2010年3月23日星期二

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AP Exclusive: Charges eyed for ex-Blackwater boss (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 09:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 21, 2008, file photo Gary Jackson, then-President of Blackwater Worldwide, is seen at Blackwater's offices in Moyock, N.C. Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against Jackson, and two other former Blackwater top officials over allegations they illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at the company's North Carolina headquarters. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)AP - Federal prosecutors are considering weapons charges against former executives at Blackwater Worldwide over allegations the private security company illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at its North Carolina headquarters, The Associated Press has learned.

SC filmmaker: Channels showed porn, not his comedy (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT

AP - A former South Carolina lawmaker is suing cable TV channels HBO and Showtime, claiming they promoted his low-budget comedy about Appalachia called "The Hills Have Thighs" only to instead show a soft-core pornographic movie with the same title.

Judge: No school prom but lesbian's right violated (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PDT

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, center, flanked by an American Civil Liberties Union legal team, walks to the federal courthouse in Aberdeen, Miss., Monday, March 22, 2010, for a hearing regarding the ACLU's preliminary injunction to force the prom at her high school. McMillen was told by school authorities that she could not wear a tux or bring a same sex date to the prom on April 2. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - The prom's still off at a Mississippi high school that canceled it instead of letting a lesbian student bring her girlfriend, but a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the district's actions did violate the teen's constitutional rights.

White House, experts: Health care suit will fail (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:56 PM PDT

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announces at a news conference that he has filed a lawsuit against the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U. S. Department of Treasury, and the U. S. Department of Labor, alleging the health care reform bill signed into law by President Obama is unconstitutional, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in Tallahassee, Fla.(AP Photo/Phil Coale)AP - The White House says it isn't worried that 13 state attorneys general are suing to overturn the massive health care overhaul, and many legal experts agree the effort is futile.

Murder charges filed in case of 5 missing NJ teens (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT

AP - One night in 1978, five teenage boys disappeared without a trace in what would become one of the longest and most baffling missing-persons cases New Jersey has ever seen.

Gun in Ala. campus shooting bought 2 decades ago (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:14 PM PDT

FILE - A Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 file police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Bishop is scheduled for her first court appearance on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept., File)AP - The gun used to kill three people during a faculty meeting at an Alabama school was bought for the suspect's husband two decades ago when he said he was having problems with a neighbor, an investigator testified Tuesday.

China thwarts Google's detour around censorship (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Flowers are left on the Google logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Google Inc. stopped censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland Monday but said it will maintain other operations in the country. The maneuver attempts to balance Google's disdain for China's Internet rules with the company's desire to profit from an explosively growing market. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Google's attempted detour around China's Internet censorship rules was met with countermeasures Tuesday by the communist government, which blocked people on the mainland from seeing search results dealing with such forbidden topics as the pro-democracy movement.

APNewsBreak: Winfrey settles Pa. defamation suit (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 25, 2008 file photo, U.S. television presenter Oprah Winfrey arrives for the dinner birthday party of former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela in central London's Hyde Park. Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by the ex-headmistress of her girls school in South Africa, lawyers said Tuesday March 23, 2010. The lawsuit by former headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane claimed Winfrey defamed her in remarks made in the wake of a 2007 sex-abuse scandal at the school. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)AP - Oprah Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a headmistress she had accused of performing poorly at her South African girls school, where some students claimed they were abused, lawyers said Tuesday.

Bleak budgets force schools to consider closure (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 12:23 PM PDT

This March 18, 2010 photo shows a school crossing sign above trash left across the street from McCoy Elementary School. McCoy Elementary is one of nearly half the schools in the Kansas City district expected to close before classes resume next fall, part of a wave of school closures across the country. Residents are fearful that the neighborhood could become even worse, attracting drug dealers and vandals when the children are gone. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - In a neighborhood dotted with boarded up homes, trash and gang graffiti, McCoy Elementary has been an oasis.

Witnesses: NY killing suspect had swastika tattoo (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:22 PM PDT

AP - A teenager accused of murder in the hate crime stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant had tattoos depicting a swastika and a symbol he said represented "white power," witnesses testified Tuesday.

Older women need 1-hour workouts to fend off flab (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:35 PM PDT

In this March 22, 2010 photo, Janet Katzin, 61, of Jericho, N.Y., exercises on a recumbent bicycle at X-Sport gym at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)AP - Rev up the treadmill: Sobering new research spells out just how much exercise women need to keep the flab off as they age — and it's a lot.

Friend: US man held in NKorea 'not a terrorist' (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 12:12 PM PDT

AP - A Boston man facing trial in North Korea for illegally entering the communist country "is not a terrorist" but a deeply religious English teacher dedicated to his students, a friend told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Neb. CSI chief convicted of evidence tampering (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:56 PM PDT

AP - A judge on Tuesday convicted a top crime scene investigator of evidence tampering, after prosecutors argued that the investigator planted blood from a slaying victim in a car linked to two innocent suspects to bolster the case against them.

Elderly Conn. sisters battle in court over jackpot (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 01:31 PM PDT

AP - Among the nine siblings in their family, Rose Bakaysa and her younger sister Theresa Sokaitis always shared a special bond.

Condemned Texas man seeks reprieve for DNA testing (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 10:50 AM PDT

AP - A condemned man has asked Gov. Rick Perry to halt his execution so that DNA taken from the scene where his girlfriend and her sons were killed can be tested.

Endangered whale birth photos taken near Navy site (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:35 PM PDT

In a Saturday, March 20, 2010 aerial photo provided by the University of North Carolina-Wilmington Marine Mammal Dept., an endangered right while is seen giving birth in waters near where the Navy plans to establish a training range off the coast of northern Florida. (AP Photo/ University of North Carolina-Wilmington Marine Mammal Dept.)AP - Biologists conducting a survey for the U.S. military said Tuesday they photographed an endangered right whale giving birth near a proposed Navy training range offshore of Georgia and Florida.

2 Philly kids face charges in random-attack game (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 11:35 AM PDT

AP - Two preteens assaulted a woman walking home through a playground as part of a violent game called "Catch and Wreck," in which children identify targets they think are homeless and then beat and rob them for fun, police said Tuesday.

Report: Catholic clergy abuse claims drop in US (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 5, 2005 file photo, a procession moves down the center isle at the Catherdal in Covington, Ky., during mass. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington agreed Friday to set up a $120 million fund to compensate victims of child-molesting priests and other employees. While the Roman Catholic church in Europe reels from a widening sex abuse crisis, the scandal that has plagued the U.S. church for nearly a decade is tapering off, a report released Tuesday March 23, 2010 says. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman, File)AP - While the Roman Catholic church in Europe reels from a widening sex abuse crisis, the scandal that has plagued the U.S. church for nearly a decade is tapering off, a report released Tuesday says.

Tea partiers vow revenge over health overhaul (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 09:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 8, 2010 file photo, Tea Party member Greg Hernandez, of Quicksburg, Va., wearing a tri-corner hat and tea bag, listens to speakers during a rally at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber/file)AP - If you thought Tea Party activists were mad before, you ain't seen nothing yet.

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