2010年3月16日星期二

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Ivy League's Cornell responds to 3 gorge deaths (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:09 PM PDT

AP - Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridges and going door-to-door to check on students after three undergrads plunged to their deaths in the past month.

Brazen Conn. warehouse heist nets $75M in pills (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

The Eli Lilly warehouse is seen here in Enfield, Conn., Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Authorities say tens of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs have been stolen in a brazen, well-planned heist at a pharmaceutical company's regional warehouse in Connecticut. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Leslloyd F. Alleyne) MANDATORY CREDITAP - In a Hollywood-style heist, thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled inside and scored one of the biggest hauls of its kind — not diamonds, gold bullion or Old World art, but about $75 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs.

Police: Man may have had images of missing women (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 04:49 PM PDT

Convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala, right, is escorted into the courtroom after jury deliberations during the penalty phase of his trial at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, Calif. on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Jurors took just an hour to return the death recommendation after a six-week trial. (AP Photo/Pool, Sam Gangwer)AP - Relatives and friends of four women who have been missing since the 1970s told investigators they recognized their loved ones in photos found in the locker of a convicted serial killer, police said Tuesday.

Hearing set in lesbian teen's suit to force prom (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, is photographed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Fulton, Miss., a day after the high school announced they wouldn't hold the senior prom April 2. McMillen wanted to bring a same-sex date and wear a tuxedo. (AP Photo/Matthew Sharpe)AP - School officials in a rural Mississippi county told a lesbian student to get "guys" to take her and her girlfriend to a high school prom and warned the girls against slow dancing with each other because that could "push people's buttons," according to documents filed Tuesday in federal court.

Clinic: Woman championed by Obama eligible for aid (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:35 PM PDT

President Barack Obama is introduced by Connie Anderson, sister of cancer patient Natoma Canfield, who wrote the president saying she gave up her health insurance after it rose, before he spoke about health care reform, Monday, March 15, 2010, at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center in Strongsville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - A woman championed as the Obama administration's emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, according to officials at the Ohio hospital where she is being treated.

Mexico-bound bus crashes in Texas, killing 2 (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:33 PM PDT

Carmen Paz, left, 17, of Longview, Texas, walks with an Atascosa County sheriff's deputy as emergency responders tend to victims involved in a bus accident on southbound Interstate 37 near Campbellton, Texas on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. The bus was headed for Mexico. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen) ** MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SAN ANTONIO OUT **AP - A crowded bus carrying young families and spring breakers toward Mexico went careening off a Texas highway and flipped onto its side Tuesday, killing two people and forcing dozens of bloodied passengers to climb to safety through broken windows and an emergency exit.

A beach, a jogger, a failing plane, and death (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:23 PM PDT

An Experimental Lancair IV-P airplane lies beached on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Tuesday, March 16, 2010, the day after its pilot made an emergency landing. The pilot, Edward Smith, and his passenger survived the crash, but a man jogging on the beach was killed when he was struck by the plane. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)AP - Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter's third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod.

Court: Chicago man in terror case to change plea (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PDT

FILE- In this Dec. 9, 2009 file courtroom drawing shows David Coleman Headley, left, pleads not guilty before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago to charges that accuse him of conspiring in the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and of planning to launch an armed assault on a Danish newspaper. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A Chicago man accused of scouting out the Indian city of Mumbai before the 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotting to attack a Danish newspaper has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, a court said Tuesday.

Montana man spends 4 days stuck in car in snowbank (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 05:31 PM PDT

This 2002 picture provided by Lou Rogers shows him in Apache Junction, Ariz. The 67-year-old country musician from Montana who spent four days in his car stuck on a remote mountain road said he wrote a goodbye letter and was preparing himself for death when he was rescued. (AP Photo/Lou Rogers)AP - A 67-year-old country musician from Montana who spent four days in his car stuck on a remote mountain road said he wrote a goodbye letter and was preparing himself for death when he was rescued.

4.4 quake damages only nerves in L.A. area (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 02:01 PM PDT

A quake reading on a seismograph. Los Angeles and surrounding areas were rattled early Tuesday by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake, US seismologists said.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AP - Southern Californians were jolted from their sleep before dawn Tuesday as a small but strongly felt earthquake struck beneath Los Angeles' eastern suburbs.

Lesson learned: More buy flood insurance after '09 (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 01:28 PM PDT

Gary Mailloux removes a pump from the pool outside his north Fargo, N.D. home on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Mailloux said he views his policy as a cheap investment. Mailloux bought insurance in 2008 and signed up again last September, six months after a frantic sandbagging effort saved his house. 'I think it only costs me 12 bucks a month,' Mailloux said. 'I waste money at a higher rate than that.' In North Dakota, fewer than 4,000 residents had flood coverage before last year's disaster. That has more than tripled to over 13,000. (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)AP - When the swollen Red River threatened his uninsured house last spring, all Mark Baumgardner could do was pack up, leave and hope he wouldn't lose everything.

Northeast slowly dries out from wind-whipped storm (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 01:56 PM PDT

Two people row down the block to inspect the amount of water in their homes after the Passaic River flooded on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Little Falls, N.J. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - The powerful nor'easter had moved out at sea, but flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities.

Helicopter rescues horse stranded on Ariz. sandbar (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 03:48 PM PDT

This image taken from video courtesy of KTVK shows 'Colorado' the horse being flown to safety Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Buckeye, Ariz. by a helicopter after he spent five days stranded on a sandbar on the Gila River about 36 miles southwest of Phoenix. (AP Photo/KTVK)AP - It's not every day you see a horse fly.

Army drops bayonets, busts abs in training revamp (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 02:53 PM PDT

Basic training solders, private Joel Yuhas, back, and private David Glisson, front, battle each other, during pugil stick training, which is intended to hone warrior skills, at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)AP - New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic training regimen for the first time in three decades.

Volunteers along Red River in flood-fighting mode (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 01:24 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 - Volunteers in North Dakota were in flood-fighting mode again Tuesday filling sandbags while contractors constructed clay levees along the fast-rising Red River to help protect nearby homes from the murky waters.

Journalists describe New Orleans police run-ins (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 03:06 PM PDT

AP - Several journalists described run-ins with New Orleans police Tuesday as they testified about allegations that city officers routinely arrest or threaten people who film them.

9 taken to NC hospital after bad smell on airplane (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 01:58 PM PDT

AP - Nine crew members and passengers aboard a Jamaica-bound US Airways flight were taken to a hospital with coughs and sore throats after smelling strong odors Tuesday, two months after 15 people aboard the same jet were treated for similar problems.

Winfrey due in Philly for 2-week defamation trial (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 02:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2009 file photo, Oprah Winfrey arrives at the premiere of the film 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire,' at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles. Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted at the school, a U.S. judge ruled. The case is now set for trial on March 29, 2010 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)AP - Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is expected to spend two weeks defending herself at trial in a defamation case linked to the sex-abuse scandal at her girls school in South Africa.

Woman who drove into lake, killing kids, sentenced (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 11:43 AM PDT

Amber Turley, right, is escorted from the Conway County Court House in Morrilton, Ark., Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Turley, who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of child endangerment after tearfully telling the court she had been drinking alcohol the night of the accident. Circuit Judge Jerry Don Ramey sentenced Amber Turley, 27, to three two-year prison terms, to run concurrently. She will also be on probation for four years after her release. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - A woman who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of child endangerment after tearfully telling the court she had been drinking alcohol that night.

NYC restaurants must now show their report cards (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 12:58 PM PDT

AP - New York City's 24,000 restaurants — from its internationally known eateries on down to its most modest pizza counters — will have to display large letter grades near their entrances indicating how clean they are under a system approved Tuesday.

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