2010年3月15日星期一

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Edwards mistress: Still in love, living 'truth' (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:05 PM PDT

In this Feb. 3, 2010 photo provided by GQ, Rielle Hunter holds Frances Quinn, her 2-year-old daughter fathered by John Edwards, at her home in Charlotte, N.C. In an interview with GQ, Hunter, the mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards, says she is helping him live 'a life of truth' and the two remain in love even after their affair helped trigger his downfall from the pinnacle of U.S. politics. (AP Photo/GQ, Mark Seliger) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO CROPPINGAP - The mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she is helping him live "a life of truth" and the two remain in love even after their affair helped trigger his downfall from the pinnacle of U.S. politics.

States go all in, expand gaming to plug the budget (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken March 8, 2010, the Prairie Meadows Casino sign is shown in Altoona, Iowa. Faced with a drop in gambling revenue, states are adding games, considering new casinos and increasing lottery options to keep their cut of the profits rolling in. Iowa already has 17 state-licensed casinos, and Gov. Chet Culver recommended this month that the state approve four more, citing the potential for new jobs. (AP Photo/Conrad Schmidt)AP - Faced with a drop in gambling revenue, states are adding games, considering new casinos and increasing lottery options — anything to keep their cut of the profits rolling in.

Stubborn storm darkens, floods much of Northeast (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:30 PM PDT

A homeowner, who would not give his name, takes out the trash as his sister's car sits crushed by a fallen tree in the driveway of his Larchmont, N.Y. home in the aftermath of a storm Monday, March 15, 2010. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - Torrential rains and high winds pounded the Northeast for a third day Monday, taking a heavy toll on people and property in a region that only recently restored power or finished digging out from the last of several major winter storms.

Toyota dismisses account of runaway Prius (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:31 PM PDT

Bob Waltz, Toyota Motor Sales USA Vice President of Product Quality and Service Support, left, speaks as Toyota Motor Sales USA Vice President of Communications Mike Michels looks on during a news conference held Monday, March 15, 2010 in San Diego. Toyota held the news conference to share preliminary findings of the company's technical investigation into an alleged incident of unintended acceleration involving a 2008 Toyota Prius driven by James Sikes. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Toyota Motor Corp. dismissed the story of a man who claimed his Prius sped out of control on the California freeway, saying Monday that its own tests found the car's gas pedal and backup safety system were working just fine.

Sandbags delivered ahead of expected Fargo flood (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Karry Hoganson lays sandbags, Monday, March 15, 2010, behind his home in Fargo, N.D. His neighbor's home was demolished earlier this month to make way for the clay dike next to his home. Hoganson bought the home in 2002. (AP Photo/The Forum, Michael Vosburg)AP - Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods along Fargo's Red River on Monday as residents began preparing to keep the looming flood waters away from their homes.

Some Toyota drivers suing in US for a full refund (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:16 PM PDT

In this Feb. 7, 2010 photo, the tailends of unsold 2010 Toyota Prius sedans form a long line at a Toyota dealership in Lakewood, Colo. Toyota owners and stockholders have peppered the Japanese automaker with more than 80 class-action lawsuits in the wake of widespread recalls, some contending that defective engineering has caused injuries or deaths and others claiming the company's woes have damaged the value of the vehicles. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - A group of Toyota owners sued the Japanese automaker Monday, demanding a full refund for their recalled cars and seeking a payout that could exceed several billion dollars.

NYC ex-bank prez charged in bailout fraud (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:12 PM PDT

AP - The former president of a small Manhattan community bank on Monday became the first person accused of trying to defraud the federal bailout program.

ACORN branches rename, rebrand after video scandal (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 03:55 AM PDT

In this photo taken, March 12, 2010, in Chicago, Michael Shea, Executive Director of Affordable Housing Centers of America, formally known as ACORN Housing poses in his office. Groups once affiliated with ACORN nationwide are changing their names in the wake of a video scandal late last year that tarnished the parent organization's name. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of a video scandal.

Boston art heist rattles investigators 20 years on (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:06 PM PDT

In this Thursday, March 11, 2010 photo, the empty frame, center, from which thieves cut Rembrandt's 'Storm on the Sea of Galilee' remains on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The painting was one of more than a dozen works stolen from the museum in 1990 in what is considered the largest art theft in history. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - It remains the most tantalizing art heist mystery in the world.

Soldier acquitted in 3 deaths faces military trial (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 03:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 picture, Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis leaves the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse after a federal hearing in Raleigh, N.C. The soldier who was acquitted of killing a mother and two of her young daughters in North Carolina more than 20 years ago is now going on trial in military court after new DNA tests linked him to the crimes. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - A soldier acquitted of killing a mother and two of her young daughters in North Carolina about 25 years ago is now going on trial in military court after prosecutors say new DNA tests link him to the crimes.

Mexico violence factors in spring break plans (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 03:57 PM PDT

AP - Marquette University senior Kelly Magennis wasn't even up prepping for the start of the biggest spring break week on Texas' South Padre Island when the first text message arrived from her mom forbidding her from crossing into Mexico.

AP Enterprise: US botched Haiti flights to Fla. (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 11:07 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 24, 2006 file photo, David Halstead, chief of the Florida Bureau of Preparedness and Response, right, listens to a question from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, second from left, during a briefing during a hurricane preparedness exercise at the Camp Blanding Joint Training Center near Starke, Fla. More than two weeks after Haiti's 2010 quake, Florida officials warned they could not treat any more victims. In response, the American military abruptly halted medical airlifts, saying Florida had refused to take additional patients and provoking a bitter exchange over who was responsible for the delays. 'I have advised the federal government that until we see a plan for the future transportation and care of these patients that Florida could not agree to accepting more patients,' the state emergency management chief, David Halstead, wrote in a Jan. 28 e-mail. 'We have been forced to daily react to last-minute requests to accept large number of long-term care patients.' (AP Photo/Oscar Sosa, File)AP - As hundreds of injured survivors of the Haiti earthquake overwhelmed Florida hospitals in January, state officials pleaded with the federal government for basic information about arriving patients but got little assistance, e-mails obtained by The Associated Press show.

Heart-shock device may disrupt quiet hospice death (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:56 PM PDT

This Aug. 2008 handout photo provided by Carol Filak shows Joseph Hoffman of West Orange, N.J., with his daughter Carol Filak of Clifton, Va. Filak had to repeatedly ask her father's cardiologist to turn off his implanted defibrillator when, dying of cancer, the 81-year-old entered hospice in January. (AP Photo/Family Photo provided by Carol Filak)AP - If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it turned off?

Scientists go 'gaga' to find creatures beneath 600 feet of ice (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 01:05 PM PDT

This video frame grab image provided by NASA, taken in Dec. 2009, shows a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is related to a shrimp, where a NASA team lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet and a curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then even parked itself on the cable attached to the camera. In a surprising discovery that shakes the idea of where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.

Gay seniors come out late, start second lifetime (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:19 AM PDT

People walk under a rainbow flag as they celebrate victory for gay rights during a parade in Mexico City March 14, 2010. Ten same-sex couples wed in Mexico on Sunday as Mexico City became the first Latin American city to defy religious taboos and macho stereotypes by legalizing gay marriage. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY)AP - On his 75th birthday, Bill Farthing decided to be reborn. In the six years since he'd buried his wife of 45 years, he'd felt as he did long before: Lonesome, different, outcast. He wondered if he was going crazy; he contemplated suicide.

CA bills push rules for ski, snowboard industry (AP)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:05 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 25,2010, Dana Fillinger Ashburn, left, inspects a ski helmet she is renting for her daughter, Devon Ashburn,7, at the Alpine Meadows Ski Resort in Alpine Meadows, Calif. Two bills introduced by Democratic lawmakers from Northern California would require minors to wear a helmet while skiing or snowboarding. One of them also would extend to resort operations requiring extensive injury reporting, sign posting and safety planning. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - On a ridge near the 8,600-foot summit of Alpine Meadows ski resort, 17-year-old snowboarder Lucas Fuller scopes out the many chutes and bowls that radiate out from Ward Peak.

Regulators accused of lax oversight at LA oilfield (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:21 PM PDT

A rig pumps oil from the Inglewood oil field, seen from the nearby Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, in the unincorporated Windsor Hills area of Los Angeles Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. The Inglewood field, one of the richest oil basins in the world where crude was discovered in 1924, sits adjacent to an area of homes once known as the 'black Beverly Hills.' Rather than eventually playing out and becoming an elaborately planned urban park, a new operator in 2004 began drilling what was planned to be the first of some 600 new wells over the next 20 years, without environmental review. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - This sprawling metropolis is built atop one of the richest oil basins in the world. Wells dot the city landscape, some hidden behind hollow building facades much like a Hollywood movie set, or, in the case of Beverly Hills High School, encased in a tower painted with flowers.

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