2010年2月2日星期二

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Cadmium found in adult jewelry; 1 store pulls item (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 03:49 PM PST

This photo provided by Charles Margulis shows a black-colored link necklace purchased at the retailer Saks Fifth Avenue, on Feb. 1, 2010 in Oakland, Calif. Concern about the heavy metal cadmium in jewelry grew Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010, as a California environmental group said new testing of adult necklaces and bracelets bought at three leading retailers, including Saks Fifth Avenue and Aeropostale, detected high levels of the toxic material, as much as 75 percent by weight. (AP Photo/Charles Margulis) NO SALESAP - Concern about the heavy metal cadmium in jewelry grew Tuesday as a California environmental group said new testing of adult necklaces and bracelets bought at three leading retailers, including Saks Fifth Avenue and Aeropostale, detected high levels of the toxic material — as much as 75 percent by weight.

1st primary of year to decide showdown in Illinois (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:34 PM PST

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn casts his vote near his home, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, in Chicago. Quinn spoke with confidence after voting as he faces off against Democratic opponent Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes in the state's gubernatorial primary election. (AP Photo/(Michael Green)AP - Illinois voters decided in the nation's first primary Tuesday which Democrats will defend the governor's office and a U.S. Senate seat from Republicans targeting President Barack Obama's home state as a place to make gains in November.

Calif. gay marriage trial re-enacted on Internet (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:14 PM PST

AP - Where there's the Web, there's a way.

Cops: Woman was accessory in lotto winner's death (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:28 PM PST

AP - A woman who befriended a Florida lottery winner who later went missing was charged Tuesday as an accessory after the fact in his slaying, five days after his body was found buried in her backyard.

Sister: Savio asked, 'Take care of my boys' (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 04:41 PM PST

AP - Former police officer Drew Peterson's ex-wife was so afraid of him that she kept changing the locks on her doors, and so certain it wouldn't do any good, that she asked her sister to care for her two sons after her death, the sister testified Tuesday.

Sex offender convicted in Wis. triple homicide (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:53 PM PST

AP - A convicted sex offender was found guilty Tuesday of strangling and stabbing his neighbor and her two teenage children in their trailer home in southern Wisconsin.

APNewsBreak: US study shows drop in child abuse (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST

Chart shows decrease in the number of children abused in the U.S.AP - A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway.

Gas drilling in Appalachia yields a foul byproduct (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST

Map shows the Marcellus Shale formation in the Eastern U.S.AP - A drilling technique that is beginning to unlock staggering quantities of natural gas underneath Appalachia also yields a troubling byproduct: powerfully briny wastewater that can kill fish and give tap water a foul taste and odor.

Murder-suicide note by CA man was posted on Net (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:52 PM PST

This image provided by the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Stephen Garcia, who killed his 9-month-old son on Sunday Jan. 31, 2010, and himself and left a Facebook message saying he did it out of love. (AP Photo/California Department of Motor Vehicles)AP - A California man who killed himself and his 9-month-old son in an apparent murder-suicide left dozens of angry, desperate messages to the boy's mother, including a lengthy suicide note and a memorial collage that appeared on the Web hours after he was dead.

Tax court allows deduction for woman's sex change (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:17 PM PST

In this file photo, Rhiannon O'Donnabhain poses in her lawyer's office in Boston, July 12, 2007. For 57 years O'Donnabhain lived as a father, a husband, a sailor and a construction worker. Now O'Donnabhain is suing the IRS over denial of tax deduction for a sex-change operation. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - The U.S. Tax Court ruled Tuesday that a Massachusetts woman should be allowed to deduct the costs of her sex-change operation, a decision that could have broad implications for transgender people.

Jenny Sanford: Governor asked her advice on affair (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:36 PM PST

FILE - In a Friday, June 26, 2009 photo, Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, speaks about her husband's recent affair admission in Sullivans Island, S.C. Sanford's book 'Staying True' goes on sale Friday Feb. 5. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney, File)AP - In a new memoir, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes that Gov. Mark Sanford sought her advice about his romance and how to deal with the media after she discovered his extramarital relationship with an Argentine woman.

Scottsdale woman arrested in missing baby case (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:16 PM PST

Tammi Smith, of Scottsdale, Ariz., is escorted by Tempe Police officers to the Maricopa County Jail, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, in Phoenix. She was arrested Tuesday at her Scottsdale home on charges of custodial interference, conspiracy to commit custodial interference and forgery. Smith has been considered A 'person of interest' for weeks in the investigation into the disappearance of 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson of Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher) MANDATORY CREDIT. NO SALES.AP - A woman who wanted to adopt an Arizona baby missing for more than a month was arrested Tuesday, but police said she was not connected to the boy's disappearance and that she and her husband likely don't know where the boy is.

Resident arrested in Brooklyn blaze that killed 5 (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 04:01 PM PST

A New York Police Department detective, right, escorts Brooklyn fire suspect Daniel Ignacio from the the police department's 62nd precinct in the Brooklyn borough in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Ignacio, a resident of the apartment building in which five Guatemalan immigrants died in a fire this weekend, is suspected of arson in connection with the fire, according to a police spokesman. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - A drunken man set fire to his apartment by tossing a lighted toilet paper roll soaked in paint thinner into a baby carriage near the front door, touching off a blaze that engulfed the building and killed five people, police said.

NASA's 7 new space pioneers are companies (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:09 PM PST

Brewster Shaw, Vice President and General Manager of NASA Systems, Boeing Company, one of the five companies NASA is awarding $50 million to through an open competition for funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to support commercial crew development efforts, listens during a news conference in Washington February 2, 2010. Boeing will receive $18 million to develop its space transportation system. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH BUSINESS)AP - A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied America's space future. Now it's the merchant seven — space companies for hire.

Wis. women avoid jail in glue-related revenge plot (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:51 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo released by the Calumet County, Wis. Sheriff's Office, Therese Ziemann, 48, of Menasha, Wis. faces a charge of being a party to false imprisonment. Ziemann is one of four women who tied up a man in an eastern Wisconsin motel, blindfolded him and glued a sensitive body part to get their revenge, authorities say. Ziemann, her sister, another lover and the man's wife were all sentenced Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010, to one year probation plus community service for their roles in the revenge plot. (AP Photo/Calumet County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - A Wisconsin woman who tied up a cheating lover and glued his penis to his stomach said Tuesday that she didn't mean to hurt him and only overreacted because he had tried to contact her 12-year-old daughter.

Prosecutors scold 'unrepentant' Baltimore mayor (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 03:50 PM PST

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon announces her resignation during a news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, in Baltimore. Dixon agreed to resign under a deal with prosecutors, a month after her conviction for embezzling gift cards meant for needy families. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's comments show she is "unrepentant" and "has lost touch with reality" after her convictions on perjury and embezzlement charges, prosecutors said in court papers filed Tuesday.

Fla. Army National Guard bus crashes, 19 hurt (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 03:52 PM PST

AP - Nineteen members of the Florida Army National Guard have been injured when the bus they were riding in overturned at a training center.

Court: Sentence for millennium plotter too lenient (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:18 PM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo, Algerian Ahmed Ressam is shown. A federal appeals court says the 22-year prison sentence is too lenient for Ressam, an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium. (AP Photo/ Le Journal de Montreal via The Canadian Press)AP - A federal appeals court said Tuesday a 22-year prison sentence was too lenient for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the end of the millennium.

Motor City freeze: Detroit home encased in ice (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 12:38 PM PST

In this Jan. 27, 2010 photo, Gregory Holm sprays water on an abandoned home as he encases it in ice in Detroit. Holm and another artist are encasing the home in ice and hoping their effort inspires and helps draw attention to the housing crisis that has battered the nation. Photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune spent weeks spraying water on the home for the Ice House Detroit project. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The two-story house and its boarded-up, broken windows have been covered with sheets of ice that glow in the sunlight, and icicles reach from the edges of the roof almost to the ground.

Long waits in Utah's bid to comply with fed ID law (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:02 PM PST

AP - So packed is the parking lot at Utah's busiest driver's license office that on certain days people circle it endlessly in their cars, waiting to pounce on an elusive open spot. Some give up, and park illegally.

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