2010年3月31日星期三

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1963 letter indicates former pope knew of abuse (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 02:59 PM PDT

Manuel Vega former Los Angeles Police officer and alleged victim of clergy sex abuse speaks during a news conference outside of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles Wednesday March 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - The head of a Roman Catholic order that specialized in the treatment of pedophile priests visited with the then-pope nearly 50 years ago and followed up with a letter recommending the removal of pedophile priests from ministry, according to a copy of the letter released Wednesday.

Police: NJ teen sold stepsister, 7, for party sex (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Rowan Towers at 620 West State Street, in Trenton, N.J., is shown on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The building was the site of a party where police say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old sister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys. Police say the child later put on her clothes and two strangers walked the crying girl home. She was treated at a hospital. Police say the teenager, who stayed behind, also took money to have sex with others at a party in the Trenton apartment on Sunday. The older girl is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - It started with a party invitation to a 15-year-old girl from some young men she knew. She took her 7-year-old stepsister to an apartment down the street from their home near the New Jersey Statehouse, where the girls had been hanging around outside on a Sunday afternoon.

Bush wiretapping program takes hit in Calif ruling (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 03:08 PM PDT

AP - In a repudiation of the Bush administration's now-defunct Terrorist Surveillance Program, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that government investigators illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of an Islamic charity and two American lawyers without a search warrant.

Killer of Kan. abortion doctor faces life sentence (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 03:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2010 file photo, Scott Roeder confers with his attorney during this first-degree murder trial in Wichita, Kan. Roeder could be sent to prison Thursday April 1, 2010 for the rest of his life, but he may have gotten what he wanted all along: It is markedly harder in Kansas to get an abortion. No one has stepped in to fill the void left by abortion doctor George Tiller's death nearly 10 months ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Tuttle, Pool, File)AP - The man who gunned down one of the few doctors in the U.S. to perform late-term abortions could be sent to prison Thursday for the rest of his life, but he may have gotten what he wanted all along: It is now markedly harder in Kansas to get an abortion.

Lawmakers push states to speed taxpayer refunds (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 01:24 PM PDT

Eric McDaniel, a tax season data entry operator working for the Missouri Department of Revenue, enters information from tax returns into the state's system in the Truman State Building in Jefferson City, Mo. on March 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Julie Smith)AP - Give people their money. It's the rallying cry of lawmakers around the country pushing back against states that are delaying tax refunds to shore up their budgets.

AP Enterprise: Calif. freeing some violent inmates (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:25 PM PDT

AP - Inmates convicted of violent crimes are among those being freed early from California jails to save money, despite lawmakers' promises that they would exclude most dangerous prisoners and sex offenders.

3-day effort aims for accurate census of homeless (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 11:49 AM PDT

AP - Thousands of U.S. Census workers have fanned out to soup kitchens, city streets and homeless shelters this week in an attempt to count the nation's homeless, an operation that officials are hoping yields the most accurate count yet.

Witness: Crowd shot in DC had been to funeral (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 02:24 PM PDT

Next to a tribute of four teddy bears, youth point at bullet holes in the building where ten people were shot Tuesday night, in Washington, on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - The crowd of people targeted in a drive-by shooting that killed four and wounded five others had just returned from the funeral of a victim of another recent shooting nearby, a witness said Wednesday.

'Tony' the tiger pulled from moat at SF zoo (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 02:19 PM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 30, 2010, San Francisco Fire Department personnel and San Francisco Zoo staff members prepare to lift Tony, an 18-year-old Siberian tiger, from a moat after being shot with tranquilizers at the San Francisco Zoo. Zoo officials decided on Monday, March 29, 2010, that Tony could no longer stay in the dry moat he climbed into last week, since excrement was piling up and officials worried about a potential health hazard. With the help of firefighters, they used tranquilizer darts on the 360-pound tiger, strapped him to a board and hauled him out with a pulley. Siberian tigers have a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years in the wild and 14 to 20 years in captivity. (AP Photo/San Francisco Zoo) **NO SALES **AP - 'Tony' the Siberian tiger is back on display at the San Francisco Zoo after being shot with tranquilizers and hauled out of a moat where he'd spent four nights.

Colo. casino says $43M prize message was mistake (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 10:24 AM PDT

AP - A Colorado woman who won $42.9 million off a penny slot machine saw her jackpot disappear when the casino said the payout message was an error.

Alleged victim's lawyers: Vatican protected priest (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 01:17 PM PDT

Pope Pope Benedict XVI holds his pastoral staff as he leaves St. Peter's Square at the Vatican at the end of the open-air Palm Sunday Mass, Sunday, April 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Lawyers in a Florida clergy sex abuse case say the Vatican office then headed by Pope Benedict XVI failed to remove an alleged pedophile from the priesthood for years, even when the priest himself asked to be defrocked.

Trial begins for LA man accused of abusing elderly (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 09:42 AM PDT

AP - A man accused of abusing patients at a pricey Calabasas retirement home jumped on a 78-year-old woman's chest and body-slammed her and encouraged wheelchair-confined residents to fight, jurors were told.

To scientists, laughter is no joke — it's serious (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1967 file photo, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, munching on a cookie, and George Meany, president of AFL-CIO, laugh at a speaker's remark during the first annual Jewish Labor Committee Human Rights Awards dinner at the Sheraton in New York. Laughter is a serious scientific subject, one that researchers are still trying to figure out. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, file)AP - So a scientist walks into a shopping mall to watch people laugh. There's no punchline. Laughter is a serious scientific subject, one that researchers are still trying to figure out.

School? Fashion label? Franklin & Marshall is both (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 09:36 AM PDT

In this March 17, 2010 photo, a man stands outside a Franklin and Marshall clothing store in central Rome. The F&M line is so popular that the retailer opened its fifth stand-alone store recently and, this fall, will fund a scholarship at its namesake central Pennsylvania college. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - To the untrained eye, it would seem that tiny Franklin & Marshall College has a disproportionate number of young alumni in Europe and Japan.

Judge: Feds illegally wiretapped Islamic charity (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 11:23 AM PDT

AP - A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that the warrantless wiretapping of an Islamic charity during a terror probe was illegal.

VA doctors prohibited from prescribing medical pot (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 01:10 AM PDT

AP - When Paul Culkin came home to New Mexico after serving with an Army bomb squad in Iraq, he tried counseling and medications offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cope with his post traumatic stress disorder.

US pledges $1.15B to earthquake-stricken Haiti (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 05:17 AM PDT

Residents walk on a destroyed street affected by the earthquake in downtown Port-au-Prince February 3, 2010. Haiti will ask the world on Wednesday for $4 billion to help it rebuild and modernize in the wake of the earthquake that destroyed the Caribbean nation's capital and killed up to 300,000 people. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/FilesAP - A senior U.S. official says the Obama administration will pledge $1.15 billion over the next two years to help with Haiti's post-earthquake reconstruction.

Casino at ex-Rat Pack hangout closes at Tahoe (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 09:12 AM PDT

In this photo taken in the early 1980's, The Cal Neva Lodge in Crystal Bay, Nev., is seen. Before the Las Vegas Strip ruled the gambling world, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. helped make the Cal Neva Lodge one of Nevada's coolest casinos in the 1960s. On Wednesday, April 31, 2010, roulette wheels will stop spinning and blackjack games will cease at Sinatra's old resort that straddles the Nevada-California border on Lake Tahoe's north shore at Crystal Bay. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal) **NO SALES, MAGS OUT**AP - Before the Las Vegas Strip ruled the gambling world, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. helped make the Cal Neva Lodge one of Nevada's coolest casinos in the early 1960s.

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