2010年3月21日星期日

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Flood fears recede in Fargo as river hits crest (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Sandbagged homes are encroached upon by flood waters from the swollen Red River, Sunday, March 21, 2010, south of Fargo, N.D. The river crested earlier today at just under 37 feet, which is about four feet below the 2009 record level. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The good news was all about things that didn't happen: No floodwaters pushing aside hastily built sandbag walls, no neighborhoods evacuated, no panicked residents wondering if they'd ever see their homes again.

2 Baltimore officers shot during traffic stop (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 09:18 AM PDT

AP - Two police officers who had pulled over a suspicious vehicle were shot and wounded by the driver, and the suspect was killed when the officers returned fire, Baltimore police said Sunday.

Snowmobiles, ATVs, lobster boats used for census (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 10:24 AM PDT

Census worker Danielle Forino poses Friday, March 19, 2010, in Fort Kent, Maine, next to the all-terrain vehicle she'll be using to deliver forms to camps in remote sections of the North Maine Woods. When she encounters trails where the snow is too deep she'll use snowshoes to reach her destinations. Maine and Alaska are the only two states that have been designated by the Census Bureau as requiring special travel arrangements to reach remote locations. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles — even lobster boats — to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation's populace.

Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 05:09 PM PDT

A row of new 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles sit for sale in the car lot at the Toyota dealership in El Cajon, California March 9, 2010. REUTERS/Mike BlakeAP - Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles.

Tens of thousands rally for immigration reform (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 05:16 PM PDT

With the Capitol in the background, farm workers from West Palm Beach, Fla., march and chant while attending a rally for immigration reform on the National Mall in Washington on Sunday, March 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Frustrated with the lack of action to overhaul the country's immigration system, tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied on the National Mall and marched through the streets of the capital Sunday, waving American flags and holding homemade signs in English and Spanish.

Obama vows commitment to immigration reform (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 01:22 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is reassuring immigration reform advocates that he is committed to working with Congress on a comprehensive bill to fix a "broken immigration system."

Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90 (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 04:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2002 file photo, Stewart Udall, former interior secretary and three-term Arizona congressman, sits in his home in Santa Fe, N.M. Stewart Udall, who sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s and later became a crusader for victims of radiation exposure from the government's Cold War nuclear programs, died Saturday. He was 90. (AP Photo/Jeff Geissler, File)AP - Stewart Udall, an elder in a famed political family who led the Interior Department as it promoted an expansion of public lands and helped win passage of major environmental laws, has died at the age of 90.

Giant bluestone sculpture for sale in Catskills (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 10:35 AM PDT

In this March 11, 2010 photo, Tad Richards poses at Opus 40 in Saugerties, N.Y. Richards' stepfather, Harvey Fite, spent 37 years turning an abandoned bluestone quarry in the Catskill Mountains into a strange and striking landscape sculpture. Richards and his wife, Pat, live on the site and have run Opus 40 since 1987. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Harvey Fite spent 37 years turning an abandoned bluestone quarry in the Catskill Mountains into a strange and striking landscape sculpture. Visitors to Opus 40 walk through rock-wall mazes that swirl around a 9-ton monolith looming in the center like a Stone Age exclamation mark.

Police: Boy, 16, made racial comment at NJ Walmart (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 11:46 PM PDT

Gloucester County, New Jersey prosecutor Sean Dalton, right, listens as Washington Township Police chief Rafael Muniz, left, answers a question Saturday, March 20, 2010, in Washington Township, N.J., as they announce police have arrested a 16-year-old Atlantic County boy on charges of harassment and bias intimidation in the case of a racial comment that was made over the public-address system at a Wal-Mart store in southern New Jersey. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in a southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday.

No injuries in emergency landing at O'Hare (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 01:23 PM PDT

AP - Chicago officials say there were no injuries after an emergency landing at O'Hare International Airport.

Enviros, growers agree on farmland reuse for solar (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 09:45 AM PDT

AP - Cash-strapped farmers in California's agricultural heartland and environmentalists at odds over water rights and wildlife protections finally agree on something: that thousands of acres of cracked, salty farmland is the perfect site for a sprawling utility-scale solar farm.

More snow falling in Okla., Ark. spring blizzard (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Toby Sumner, of Ritzman Lawn Service, clears snow in front of a Weaver's Department Store window Saturday, March 20, 2010, in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - More snow fell Sunday as part of a powerful storm blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first weekend of spring.

Thousands rally to pull troops from 2 war zones (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 10:02 PM PDT

Henry Shoiket, 92, of Rutherford, N.J., joins other anti-war protesters in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, Saturday, March 20, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Struggling town turns out to bury fallen soldier (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 08:46 PM PDT

AP - Residents from the small communities just outside the mountains of Glacier National Park buried one of their own Saturday, a young soldier from Hungry Horse killed by Afghan insurgents earlier this month.

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