2010年4月9日星期五

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Records: production over safety at W.Va. mine (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:14 PM PDT

AP - Records show a safety inspector found that management considered production more important than safety twice at a West Virginia mine under scrutiny since an explosion killed 25 people.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Future pope stalled pedophile case (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:48 PM PDT

Maurine Behrend reads a letter she sent to church authorities regarding convicted sex offender and former priest Stephen Kiesle, who was volunteering in her church's youth ministry in the 1980's, at her home in San Ramon, Calif., Thursday, April 8, 2010. A letter obtained by the Associated Press and bearing the signature of future Pope Benedict XVI shows then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger resisted defrocking Kiesle, who had a record of sexually molesting children, after his case had languished for four years at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.


Amid cuts, Ohio judge tells citizens to carry guns (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:34 PM PDT

AP - One judge's solution for citizens feeling less secure because of budget cuts in an Ohio county: Carry a gun.

Clinton urges bipartisan push on nukes (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, right, looks on as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses the new nuclear arms control treaty during a speech at the Brown & Williamson Club in Papa John's Cardinal Stadium Friday, April 9, 2010 in Louisville, Ky., as part of the McConnell Center's lecture series at the University of Louisville. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered assurances Friday that a new nuclear arms control treaty enables the U.S. to maintain a "strong, flexible deterrent" as she urged divided Republicans and Democrats to ratify the pact signed by President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev.


Aging diamond thieves held in alleged bank plot (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:56 PM PDT

AP - Two men convicted of London's $3.6 million Marlborough diamond robbery three decades ago have been arrested on charges of conspiring to rob a suburban Chicago bank, federal officials announced Friday.

CO police: Suspect in 1980s killings dead (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:42 PM PDT

AP - Police say a man found dead in an apparent murder-suicide was a suspect — along with his father — in the disappearances of as many as 17 homeless men in Colorado during the 1980s.

APNewsBreak: Abu Ghraib MP unit to return to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:46 PM PDT

AP - The Army Reserve unit tarnished by the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal has been mobilized to return to Iraq in its first deployment since photographs of naked, humiliated prisoners surfaced more than six years ago, the Army said Friday.

Documents: Bullied teen sought help from school (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Spectators sit in Hampshire Superior Court during the arraignment of three Massachusetts teenagers, who waived their rights to appear, yet pleaded not guilty through their lawyers Tuesday, April 6, 2010, in Northampton, Mass. The teens are among several charged in the bullying of Phoebe Prince, 15, who committed suicide in January after what prosecutors call months of threats and harassment. (AP Photo/Carol Lollis, Pool)AP - Phoebe Prince, the Massachusetts high school freshman who took her own life after what prosecutors called relentless bullying by classmates, spoke to a school administrator one week before her death about a threat of physical violence, court documents reveal.


Ft. Hood suspect to be isolated in Texas jail (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Bell County Sheriffs Department, U.S. Major Nidal Hasan is shown after being moved from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio to Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas on Friday April 9, 2010. Hasan had been at the military hospital since shortly after a Nov. 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood which left him paralyzed. He is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriffs Department)AP - The Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood will be kept isolated from other inmates at the Texas jail where he's been transferred.


The Dow's up but trades are scarce, worrying bulls (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:18 PM PDT

Traders and Specialists work on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, April 9, 2010, in New York.  (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - Think Dow 11,000 is a big deal? Think again.


Kerrigan brother pleads not guilty to manslaughter (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:24 AM PDT

Unknown family members join Mark Kerrigan in a Woburn, Mass., courtroom, Friday, April 9, 2010, before Kerrigan pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter and assault and battery on an elderly person, in connection with the death of his father, Daniel Kerrigan, in January. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan's brother pleaded not guilty to manslaughter Friday in the death of their father, who prosecutors say was stricken after a violent clash with his son.


Killing of Ariz. rancher roils immigration debate (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:05 PM PDT

FILE - This 2008 file photo provided by the Arizona Farming & Ranching Hall of Fame shows Cochise County rancher Robert Krentz in Goodyear, Ariz, Krentz was killed Saturday, March 27, 2010 on his 35,000 acre ranch north of Douglas. The killing of the third-generation rancher has become a flashpoint in the immigration debate as politicians cite the episode as further proof that the U.S. must do more to secure the violent U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Arizona Farming & Ranching Hall of Fame, Michelle Roles)AP - Cattle rancher Rob Krentz often helped illegal immigrants he found stranded on his sprawling Arizona ranch.


Achoo! Pollen at its worst in years in many areas (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:17 PM PDT

In a Monday, April 5, 2010 photo, Shane Nantz kicks up a cloud of pollen as he mows the front yard of his west Charlotte, N.C., home. From Florida to Texas to Colorado, 2010 is shaping up to be a monster of an allergy season. Everywhere, it seems, is covered in a fine yellow dust that irritates our lives. Experts say it's the worst they've seen in years.  (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin)AP - Pollen: It's on your car, in the air and especially in your sinuses.


Advocates: At least 1 assisted suicide in Montana (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:56 PM PDT

AP - Doctors in Montana have helped at least one patient commit suicide since a state court ruled late last year it wasn't illegal, advocates said Friday, but authorities have no way of knowing how many others there may be, who is doing it or even how it is being done.

Priest admits error in his account of abuse probe (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:29 PM PDT

AP - A priest who investigated allegations of widespread sexual abuse by a fellow priest at a Milwaukee-area school for the deaf has acknowledged that new documents contradict his recent account of events.

Astronauts take 1st spacewalk of shuttle mission (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:43 PM PDT

In this image made from video and released by NASA, astronauts Rick Mastracchio, center, is seen preparing the external stowage platform on the International Space Station for the new ammonia tank during the first spacewalk on the International Space Station, Friday April 9, 2010. It will take three spacewalks to complete the job. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A pair of spacewalking astronauts disconnected an old empty ammonia tank outside the International Space Station on Friday and got a new one ready to put in its place.


Fight over NJ beach sand replenishment gets dirty (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:19 PM PDT

AP - The line in the sand is drawn in this New Jersey shore community, where township officials say they'll use "peer pressure" to pit neighbor against neighbor in an effort to persuade 230 oceanfront property owners to let a beach restoration project proceed.

DA's sex ed warning befuddles Wis. teachers, kids (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 19, 2007 file photo, Scott Southworth is photographed at home in Mauston, Wis.  Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth sent a letter in March 2010 to area school districts warning that health teachers who tell students how to put on a condom or take birth-control pills could face criminal charges. The warning has left many teachers, school administrators and parents flabbergasted. Southworth warned that teaching a student how to properly use contraceptives would be contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months behind bars and a $10,000 fine. He said it would be promoting sex among minors who are not legally allowed to have sex in Wisconsin.  (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)AP - Mike Taake has taught sex education for 30 years, and he says he knows what doesn't work: just telling kids to wait.


Palin, Obama spar from a distance over nuke policy (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:44 PM PDT

Sarah Palin waves as she arrives to speak at the Southern  Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Friday, April 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama and Republican Sarah Palin sparred from a distance over nuclear policy with each questioning the other's experience on the issue in a potential preview of the 2012 White House race.


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