2010年2月18日星期四

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Man angry at IRS crashes plane into building (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 06:36 PM PST

A firefighter is shown, left, walking around a ground level floor by airplane debris, shown right, in a building, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, in Austin, Texas. Authorities said that Joseph Stack flew his small plane into the building that housed several employees of the IRS. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service launched a suicide attack on the agency Thursday by crashing his small plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, setting off a raging fire that sent workers running for their lives.

8 missionaries freed in Haiti, return to US (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 06:14 PM PST

Silas Thompson, 19, of Twin Falls, Idaho, is surrounded by reporters as he prepares to leave Miami International Airport Hotel in Miami, Thursday, Feb 18, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)AP - American missionaries accused of child trafficking in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake returned home Thursday and urged the safe release of the two women left behind in a Port-au-Prince jail.

Fed probe urged on cancer chemical in Marine water (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 01:34 PM PST

AP - A North Carolina congressman said Thursday that he wants an investigation into reports that levels of a cancer-causing chemical in tap water at a Marine Corps base were downplayed and then omitted from official documents.

Army probes allegations of poison at SC base (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 06:28 PM PST

AP - The Army has been looking for two months into allegations that soldiers at a base in South Carolina were being poisoned, but a spokesman says no credible information to support the allegations has been found.

Slain Ala. prof remembered as caring father figure (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 04:58 PM PST

In this undated photo released Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, by the University of Alabama-Huntsville, faculty member Joseph Leahy is shown. Leahy was wounded during a shooting at a university faculty meeting Friday, Feb. 12 at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/University of Alabama-Huntsville) NO SALESAP - A biology department chairman gunned down at a faculty meeting was remembered Thursday as a father figure who cared deeply about his students, the kind of professor who kept his office door open in case they needed to talk about personal problems.

Flight diverts to Salt Lake after threatening note (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 06:31 PM PST

A United Airlines 757 sits on the tarmac at the Salt Lake International Airport as officials search the aircraft after the plane was diverted during a flight from Denver to San Francisco on Thursday Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Griffin)AP - A United Airlines jetliner that made an emergency landing Thursday after a threatening note was found in the galley resumed its flight after seven hours on the ground.

Oldest Canadian vet of WWI dies at 109 (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 06:08 PM PST

AP - The oldest Canadian veteran of World War I has died at the age of 109.

Ex-NYC police boss gets 4 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 01:50 PM PST

FILE - In this June 4, 2009 file photo, former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik stands outside the Federal Court in Washington. Kerik, who pleaded guilty in November 2009 to eight felonies, including lying to the White House while being considered for chief of Homeland Security, was sentenced to four years in federal prison Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was hailed as a hero after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and nearly became chief of Homeland Security, was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison.

Suit: Pa. school used webcams to spy on students (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 04:55 PM PST

Harriton High School is shown in Bryn Mawr, Pa., Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. A family alleges in a federal lawsuit that the suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A suburban Philadelphia school district used the webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit.

Boyfriend charged with punching Sharpton daughter (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 06:35 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2007 file photo, Dominique Sharpton, daughter of the the Rev. Al Sharpton, participates in a march in support of the 'Jena Six' in Jena, La. Sharpton's boyfriend, Latrell Peeks, was charged Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 with punching her in the face and shoving her out of a car, but a defense lawyer said he hurled nothing more than words at her. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - The boyfriend of one of the Rev. Al Sharpton's daughters was charged Thursday with punching her in the face and shoving her out of a car, but a defense lawyer said the boyfriend hurled nothing more than words at her.

4 accused of nabbing Texas man later found slain (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 03:13 PM PST

AP - Authorities filed aggravated kidnapping charges against four men in the abduction of a Texas man who was later found slain in a Mexican street with his arms chopped off.

Hawaii may add gambling to its natural beauty (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 11:44 AM PST

FILE - This May 15, 2009, file photo shows Waikiki in Honolulu. 168 Republican National Committee delegates are scheduled to arrive Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, at Waikiki, one of Hawaii's most prominent beachfront resorts, for a RNC winter meeting. For years the RNC sidestepped requests by its Hawaii members to bring its winter meeting to a warm climate. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)AP - Hawaii has always been known for its sun, sand and surf. It may soon add another attraction: slots.

Relics from RI club fire near end of useful life (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 02:36 PM PST

FILE - In this May 19, 2003, file photo Rhode Island Superior Court Administrator Joe Conley looks off as he stands in front of the charred remains of the reassembled stage and drummer's alcove of The Station nightclub, inside a Cranston, R.I. warehouse used to house evidence retrieved from the nightclub fire. The Feb. 20, 2003 fire killed 100 people. As legal cases near conclusion in 2010, the warehouse is expected to be vacated once the victims and families receive their share of settlement money. (AP Photo/Mary Murphy, Pool, File)AP - Inside a warehouse lie macabre relics of one of the nation's deadliest nightclub fires, including bar stools where patrons drank and the stage where rock bands jammed before the 2003 blaze killed 100 people.

Marine census grows near completion (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 04:57 PM PST

AP - From pole to pole, surface to frigid depths, researchers have discovered thousands of new ocean creatures in a decade-long effort now nearing completion, and there may still be several times more strange creatures to be found, leaders of the Census of Marine Life reported Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Police capture escaped zebra in downtown Atlanta (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 04:46 PM PST

Workers try to contain a zebra that broke loose from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, in downtown Atlanta. The animal made its way through downtown to the interstate highway that cuts through the center of the city. Police cruisers blocked off all southbound lanes and were able to herd the zebra over to the right shoulder and off an entrance ramp, said Georgia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Monica Luck. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ben Gray)AP - An Atlanta highway turned into a circus Thursday afternoon when an escaped zebra galloped along a busy section of interstate with police in hot pursuit.

Designer of famous Arecibo telescope dies at 92 (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 02:53 PM PST

FILE - This May 31, 2007 file photo shows the world's largest radio telescope -- the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Engineer and astronomer Bill Gordon, who designed the observatory in the 1950s while serving on the engineering faculty of Cornell University, has died of natural causes at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 92. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)AP - Astronomer and engineer Bill Gordon, who designed the photogenic radio telescope in Puerto Rico that spotted the first planets beyond our solar system and lakes on one of Saturn's moons, has died in New York state. He was 92.

History is no guarantee of conviction in NYPD case (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 02:45 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2008 file photo Michael Mineo, who says he was sodomized on Oct. 15, 2008 with a baton by a police officer in a Brooklyn subway station, speaks to the media outside Brooklyn state supreme court in New York. Jurors on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 continue deliberating the claims made by Mineo against the three Brooklyn officers implicated in the case. Experts and a prosecutor from a similar case say confusing medical evidence and the traditional difficulty of convicting police officers could lead to acquittal. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)AP - From the beginning, a drug suspect's accusation that an NYPD officer sodomized him with a baton recalled the notorious police abuse case of Abner Louima.

AP IMPACT: Haiti flight logs detail early chaos (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 01:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, planes participating in the disaster relief are shown on the tarmac of Port-au-Prince International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the first chaotic days after Haiti's earthquake, some vital aid was forced to wait because the U.S. military took relief flights at the Port-au-Prince airport on a first-come, first-served basis, according to landing logs. (AP Photo/Phil Coale, file)AP - Washcloths arrived before water, and senators before surgeons. In the first chaotic days after Haiti's earthquake, some vital aid was forced to wait because the U.S. military took relief flights at the Port-au-Prince airport on a first-come, first-served basis, according to landing logs.

State lawmakers bash Congress to gain voter favor (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 02:58 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 file photo, State Rep.Kenny Bingham, R-Cayce, makes a motions to introduce legislation to help the unemployed workers of South Carolina during a special session, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. With tax collections tanking and jobless rates at record highs, state legislators hundreds of miles from Washington are seizing on an easy way to cull the favor of conservative voters: Bash the federal government. Bingham is working on a bill to assert the state's rights under several constitutional amendments as a way to put the federal government on notice (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - With tax collections tanking and jobless rates at record highs, state legislators hundreds of miles from Washington have found an easy way to appeal to conservative voters: Bash the federal government.

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