The exercise will involve aircraft and officers from Russia and the North American Aerospace Defense Command tracking the civilian plane, an executive-style jet that will play the role of a hijacked civilian airliner. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - The U.S. and Russia, which have more bluster than cooperation in their often-contentious history, will have their jet fighters take turns pursuing a civilian plane across the Pacific next week in a first-of-its-kind exercise to test their response to a potential international hijacking.

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