2010年1月4日星期一

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Guard, gunman die in Vegas building shooting (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:41 PM PST

Law enforcement surround the Lloyd D. George federal courthouse building in downtown Las Vegas following an officer involved shooting Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - A gunman who opened fire with a shotgun at a federal building Monday, killing a court security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal before he was shot to death, was upset over losing a lawsuit over his Social Security benefits, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

Spotty enforcement for new US air screening rules (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

TSA officer Robert Howard signals an airline passenger forward at a security check-point at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, in SeaTac, Wash. The names of dozens more people have been added to the government's terrorist watch list and no-fly list after a failed terrorist attack on Christmas prompted U.S. officials to closely scrutinize a large database of suspected terrorists, an intelligence officials said. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - On the first day of what was supposed to be tighter screening ordered by the U.S. for airline passengers from certain countries, some airports around the world conceded Monday they had not cracked down.

NJ airport security breach noticed by bystander (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST

Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Authorities are searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night at the airport, and flights were grounded and passengers being re-screened, an air safety official said. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - The unidentified man may have been lost, confused or simply mistaken about which way to go when he bypassed security and walked in through an exit door at Newark Liberty International Airport.

2 Missouri teens charged in killing of Ohio man (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:18 PM PST

AP - Two Missouri teens have been charged in the death of an Ohio man whose body was found in the refrigerated compartment of a tractor-trailer.

US court rejects Zacarias Moussaoui's appeal (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:59 PM PST

This booking photo obtained from The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press shows Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. A US appeals court confirmed Monday a life sentence handed down on Moussaoui, a French national, for complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.(AFP/HO/File)AP - A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the conviction of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to stand trial in a U.S. court in the Sept. 11 attacks, rejecting arguments that he was denied access to evidence and the right to choose his own attorney.

As dog racing drops, greyhound adoption need rises (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:19 PM PST

In this Dec. 28, 2009 photo provided by the Mack Family, Rhonda Mack, of Lake Zurich, Ill., poses for a photo with recently adopted greyhounds Jack, back left, and Lexi, center, in Lake Zurich, Ill. She adopted the dogs from Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha, Wis., which stopped greyhound racing at the end of 2009. Greyhound advocates are scrambling to find homes for hundreds of dogs that will no longer be racing. (AP Photo/Mack Family) NO SALESAP - Seven dog tracks halted racing across the country last year, forcing hundreds of greyhounds into an uncertain future. With fewer tracks available for them to race, the sleek long-limbed dogs are now flooding the adoption market at a difficult time.

Indigenous immigrants to be counted in 2010 Census (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:47 PM PST

Gregoria Chales Pablo, 40, an indigenous immigrant from Guatemala poses for a portrait at a holiday dance on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009 in Bremerton, Wash. Pablo is a member of the indigenous group Mam, which has settled on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes)AP - For most people, describing themselves on the U.S. Census form will be as easy as checking a box: White. Black. American Indian.

Winter system drops record snow, chills the South (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

With New York's Empire State Building behind them, a group of friends play in the snow in a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey December 31, 2009. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)AP - A bitter chill has settled in across the eastern half of the country, threatening crops, closing schools and making Charleston, S.C., feel more like New York City.

Disgraced Miss. judge reports to federal prison (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:14 PM PST

FILE -In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 file photo, former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter, listens to his attorney Thomas Durkin speak on his behalf following DeLaughter's sentencing by a federal judge in Aberdeen, Miss. DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reports to federal prison Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reported to federal prison Monday for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation.

2009 tourism down but NYC is top US destination (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:45 PM PST

AP - The number of visitors to New York City fell last year for the first time since 2001 when terrorists struck. But tourism declines elsewhere across the U.S. made it the most popular destination in the country for the first time in almost two decades, tourism officials said Monday.

Letters prompt anthrax scares across Alabama (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

AP - Envelopes containing white powder set off anthrax scares in five Alabama cities, shutting down two federal courthouses Monday and trapping a congressman in his office as authorities tested the substance.

More suspected terrorists moved to watch lists (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:42 PM PST

AP - Counterterrorism officials have moved the names of dozens of people onto the terror watch list and the no-fly list after reviewing a massive government database of suspected terrorists.

Planet-hunting telescope unearths hot mysteries (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:29 PM PST

AP - NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.

Power out for 1 hour at Reagan National Airport (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:22 PM PST

AP - Flights were grounded for about an hour Monday when the power went out at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.

Legal fight in lesbian custody dispute ratchets up (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:09 PM PST

AP - A Vermont woman locked in a child custody battle with a former partner who has since renounced homosexuality asked a judge Monday to hold her ex in contempt and help find her and their 7-year-old daughter.

Sen. John Kerry undergoes 2nd hip replacement (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:25 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2009 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. presides over a committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kerry is back at Massachusetts General Hospital for a second hip surgery. The same doctor who replaced Kerry's right hip in August was operating Monday, Jan 4, 2010 to replace his left hip. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - Sen. John Kerry returned to Massachusetts General Hospital on Monday for a second hip replacement by the doctor who replaced his right hip in August.

Watch list grows as extra airline screening begins (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:56 PM PST

An Armed police officer maintainS a presence at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 1 in London Monday Jan. 4, 2010. Airline passengers bound for the United States faced a hodgepodge of security measures across Europe on Monday, and airports did not appear to be following a U.S. request for increased screening of passengers from 14 countries. (AP Photo)AP - The names of dozens more people have been added to the government's terrorist watch list and no-fly list after a failed terrorist attack on Christmas prompted U.S. officials to closely scrutinize a large database of suspected terrorists, an intelligence official said Monday.

Famous San Francisco sea lions leave in droves (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:08 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2008 file photo, Tourists watch sea lions on boat docks at Pier 39 in San Francisco. Last month, marine scientists counted more than 1,500 sea lions on fabled Pier 39, a record number that delighted tourists and baffled experts. Why so many? Why were they sticking around? But now, almost all of the sea lions are gone, leaving the experts guessing where they went and why. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Two mysteries surround a huge herd of sea lions that were hanging out on a pier in San Francisco Bay: Why did so many show up, and why did so many leave at once?

AP: 2009 bankruptcies total 1.4 million, up 32 pct (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:12 PM PST

Graphic shows percent increase of bankruptcy filings in each state last year compared to 2008.AP - U.S. consumers and businesses are filing for bankruptcy at a pace that made 2009 the seventh-worst year on record, with more than 1.4 million petitions submitted, an Associated Press tally showed Monday.

Pa. principal hits boy with SUV, delays saying so (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:07 PM PST

AP - A middle-school principal struck a high school student with her SUV at a crosswalk Monday and stayed at the scene with emergency crews, but didn't identify herself as the driver until calling authorities 50 minutes later, police said.

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