2010年3月4日星期四

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Paterson's stature erodes even in stomping grounds (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:51 PM PST

New York Gov. David Paterson waits for a legislative leaders budget meeting to start at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - David Paterson, New York's first black governor and a product of the Harlem political machine, faced rapidly waning support Thursday as many of the influential black leaders who have worked with him for decades gathered and began to discuss whether to craft a message to persuade him to resign.

AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on 'black box' data (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:46 PM PST

In this Jan. 12, 2010 family photo released by Roberts & Roberts law firm, an event data recorder taken from the 2008 Toyota Avalon in a deadly 2009 crash, commonly known as EDR, is shown at a wrecker service in Euless, Texas. In the Southlake, Texas crash, four people died when their 2008 Avalon ripped through a fence, hit a tree and flipped into an icy pond. Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline 'black boxes' that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts. The AP investigation found that Toyota has been inconsistent — and sometimes even contradictory — in revealing exactly what the devices record and don't record, including critical data about whether the brake or accelerator pedals were depressed at the time of a crash. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Roberts & Roberts Law Firm) NO SALESAP - Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline "black boxes" that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.

Rowdy protests target funding cuts at US campuses (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:34 PM PST

University of California, Berkeley, students Griffin Cassara, 19, left, and Katherine Cole, 18, walk past the state Capitol after a participating in a ralley against funding cut to higher education in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 4, 2010. Marches, strikes, teach-ins and walkouts were planned nationwide in what was being called the March 4th National Day of Action for Public Education.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Students staged raucous rallies to protest education funding cuts on college campuses nationwide Thursday, but some demonstrations got out of hand as protesters threw punches and ice chunks in Wisconsin and shut down a major freeway in California.

Police: Calif. mother dumped newborn in trash (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:48 PM PST

This image provided by the Redondo Beach Police Department shows Jessie Canfield, who was arrested Wednesday March 3, 2010, hours after police say the body of her newborn daughter was found in a curbside trash bin in Redondo Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Redondo Beach Police Department)AP - Jessie Canfield was attending a surprise birthday party with family and friends when she began feeling discomfort and cramping then ducked into a bedroom for several hours. Partygoers told police she said nothing about giving birth to a 6-pound baby girl.

15 states, DC named 'Race to the Top' finalists (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:39 PM PST

AP - The U.S. Department of Education named 16 finalists Thursday in the first round of its "Race to the Top" competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform grants.

Crime exhibit dispute shows families' scars linger (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:30 PM PST

FILE - This June 5, 1968 file photo shows Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaking at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, following his victory in the previous day's California primary election. A moment later he turned into a hotel kitchen corridor and was critically wounded. His wife, Ethel, is just behind him. The Los Angeles Police Department has apologized on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 to the family of Robert F. Kennedy for exhibiting the shirt, tie and jacket he wore when he was assassinated. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)AP - A dispute over an exhibition of gruesome evidence from famous crimes escalated Thursday, showing that time does not heal the scars to murder victims' families even after four decades.

Alabama governor cracks down on bingo machines (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 01:33 PM PST

AP - The governor of this Bible Belt state is waging a one-man crusade against gambling — and stirring racial tensions in the process — by sending state troopers on late-night raids to shut down electronic bingo parlors.

Army chief sees 'anxiety' on lifting ban on gays (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:07 PM PST

Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., center, accompanied by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 4, 2010, during a news conference calling for the repeal of the ban on gays in the military. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey said Thursday he sees anxiety in the armed services over how possible changes in the law that bans openly gay servicemen and women would be implemented.

Sex offender in teen's killing eluded suspicion (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:36 PM PST

John Albert Gardner III is escorted by sheriff deputies as he glances toward the judge at an arraignment where he pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in the case involving teenager Chelsea King in a San Diego Superior Courtroom Wednesday March 3, 2010 in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - When 17-year-old Chelsea King disappeared in a park last week, authorities checked photographs of sex offenders registered in the San Diego area. John Albert Gardner III was not among them.

A rare pact: Teens' double suicide rocks Pa. town (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PST

In this Monday, March 1, 2010 photo, Peggy DeVaco places a candle at a makeshift memorial to Gina Gentile and Vanessa Dorwart, in Norwood, Pa. The high school sophomores were killed by an Amtrak Acela train in what was believed to be a suicide pact. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - As the high-speed Acela train came thundering down the rails, a teenage girl screamed at her friends to get off the tracks.

Fire the teachers? When schools fail, it may work (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PST

This March 3, 2010, photo shows Central Falls High School in Central Falls, R.I., where the superintendent announced in February 2010 that all the teachers would be fired at the end of the school year. Central Falls' school board voted last month to fire Central Falls High School's faculty in a desperate move to improve student performance. (AP Photo/Gretchen Ertl)AP - When all the teachers were fired from Central Falls High School last week in a sweeping effort at school reform, their superintendent gave them a taste of the accountability President Barack Obama says is necessary.

Controller complacency could jeopardize air safety (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:35 PM PST

File photo shows a a control tower at Orly airport, outside Paris. European travellers faced more misery as French air traffic controllers launched a five-day strike and British and German airlines sought to head off threats of industrial action.(AFP/File/Bertrand Guay)AP - For the third time in seven months, the judgment of those who operate the nation's air traffic control system has been called into question and concerns have been raised that complacency may be causing controllers and their supervisors to bend rules.

Sarah Palin loads up on free stuff at gift suite (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:19 PM PST

In this image released by NBC, former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is shown along with with host Jay Leno, left, on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,' Tuesday, March 2, 2010, in Burbank, Calif. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater)AP - Sarah Palin showed up at a celebrity gift suite with two daughters, her brother and a small entourage in tow and loaded up with free cosmetic and fashion items being given away in connection with Oscar-week festivities. But she also left a check for charity, organizers say.

Imam pleads guilty in NYC terror case (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:05 PM PST

Najibullah Zazi is escorted by U.S. Marshals at a New York Police Department facility in Brooklyn, September 25, 2009. REUTERS/New York Police DepartmentAP - An imam linked to the suspects in an aborted suicide bomb plot against New York City pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to the FBI — a deal sparing him serious jail time but forcing him to leave the country.

La. senator: Are deaths linked to Chinese drywall? (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 03:15 PM PST

AP - U.S. Sen. David Vitter has called for federal officials to do a more thorough review of the deaths of several people who lived in homes that contained smelly, possibly toxic Chinese drywall.

Retail sales post strongest gains since late 2007 (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PST

Shoppers crowd through Century 21 department store, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 in New York. Many retailers are reporting solid sales gains for February, even in the face of falling consumer confidence and heavy snowstorms that hammered the East Coast. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Shoppers returned to the nation's malls last month, buying a surprising amount of spring clothing and other items and helping stores post the strongest retail sales since November 2007, a month before the recession began.

Feds: Student visa fraud ring found at Fla. school (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 02:19 PM PST

AP - A Florida language school helped illegally obtain student visas for foreign nationals who never went to class, violating laws enacted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks exposed weaknesses in the program, authorities said Thursday.

Wyoming Gov. Freudenthal won't seek third term (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 11:44 AM PST

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal speaks during his State of the State speech at the 60th Wyoming Legislature on Jan. 14, 2009 in Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Michael Smith)AP - Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal said Thursday he will not seek re-election, ending speculation that the popular Democrat might try to overturn a state law that would have prohibited him from pursuing a third term.

More men file workplace sexual harassment claims (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 01:00 PM PST

In a January 23, 2010 photo, Jonathan Pilkington is seen at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission offices in Phoenix, Ariz. During more than two years as a food runner at an upscale steakhouse in Scottsdale, Ariz., Pilkington says his male supervisor repeatedly groped, fondled and otherwise sexually harassed him more than a dozen times. Now Pilkington, a married father of two, is the star witness in a federal lawsuit against Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar and part of a growing number of men claiming they are victims of sexual harassment in the workplace. (AP Photo/Jacques Billeaud)AP - Jonathan Pilkington's boss wouldn't take no for an answer.

Judge dismisses charges on Pa. teen hurt by police (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 12:34 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2010 file photo, Jordan Miles, an 18-year-old high school student, talks in his kitchen about his hopes to go to college to study crime scene investigation while sitting in the family kitchen in Pittsburgh. A district judge has dismissed all charges Thursday March 4, 2010 against the arts student who has accused three Pittsburgh police officers of wrongly beating him during his arrest on Jan. 12. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)AP - A judge has dismissed charges against a teenage arts student who says three Pittsburgh police officers beat him during his arrest on prowling and other charges near his home, in a case that led to an FBI investigation into possible civil rights violations.

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