2010年3月10日星期三

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Pa. suspect: Caretaker by day, 'Jihad Jane' online (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PST

In this June 26, 1997 booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose, the self-described 'Jihad Jane' who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden, is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say. LaRose is accused in an indictment filed Tuesday, March 9, 2010, of actively recruiting fighters, as well as agreeing to murder the artist, marry a terrorism suspect so he could move to Europe and martyr herself if necessary. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)AP - Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia.

Calif. boy who called 911 thanks dispatcher (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:53 PM PST

AP - A 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and high-fived on Wednesday the sheriff's dispatcher who took his call.

Math and English classes could be standardized (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:22 PM PST

In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 photo, first grader Victoria Bernade copies a sentence as teacher Lori Peck goes over sentence structure during class at Grace L. Patterson Elementary school in Vallejo, Calif. The nation's public schools are falling under severe financial stress as states slash education spending and drain federal stimulus money that staved off deep classroom cuts and widespread job losses. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide.

Census campaign targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:59 PM PST

AP - Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census announced a new campaign Thursday that aims to reach the hard-to-count demographic through its smart-phone-toting youngsters.

Kansas City, Mo., school board to vote on closures (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PST

In this photo taken Feb. 28, 2010, the Kansas City Board of Education building, located near the Sprint Center, is seen from McGee Street, in Kansas City, Mo. Sale of the building would help as the board tries to cut $50 million from next years budget. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - Parents, students and community leaders were making one last bid Wednesday night to persuade Kansas City school board members not to close nearly half the district's schools in an effort to avoid bankruptcy.

Va. gov counters state atty. gen.'s advice on gays (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) during their annual meeting in Washington, February 19, 2010. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT)AP - Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general's advice to public colleges.

Once-revered SC lawmaker freezes to death alone (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:31 PM PST

FILE - Juanita Goggins is seen in a 1974 file photo in Rock Hill, S.C. Goggins was the first black woman elected to the the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, and was hailed as a trailblazer at the time. Three decades later, Goggins died alone and freezing in the home she rented for 16 years, just four miles from the gleaming Statehouse dome. (AP Photo/File)AP - When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House.

Grocery card in your pocket can pinpoint salmonella (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 11:39 AM PST

In this photo taken March 9, 2010, Raymond Cirimele, 55, displays his Costco membership card outside his home in Chicago. Cirimele is one of at least 245 people in 44 states who have been sickened by a recent salmonella outbreak. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries and followed the trail of grocery purchases to a Rhode Island company that makes salami, then zeroed in on the pepper used to season the meat. He said no one asked for his shopper card data, but he would have provided it if someone had. 'I don't have any secrets, so I'm not worried about it,' he said. 'It's kind of like the whole airport security and all that. I'd rather fly on a safe plane.' (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.

School prom off after lesbian's date request (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:59 PM PST

AP - The prom's off at a northern Mississippi school after a lesbian student demanded she be allowed to bring her girlfriend.

Study: Law officers struggle to readjust after war (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 02:31 PM PST

Wayne Williamson stands at the pedestrian bridge on March 9, 2010 in Austin, Texas, where one of the three shots were fired about three years earlier in March 2007 that cost him his job. (AP Photo/Thao Nguyen)AP - For soldiers patrolling in Iraq and Afghanistan, death can come from a bomb hidden in a trash pile or an innocent-looking face in the crowd. Returning home alive can depend on the quick turn of a steering wheel or pull of a trigger.

Palm Inc. teeters in crowded smart phone market (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:06 PM PST

In This March 8, 2010 photo, a customer uses a Palm Pre Plus at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. Last year, Palm Inc. thought it had all the right pieces for a rebirth in the market it helped create. Palm had a new CEO who helped rival Apple make the iPod a household name, a well-regarded new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software. Now Palm might be the latest company to learn that great technology and an accomplished leader don't guarantee success. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.

Italy, FBI raids crack down on Mafia in US, Sicily (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:30 PM PST

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jeffrey H. Sloman speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 10, 2010 in Miami. The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart operating in Florida, part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob. Behind Sloman, from left, Raffaele Grassi, vice director, central operations service, Italian National Police, FBI Special Agent in Charge John V. Gillies and Lt. Wallace Haywood with the Broward Sheriff's Office. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart mapping out criminal turf in Florida — part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob.

Ex-Detroit councilwoman gets 37 months for bribery (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:25 PM PST

Monica Conyers arrives at the Theodore Levin Federal Courthouse in downtown Detroit for her sentencing on her bribery conviction, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Conyers is a former Detroit City Council member. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, John T. Greilick) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT, NO MAGS, NO SALESAP - A former Detroit city councilwoman was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for bribery after a federal judge refused to set aside her guilty plea during a stormy court hearing dominated by a dispute over evidence of other payoffs.

Check on Ohio State gunman found no criminal past (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 02:54 PM PST

In this ID photo released by Ohio State University, is shown Nathaniel Brown. Brown, a university custodial employee, reportedly shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, according to officials. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Ohio State University) NO SALESAP - Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn't reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison.

Drug arrests latest black mark on RI police force (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:10 PM PST

Providence Police narcotics detective Joseph Colanduono stands during arraignment Friday, March 5, 2010, in Providence, R.I., on charges he aided a cocaine dealing ring. (AP Photo/Mary Murphy, Pool)AP - After three Providence police officers were arrested last week in a cocaine-peddling sting, Chief Dean Esserman called it a "hard day" for the department.

Colo. gov back at Capitol after bike accident (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:34 PM PST

AP - Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter held his first news conference after a bike accident last week and says he's in pain, but recovering.

Families: 3 Americans detained in Iran call home (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 02:18 PM PST

FILE - This combination of undated file photos released by freethehikers.org shows, from left: Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd. The families of the three Americans detained in Iran for months say their loved ones have been allowed to call home for the first time. The families said in a statement Wednesday, March 10, 2010, that they received the calls Tuesday. The three reported being well. The families called the conversations 'a tremendous relief.' (AP Photo/freethehikers.org, File) NO SALESAP - Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran. When the time came, the conversation lasted only about a minute, she said, "so it was hard to say a lot."

Bad blood detailed in Maine 'lobster wars' trial (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 02:25 PM PST

FILE - This Aug. 18, 2009 file photo shows lobster traps and buoys sitting on a wharf at dawn on Matinicus Island, Maine. It was here on the morning of July 20 that longtime lobsterman Vance Bunker shot a fellow lobsterman in the neck. The shooting cast a spotlight on the long-standing territorial system that gives fishermen unofficial rights to specified waters. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)AP - Even under the rough-and-tumble rules of the sea that Maine lobstermen live by, staring down the barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun is extreme.

Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:24 PM PST

Graphic shows how a cardiac angiogram is administeredAP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.

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