2010年4月3日星期六

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5 charged in gang rape of girl, 7, in NJ apartment (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:36 PM PDT

Resident Rudine Brown stands in front of Rowan Towers apartments Friday, April 2, 2010, in Trenton, N.J., as she says that she is concerned that only one person has been apprehended after the recent gang rape of a 7-year-old girl. Police say a 15-year-old girl went to a party at the building March 28 and offered her younger stepsister's body for sale to a group of grown men. Police arrested a 20-year-old Trenton man Wednesday on allegations of having sex with the 15-year-old, but they believe at least seven other men who were involved are still at large. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Two men and three teenage boys were charged Saturday with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in the state's capital, police said.


Inquiry begins into deadly Wash. refinery blast (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 02:03 PM PDT

A black, burned-out area of a Tesoro Corp. refinery is shown along with a charred tower at left, Friday, April 2, 2010, in Anacortes, Wash. An overnight fire and explosion at the refinery killed four people and critically injured three others who were working at the plant. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Investigators launched an inquiry into a deadly Washington state oil refinery blast as families hoped for the best Saturday for two employees who suffered severe burns over most of their bodies.


Nuclear heartland anxious about missile cuts (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 11:16 AM PDT

In this March 30 2010 photo, a shrine dedicated to Air Force units that maintain nuclear missiles adorns the wall of the Judith Gap Mercantile in Judith Gap, Mont., on March 30, 2010. In America's nuclear heartland, where underground missile silos dot the landscape, a proposed U.S.-Russia treaty to reduce nuclear weapons is nothing short of alarming. The military workers who maintain those missiles support cities as large as Great Falls, where 40 percent of the economy depends upon Malmstrom Air Force Base, and businesses as small as the Judith Gap Mercantile, where passing airmen buy milkshakes by the dozen. If they follow the missiles out of town, the economies here could be crippled. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)AP - Here in America's nuclear heartland, where underground missile silos dot the landscape, a proposed U.S.-Russia treaty to reduce nuclear weapons is nothing short of alarming.


Police: Notre Dame recruit 'drunk' on fatal fall (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:47 PM PDT

In this July 30, 2009 photo, St. Xavier High School's Matt James poses for a photograph in Cincinnati. A spokesman for St. Xavier said Saturday that students gathered Friday night to remember the senior following reports that he died after falling from a hotel balcony while on spring break in Florida. Panama City, Fla., police have not confirmed James' identity pending notification of his family. But St. Xavier spokesman Mark Motz says the school is 'devastated' by the news. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Michael E. Keating) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES.AP - A "drunk and belligerent" 17-year-old Notre Dame football recruit was killed in a fall from a fifth-floor hotel balcony during his senior-year spring break in Florida, authorities said Saturday.


AP: Vatican waited years to defrock Arizona priest (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 07:21 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI leads the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) at the Colosseum in Rome, April 2, 2010. REUTERS/Max RossiAP - The abuse cases of two priests in Arizona have cast further doubt on the Catholic church's insistence that Pope Benedict XVI played no role in shielding pedophiles before he became pope.


Residents of NJ city say cops worse than criminals (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 01:35 PM PDT

In this March 29, 2010 photo, A city worker stands in front of a long out of business Broadway Trust Company in Camden, N.J. Camden County Prosecutor Warren Faulk says that charges have been dropped in 185 cases in the city because of possibly corrupt police work.  (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Josephine Skinner's grandson Dequan was 11 or 12 years old a few summers ago when she says he had a run-in with a Camden police officer who neighbors claim terrorized them for years.


Levada brought back accused priest with conditions (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:16 PM PDT

Faithful crowd St. Peter's square during the Palm Sunday mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 28, 2010. The Pontiff opened Holy Week on Sunday amid one of the most serious crises facing the church in decades, with questions about his handling of cases of pedophile priests and the Vatican acknowledging its 'moral credibility'' was on the line. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - A top Vatican official who now oversees the office that handles cases of alleged abuse by priests once returned an accused priest to administrative duty in Oregon on the condition that he be barred from direct contact with children or teenagers.


Friends: Family killed in fire planned 1-day stay (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:21 PM PDT

Minneapolis fire investigators look through the rubble Saturday, April 3, 2010 of a fire at a building housing several apartments and an Irish pub in Minneapolis which claimed the lives of six people Friday. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Andrew Gervais and his three young children were struggling, moving from place to place, but planned to stay just one night with his sister's boyfriend who lived above an Irish pub in Minneapolis, friends said. Now, all are feared dead after the city's deadliest fire in two decades.


2nd American woman charged in 'Jihad Jane' case (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:26 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by Christine Mott, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, is shown. Two law enforcement officials say federal prosecutors are bringing an American woman back from Ireland to face terror charges. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, originally from Colorado, had recently been detained in Ireland in connection to an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist whose drawing offended many Muslims.   (AP Photo/Courtesy of Christine Mott)  NO SALESAP - Federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges Friday against a pregnant American woman in the so-called Jihad Jane case. The two American women are accused of plotting online to attend a terror training camp.


Woman in SF drug lab probe charged in San Mateo (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 12:38 PM PDT

AP - The woman accused of skimming drugs from San Francisco's crime lab for her own use is facing a felony cocaine possession charge in San Mateo County.

Air Force to launch robotic winged space plane (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:47 PM PDT

This undated image released by the U.S. Air Force shows the X-37B spacecraft. The Air Force is preparing to launch this robotic spacecraft that resembles a small space shuttle to perform unspecified technology tests in orbit and then autonomously glide on stubby wings to a landing on a California runway. Originally intended to be launched from a space shuttle, the reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle has been a decade in development. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)AP - After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway.


Kidnapped Army linguist returning to San Diego (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 01:17 AM PDT

From left, Lilya, Andrew, Muna Salomi, Johnand Vivian Tilley celebrate upon hearing Issa Salouma was freed from kidnappers in Iraq, during an interview in San Diego on Saturday, March 27, 2010.  Salomi, 60, a contractor for the United States Government, was held captive for two months by a Shiite extremist group. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker)AP - After more than two months in captivity in Baghdad, a U.S. Army linguist is set to return home to San Diego, authorities said.


NASA clears Discovery for Monday morning launch (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 11:22 AM PDT

A female Osprey and one of her three chicks are seen against the backdrop of the NASA logo on the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Saturday, April 3, 2010, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch Monday, April 5 on a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)AP - NASA has cleared Discovery for a Monday morning launch to the International Space Station, the last scheduled liftoff in darkness for the soon-to-retire shuttle program.


Death threats prompt tighter security for Andrews (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:09 AM PDT

ESPN reporter Erin Andrews gives a news conference on the sentence of her stalker outside the U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, March 15, 2010. Michael Barrett, who secretly made nude videos of the ESPN reporter was sentenced Monday, March 15, 2010 to 2 1/2 years in prison before giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - First she was secretly videotaped in the nude. Now she's receiving death threats. At least a dozen e-mails had been sent to a media outlet threatening ESPN reporter and "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Erin Andrews since September, her attorney Marshall Grossman said.


RI flooding brings 2 churches closer for Easter (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 02:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, April 2, 2010  file photo, Father Charles Downing will welcome parishioners from the Sacred Heart Church that was flood damaged, to Easter services at his church, St. Joseph's, background,  in West Warwick, R.I. Sacred Heart was deemed unsafe by the town building inspector, while St. Joseph's was untouched by the flood because it sits atop a 30-foot hill.  (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)AP - At St. Joseph Church, the Easter Sunday flock will be a little bigger than usual this year. Maybe a little damp, too.


In NY's Central Park, where goes Peter Cottontail? (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 08:53 AM PDT

FILE - This May 7, 2003 picture shows the skyline of upper Fifth Ave. in this view looking northeast over Central Park's Turtle Pond. If anyone knows why the bunnies have disappeared from Central Park, wildlife officials are all ears. Though abandoned pet rabbits perennially turn up after each Easter in what's affectionately called New York's backyard, a wild cottontail hasn't been spotted in the park since about 2006. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - If anyone knows why the bunnies have disappeared from Central Park, wildlife officials are all ears.


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