2010年2月14日星期日

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Helicopter crash in north Phoenix kills 3 (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 05:30 PM PST

AP - A helicopter crash just north of Phoenix killed at least three people on Sunday afternoon, including a child, and officials couldn't rule out the possibility of more victims.

Weather halts Alaska search for avalanche victim (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 03:33 PM PST

FILE - Jim Bowles, president of ConocoPhillips Alaska answers questions during a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska, in this April 8, 2008 file photo. Bowles, the head of the oil giant's Alaska operations, was with a dozen snowmobilers in the Grandview wilderness area near Seward on the Kenai Peninsula when an avalanche roared down a slope Saturday Feb. 13, 2010 and swept two of them away. Troopers say Bowles' body was recovered before nightfall.   (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)AP - Rain, low clouds and predicted high winds Sunday grounded searchers seeking the body of a ConocoPhillips Alaska employee missing and presumed dead in an avalanche that killed the head of the company.


Ala. prof's family, friends: No hint of violence (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 03:18 PM PST

This police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept.)AP - An Alabama professor accused of shooting six colleagues was vocal in her resentment over being denied tenure and the looming loss of her teaching post, though relatives and students said she had never suggested she might become violent.


Hundreds turn out for viewing of Murtha in W.Pa. (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 03:24 PM PST

People hug as they wait in line at the funeral home to pay their respects to the late congressman John Murtha in Johnstown, Pa., Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010.  Murtha was a powerful Democrat who headed the House appropriations defense subcommittee. He died Monday, Feb. 8, at the age of 77 after complications from gallbladder surgery. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Hundreds of mourners braved light snow and bitter cold Sunday before slowly filing past the casket of late congressman John Murtha at a funeral home less than a mile from where he lived.


Gunman opens fire at Calif. church, wounds 2 teens (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 05:28 PM PST

AP - Authorities say a man opened fire during a church service in the San Francisco Bay area, wounding two teenagers.

Pa. ice rink's roof collapses, but no one injured (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 05:44 PM PST

AP - The roof of a skating rink partially collapsed while the ice was being resurfaced during a youth hockey tournament Sunday afternoon, but no one was injured.

Schools face big budget holes as stimulus runs out (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 11:54 AM PST

In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 photo, teacher Lori Peck smiles as she helps first grader  Jonesha Broomfield with her reading s at Grace L. Patterson Elementary school in Vallejo, Calif.  The nation's public schools are falling under severe financial stress as states slash education spending and drain federal stimulus money that staved off deep classroom cuts and widespread job losses. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - The nation's public schools are falling under severe financial stress as states slash education spending and drain federal stimulus money that staved off deep classroom cuts and widespread job losses.


Deep South braces for another round of snow (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 12:56 PM PST

Vehicles are seen on Friday afternoon, Feb. 12, 2010, near Atlanta. Light to moderate snow fell steadily throughout the afternoon in Atlanta and its northern suburbs. (AP Photo/The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Phil Skinner) MARIETTA DAILY OUT, GWINNETT DAILY POST OUTAP - Several areas across the Deep South might soon be glazed with another coating of snow.


Officials: 7 dead in Illinois apartment fire (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 03:35 PM PST

AP - An early morning fire that ripped through a suburban Chicago apartment building on Sunday left seven people dead, including a newborn baby, a 3-year-old and four teenagers.

'Valentine's Day' courts $52.4M opening weekend (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 03:35 PM PST

FILE - In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros., Jessica Alba, right, and Ashton Kutcher are shown in a scene from 'Valentine's Day.' The star-studded romance 'Valentine's Day' wooed audiences with a $52.4 million opening weekend, easily grabbing the No. 1 spot over Valentine's weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Ron Batzdorff, File)AP - The star-studded romance "Valentine's Day" wooed audiences with a $52.4 million opening weekend, easily grabbing the No. 1 spot over the holiday that shares its name, according to studio estimates Sunday.


Mich. house fire kills 4 young kids; dad escapes (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 05:03 PM PST

The Flint Fire Department works to put out a flare up at a fire that killed four children under the age of 5 in Flint, Mich., Sunday,, Feb. 14, 2010.  (AP Photo/Hollyn Johnson, The Flint Journal)AP - A fire that apparently started after a man fell asleep while cooking swept through an apartment building, killing the man's young child and three others he was baby-sitting, authorities said.


Spacewalking astronauts turn plumbers, hook hoses (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 10:22 AM PST

In this image provided by NASA the Tranquility module is transferred late Thursday evening Feb. 11, 2010 from its stowage position in space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay in the grasp of the station's Canadarm2 to position it on the port side of the Unity node of the International Space Station. Tranquility was locked in place with 16 remotely-controlled bolts. Earth's horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The International Space Station's newest room came alive with power Sunday after spacewalking astronauts managed to hook up plumbing despite an ammonia leak.


Embracing history: Man sets hugs record in Vegas (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 06:07 AM PST

Jeff Odnash, nicknamed Teddy McHuggin, hugs a tourist as Joshua Dietrich, left, holds a sign on The Strip in Las Vegas on Saturday, February 13, 2009. Odnash set the Guinness World Record for hugs in a 24 hour period and succeeded in giving 7, 777 hugs. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)AP - A 51-year-old Ohio man has embraced the Valentine's Day spirit faster than anyone before, giving 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for a new world record.


Police: Wife of slain Olympian arrested in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 06:48 PM PST

AP - The wife of an Olympic shot put medalist gunned down in his Southern California back yard last summer was arrested Saturday in the homicide case, authorities said.
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