2010年2月25日星期四

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

SeaWorld will keep whale despite trainer's death (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST

In this photo taken on Dec. 30, 2005, Dawn Brancheau, a whale trainer at SeaWorld Adventure Park, poses while performing. Brancheau was killed in an accident with a killer whale at the SeaWorld Shamu Stadium Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Julie Fletcher)AP - Despite calls to free or destroy the animal, SeaWorld said Thursday it will keep the killer whale that drowned its trainer, but will suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths.

NY Gov. Paterson won't drop bid despite scandal (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 04:37 PM PST

FILE - In this June 19, 2008 file photo, New York Gov. David Paterson, left, and aide David Johnson walk down the steps of the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Paterson is under fresh pressure to drop his run for a full term this year after a report about a domestic abuse complaint against his top aide involving a former girlfriend. The governor suspended Johnson without pay on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, and asked the attorney general to investigate a newspaper article saying state police may have pressured the woman to not level criminal charges against Johnson. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)AP - Despite calls from leading Democrats to step aside, Gov. David Paterson said Thursday night he won't drop his election bid amid a growing scandal surrounding accusations of domestic violence against a key aide.

California man convicted of 5 serial slayings (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:34 PM PST

AP - A jury convicted an amateur photographer Thursday of murdering a 12-year-old girl and four women in the late 1970s, setting the stage for a possible death penalty in a legal saga that has dragged on 30 years.

Snowstorm in Northeast, rain pounds New England (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 04:49 PM PST

Daniel Tardanico shovels the sidewalk in front of his gas station as snow continues to fall in Washington, N.J., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - A slow-moving winter storm packing heavy, wet snow and potentially flooding rain spread over the Northeast on Thursday, disrupting air traffic and closing schools. Utility companies braced for possible widespread power outages overnight due to high winds and toppled trees.

Step show prize to be shared after Internet stir (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:37 PM PST

AP - After days of controversy over a white group's win in a step competition, sponsor Coca-Cola said Thursday the second-place team will share top honors.

2 indicted in foiled NYC subway bomb plot case (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:49 PM PST

In this courtroom sketch, Adis Medunjanin, second from left, stands next to lawyer Michael Marinaccio and his client Zarein Ahmedzay, fourth from left, during a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. Medunjanin and Ahmedzay, both high school classmates of admitted terrorist plotter Najibullah Zazi, were indicted Thursday in a foiled scheme to bomb New York City subways that a prosecutor said was directed by 'al-Qaida leadership.' Assistant US Attorney Berit Berger, second from right, and Assistant US Attorney Jeffery Knox, right, stand in front of the defendants. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)AP - Two high school classmates of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi were indicted Thursday in a foiled scheme to bomb New York City subways that a prosecutor said was directed by "al-Qaida leadership."

Calif deputy dead, officer critical after shooting (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:32 PM PST

AP - A California homicide detective died Thursday and a police officer was in critical condition after they were shot during an investigation in a rural area of Central California, authorities said.

Mass. DA seeks inquest in 1986 Bishop slaying case (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 04:33 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 - A Massachusetts prosecutor ordered an inquest into Amy Bishop's 1986 fatal shooting of her brother, saying there are new questions about whether it was the accident investigators concluded at the time.

Neb. lawmakers discuss fetal pain abortion bill (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2006, file photo Nebraska abortion provider Dr. LeRoy Carhart is seen at his clinic in Bellevue, Neb. A determined group of state lawmakers is pushing legislation that would make Nebraska the first state to limit so-called late-term abortions based on the belief that a fetus feels pain during the procedure. The legislation looks to again thrust Carhart, who is one of a handful of remaining doctors in the United States who perform third-trimester abortions, into the center of the national abortion debate. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP - A group of lawmakers is pushing to make Nebraska the first state to outlaw most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the argument that the fetus might feel pain during the procedure.

Conn. officer who shot chimp testifies of trauma (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 02:45 PM PST

Stamford police officer Frank Chiafari testifies in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, before state lawmakers about the need to reform workers compensation laws. Chiafari says he was traumatized after shooting a rampaging chimpanzee to death after it mauled and blinded its owner's friend about a year ago. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - A police officer on Thursday recalled how he plunged into "a depression beyond depression" after shooting a rampaging 200-pound chimpanzee and said he was traumatized by seeing the woman who had been brutally mauled by an animal he calls "a monster."

'Toyota defense' might rescue jailed Minnesota man (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:43 AM PST

Koua Fong Lee wipes his eye as he is interviewed Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 at the state prison in Lino Lakes, Minn., where he is serving a sentence for a fatal accident involving his 1996 Toyota Camry in June 2006 in St. Paul, Minn., that killed three people. With recent revelations of safety problems with later-model Toyotas, Lee is pressing to get his case reopened and his freedom restored. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)AP - Ever since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot up an interstate ramp, plowing into the back of an Oldsmobile in a horrific crash that killed three people, Koua Fong Lee insisted he had done everything he could to stop the car.

Military spouses angry that DoD halts job grants (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:15 PM PST

AP - Military spouses were enthusiastic when the government started offering them grants last year of up to $6,000 for college or career training. Word spread quickly and they signed up by the tens of thousands.

Calif. X Games skier remembered for pushing limits (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 10:31 AM PST

File - In this June 26, 1999 file photo, C.R. Johnson flies through the air during a practice jump, at the ESPN X games at Pier 30-32 in San Francisco. Johnson died at California's Squaw Valley Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, while taking a run down a steep chute and hitting his head against a rock outcropping. Jim Rogers, a member of the Lake Tahoe area resort's ski patrol, said Johnson was skiing with a group of friends when he fell while trying to negotiate a 'very, very tight, rocky area.' He fell face first, then spun around and struck the back of his head on rocks. He was wearing a helmet at the time. (AP Photo/Adam Turner, File)AP - Current Olympians and others in the ski community on Thursday mourned the loss of professional free skier C.R. Johnson, who died in a fall while skiing a steep chute at California's Squaw Valley.

Age hasn't slowed 80-year-old California burglar (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 01:44 PM PST

This undated booking photo provided by the Torrance Police Department shows Doris Thompson, an 80-year-old woman with a criminal record stretching back to 1955 who was sentenced Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010 to three years in state prison for ransacking and stealing cash from a medical office. (AP Photo/Torrance Police Department)AP - Doris Thompson hasn't let age slow her down. At 80, she's still ransacking and burglarizing medical offices.

Calif. lawmakers: Cut the foul language, please (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:21 PM PST

AP - Californians had better start watching their mouths.

Friend: NY mom had obsessed over dead son's autism (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 12:21 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2010 file photo, members of the Medical Examiners Office remove the body of 8-year-old Jude Michael Mirra from the Peninsula Hotel in New York where his mother, Gigi Jordan, is accused of killing him. After years of struggling - with his severe autism and her inability to help him - Jordan gave up. To those who knew her, she was a loving, overprotective single mother who snapped under incredible strain. To prosecutors, she is a killer. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Gigi Jordan quit a high-powered job as a pharmaceutical company executive and abandoned her social life to devote all her time to her severely autistic son.

Officials rule arson caused fire at pilot's house (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 05:55 AM PST

FILE - This Feb. 18, 2010, file photo shows the Austin, Texas, home of Joseph Stack, a software engineer, who set it on fire, law enforcement officials said. Stack's views on taxation follow a long line of protesters, who believe tax laws don't apply to them; his bitter feud with the IRS apparently drove him to commit suicide by slamming his single-engine Piper PA-28 into an Austin office building where the IRS has offices. (AP Photo/ Thao Nguyen, File)AP - Authorities in Texas have ruled arson is the official cause of the fire that destroyed the house belonging to the man who flew his plane into an office building.

Ex-Klansman convicted in '64 slayings sues FBI (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 12:11 PM PST

AP - A former Ku Klux Klansman convicted in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers has sued the FBI, claiming the government used a mafia hit man to pistol-whip and intimidate witnesses for information in the case.

Whitney Houston: Tour great, despite bad reports (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 12:07 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2010 file photo, singer Whitney Houston performs at Saitama Arena in Saitama, near Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, file)AP - Though video postings of her recent performances in Australia have been less than flattering, Whitney Houston says her tour is going great — and she's in great health.

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