2010年3月19日星期五

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Judge orders renegotiation of 9/11 settlement (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:24 PM PDT

** CORRECTS DATE TO MARCH 19 ** FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. on Friday, March 19, 2010, a federal judge in New York rejected a multimillion dollar legal settlement for people sickened by dust from the World Trade Center because didn't contain enough money for the workers. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool)AP - A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortchanged 10,000 ground zero workers whom he called heroes.

Landscapers see green as weary East greets spring (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2010 file photo, pedestrians look on as a car sits crushed by a fallen tree in the aftermath of a storm in Larchmont, N.Y. The winter of 2009-10 left cities up and down the East Coast with several snowfall records, and yards trashed by the cold, snow, rain and wind wreaked by a series of strong storms. As spring officially arrives, perhaps no one is looking forward to it more than garden stores and landscapers, who stand to make a killing repairing the damage. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)AP - Gardeners and landscapers along the Eastern seaboard are making haste — and money — as spring begins and they pick up the pieces from the region's particularly harsh winter, which toppled more than snowfall records.

Cops seek more victims through killer's old photos (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:09 PM PDT

FILE - This combo shows five of the hundreds of photos released on March 10, 2010 by the Huntington Beach police and recovered during court-authorized searches of Rodney James Alcala's Monterey Park home and a storage locker Alcala rented in Seattle. Detectives released more than 100 photos of unidentified young women and girls found in the possession of convicted serial killer Alcala who was issued a death sentence in March 2010. Ever since, they have been overwhelmed by desperate, bereaved callers from as far away as Denmark who think they see a long-lost sister, mother, aunt or daughter in the timeworn images (AP Photo/Huntington Beach police, File)AP - Police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 photos found in a serial killer's storage locker, more than 30-year-old pictures of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair.

American released from Myanmar returns to US soil (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:48 PM PDT

Nyi Nyi Aung, right, a pro-democracy activist originally from Myanmar, who was freed Thursday, a month after a court sentenced him to three years in prison with hard labor, and his fiancee, Wa Wa Kyaw, smile as he speaks with reporters at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Md., Friday, March 19, 2010. The New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a mouthpiece for the country's military junta, said the government pardoned and deported Nyi Nyi Aung after giving 'special consideration to bilateral friendship' after the U.S. State Department requested his release. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)AP - A pro-democracy activist jailed for months in Myanmar after trying to visit his sick mother in prison arrived home in the United States on Friday, capping weeks of discussions between the ruling military junta and the U.S. State Department.

URS settles with Minn. for $5M in bridge collapse (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PDT

AP - Contractor URS Corp. and the state of Minnesota reached a $5 million settlement Friday in the state's lawsuit over the 2007 downtown Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 others.

Evidence found rotting in closed police department (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT

AP - A suburban police department left behind a roomful of evidence when it closed two years ago — including a moldy sexual assault kit that authorities said linked a man to the 2006 rape of a 13-year-old girl, nearly 200 guns and hundreds of bags of narcotics, officials said Friday.

Court: Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:09 PM PDT

** CORRECTS DATE OF PICTURE TO FEB. 28, 2006 ** FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2006 file photo, Anna Nicole Smith leaves the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest stop in the 15-year legal battle over the $1.6 billion estate that oil magnate J. Howard Marshall left after his 1995 death at age 90. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta,File)AP - The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

Chief: SD Police followed rules in AF sgt's outing (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:51 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Jene Newson shows Jene Newsome. Newsome was discharged earlier this year under the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' law after Rapid City, S.D., police officers saw an Iowa marriage license in her home and told the Ellsworth Air Force Base. The police were at Newsome's home in November with an arrest warrant for her partner, who was wanted on theft charges in Alaska. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jene Newsome) NO SALESAP - The Rapid City, S.D., police chief said in a report released Friday that he regrets his department's outing of a lesbian Air Force sergeant led to her military discharge, but that his officers followed department protocol.

7th anniversary of Iraq War passes, little noticed (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 21, 2003 file photo, a government building burns during heavy bombardment of Baghdad, Iraq by U.S.-led forces. Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - It was a day like any other day — except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten.

Texas gov. gives copy of pardon to man's family (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:30 PM PDT

Members of the Timothy Cole's family stands with his mother, Ruby Session, center, at his grave site at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas after receiving pardon documents from Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday, March 19, 2010. Mrs. Session stands with sons: Kevin, Kennard, third from the right, Reggie Kennard, center, and Sean Session and his daughter Ruby Session ,9, far right. Timothy Cole was serving a 25 -year sentence for rape of a Texas Tech student in 1985, when he died in prison in 1999. Cole was later exonerated after another man, Jerry Wayne Johnson, sent a letter to Cole's Family confessing to the crime. A Travis County judge in 2009 over turn the conviction, after DNA testing proved Cole's innocence. (AP Photo/Jeffery Washington)AP - The family of a Texas man who died while imprisoned for a rape he didn't commit cried and hugged at his graveside Friday with a framed copy of the state's first posthumous pardon — a document that finally proves his innocence.

APNewsBreak: Calif boosts sex offender tracking (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:02 PM PDT

AP - California parole officials said Friday they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist.

Calif. police dodge bullet in booby trap attacks (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:28 PM PDT

A tract home that had been repurposed into the headquarters of the Riverside County Gang Task Force in Hemet, Calif., is seen Thursday, March 18, 2010. A triggering device attached to a ballistic device narrowly missed wounding a police officer who sought to open the gate, which had been barring a driveway to the home. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Police officers in this retirement town in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them.

NYC cops sorry for pounding couple's door 50 times (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:38 PM PDT

The house where Rose and Walter Martins live in the Brooklyn borough of New York is photographed, Friday, March 19, 2010. A senior New York City police official apologized Friday for the 50 or so door-pounding visits police made to the home of a bewildered elderly couple. It seems a glitch in computer records had led them over and over to Walter and Rose Martin's modest home in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years.

Health care overhaul fight exposes Catholic rift (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:33 PM PDT

AP - An unusual public split between U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, nuns and hospitals over abortion in the health care overhaul could undermine the church hierarchy's influence on the debate and give anti-abortion Democrats the political cover they need to vote for the bill.

Fla. mom to get funds to pay for murder defense (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:34 PM PDT

AP - A judge ruled Friday that Casey Anthony is indigent and can use public money to help pay for her defense against charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter.

Many tools but no guarantees in forecasting floods (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:35 PM PDT

National Guard troops patrol the perimeter of flood waters along the Red River, Friday, March 19, 2010, in Fargo, N.D. The rising waters of the Red are expected to crest in Fargo on Sunday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - A year ago, weather forecasters changed their estimate late in the game of just how high the Red River would rise, stoking an 11th-hour sandbagging flurry in Fargo that proved unnecessary in the end because the new prediction was wrong.

Ore. lawsuit claims Boy Scouts sex abuse coverup (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:35 PM PDT

This undated image made available by the State of Oregon on March 18, 2010 shows Timur Dykes. Relying on about 1,000 confidential Boy Scouts of America files, the lawyer for a man sexually abused in the 1980s by Dykes, a Scout leader who later admitted to being a serial molester, claims the organization has covered up abuse for decades. (AP Photo/State of Oregon)AP - The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.

Accomplice to OC fortuneteller killing sentenced (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:13 PM PDT

AP - A North Carolina man who helped murder an Orange County fortuneteller and her daughter has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Employers, citing Mass. law, leery of health rules (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:05 PM PDT

AP - Massachusetts has fined more than a thousand companies over $18 million for failing to offer medical insurance to their workers — a precursor of what some business owners fear could happen on a national scale if President Obama signs a sweeping health care overhaul.

Man pleads not guilty to Calif. movie stabbing (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:47 PM PDT

AP - A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to stabbing a moviegoer in the neck with a meat thermometer during a screening of the film "Shutter Island."

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