2010年2月16日星期二

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Prosecutors must show Peterson's wife was killed (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 12:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, a pretrial hearing is scheduled to resume, where prosecutors are trying to convince jurors that the death of Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, was not an accident. Prosecutors have been presenting witnesses to counter the 2004 finding that Savio simply drowned in her bathtub. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - The crime scene technician didn't think twice about the bottle of cleaning fluid near the bathroom where the body of Drew Peterson's ex-wife lay slumped in her bathtub — or whether it might have been used to wipe away evidence of a crime.

Fla. executes 45-year-old inmate for 1984 slaying (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:24 PM PST

AP - Florida has executed 45-year-old Martin Edward Grossman, who was convicted of killing a state wildlife officer during the 1980s.

Climber's body recovered in St. Helens crater (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:59 PM PST

The crater of Mount St. Helens is shown Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 during the search for a climber who fell 1,500 feet into the dormant crater of the volcano on Monday in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - The body of a veteran climber who fell 1,500 feet into the crater atop Mount St. Helens was recovered Tuesday after he spent more than a day in the snow, authorities said.

Ala. prof's story begins with brother's 1986 death (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:15 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 - When a young woman in Massachusetts killed her brother with a shotgun blast in 1986, no ballistics tests were done, and authorities waited more than a week to question family members.

NC woman guilty of killing CA fortuneteller (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:12 PM PST

AP - A California jury has found a North Carolina woman guilty of murdering a fortuneteller and her daughter.

Kenneth Starr introduced as Baylor president (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:18 PM PST

Kenneth Starr, center, speaks to Baylor University faculty and students, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, in Waco Texas. Starr was named Baylor's 14th president. Starr replaces John M. Lilley. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)AP - Baylor University's new president Kenneth Starr said Tuesday he is excited to promote the world's largest Baptist university and pleased his time as an independent prosecutor investigating the Clinton White House is long past.

Chilly weather can't stop New Orleans' big party (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST

Pete Fountain gives the thumbs-up as he prepares to lead his Half Fast Walking Club through the streets of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. This is the 50th year Fountain has led his group celebrating the all day street party know as Mardi Gras. AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Pete Fountain, clarinet in hand and looking dapper in a white tuxedo and fedora trimmed in gold, kicked off Mardi Gras with his "Half Fast Marching Club" the way they have for 50 years: with beads and jazz.

New clip shows JFK arriving in Dallas in 1963 (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:53 PM PST

This frame grab from a Nov. 22, 1963, film provided by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, shows President John F. Kennedy on his arrival in Dallas on the day he was assassinated. The short clip was shot on 8mm film by William Ward Warren, then a 15-year-old student. (AP Photo/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, William Ward Warren) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDIT. DO NOT USE AFTER 11:59 PM EST SUNDAY FEB. 21, 2010.AP - New color video footage showing President John F. Kennedy's arrival in Dallas the day he was assassinated is the best home movie ever made of the event, the curator of the Dallas JFK museum said.

ND scrambles to save hot line ahead of floods (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:23 PM PST

FILE - In this March 27, 2009, file photo snow flurries fall as scores of volunteers build up a dike to hold back the rising Red River flood waters in Fargo, N.D. During last spring's flooding, a statewide 211 number established to take calls for social services fielded more than 40,000 inquiries. Now the number may go out of business in most of the state, which has left supporters scrambling to raise the money needed to keep it going.(AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)AP - When the Red River burst its banks last spring, flooding dozens of surrounding towns and cities, thousands of worried or displaced residents called a statewide 211 hot line to help find shelter or a meal.

Lawyer expects ax attack to be death penalty case (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:30 PM PST

This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Harold Montague, 33, who is being held on murder and attempted murder charges in the Thursday, Feb. 1, 2010 ax slaying of a four-month-old Damien Avila-Castro in a stroller in a Las Vegas neighborhood and attacks on the boy's mother, Sandra Lisset Castro, and Monica O'Dazier, Montague's sister-in-law. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)AP - A lawyer for a man accused of killing a 4-month-old baby and critically wounding the child's mother with a medieval-style battle ax said Tuesday he expects the state will seek the death penalty against his 33-year-old client.

3 killed in NJ plane crash were family from Poland (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST

AP - Three of the five people who died when a small plane broke apart and tore through a snowy field next to a runway were members of a family visiting from Poland, police said Tuesday.

Clearing roads in winter requires snowphistication (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2009 file photo, A plow clears snow from a street in Des Moines, Iowa. Many cities in the American snow belt, where the strategy for cleaning the streets of winter's wrath is often based on a calculated risk that snow won't fall where snow usually doesn't. Most years, that gamble pays off. The snow and ice community has struggled with this topic for years as the methods, equipment, availability of resources and most importantly, level of service and winter severity, vary enormously from state to state, region to region. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - The forecast: a mighty winter blizzard sure to dump a record-setting blanket of snow that will grow from inches to feet overnight, just in time for rush hour.

Military court to review Abu Ghraib conviction (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:17 PM PST

AP - The U.S. military's highest court says it will review the conviction of an Army reservist who prosecutors said was the ringleader of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Police: Suspect admits killing Iowa football coach (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:58 PM PST

AP - A tearful former football player told Iowa police that he repeatedly shot his high school coach because he believed him to be a devil who turned students "into dead people," according to an interview with the murder suspect recorded just hours after Ed Thomas' death.

Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:07 PM PST

In this photo taken Feb. 3, 2010 homeless men and women stand in line to be searched before being bused to local churches serving as shelters in Riverhead, NY. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits — a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," in one official's eyes.

Spokesman: Ulcer sent NJ's Lautenberg to hospital (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:36 PM PST

FILE - In this May 25, 2006 file photo, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., questions Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson, not pictured, during his testimony at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs regarding the theft of personal data of 26.5 million veterans on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lautenberg fell at his home Monday night, Feb. 15, 2010, and was taken to a hospital as a precaution, an aide said. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A bleeding ulcer is behind the hospitalization of longtime New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, an aide said Tuesday.

Taliban leader's arrest a new blow to insurgents (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:19 PM PST

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment peer out from holes in a compound wall during a firefight with Taliban fighters in the town of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday Feb. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - The capture of the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 commander by a joint CIA and Pakistani team dealt a fresh blow to insurgents under heavy U.S. attack and raised hopes that Pakistani security forces are ready to deny Afghan militant leaders a safe haven.

NJ judge who opened Little League to girls dies (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:45 PM PST

AP - Sylvia Pressler, a trailblazing judge whose 1973 ruling opened Little League baseball to girls, has died. She was 75.

Police: Victims aid police in Calif. church attack (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:13 AM PST

AP - Two teenage brothers wounded during a brazen shooting inside a Northern California church were cooperating with police in the search for a hooded gunman and two other suspects.

Woman pleads guilty in Pa. exchange scandal (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 12:56 PM PST

AP - A woman accused of placing foreign exchange students in filthy homes in northeastern Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Tuesday to child endangerment in a case that revealed weak federal oversight of companies that bring thousands of students a year to the United States.

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