2010年2月3日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Border fence plagued by glitches, long delays (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 02:36 PM PST

This undated picture provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a prototype of a tower for a virtual fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at a test facility in Playas, N.M. An ambitious, $6.7 billion government project to secure nearly the entire Mexican border with a 'virtual fence' of cameras, ground sensors and radar is in jeopardy after a string of technical glitches and delays. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)AP - An ambitious, $6.7 billion government project to secure nearly the entire Mexican border with a "virtual fence" of cameras, ground sensors and radar is in jeopardy after a string of technical glitches and delays.

Caseworker went to Texas home day before slayings (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:40 PM PST

Elyse Marsyl Colon, 22, is escorted Tuesday night Feb. 2, 2010 out of the San Antonio Police Department headquarters. Colon was being held Wednesday on two counts of capital murder of a child in the deaths of her sons, 3-year-old Jose Luis Garcia and 1-year-old Guillermo Garcia. Her bond was set at $2 million. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel)AP - A child welfare caseworker visited the home of two young brothers the day before police say their mother stabbed them to death, officials said Wednesday.

Motivational speaker charged in sweat lodge deaths (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:58 PM PST

This undated image provided by James Ray International, shows James Arthur Ray. Authorities have charged motivational speaker James Arthur Ray with three counts of manslaughter for deaths that happened after a sweat lodge ceremony he led in northern Arizona last year (AP Photo/Courtesy of James Ray International) NO SALESAP - Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray was arrested Wednesday afternoon on three counts of manslaughter for deaths that happened after a sweat lodge ceremony he led in northern Arizona last year. Ray was taken into custody on an indictment at his attorney's office in Prescott, and was to be booked into the Yavapai County jail in Camp Verde, sheriff's officials said. His bond was set at $5 million.

Man opens fire in Ill. store; may have hostages (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:50 PM PST

AP - A man opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon inside an Illinois farm supply store Wednesday, sending terrified customers bolting for the exits while others were kept hostage as police surrounded the building, witnesses and authorities said.

Penn St. proceeding with scientist e-mail scrutiny (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:20 PM PST

AP - A Penn State University internal inquiry dismissed three allegations of research improprieties against a leading climate scientist but recommended further investigation into one allegation regarding leaked e-mails about global warming.

Scientist convicted of trying to kill Americans (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:10 PM PST

This picture taken on January 19, shows Fowzia Siddiqui, sister of US-detained Pakistani woman Aafia Siddiqui, displaying photographs of Aafia (R) and their parents at her house in Karachi. She may be dubbed Lady Al-Qaeda by US media, but the Pakistani family of Aafia Siddiqui, on trial in New York, insist she is a moderate Muslim more interested in flowers and animals than wielding weapons.(AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)AP - A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist was convicted Wednesday of charges that she tried to kill Americans while detained in Afghanistan in 2008, shouting with raised arm as jurors left the courtroom: "This is a verdict coming from Israel, not America."

Vehicle plows into Nevada casino; 2 dead, 8 hurt (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:03 PM PST

AP - A speeding car crashed through the entrance of a casino and into a bank of slot machines Wednesday in the southern Nevada resort town of Laughlin, killing two patrons and injuring at least eight other people, authorities said.

Dallas-Seattle flight diverted to Oklahoma City (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST

An American Airlines plane that was diverted to Oklahoma City after it lost cabin pressure sits on the tarmac at the airport in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. The MD-80 aircraft is now out of service and could be sent from Oklahoma City to the airline's maintenance shop in Tulsa if the problem appears serious, said American spokesman Tim Smith in Fort Worth. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - An American Airlines flight from Dallas to Seattle was diverted to Oklahoma City and landed without trouble Wednesday after passengers and crew heard "kind of a bang" and the plane lost cabin pressure, officials and passengers said.

1 World Trade Center reaches 20th-floor level (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 02:11 PM PST

In this file photo of Dec. 18, 2009, construction cranes work over the rising steel frame, left, of 1 World Trade Center, in New York. The building that is also known as the Freedom Tower has reached the equivalent of the 20th floor. The planned 104-story skyscraper is scheduled to be completed in 2013. It will be 1,776-feet from street level to the top of the tower's antenna. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Structural steel for the 1,776-foot tower that will be known as 1 World Trade Center has risen 200 feet above street level, a tangible sign of ground zero progress, redevelopment officials said Wednesday.

The wait goes on for Jackson's doctor (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:02 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2009 file picture, Dr. Conrad Murray arrives at his clinic in Houston. Michael Jackson's physician has arrived in Los Angeles in anticipation of a decision from the district attorney's office on whether to charge him for the singer's death, a spokeswoman said Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)AP - Lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctor were meeting Wednesday to talk about their client's defense strategy in the event he's charged in the death of the singer.

Officials: Chaplain tried to get razors into jail (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:02 PM PST

AP - A jails chaplain was arrested Wednesday after he tried to smuggle three razor blades and a pair of scissors into a lockup, authorities said.

Study: Vegetative brains show signs of awareness (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:23 PM PST

A man who had been presumed to be in a vegetative state for five years, can communicate yes and no via his thought patterns, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday.(NEJM)AP - Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them — findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people.

Obama aunt girds for new bid to avoid deportation (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2009 file photo, President Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in her home in Boston. She will make a second bid for political asylum as she goes before an immigration judge Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, to argue that she should be allowed to stay in the United States. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)AP - President Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenya native who once cared for his siblings, defied a deportation order in 2004 and became a political liability for her famous nephew, is preparing to make her case in federal Immigration Court that she be allowed to stay in the United States.

Police: Woman hid triplet pregnancy, died in birth (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:40 PM PST

AP - A Connecticut woman managed to hide from her boyfriend and family members that she was carrying triplets, then bled to death while delivering the full-term but stillborn babies in her home, officials said Wednesday.

FBI: Unruly passenger blames medical pot cookies (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 11:51 AM PST

AP - A San Francisco man claims he was high on a double dose of medical marijuana cookies when he screamed, dropped his pants and attacked crew members on a cross-country flight, forcing its diversion to Pittsburgh, the FBI said Wednesday.

Jury gets case against alleged cartel hit man (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:52 PM PST

AP - Amid a hail of gunfire, the Gulf Cartel and its enforcers moved huge bundles of cocaine, marijuana and cash while working their way through a list of men that drug bosses wanted dead, a federal prosecutor said during closing arguments at an alleged hit man's trial Wednesday.

Few fireworks in Afghanistan over gays in military (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:59 PM PST

Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, right, accompanied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing onthe 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The Pentagon's move to consider letting gays serve openly is generating lively debate on social media sites and among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who've returned to the U.S. The fireworks are less evident among troops in Afghanistan.

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