2010年3月5日星期五

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Witness heard 'pop' as Pentagon shooting began (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:18 PM PST

AP - A witness to a shooting outside the Pentagon says he heard a "pop" and hit the ground as a gunman exchanged fire with guards.

Pentagon shooter had a history of mental illness (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:41 PM PST

This undated booking photo provided by the Washoe County jail via the Reno Gazette Journal on Friday, March 5, 2010 shows John Patrick Bedell. Authorities said Bedell pulled a handgun at a Pentagon entrance in Washington on Thursday, March 4, 2010, shot two police officers and was mortally wounded in an exchange of gunfire. The two officers were hospitalized briefly with minor injuries. (AP Photo/Washoe County jail via the Reno Gazette Journal) NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUTAP - The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday.

Prosecutor: Greed prompted Ill. fire that killed 7 (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 04:42 PM PST

In this photo released by the Cicero Ill. Police Department Friday, March 5, 2010, is Lawrence Myers, 60, the owner of an apartment building in Cicero where seven people died in a fire on Feb. 14, 2010. Prosecutors say Myers had his maintenance man set it on fire because he wanted to collect the insurance money. Myers, and the maintenance man, 47-year-old Marion Comier, are charged with murder and arson. They pleaded not guilty Friday, March 5, 2010 and were ordered held without bond. (AP Photo/Cicero Police Department)AP - The owner of a suburban Chicago apartment house had his maintenance man set fire to the building, killing seven people including a newborn, because he wanted to cash in on a $250,000 insurance policy, prosecutors said Friday.

US hunts for citizens training with terror groups (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:46 PM PST

AP - The top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan said Friday that the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to train with al-Qaida or other terrorist groups, but the number is not thought to be large.

Upper Midwest braces for severe spring flooding (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:23 PM PST

In this March 1, 2010 photo, volunteer Heather Lowry stacks sandbags in Fargo, ND, as the city begins preparations for a possible second straight year of major flooding from the Red River. The National Weather Service says there's a high risk for major flooding along North Dakota's Red River in the same area where residents held off record high waters last year. (AP Photo/The Forum, Michael Vosburg)AP - Salesmen in Fargo are hawking products with names like the Muscle Wall and the Sandbagging Buddy. Emergency workers in Keokuk, Iowa, are planning to barricade the water treatment plant with limestone boulders. The farmers' cooperative in Quincy, Ill., is moving grain inland to keep it dry.

6 people killed in bus crash south of Phoenix (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:14 PM PST

Arizona Department of Public Safety police officers and members of the medical examiner's office remove bodies from the site of a tour bus crash on Friday, March 5, 2010, in Sacaton, Ariz. Police are saying six people were killed in the crash on Interstate 10 about 25 miles south of Phoenix after a bus traveling from Mexico to Los Angeles struck a pickup truck and rolled before landing upright on its wheels. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - The bus that rolled over on a busy interstate outside Phoenix, killing six people and leaving 16 others injured early Friday, was operating illegally, federal transportation officials said.

Viewers are poised to flock to Oscarcast this year (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:46 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2010 file photo, James Cameron, left, director of 'Avatar,' and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, director of 'The Hurt Locker,' pose together at the 15th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards in Los Angeles. The Academy Awards have a tiresome habit of calling its annual telecast 'Hollywood's biggest night.' But this year, the Oscarcast could prove to be a pretty big night for television, too. Cameron is back and has potentially topped himself with the 3-D sci-fi epic 'Avatar.' Even better, his ex-wife — the acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow — is going toe-to-toe with Cameron in both the Best Director and Best Picture categories for her gritty, nowhere-near-big-budget military masterpiece, 'The Hurt Locker.' (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - The Academy Awards have a tiresome habit of calling the annual Oscar telecast "Hollywood's biggest night."

Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard shares home videos (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 11:48 AM PST

This undated image provided Thursday Sept. 3, 2009 by the Dugard family shows recently recovered kidnap victim, Jaycee Dugard. Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, is seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos set to air on ABC Friday, March 5, 2010. (AP Photo/courtesy of Dugard family) NO SALESAP - Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, was seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos aired on ABC Friday.

Texas judge says death penalty unconstitutional (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:44 PM PST

In this Nov. 14, 2008 photo, newly elected State District Judge Kevin Fine, shows his sleeve of tattoos at his downtown office in Houston, Texas. Fine used his life experience of beating drug addiction for his campaign. Fine, who is a judge in the Texas county that sends more inmates to death row than any other in the U.S. is facing a torrent of high-profile criticism after he declared the death penalty unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)AP - A Texas judge in the county that sends more inmates to death row than any other in the nation is apparently taking a stand.

Scott Brown campaigns for McCain in Arizona (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 04:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2010 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listens to a question from the audience at a Veterans Town Hall Meeting and endorsement news conference at the American Legion Post #1 Luke-Greenway in Phoenix. Facing the toughest re-election battle of his career, John McCain is bringing in the Republican Party's newest rising star on Friday in a bid to shore up support among conservative primary voters. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)AP - Facing the toughest re-election battle of his career, John McCain enlisted a rising star of the Republican Party in a bid Friday to lock down support among conservative primary voters.

Ohio jury: Doctor guilty of wife's cyanide death (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:31 PM PST

AP - An Ohio doctor accused of lacing his wife's calcium supplement with cyanide so he could be with his mistress was convicted Friday of aggravated murder.

Recovery? Great. But where are the jobs? (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:35 PM PST

In this Feb. 10, 2010 photo, Sharon Phillips, left, William Wright, center, and Tim Paliwoda, right, all of Detroit, fill out applications while attending a job fair in Detroit. The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed fewer jobs than expected, evidence that the job market may be slowly healing. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - At last, the unemployment crisis seems to be easing. That's the good news.

Debate over school busing in NC county gets uglier (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:09 PM PST

AP - A racially charged debate over school busing in North Carolina has turned even uglier after an education official referred to proponents of a diversity program as "animals out of the cages."

Airport body scanners spreading across US (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 10:36 AM PST

Transportation Security Administration employee John Carter demonstrates the stance in an advanced image technology unit at Boston Logan International Airport in Boston, Friday, March 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)AP - The Transportation Security Administration on Friday announced nine more U.S. airports that will receive body-scanning technology, as the U.S. heightens its effort to detect hidden explosives and other weapons amid a threat highlighted by an attempted bombing on Christmas Day.

Disposal of spilled coal ash a long, winding trip (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:26 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 file photo, shows machines working at the massive Arrowhead Landfill near Uniontown, Ala. More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in U.S. history, the problem is seeping into several other states. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)AP - More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in U.S. history, the problem is seeping into several other states.

Forecasters predict major flooding in North Dakota (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:02 AM PST

AP - The National Weather Service says there's a high risk for major flooding along North Dakota's Red River in the same area where residents held off record high waters last year.

Former Birmingham mayor gets 15 years for bribery (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 11:29 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct 19, 2009 file photo, Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford arrives at the federal building for his trial in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Langford was sentenced Friday, March 5, 2010 to 15 years in federal prison on his conviction on all 60 counts in a bribery and corruption case stemming from bond deals he approved as president of the Jefferson County Commission. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)AP - Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for taking clothes, Rolex watches, loan payments and cash worth more than $240,000 as bribes in return for lucrative bond work.

2 ex-FBI officials to probe NC crime lab practices (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:52 PM PST

AP - North Carolina's attorney general on Friday ordered an independent review of the state's crime lab following revelations about practices that led to a groundbreaking exoneration of a man wrongly accused of murder.

AP Source: Charges expected in NYC crane collapse (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:42 PM PST

AP - A crane company owner is expected to be charged with manslaughter in a 2008 accident that killed two workers as the top of a 200-foot-tall crane crashed down, a person with knowledge of the investigation said Friday.

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