2010年2月19日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Using ladder, vet rescued people from Texas office (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:18 PM PST

Robin Dehaven, an employee of Binswanger Glass, holds a ladder as he talks to a television crew, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, in Austin, Texas. Dehaven recounted the story of how he helped save five people from a burning building, using the ladder he's holding, after a pilot furious at the International Revenue Service slammed his plane into the building where about 200 IRS employees worked, killing himself and one other person. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Robin De Haven was driving the company truck to a job when he saw something that didn't look right — a small plane, flying extremely low over a heavily congested area of Austin.


Obama sets record straight: 'I love Vegas' (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:43 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks to Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce in Las Vegas, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - President Barack Obama is setting the record straight — he loves Las Vegas. And Las Vegas was glad to hear it.


Austin plane crash exposes gap in US air security (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:39 PM PST

National Transportation Safety Board investigators assess damage on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 to a building in Austin, Texas, housing offices for the Internal Revenue Service, caused by a plane that crashed into the building on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - After 9/11, cockpit doors were sealed, air marshals were added and airport searches became more aggressive, all to make sure an airliner could never again be used as a weapon. Yet little has been done to guard against attacks with smaller planes.


Small stolen plane lands at Los Angeles airport (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:14 PM PST

AP - A man with an expired student pilot license allegedly stole a single-engine plane from a small airfield near San Diego, flew it north and made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport early Friday, authorities said.

Official: FBI probing Pa. school webcam spy case (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:27 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 - The FBI is investigating a Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly activating webcams inside students' homes, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Friday.


NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 86, has stomach lymphoma (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:27 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010 file photograph, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., speaks during a news conference at Newark Liberty International Airport, in Newark, N.J. The office of New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg said Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 the 86-year-old Democrat has stomach cancer. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)AP - Sen. Frank Lautenberg, at 86 the nation's second oldest U.S. senator, has curable lymphoma of the stomach, his office said Friday. Doctors for the Democrat found B-cell lymphoma that will require treatment over the next few months, spokesman Caley Gray said in a news release. He will not be resigning, Gray said.


Ex-Detroit mayor fails to make restitution payment (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 03:28 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appears during his restitution hearing in Detroit, in Wayne County Circuit Court. Judge David Groner has given Kilpatrick until the close of the business day Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, to make a $79,011 restitution payment to the city of Detroit for felonies he committed as mayor. Kilpatrick agreed to pay $1 million in restitution in late 2008 but later requested his monthly payments be reduced. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)AP - The prosecutor who forced Kwame Kilpatrick out of the Detroit mayor's office said he violated his probation by missing a Friday deadline to make a $79,011 payment toward his $1 million restitution to the city.


Rap star says Romney first touched him on plane (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST

In this Jan. 31, 2010 photo, Sky Blu, whose given name is Skyler Gordy of the band LMFAO, is seen while hosting the pre-telecast at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - A rapper with the Grammy-nominated club act LMFAO says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him — and not the other way around — during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that was preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia.


Jury: Killing of Vegas courthouse gunman justified (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 05:02 PM PST

AP - A coroner's jury cleared federal agents Friday in the slaying of a shotgun-wielding assailant seen on video killing a security guard during a furious gunbattle at a Nevada federal courthouse.

Woman charged with murder in Lottery winner death (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:03 PM PST

AP - The woman already facing charges related to the death of a Florida Lottery winner was charged Friday with first-degree murder.

3 men charged in Miami with financing Hezbollah (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:25 PM PST

AP - Three men were charged in an indictment unsealed Friday with illegally exporting electronics and video games to a South American shopping center that U.S. officials claim funnels money to the Hezbollah militant group.

Ky. man charged with threatening Obama in Web poem (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 05:41 PM PST

AP - A Kentucky man has been charged with posting a poem threatening President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on a white supremacist Web site.

Police probe how teenage Ohio convert fled to Fla. (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 02:49 PM PST

AP - An Ohio minister accused of driving a teenage runaway to a bus station last year has retained a lawyer as police say they're investigating whether anyone broke the law in helping the Christian convert leave home for Florida.

Shuttle Endeavour undocks from space station (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 05:33 PM PST

This image provided by NASA shows an orbital sunrise is featured in this image photographed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 22 flight engineer, from a window in the newly-installed Cupola of the International Space Station while space shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the station Thursday Feb. 18, 2010. A Russian Progress spacecraft, docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment, is visible at right. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Shuttle Endeavour departed the International Space Station on Friday night and headed home, leaving behind an outpost that is nearly complete and now has the best windows ever on the world.


Judge: Joe Jackson can get Jackson's medical files (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 03:04 PM PST

FILE - In this March 17, 2005 file photo, pop star Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif.  (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, file)AP - Michael Jackson's father can receive some medical records related to his superstar son's death, a judge ruled Friday.


Wannabe-hero firefighter convicted of murder in NY (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 02:42 PM PST

AP - A young volunteer firefighter who prosecutors say wanted to be a hero was convicted Friday of murder for setting a fire that killed a mother and three of her children. He tried to bolt from the courtroom after the verdict was announced but was tackled and subdued by about a dozen court officers.

Navy agrees to fund toxic water study at NC base (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 09:45 AM PST

AP - The Navy has agreed after months of fighting to fund a study into the health effects of past water pollution at Camp Lejeune on Marines.

Pathologist: Death of ex-cop's former wife was homicide (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 12:58 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 - A renowned pathologist testified Friday that former police officer Drew Peterson's ex-wife drowned in her bathtub in 2004 after being beaten and intentionally held under water, not after an accidental fall.


Unclaimed $2.5M Ind. jackpot has winner after all (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 01:24 PM PST

AP - Eric White didn't realize he'd left $2.5 million sitting on the desk in the office in his Indianapolis home for six months.
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