2010年1月25日星期一

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Kerrigan's dad dies; brother accused of assault (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:40 PM PST

Mark Kerrigan, 45, the brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, is led in handcuffs out of Woburn, Mass. District Court after his arraignment Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. He has been charged with assaulting their 70-year-old father, Daniel, who died over the weekend after a disturbance at the family's Stoneham, Mass. home. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper)AP - Daniel Kerrigan, who rushed to his sobbing daughter Nancy and carried her into the locker room after an attack at a skating competition nearly derailed her Olympic dreams, died after what authorities said was a violent struggle with his son in their family home.


SC politician's welfare comments called `immoral' (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:05 PM PST

FILE - In a Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 file photo, S.C. Lt. Gov.Andre Bauer gestures as he speaks before the start of a debate at the Newberry Opera House in Newberry, S.C. Bauer, a fiercely ambitious Republican, has a habit of saying and doing outrageous things.  Now he has folks shaking their heads after he likened government assistance for the poor to feeding stray animals in d speech last week.   (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - When things looked their darkest for Gov. Mark Sanford — when he was in danger of being impeached for running off to Argentina to see his mistress — his best insurance policy may well have been South Carolina's lieutenant governor, Andre Bauer.


Actor Gary Coleman released from Utah jail (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:44 PM PST

This Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 booking photo provided by the Utah County jail shows Gary Coleman. Coleman, 41, was arrested in Utah Sunday on a warrant for failing to appear in court, police said. (AP Photo/Utah County jail)AP - Actor Gary Coleman was released from a Utah jail Monday after being arrested over the weekend on a warrant for failing to appear in court, police said.


Clinton cites exodus effect from Haitian capital (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:28 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responds to a few question following a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a conference looking at the future of Haiti, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 in Montreal. (AP Photo/Paul Chiasson,The Canadian Press)AP - An effective recovery strategy for Haiti must take into account a sudden rush of thousands of quake survivors from Port-au-Prince into the countryside, where the economy cannot sustain them, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday.


Usher: Suspect visited slain abortion doc's church (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:47 PM PST

Scott Roeder consults with his attorney during the second day of his murder trial, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. Roeder is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller. (AP Photo/Mike Hutmacher, Pool)AP - Jurors hearing the case of a man charged with killing prominent abortion provider Dr. George Tiller heard the word abortion for the first time Monday, when an usher testified about seeing protesters at the church the doctor had attended.


Homes evacuated in San Antonio as hill crumbles (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:43 PM PST

Crevices, some 15 feet deep are seen across three homes at The Hills of Rivermist subdivision,in San Antonio Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. Eighty homes were evacuated Sunday night due to the landslide. The residents were moved out of the area after utilities were cut off the surrounding area for safety reasons. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara)AP - Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing dozens of homes to evacuate.


John Travolta to pilot plane to Haiti (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:06 PM PST

AP - John Travolta is soaring to Haiti with earthquake relief.

Neighbor: Stacy Peterson said 'I'm already dead' (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:28 PM PST

FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson yells to reporters as he arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. On Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, a judge will hear arguments about the admissibility of the state's new hearsay law to the Peterson's case. He is charged in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and is also a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife. The law would essentially allow Savio to testify from the grave by admitting testimony of family and friends about how she feared Peterson might kill her.  (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - The fourth wife of former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson was sure her husband would kill her, even telling a neighbor days before her disappearance in 2007 that "I'm already dead," according to testimony at a hearing on Monday.


Charged contractors had checkered military pasts (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST

AP - A pair of former Blackwater contractors charged with murdering two people in Afghanistan had checkered pasts with the military before getting hired to work overseas, according to service records disclosed in recent U.S. court hearings.

Ex-Guatemalan leader Portillo is charged in US (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 picture, a police officer, unseen, takes a photo of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo Cabrera after being extradited from Mexico to face corruption charges in Guatemala City. The former Guatemalan president was charged in the United States on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers. Portillo was Guatemala's leader from 2000 to 2004 before fleeing to Mexico. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Alfonso Portillo, the fugitive former president of Guatemala, was charged in the United States on Monday with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers.


Remote Alaska village is first eyed in census (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:46 PM PST

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves greets Wilber Howarth, Sr., president of the Noorvik Native Community as he arrives in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village Noorvik, Alaska., Monday, Jan 25, 2010, to formally launch the nation's 2010 count. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - One down, more than 309 million to go.


Winter storm in Midwest brings fierce winds (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:20 PM PST

A lone truck makes its way down a road in Grand Forks, N.D. Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 during a winter storm. (AP Photo/Grand Forks Herald, John Stennes)  MANDATORY CREDITAP - A winter storm that moved across several Midwestern states Monday brought fierce winds and light snow that was easily blown around, leaving travelers stranded and closing some schools and businesses.


Chicago man pleads not guilty in terror cases (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:26 PM PST

This Jan. 6, 2010, file courtroom artists drawing shows Chicago businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 49, center, as he appears before Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago's federal court. The Canadian national born in Pakistan, accused of leading a double life as an international terrorist, pleaded not guilty Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, to playing a role in terrorist attacks that left 166 people dead in the Indian city of Mumbai. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A Chicago businessman accused of leading a double life as an international terrorist pleaded not guilty Monday to making plans for an attack on a Danish newspaper and helping arrange the rampage in 2008 that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai.


Fort Hood suspect's lawyer seeks mental exam delay (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 02:13 PM PST

FILE - This 2000 file picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) shows Nidal Malik Hasan as a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, USUHS, in Bethesda, Md.  According to information gathered during an internal Pentagon review and obtained by The Associated Press, Hasan struggled academically, taking six years to complete the four-year program, but his separate military record was clean enough to get him into Walter Reed for a four-year psychiatry internship and residency.  (AP Photo/USUHS, File)AP - An attorney for the Army psychiatrist accused of going on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood said Monday he wants his client's mental evaluation delayed citing a potential conflict of interest with the exam panel.


NYPD sex-abuse accuser describes baton attack (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:16 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2008 file photo Michael Mineo, who says he was sodomized on Oct. 15, 2008 with a baton by a police officer in a Brooklyn subway station, speaks to the media outside Brooklyn state supreme court in New York. Opening arguments began Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 for officer Richard Kern, charged with aggravated sexual abuse and assault, and officers Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales, two colleagues accused of covering up the attack. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)AP - The man who accused New York City police officers of sodomizing him with a baton in a subway station is a pot-smoking thief and a gang member who has a Crips tattoo across his stomach to prove it.


More discord at NY trial of al-Qaida supporter (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:50 PM PST

AP - A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist linked to al-Qaida got into trouble again Monday in federal court after twice interrupting the sometimes tearful testimony of an American solider who claimed he shot her in self defense in Afghanistan in 2008.

Casey Anthony gets time served for check fraud (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:54 PM PST

AP - Casey Anthony, the Florida mother charged with killing her toddler daughter, was found guilty of check fraud Monday and sentenced to time served in jail.

Former body armor execs at NY trial (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 02:13 PM PST

AP - Two former top executives of the nation's leading supplier of body armor to the U.S. military accused of insider trading in an alleged $190 million scheme lied to push up the company's stock, a federal prosecutor said at the start of their trial Monday.

Conn. tries to stop inmates seeking dirt on guards (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST

AP - Connecticut could join at least a dozen other states by restricting prison inmates from using FOI laws to get personal information to harass or threaten their guards — and, in some cases, prosecutors or other inmates.
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