2010年8月12日星期四

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Stabbing spree suspect nabbed before Israel flight (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:12 PM PDT

**ADDS CONFIRMATION THAT ABUELAZAM IS SUSPECT ARRESTED AT HARTSFIELD-JACKSON ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT** This undated photo released by the Arlington, Va., County Police Department shows Elias Abuelazam. Abuelazam, suspect in a string of 18 stabbings that terrorized people across three states and left five dead, was charged Thursday, August 12, 2010 with assault with intent to murder in connection with a July 27 stabbing in Flint, Michigan. Abuelazam was arrested at a gate at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as he tried to board a plane for Israel, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Arlington County Police Department)AP - Elias Abuelazam was about to board a plane for Israel when police arrested him in connection with a three-month stabbing spree that left five men dead, 13 others wounded and a Michigan city in terror. In the moments before the bald, pudgy man in flip-flops and shorts was handcuffed, passengers saw him nervously talking on his cell phone, insisting he wasn't violent.

Fugitives' trail fades after Arkansas lead fizzles (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 02:03 PM PDT

This photo composite, released by the United States Marshals Service, shows how suspected accomplice Casslyn Welch, of escaped inmate John Charles McCluskey, may now appear. It is believed Welch and McCluskey have dyed their hair. Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for Arizona Fidencio Rivera says the escaped convict, McCluskey and his suspected accomplice, Welch, dyed their hair in an effort to elude capture. (AP Photo/United States Marshals Service)AP - The trail has gone cold in the search for an escaped Arizona inmate and his suspected accomplice, with baffled federal authorities saying they have no idea where the couple is and warning travelers stopping at campgrounds and truck stops to be alert.

Judge keeps gay marriage on hold — for now (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:59 PM PDT

Dominic Colwan of Stockton, Calif., lends his support to gay marriage Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, outside City Hall in San Francisco. A federal judge put gay marriages on hold for at least another six days in California, disappointing dozens of gay couples who lined up outside City Hall hoping to tie the knot Thursday. Judge Vaughn Walker gave opponents of same-sex weddings until Aug. 18 at 5 p.m. to get a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on whether gay marriage should resume. Gay marriages could happen at that point or be put off indefinitely depending on how the court rules. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - The federal judge who struck down California's gay marriage ban said Thursday that same-sex weddings can resume next week unless an appeals court intervenes before then.

Affidavit: Conn. shooter stole empty kegs, cases (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:30 PM PDT

Patti Hollander of Orange Conn., left, her son Evan, 8, and Marci Hollander of South Windsor, members of the family that own Hartford Distributors, are among the somber crowd at a candlelight vigil held Sunday Aug. 8, 2010, in honor of the victims of a workplace shooting at a Connecticut beer distribution company. The ceremony is was held at Center Park in Manchester nearly a week after Omar Thornton killed eight co-workers and wounded two others before killing himself at the Hartford Distributors building. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jim Michaud)AP - The man who fatally shot eight co-workers at a Connecticut beer distributor stole cases of beer and empty kegs worth more than $400, according to court records.

Officials testing seal at BP's busted Gulf well (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 02:56 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - In the strongest indication yet that BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico may be plugged for good, officials on Thursday said they're conducting tests to determine if further work to seal the well is needed.

Hidden in Wis. national forest: marijuana megafarm (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:18 PM PDT

AP - Northern Wisconsin's Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is a vast, verdant getaway for hundreds of thousands of campers, hikers and anglers every year. But hidden within was a marijuana megafarm.

NTSB: Investigators finish much of crash site work (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT

FILE - This file image provided by the Alaska State Troopers shows the wreckage of the amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens which crashed into a remote mountainside during a fishing trip, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight. (AP photo/Alaska State Troopers)AP - Federal investigators have finished much of their work at the site of the Alaska plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others and has now shifted focus to interviewing survivors and hoisting the wreckage from a steep mountainside.

Docs discover pea sprouting in Mass. man's lung (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 01:32 PM PDT

Doctors look at x-rays. The diagnosis for Ron Sveden, 75, was devastating. X-rays showed a dark mass in the lung of the emphysema-sufferer and doctors concluded it could be a tumor.(AFP/File)AP - The doctor confirmed the good news for Ron Sveden once the mass in his left lung came back from the lab: He didn't have cancer. He had a pea sprouting inside his chest.

Feds: Utah bus company wasn't properly licensed (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:30 PM PDT

This Aug. 9, 2010 photo released by the Utah Highway Patrol shows a vehicle at the scene of a crash north of Cedar City, Utah where authorities say a tour bus carrying Japanese sightseers from Las Vegas to a national park in Utah crashed on Interstate 15. Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Cameron Roden says the bus was heading to Bryce Canyon National Park when it veered into a median and rolled over. (AP Photo/Utah Highway Patrol)AP - The bus operator involved in a deadly Utah crash that killed three members of a Japanese tour group and injured 11 other passengers is under investigation for operating across state lines without a license, a federal official said Thursday.

Tobacco shipments to resume to soldiers overseas (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 01:50 PM PDT

FILE - In a Sunday, July 4, 2010 file photo, US Army Spc. Nicholas Fischer, of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, smokes as he stands guard at Combat Outpost Ware in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City. Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)AP - The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it plans to resume shipping care packages with cigarettes and other tobacco to soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Man linked to Smurfs admits $11M NYC shakedown bid (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:17 PM PDT

AP - A now-broke businessman who once played a role in the Smurfs cartoon empire admitted Thursday he threatened to destroy his son-in-law's stature in high finance as part of a $11 million shakedown plot.

Lawyer: NY flight attendant wants to return to air (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:33 PM PDT

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater leaves a correctional facility in the Bronx after posting bail, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, in New York. The 39-year-old veteran flight attendant was arrested Monday at his home in the Belle Harbor section of Queens by Port Authority of New York And New Jersey police on charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - The fed-up flight attendant who set a new standard for quitting when he abandoned his job via an emergency chute apparently isn't as much of a quitter as everyone thought.

Analysis: Debate grows over keeping troops in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 12:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 13, file 2010 photo, U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division are seen on board a C-17 aircraft at Baghdad International Airport as they begin their journey to the United States. As the U.S. winds up combat operations in Iraq this month, a gap is widening between the militaries of both countries and their political masters over whether American soldiers should stay beyond the 2011 deadline for all of them to withdraw. It's the latest potential standoff as the uneasy allies each try to end the seven-year U.S. war without unraveling Iraq's still-precarious security. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)AP - As the U.S. winds up combat operations in Iraq this month, a gap is widening between the militaries of both countries and their political masters over whether American soldiers should stay beyond the 2011 deadline for a complete U.S. troop withdrawal.

Lesbian cadet quits West Point, cites 'don't ask' (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 11:54 AM PDT

AP - A lesbian cadet asked Monday to resign from the U.S. Military Academy because she can no longer lie about her sexuality and was troubled by the anti-gay attitudes of some around her.

Long, hot summer of fire, floods fits predictions (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 01:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 picture, people stand on the remnants of a bridge washed away by heavy flooding in Bannu in northwest Pakistan. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists, although those scientists always shy from tying individual disasters directly to global warming. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)AP - Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way.

Alaska plane crash rate far exceeds nat'l average (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 12:30 PM PDT

FILE - This file image provided by the Alaska State Troopers shows the wreckage of the amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens which crashed into a remote mountainside during a fishing trip, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight. (AP photo/Alaska State Troopers)AP - The crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens served as another tragic reminder about the dangers of flying in Alaska, where general aviation accident rates are more than twice the national average.

Rare federal death penalty sought in Ohio fire (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - This May 23, 2005 file photo shows a memorial for victims of a fatal house fire in Cleveland. The deadliest house fire in the city's history now takes an unusual turn: a rare try for the death penalty in federal court, using an even more obscure law that centers on the site of the blaze. Defense attorneys are fighting the strategy ahead of the twice-postponed trial of Antun Lewis, 26, an ex-convict from Cleveland who knew the victims. He is charged with arson in the nine deaths and is to be tried Sept. 1. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)AP - Medeia Carter, 33, rented her aging three-story house on East 87th Street with the help of a federal Section 8 rent subsidy.

Florida Panhandle preps for presidential visit (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 12:56 PM PDT

AP - The first family is headed to the Florida Panhandle this weekend to tout the oil-free white beaches and sparkling turquoise waters for the tourist industry, but conservatives in this Republican stronghold haven't exactly rolled out the welcome mat.

Poultry named the No. 1 food poisoning culprit (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 10:10 AM PDT

In this photo taken Dec. 19, 2008, chickens are seen on a farm near Vacaville, Calif. A disagreement among poultry producers about whether chicken injected with salt, water and other ingredients can be promoted as 'natural' has prompted federal officials to consider changing labeling guidelines. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks, health officials said Thursday.

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