2010年3月30日星期二

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Feds: Christian militia needed to be `taken down' (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 05:11 PM PDT

This combo of eight photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service on Monday March 29, 2010 shows from top left, David Brian Stone Sr., 44, of Clayton, Mich,; David Brian Stone Jr. of Adrian, Mich,; Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio; Tina Mae Stone and bottom row from left, Michael David Meeks, 40, of Manchester, Mich,; Kristopher T. Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio; Joshua John Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Mich.; and Thomas William Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind.,. Nine suspects tied to Hutaree, a Christian militia that was preparing for the Antichrist were charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then kill scores more by attacking a funeral using homemade bombs, federal prosecutors said Monday. Federal authorities say Stone's other son, Joshua Matthew Stone is a fugitive. Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind., was arrested Sunday in Illinois after an FBI raid Saturday in Hammond, Ind. In court Monday, he initially said he was the person named in the federal indictment, but when read the allegations, he said 'I'm not that guy.' U.S. District Judge Paul Cherry ordered Piatek to return Wednesday for an identity and bond hearing. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshall)AP - It started inside a trailer home in rural Michigan, where a small family gathered before bed for prayer. Years later, the private devotions had evolved into a small militia of "Christian warriors" preparing to fight the Antichrist.

A battered Rhode Island watches as the water rises (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:28 PM PDT

A man leaps across flooded Valley Street in Providence, R.I., Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Heavy rains and swollen rivers have caused flooding in the area. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - A record-shattering rainstorm hammered the Northeast on Tuesday, delivering widespread flooding for the second time this month and unleashing particular havoc in Rhode Island, a tiny coastal state already beleaguered by a sagging economy and backbreaking unemployment rate.

Philly charter school moonlights as a nightclub (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:55 PM PDT

City Controller Alan Butkovitz makes remarks during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Butkovitz is investigating spending practices at the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, which is already under fire for operating in a building that doubles as a nightclub. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Who knew a school cafeteria could be so much fun?

Lesbian, girlfriend OK for private Miss. prom (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:53 PM PDT

FILE - Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, is seen in a Monday, March 22, 2010 photo as she leaves the federal courthouse in Aberdeen, Miss. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Mississippi school district violated McMillen's rights by refusing to allow her to bring her girlfriend to the prom, but he said he would not force the school to hold the event.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - An attorney says a lesbian student who sued a Mississippi school over its policy banning same-sex prom dates can bring her girlfriend to a privately sponsored dance.

Calif. judge sentences serial killer to death (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:42 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sitting in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)AP - Relatives of victims poured out their grief and anger Tuesday before convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala was sentenced to death in a packed courtroom in the 1970s strangling of four women and a 12-year-old girl.

Bullying raises questions about schools' vigilance (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:55 PM PDT

AP - A gay teenager in New York wins $50,000 from a school district that failed to stop taunts about his sexual orientation. The Justice Department investigates complaints that administrators ignored racial bullying in a Philadelphia school.

Dem AGs rebuff GOP govs on health-care lawsuits (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 05:47 PM PDT

AP - Republican governors in two western states want to join in legal challenges to recent federal health care legislation, but each is meeting stiff resistance from the same obstacle: an attorney general from the rival party.

Priest defends Vatican's handling of Wis. scandal (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:37 PM PDT

AP - A priest who investigated allegations that another priest sexually abused some 200 deaf Wisconsin children over a 24-year span defended the Vatican's handling of the case Tuesday, saying it's unfair to assume the current pope knew about the investigation at the time.

Fire at La. chemical warehouse forces evacuations (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:35 PM PDT

Firefighters spray water onto the burning Coco Resources warehouse on Eden Church Road in Denham Springs, La. on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Tim Mueller)AP - A huge fire broke out at a chemical warehouse Tuesday in southeastern Louisiana, rocketing 55-gallon drums into the sky, forcing the evacuation of about 200 people and pulling in about 100 firefighters, authorities said.

Cops: Minn. man trapped, shot ex with kids in car (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:16 PM PDT

AP - A Minnesota man who repeatedly accused his ex-wife of child abuse rammed her car into a tree and shot her to death in front of their three young children before fleeing in a vehicle belonging to good Samaritans who responded to the crash, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Teacher who inspired 'Stand and Deliver' film dies (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:17 PM PDT

FILE - This March 9, 1988 file provided by Warner Bros., shows actor Edward James Olmos, left, comparing notes with high school teacher Jaime Escalante during the filming of the Warner Bros. film 'Stand And Deliver,' in Los Angeles. Escalante died Tuesday March 30, 2010 in Reno, Nev. He was 79. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., File) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDITAP - Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who transformed a tough East Los Angeles high school and inspired the movie "Stand and Deliver," died Tuesday. He was 79.

Suicide-slaying suspected in deaths of 4 in NC (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:16 PM PDT

AP - Police on Tuesday said a North Carolina father sent his daughter to school for two weeks with a dire warning: Tell anyone about your two dead siblings at home, and I'll kill you and your brother, too.

Ex-Ga. congressman disputes ethics allegations (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:36 PM PDT

AP - A former congressman running for governor in Georgia disputed claims Tuesday that he may have broken ethics rules with his auto salvage business.

Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning' (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2007 file photo, the magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) is shown in Geneva, Switzerland. The world's largest atom smasher set a record for high-energy collisions on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 by crashing proton beams into each other at three times more force than ever before. In a milestone in the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider's ambitious bid to reveal details about theoretical particles and microforces, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, collided the beams and took measurements at a combined energy level of 7 trillion electron volts. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)AP - The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang — a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began.

Judge asked to stop New Orleans hospital projects (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:33 PM PDT

AP - Preservationists say the construction of two hospitals to replace ones damaged by Hurricane Katrina would wipe out a historic New Orleans neighborhood, and they want a federal judge to block the projects.

Body parts found at Kansas medical waste company (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Containers holding unidentified body parts are stored by the Wyandotte County coroner Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Kansas City, Kan. The body parts were discovered in a truck at a medical waste company. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - Three individuals have been identified so far among six heads and numerous other human body parts found in a truck at a Kansas medical waste facility, including at least one man who was to have been cremated, a coroner said Tuesday.

NYC pays poor for good conduct, with mixed results (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:11 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, right, looks at Marilexis Guillen, as she talks to the media about benefits of the Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards Program, a program that gives money to low income families who make sure that their children improve their educational outcomes, during a news conference in The Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Looking on is Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs, center. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)AP - An experimental anti-poverty program that pays the poor for maintaining good habits — $25 to $150 for things such as going to the dentist, staying on the job or opening a bank account — has not exactly been life-changing.

Insecurity cams? About half in NYC don't work (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:42 PM PDT

Two ceiling-mounted video surveillance cameras are seen as a No. 1 subway train arrives at the 34th Street station, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in New York. On a subway train in the middle of Manhattan, two men were stabbed to death after a night out clubbing. But three days after the slaying, police were still piecing together a description of the killer because there were no surveillance cameras in the station. About half of the 4,313 cameras installed along the city's public transportation system aren't operable, and transit police have been cut at some of the city's major bridges and tunnels, which some say could make the city more vulnerable to crime or a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - NEW YORK — About half the 4,313 security cameras installed along New York City's subways aren't seeing a thing — a blind spot in the crime and terrorism safety net for the nation's largest city.

2 rescued after hour on stalled Miami fair ride (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:04 PM PDT

AP - Two women dangled 50 feet sideways above the ground aboard a stalled fair ride but came down unharmed about an hour later Tuesday, laughing it off and eager to get in line for their next thrill.

FBI giving cops critical info: How to spot an IED (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:24 AM PDT

In a Thursday, March 11, 2010 photo, household chemicals ignite during a class for police officers, fire fighters and first-responders on how to identify, disrupt and dismantle IEDs or improvised explosive devices, in Blythe, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - If police officers find grainy white powder at a makeshift lab and assume they've made a drug bust, they could be making an explosive mistake.

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