2010年2月23日星期二

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2 teens injured in Colorado middle school shooting (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 06:20 PM PST

AP - A teacher tackled a man armed with a high-powered rifle just after two teenage students were shot Tuesday at a suburban Denver middle school that's just miles from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation's deadliest school shootings, authorities said.

Sources: Plea coming in Katrina shooting probe (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 06:04 PM PST

AP - A former New Orleans police official is preparing to enter a guilty plea in connection with a federal probe of a deadly police shooting in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, two people familiar with the case said Tuesday.

Pa. abortion doctor's license suspended after raid (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:21 PM PST

The Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia, is shown Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. State authorities have suspended a West Philadelphia doctor's medical license, citing 'deplorable and unsanitary' conditions at his clinic. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Federal agents raided a clinic where abortions are performed and found "deplorable and unsanitary" conditions, including blood on the floor and parts of aborted fetuses in jars, according to the state agency that shut it down and suspended the license of the doctor in charge.

Wall Street bonuses shoot up 17 percent in 2009 (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:24 PM PST

Graphic shows annual average Wall Street bonuses sinceAP - Wall Street bonuses climbed 17 percent in 2009 to $20.3 billion as many of the investment banks that were bailed out at taxpayer expense reported blowout profits.

Files show Ala. suspect's husband wanted revenge (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:20 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 the Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues once said he wanted violent revenge on a doctor who gave his wife a bad job review, according to documents that feed growing evidence the woman showed signs of violence long before the latest episode.

States eye ban on public release of 911 calls (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:34 PM PST

In this Feb. 17, 2010 photo, Sonny Brasfield, executive director of the Association of County Commissions of Alabama, is pictured in his office in Montgomery, Ala. Brasfield said the group drafted 911 privacy legislation after people began complaining to officials at the state's 88 emergency call centers. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Linda Casey dialed 911 and screamed, "Oh, God!" over and over again into the phone after finding her daughter beaten to death in the driveway of their North Carolina home.

NJ woman sentenced to prison for NYC gang-rape lie (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 06:18 PM PST

AP - A woman who fabricated a gang rape accusation was sentenced Tuesday to up to three years behind bars herself, saying she was riven with remorse for sending an innocent man to prison.

Jayson Williams gets 5 years in fatal NJ shooting (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:36 PM PST

Jayson Williams is handcuffed after he was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010 at State Superior Court , in Somerville, N.J., for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002. (AP Photo/Kathy Johnson, Pool)AP - Former NBA star Jayson Williams was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for fatally shooting a hired limo driver in 2002, ending an eight-year legal odyssey by tearfully apologizing to the victim's family. He will be eligible for parole in 18 months.

Arrest ordered in Vt. same-sex parent custody case (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:43 PM PST

AP - A Vermont judge overseeing a custody battle ordered the arrest Tuesday of a Virginia woman who renounced homosexuality, became an evangelical Christian and disappeared with the young daughter she had with her ex-partner.

Cruise line: 350 sick aboard ship in Caribbean (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:53 PM PST

AP - About 350 people who got sick a week into a Caribbean cruise were responding well to medicine, the cruise line said Tuesday. Celebrity Cruise spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez said 326 of the more than 1,800 passengers on the Celebrity Mercury began complaining Sunday of upset stomachs, vomiting and diarrhea. Martinez says 27 of the nearly 850 crew members also reported symptoms.

Ole Miss students vote to replace Colonel Reb (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 06:16 PM PST

AP - University of Mississippi students voted Tuesday for the school to pursue a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb, the goateed Southern gent banished from the sidelines nearly seven years ago as the school continued its move away from symbols of the Old South.

Publicist: Charlie Sheen enters rehab (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:06 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 28, 2009 file photo shows Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles. . (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)AP - Charlie Sheen's publicist announced Tuesday the actor has entered rehab and is taking a break from television's top-rated comedy, "Two and a Half Men," prompting the network to announce it is temporarily halting production of the show.

Teacher contracts support reforms in worst schools (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:20 PM PST

In this Feb. 22, 2010 photo, biology teacher Nina Petrasek poses for a portrait on a street perpendicular to Vaux High School in Philadelphia. Some of the city's worst schools could see more classroom time, including weekends and summers, and whole new rosters of teachers this fall through the district's 'Renaissance schools' program. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Even in a school system known for its academic troubles, the numbers at Vaux High School are jaw-dropping: More than 90 percent of 11th-graders tested last year could not read or do math at grade level.

Lawyer for Edwards' mistress accuse aide of theft (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:13 PM PST

Andrew Young, former aide to former Senator John Edwards, talks with his attorney Robert Elliott during a hearing at the Orange County Superior Court House in Hillsborough, N.C., Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010. John Edwards former mistress, Rielle Hunter, has sued Young for invasion of privacy. Attorneys for Young want to watch a tape purportedly showing the former presidential candidate in a sexual encounter with his pregnant mistress. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP - Attorneys for John Edwards' mistress on Tuesday accused a former aide to the Democratic presidential candidate of theft after he turned over a video camera that belonged to the woman.

Illegal immigrants numbers rise in Southeast (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:07 PM PST

AP - When the Olympic Games came to Atlanta in 1996, a building boom transformed the landscape of downtown and brought with it an influx of Latino immigrants — both legal and illegal.

For NASA no easy answer for next space destination (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:19 PM PST

In this Feb. 18, 2010 photo, Ad Astra Rocket Company scientists Chris Olsen, foreground, and Ben Longmier test the company's VASIMR rocket engine inside a vacuum chamber in Webster, Texas. There are only a few places in space where humans can go in the next couple of decades. In the next few years, new technology should be developed enough to know exactly where. President Barack Obama plans to divert billions of dollars from the Bush moon plan toward better rocketry. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato)AP - Where to next?

Alleged Mexican cartel figure pleads not guilty (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:51 PM PST

In this courtroom artist's drawing Vicente Zambada Niebla appears before a U.S. District Judge Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, in Chicago's federal court. Zambada-Niebla, accused of leading Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he conspired to import large quantities of heroin and literally tons of cocaine into the United States. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock)AP - A man accused of being one of the leaders of a powerful Mexican drug cartel pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he conspired to import and sell large amounts of cocaine and heroin in the United States.

Va. entrepreneur faces fraud charges, bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 11:53 AM PST

AP - When Virginia steakhouse owner Osama El-Atari disappeared last year, he left behind a $3.8 million McMansion, a few splashy sports cars and a bunch of banks that said he cheated them out of about $60 million.

Ill will for slain Mich. activist as trial nears (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 08:23 AM PST

AP - In life, anti-abortion activist James Pouillon spent years trying to influence people in his small Michigan city with large signs of dead fetuses. In death, that combative style could make it difficult to find a jury for the trial of the man charged with killing him.

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