2010年4月10日星期六

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GOP chairman Steele says 'I've made mistakes' (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 04:09 PM PDT

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele speaks at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Saturday, April 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - In damage control mode, GOP national chairman Michael Steele on Saturday sought to quell the furor over his management of the Republican National Committee by acknowledging errors and vowing to learn from them.

Grieving begins, but life goes on at W.Va. mines (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 02:00 PM PDT

Mark Aliff, right, and Johnny Sarrett hang a sign that reads 'God bless our coal miners and families' on the front of Aliff's barber shop in Rock Creek, W.Va., Saturday, April 10, 2010. Aliff cut the hair of many of the miners that were killed in an explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Time stopped five days ago for the families of 29 coal miners killed in the devastating explosion at Upper Big Branch mine.

Worries about Calif. priest came early in career (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 01:18 PM PDT

This May 17, 2002 law enforcement booking photo shows former priest Stephen Kiesle. 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. The 1985 letter was typed in Latin and is part of years of correspondence between the Diocese of Oakland and the Vatican about the proposed defrocking of Rev. Kiesle. (AP Photo)AP - Even in his seminary days in the early 1970s, there were questions about California priest Stephen Kiesle: Colleagues said he had trouble relating to adults, lacked spirituality and didn't seem committed to anything but youth ministry.

Cherokee's Mankiller remembered as humble leader (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 03:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 1996 file photo, Wilma Mankiller, former Cherokee Nation chief, speaks during a news conference in Tulsa, Okla. Mankiller, was one of the few women ever to lead a major American Indian tribe, died Tuesday April 6, 2010 after battling pancreatic cancer. She was 64. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)AP - One of the most influential American Indian leaders in recent history, most knew former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller for strengthening her tribe and drawing the accolades of U.S. presidents. But it was her humble, tender nature — a refusal to squash a bug, an affinity for opera — that defined her life, friends said Saturday.

Grandmother: Boy terrorized adoptive family in US (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:43 PM PDT

** CORRECTS BOYS AGE IN LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT INFORMATION ** In this image taken from Rossia 1 television channel TV, 7-year-old adopted Russian boy Artyom Savelyev gets into a minivan outside a police department office in Moscow, Thursday, April 8, 2010. Russia should freeze all child adoptions with U.S. families, the country's foreign minister urged Friday after an American woman allegedly put her 8-year-old adopted Russian son on a one-way flight back to his homeland. Artyom Savelyev arrived in Moscow unaccompanied Thursday on a United Airlines flight from Washington, the Kremlin children's rights office said Friday April 9.(AP Photo/Rossia 1 Television Channel)** TV OUT **AP - Torry Hansen was so eager to become a mother that she adopted an older child from a foreign country, two factors that scare off many prospective parents. Her bigger fears came later.

Hero who helped subdue shoe bomber becomes citizen (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 10:25 AM PDT

In this undated photo released by Elana Kopstein, Kwame James, then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Michael Wildes, left to right, pose for a photo. James had to wait nearly 10 years to be sworn in as a U.S. citizen, a long time compared with the time he spent helping subdue would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid on a trans-Atlantic flight. (AP Photo/Elana Kopstein) NO SALESAP - Kwame James waited nearly 10 years to be sworn in as a U.S. citizen, a long time compared with the time he spent helping subdue would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid on a trans-Atlantic flight.

W.Va. miners were varied in experience, interests (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 02:34 PM PDT

Tammy Gobble, left, is embraced by Sheri McGraw of the Red Cross as she reacts to the news that rescue workers located the four missing bodies deep in a West Virginia coal mine, dashing any faint hopes of finding more survivors of a deadly explosion that has claimed 29 lives at the Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W. Va. on Saturday, April 10, 2010. The death toll makes it the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since a 1970 explosion killed 38 in Hyden, Ky. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - They ranged in age from 20 to 61. Some had been miners only a few months, others for 34 years.

Crews begin recovering bodies from W.Va. mine (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:27 AM PDT

AP - Mine crews have started the solemn task of bringing the victims of this week's underground coal mine explosion to the surface.

Wash. day care stayed open after E. coli found (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 03:32 PM PDT

A swing is shown in the front yard of Washington state day care Friday, April 9, 2010, in Vancouver, Wash. A recent outbreak of a potentially deadly strain of E. coli at a Washington state day care center has killed one child and sickened three other children, health officials said Friday. The child who died was a 4-year-old boy, said Elizabeth Winter of the Washington state Department of Early Learning. The department was notified of his death on Friday, she said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - County health officials didn't close a Washington state day care for several days after children were hospitalized with a deadly strain of E. coli — because of concerns the infection would spread farther if parents took their children elsewhere.

Pa. circus elephant's killing of man 'accident' (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 03:08 PM PDT

AP - A coroner says a circus elephant that kicked a handler and killed him before a performance in northeastern Pennsylvania did so accidentally.

Stupak constituents seek federal aid over ideology (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 04:53 PM PDT

Rep. Bart Stupak announces his retirement, as his wife Laurie looks on, Friday, April 9, 2010 in Marquette, Mich. Rep. Bart Stupak insists that tea party activists outraged over his crucial support of health care legislation didn't run him out of office, but his decision to retire gives conservatives a rallying point as they target Democrats in the midterm elections. (AP Photo/John Flesher)AP - Even as tea party activists gloat over Rep. Bart Stupak's decision to retire after becoming one of their top targets for defeat, it's far from certain that his constituents will elect a successor who shares their antipathy to government spending.

LA utility at center of city's financial meltdown (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 10:27 AM PDT

In this April 9, 2010 photo, a car maneuvers around part of the Department of Water's Silver Lake Reservoir in Los Angeles. The Department of Water and Power operates with a $5.7 billion budget and 8,600 employees. It runs 7,200 miles of pipeline that pump water into Los Angeles from rivers, as well as the Silver Lake Reservoir, around the region, and the electrical grid that powers the nation's second-largest city. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - When the city's Department of Water and Power spent $50,000 on lactation consultants two years ago to assist breast-feeding employees, the utility said it was a humanitarian move aimed at cutting absenteeism.

Analysis: Is GOP a party of yes, no or maybe so? (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 02:01 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 - Socialist. Secularist. Liar. National security naif. Republican leaders are calling President Barack Obama all that and more as they jockey early for the party's 2012 nomination. But name-calling alone won't beat the Democratic incumbent.

Governors' races may be tough for incumbents (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 04:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 8, 2010 file photo, New York Gov. David Paterson talks to reporters at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Even Republicans were looking at Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as a lock next fall to succeed retiring Gov. David Paterson and claim the seat long held by his famous father, Mario Cuomo. Not anymore. Once Scott Brown showed that Democrats in Massachusetts couldn't keep hold of the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, what seemed politically impossible in the 2010 elections has at least some degree of plausibility. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)AP - Even Republicans were looking at New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, as a lock this fall to succeed retiring Gov. David Paterson and claim the seat long held by his famous father, Mario Cuomo.

Astronauts 'ready to rock 'n' roll' on spacewalk 2 (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:32 AM PDT

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki is seen in the hatch which connects the flight deck and middeck of space shuttle Discovery as commander Alan Poindexter works in the background in this image provided by NASA and taken April 6, 2010. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (SCI TECH) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - Two of the astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex rested up Saturday for a second spacewalk involving hefty storage tanks, while their colleagues unloaded much smaller supplies.

Alaska eagle survives plunge after mating dance (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:27 PM PDT

This Sunday, April 4, 2010 picture provided by Bob Benda, a bird rescuer and biology professor at Prince William Sound Community College, shows a female eagle who fell into the snow in Valdez, Alaska. An acrobatic display of passion proved too much for a pair of eagles engaged in a mating dance in Alaska's Prince William Sound. The surviving female bird is recovering from injuries sustained when the winged couple slammed beak first into a hard snowbank in what her rescuers believe was an aerial courting ritual gone awry. The male died in the impact. (AP Photo/Bob Benda)AP - An acrobatic display of passion proved too much for a pair of eagles engaged in a mating dance over Alaska's Prince William Sound.

Preacher convicted of killing wife, freezing body (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:02 PM PDT

Anthony Hopkins is pictured during jury selection Monday, April 5, 2010, in Mobile, Ala. The part-time south Alabama evangelist faces life in prison in the death of his wife, a mother of eight, whose body had been stored in a freezer inside his home for at least three years before it was discovered by investigators. (AP Photo/Press-Register, Mike Kittrell)AP - An Alabama evangelist who terrorized his family while impressing audiences at revivals was convicted Friday of murdering his wife and storing her body in a freezer for years.

Earthquake shakes southern Alaska; no damage (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 04:08 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. Geological Survey says a preliminary magnitude 4.8 earthquake has shaken Anchorage and other communities in southern Alaska, but no damage has been reported.

Police ID 21 women in serial killer's photos (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:00 PM PDT

AP - Huntington Beach police have identified 21 women who appear in photos found in a convicted serial killer's storage locker.

Elephant kicks trainer at Pa. circus, killing him (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:51 PM PDT

AP - Police say an elephant at a northeastern Pennsylvania circus startled and kicked its animal trainer, killing him.

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