2010年3月13日星期六

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Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:31 PM PST

In this undated family photo released by the King family shows Chelsea King, the missing 17-year-old teen from Poway a suburb of San Diego. The parents of a 17-year-old girl who failed to come home after a run in the park are pleading for people to come forward with information. (AP Photo/King Family Photo)  NO SALESAP - Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave, allegedly killed by a registered sex offender.


Obama promise: Focus on getting kids to college (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:37 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan listens to students, teachers and former students about their educational experience as he visits Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., during brief stops at schools in Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.


Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:42 PM PST

This undated image provided by the State of Utah shows Majority Leader Republican Kevin Garn. A late-night confession Thursday March 11, 2010 by Utah's House majority leader, Garn, about sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this highly conservative state's political establishment. (AP Photo/State of Utah)AP - Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.


Native Hawaiian government may become reality (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 01:31 PM PST

In this photo taken March 9, 2010, a large sign posted on a fence in the town of Waianae located on the Leeward Coast area of Honolulu on the island of Oahu voices it's displeasure with the United States government. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)AP - Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii.


Judge faces election after unpopular decision (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 01:25 PM PST

This undated image provided by the San Bernardino County Bar Association shows Superior Court Judge Robert Lemkau. Superior Court Judge Robert Lemkau made what turned out to be a fateful_and unpopular_ decision. Calling her a liar, the judge denied a woman's restraining order against a boyfriend who did exactly what he threatened. He killed their baby, along with himself, 10 day later. (AP Photo/San Bernardino County Bar Association)AP - The judge didn't believe the father was a threat and denied the mother's plea to keep him away from their 9-month-old son. It was a seemingly routine ruling in a busy family law court called on too often to referee passionate fights between broken young families over the care of babies.


US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 01:27 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations headquarters on Friday, March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.


Jewish retiree creates stir defending Pope Pius (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 11:04 AM PST

Gary Krupp poses for a picture in his home in Long Beach, N.Y., Monday, March 8, 2010. Krupp, who is Jewish, says he grew up hating Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II. Now, at 62, the retired Long Island businessman is caught up in the controversy over the Vatican's effort to make Pius a saint. He says that as a Jew he's not interested in the sainthood issue, he just wants to defend the wartime pope's reputation from 'the worst character assassination of the 20th century.' (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender.


Wind, rain knocks out power to 300K in Northeast (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:46 PM PST

Barry Warhoftig, of Philadelphia, Pa., leans into the blowing wind as he runs on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., Saturday, March 13, 2010,  (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Strong winds and heavy rain have knocked out power for nearly 300,000 customers in the Northeast, while diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site.


Daylight-saving time: It's back (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 08:18 AM PST

Graphic to be used as a reminder of daylight saving time0AP - America is springing forward.


Analysis: NY politics goes from drama to tragedy (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 11:40 AM PST

AP - New York politics, which has consumed more than a dozen elected officials or top staffers in the past two years, has become a kind of bizarre "Survivor" show. And although careers have been ruined and some face prison sentences, none of them lost their jobs by actually being voted off this island.

Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:25 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by Christine Mott, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, is shown. Paulin-Ramirez was the second American arrested in a plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over a 2007 sketch depicting the head of the Prophet Muhammad on a dog's body.   (AP Photo/Courtesy of Christine Mott)  NO SALESAP - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.


Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:07 PM PST

Traders work in the newly renovated section of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street stocks are set to build on nearly year-and-a-half highs as they face next week's key economic reports and the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AP - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks.


Many WTC responders show early signs of heart woes (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 05:20 AM PST

AP - Law enforcement officers who worked near ground zero after the World Trade Center attacks seem to show early signs of heart problems at a higher rate than would be expected for their age, a new study suggests.

Authorities: Haim's name on illegal prescription (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:23 AM PST

This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show 'The Two Coreys' with his friend Corey Feldman. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday March 10, 2010. He was 38. (AP Photo/Courtesy AETN, L. Pief Weyman) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDITAP - The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.


New Florida case thwarts Calif. molester's release (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 08:47 PM PST

Members of the media watch a Florida FBI videotaped interview from March 8, 2010, of Jackie Zudis, an alleged victim of George England, as she describes living and being abused by England for over 20 years, Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Santa Ana, Calif. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Ken Steinhardt) LA TIMES OUT; NO SALES; MAGS OUT.AP - The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child porn and a woman's allegations that he bought her as a child in Asia and subjected her to years of sexual abuse while molesting her young friends.


Ohio man found guilty in teens' slayings (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 08:29 PM PST

With his hands handcuffed behind his back, Anthony Kirkland, right, talks with attorney Norm Aubin during trial at the Hamilton County Courthouse on Friday, March 12, 2010, in Cincinnati. Kirkland is charged with killing two teenage girls and then burning the bodies. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Amanda Davidson) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALESAP - An Ohio registered sex offender, whose attorneys had told jurors he admitted to killing two teenage girls, has been found guilty of the slayings.


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