2010年2月15日星期一

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Police: 4 dead, 1 missing in mid-NJ plane crash (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST

AP - A small plane preparing to land broke apart and nose-dived into a snowy field alongside a runway Monday, a witness reported. Four people are dead and one missing after the crash, which happened in an affluent section of the state, officials said.

Investigators seek cause of deadly Illinois fire (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:32 AM PST

A burned house where seven people were killed in a fire is seen in Cicero, Ill., Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010.  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.  (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Firefighters are sifting through a burned out home in a Chicago suburb, trying to pinpoint the cause of a weekend blaze that killed seven people, including a 3-day-old baby.


Husband: Ala. prof went to range before shooting (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 04:09 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 - The husband of an Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues said Monday that the couple went to a shooting range recently, but that he didn't know where she got the gun she used for practice that day.


Calif. sheriff: Woman tied up, assaulted for days (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 03:59 PM PST

AP - Sheriff's deputies rescued a woman who had been kidnapped, then beaten and raped for three days in a mobile home, authorities said.

Florida family gives up on small-town North Dakota (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:22 PM PST

AP - A tiny North Dakota town's promise of cash and free land lured only one family from out of state. Now, Michael and Jeanette Tristani and their 12-year-old twins are trying to move from the town without a traffic light back to Miami.

Carbon monoxide leak prompts NH hotel evacuation (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:23 PM PST

AP - Eleven people were taken to the hospital Monday after being sickened by a carbon monoxide leak at a New Hampshire hotel.

Democrat Evan Bayh of Ind. to retire from Senate (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 01:23 PM PST

Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., speaks at a news conference announcing he will not seek re-election in Indianapolis, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010. Bayh, a centrist Democrat from a Republican-leaning state, is serving his second six-year term in the Senate. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)AP - Sen. Evan Bayh, a centrist Democrat from Indiana, announced Monday that he won't seek a third term in Congress, giving Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat.


South gets 2nd dose of snow in days (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:04 AM PST

Mike Haas, a retired city firefighter, clears a path through the snow as he shovels a walk along Eastern Pkwy, in Louisville, Ky. on Monday Feb. 15, 2010.  (AP Photo/ The Courier-Journal, Arza Barnett)  NO SALES, NO MAGS, NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDITAP - Snow and ice pelted parts of the South on Monday for the second time in a matter of days, glazing Tennessee highways and reaching into northern Alabama.


Space station's fancy new $27M lookout attached (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 03:37 AM PST

FILE - This Feb. 13, 2010 file image taken from video and made available by NASA shows astronauts Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick during their spacewalk as they work outside the International Space Station. (AP Photo/NASA, File)AP - Astronauts successfully attached a fancy new observation deck to the International Space Station early Monday after a long, frustrating night spent dealing with stuck bolts and wayward wiring.


Ex-Clinton prosecutor Starr named Baylor president (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:18 PM PST

Kenneth  Starr talks with reporters Monday, Feb. 15, 2010 in Waco Texas. Tthe former independent counsel whose work led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, was named president of Baylor University.  Starr, 63,  is the dean of Pepperdine University's School of Law in Malibu, Calif., and  will become Baylor's 14th president. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)AP - Baylor University named former Clinton White House nemesis Kenneth Starr its new president on Monday, saying the one-time independent prosecutor's Christian ideals and experience heading a law school made him the ideal candidate to lead the world's largest Baptist university.


NY man recants story about killing, burning wife (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST

AP - Werner Lippe knows a lot about fire.

Police: Man stabs, kills estranged wife at Walmart (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 09:24 PM PST

AP - Police in Georgia say a man stabbed his estranged wife to death in a Walmart parking lot where they met to exchange custody of their two children.

Nurseries struggle with lagging economy (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:08 AM PST

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, rows of decorative bushes and trees are seen under Oregon's Mount Hood near Boring, Ore.  Across the country, the nursery and landscaping trades took a direct hit when housing starts crashed and the economy flattened. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, David Niklas feels the quickening of spring as the season ramps up at his wholesale nursery in a farming community south of Portland. Niklas and his workers busily package plants for shipment.


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

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 07:08 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.


Unemployed Ohio man chills out in extreme igloo (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:22 AM PST

AP - It's quite the man cave.

Brees leads major New Orleans Carnival parade (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 05:59 PM PST

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees hrows a small football while riding in the Bacchus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. The Saints won Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - One of the most accurate arms in the NFL had no trouble finding receivers Sunday night.


Weather halts Alaska search for avalanche victim (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 09:23 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.


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