2010年1月15日星期五

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A year after the miracle, a toast on the Hudson (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:26 PM PST

Capt. Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, kneeling foreground right, pilot of the US Airways flight that had a water landing in New York's Hudson River last year, poses for a photo with passengers and crew on the anniversary of the incident, in New York,  Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Crying, cheering and embracing, the survivors of US Airways Flight 1549 raised a toast to life Friday, marking the anniversary of their harrowing water landing with a return to the place their crippled jet hit the Hudson River.


Suspicious airplane passenger questioned in Mich. (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:15 PM PST

TRAVERSE SCARE 011510: Map marks location of an airplane disturbance at Traverse City airport;AP - Police questioned a passenger on a small commercial plane that flew from Chicago to a northern Michigan resort town on Friday after the crew reported he was acting suspiciously.


Police: Ky. census worker had told of suicide plan (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:09 PM PST

AP - An eastern Kentucky census worker found naked, bound and hanging from a tree had told a friend he intended to kill himself and that he had chosen the time, place and method to do it, police records show.

Haiti quake puts parents' adoption dreams in limbo (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST

Holding a photo of the daughter they were set to adopt and bring home in January, Rebecca and Jerry Williams pose for a photograph, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, at their home in Tampa, Fla. The Williams' adopted daughter, Darline, is one of hundreds of Haitian orphans whose adoptions are now in limbo in the wake of the magnitude-7 earthquake. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)AP - The teen girl whom Rebecca Williams was set to adopt already had the dress she planned to wear on what she calls her "voyage" home to the United States. But now Williams fears the trip from Haiti to Tampa, Fla., might never happen for 15-year-old Darline.


AP Exclusive: Calif lawmakers fail to report gifts (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:35 PM PST

AP - A California lawmaker and his wife were treated by the insurance industry to a two-night stay, with spa treatments, at an exclusive Pebble Beach resort.

Ohio police: Man drove around shooting at cars (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:27 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the Berea Police Department shows Paul Hausmann. Hausmann, 65, is suspected of shooting at four vehicles in Berea and a fifth in Strongsville, his hometown, between mid-August and mid-December, Berea Police Chief Mark Schultz said Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. No one was hurt. (AP Photo/Berea Police Department)AP - A 65-year-old man apparently drove through the Cleveland suburbs and randomly shot at moving cars several times over the span of four months, authorities said Friday in announcing his arrest.


Recession Special: NASA cuts space shuttle price (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:16 PM PST

The space shuttle Endeavour is silhouetted against an early-morning sky as it rolls out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida January 6, 2010. REUTERS/NASA/HandoutAP - Here's a recession bargain: the space shuttle. NASA has slashed the price of these 1970s era spaceships from $42 million to $28.8 million apiece.


Witness: No evidence gays likely to abuse children (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:26 PM PST

A wedding cake featuring two grooms and two brides, symbolizing gay marriage. Legalizing same-sex marriage would generate millions of dollars for San Francisco, the city's chief economist said Thursday, as a trial on California's gay wedding ban entered a fourth day.(AFP/File/Hector Mata)AP - Children raised by same-sex parents are as well-adjusted and safe from abuse as kids who grow up with a mother and father, a Cambridge University psychologist testified Friday in a federal lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban.


Ill. soldier's family says pictures aren't porn (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 05:48 PM PST

AP - The family of an Illinois National Guard soldier said Friday that he's been charged with possession of child pornography in Afghanistan over innocent snapshots of a 4-year-old relative in a swimsuit.

AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 05:15 PM PST

In this combo made from file photos, the Facebook, left, and AT&T logos are shown. (AP Photo)AP - A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information.


Smog leaves Utah coughing, sneezing and wheezing (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:59 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 12, 2010 file photo shows smog and haze hovering over Salt Lake City. The thick layer of smog stubbornly lingering over Utah has fouled the state's mountain air so badly this week that health officials are warning people not to exercise outside and schools are keeping children inside for recess and sports. The smog is blamed on a weather phenomenon that pins pollution to the valley floors. (AP Photo/ Deseret News, Brian Nicholson, File)AP - A thick layer of smog stubbornly lingering over parts of Utah has fouled the state's air so badly this week that health officials warned people not to exercise outside and some schools kept children inside for recess and sports.


Arenas pleads guilty to felony gun possession (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:40 PM PST

Washington Wizards' Gilbert Arenas, left, arrives with attorney Kenneth Wainstein, center, at D.C Superior Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Jan. 15, 2010.  Arenas was charged Thursday with a single count of carrying a pistol without a license.  (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)AP - Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas pleaded guilty Friday to carrying a pistol without a license in the District of Columbia, a felony conviction that could jeopardize his future in the NBA.


Scores of US evacuees arrive in NJ from Haiti (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:36 PM PST

Mirlene Jacob, 27, of Philadelphia, Pa., talks about the earthquake as she stands on crutches Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, at McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown, N.J.,  after three military cargo planes flew 259 Americans from earthquake-ravaged Haiti to McGuire. Jacob said she had arrived in Haiti approximately 15 minutes before an earthquake struck   and was hurt jumping from a damaged building.  (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - More than 240 U.S. citizens who were in Haiti for tourism, business or charity when the Caribbean nation's devastating earthquake struck arrived back on American soil Friday, delivered to New Jersey by military aircraft.


Authorities: Fla. shooter targeted sister, niece (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:52 PM PST

AP - A man is accused of targeting his sister and pregnant niece in a shooting rampage that left two people dead and two wounded, then killing a Florida sheriff's deputy in a shootout, authorities said Friday.

2 hunters prompt Texas weapons plant to shutdown (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:46 PM PST

AP - Two goose hunters inadvertently caused a security lock down in Texas at the nation's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant.

FBI seeks public's help via Times Square billboard (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:06 AM PST

A video billboard featuring fugitives wanted by the FBI was unveiled in New York's Times Square,  Friday, Jan. 15, 2010.  The billboard will air pictures of fugitives and missing persons. It also will publicize high-priority security messages, and draw attention to kidnap victims and missing children. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Tawan Hines has his name in lights on Broadway. Instead of bringing him fame, it could get him arrested.


This MLK holiday, work has begun on memorial in DC (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:49 PM PST

FILE - This file illustration originally released by the Martin Luther King National Memorial Project Foundation shows a partial rendering of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial which will be located on the Tidal Basin between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials in Washington.  Media conglomerate Viacom Inc., which owns BET and MTV, announced a donation Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007, valued at $1.5 million in cash and promotions to help build the  memorial on the National Mall. (AP Photo/Martin Luther King National Memorial Project Foundation, File) NO SALESAP - Construction is finally under way on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall after more than a dozen years of planning, fundraising and legal wrangling.


Feds question suspicious airplane passenger (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:00 PM PST

TRAVERSE SCARE 011510: Map marks location of an airplane disturbance at Traverse City airport;AP - Police say a passenger on board a plane en route to northern Michigan was acting suspiciously, and the crew asked police to meet the aircraft when it landed.


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