2010年4月16日星期五

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Feds: Militia leader told members be ready to kill (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:40 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. Search warrant records show federal agents seized gas masks, hand grenade instructions, guns, knives, a container of potassium chlorate and dozens of other items during a raid at the home of David Brian Stone Sr., the suspected leader of a Christian militia based in southern Michigan. The raid at David Stone's trailer home in Lenawee County was one of residences searched during a 4½-hour span in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana on the night of March 27. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)AP - The leader of a Christian militia planned an elaborate, two-part training session for this month and told members it was OK to kill "anyone who might stumble upon the operation," federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing Friday.

Volcano illustrates world's interconnectedness (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Mike Diorio buys fish at the Fish King Seafood market Friday April 16, 2010 in Glendale, Calif. Deliveries of fish from overseas may be affected due to delayed supply flights from the ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A volcano erupts in Iceland, and the effects ripple around the globe: A mom in Romania frets about making her son's wedding in Texas. A florist in New York worries shipments won't arrive. Patients awaiting treatment in Nigeria have to wait another week for the doctors.

Van companies accused of immigrant-smuggling (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:45 PM PDT

Federal immigration agents stand outside of Sergio's Shuttle Thursday, April 15, 2010 in Phoneix. The van shuttle services offers transportation from northern Mexico to cities in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Agents raided van shuttle operators in Arizona Thursday in a massive investigation into smuggling of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - The illegal immigrants being sneaked into the country were allegedly given phony $30 tickets and receipts for a van ride. And they were warned that if the van got pulled over by police, they should show the receipt.

Sex offender pleads guilty to murdering 2 teens (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 05:22 PM PDT

FILE - This March 3, 2010 file photo shows John Albert Gardner III looking towards the judge at an arraignment in a San Diego Superior Courtroom. Gardner pleaded guilty Friday April 16, 2010 to murdering two teenage girls in San Diego County after prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - With two teary-eyed mothers looking on, sex offender John Albert Gardner pleaded guilty Friday to murdering their teenage daughters after prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

Serious problems found at Massey mines since blast (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 03:38 PM PDT

Bouquets left in honor of 29 men killed in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine adorn the coal miners' memorial at the West Virginia Capitol, Charleston on Tuesday, April 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Tim Huber)AP - Federal inspectors have found more than 60 serious safety violations at Massey Energy operations since the explosion that killed 29 miners, adding to fallout from the disaster that includes a wrongful death lawsuit by one of the men's widows.

NYC seeks limits on art vendors in popular parks (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

In this April 14, 2010 photo, pedestrians walk past artwork displayed by street vendors in New York's Union Square. Manhattan's most famous parks are lined with artists selling their sculptures, paintings and photographs, often of quintessential New York scenes, but city officials say the vendors have grown out of control and are trying to force many of them off the streets. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Manhattan's most famous parks are lined with artists selling their sculptures, paintings and photographs of quintessential New York scenes, all popular with tourists. But city officials say there are too many vendors and are trying to force many off the streets.

Va. mom says arrested son was beaten in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 03:49 PM PDT

AP - The mother of one of five northern Virginians about to go on trial for planning terrorist acts in Pakistan says authorities there obtained confessions through torture.

Drug smuggler arrested in bestiality case in Wash. (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 03:34 PM PDT

AP - A convicted cocaine smuggler has been arrested for running what authorities say appears to be a bestiality farm in Washington state in which visitors could engage in all sorts of twisted sex acts with animals.

Gates, LA's police chief during 1992 riot, dies (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 03:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 29, 1992 file photo, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates autographs his book for new police officers after their graduation in Los Angeles. Police say that Gates, who resigned in the wake of 1992 rioting that followed the Rodney King beating, has died. He was 83. The police department said in a statement that Gates died Friday, April 16, 2010 at his Newport Beach home with his family at his bedside. (AP Photo/Chris Martinez, File)AP - Daryl F. Gates, the blunt former Los Angeles police chief who waged war on violent gangs and skirmished with city leaders until his handling of the Rodney King police beating and ensuing riots forced him to retire, died Friday of cancer. He was 83.

Feds indict former Blackwater president, 4 others (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by attorney James Sweeney, shows former Blackwater Worldwide vice president Bill Mathews. Mathews, a former Navy SEAL, was among former Blackwater employees indicted Friday on federal weapons charges. (AP Photo)AP - The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the king of Jordan.

SEC accuses Goldman Sachs of defrauding investors (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 04:41 PM PDT

Graphic shows daily trading and timeline of events for Goldman Sachs & Co.AP - The government on Friday accused Wall Street's most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. sold mortgage investments without telling the buyers that the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail.

Universities looking to federal gov't for funds (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 03:26 PM PDT

AP - Public university presidents from across the nation are meeting this month to talk about replacing dwindling state support for their campuses with more dollars from the federal government.

Many libraries offer readers ways to avoid fines (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 01:25 PM PDT

AP - Twelve-year-old Audrey Conner owed about $7 in fines to the Salt Lake City public library system, but the voracious reader was a little short.

Police: NJ man purposely vomited on Phillies fans (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 03:19 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Philadelphia Police Department, Matthew Clemmens is seen. Clemmens, 21, of Cherry Hill, N.J., is facing charges after police say he intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl in the stands during a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game on Wednesday, April 14. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)AP - A New Jersey man was jailed after he intentionally vomited on an off-duty police captain and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands during a Phillies game, police said.

Lawyer for Jackson's doctor says no plea bargain (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 03:44 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday April 5, 2010, defense attorney Ed Chernoff is shown during an interview in downtown Los Angeles. Chernoff, the lawyer for Michael Jackson's doctor says there will be no plea bargain in the involuntary manslaughter case, though he worries whether an impartial jury can be seated for a trial in the death of one of the world's most famous and idolized entertainers. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)AP - The lawyer for Michael Jackson's doctor says there will be no plea bargain in the involuntary manslaughter case, though he worries whether an impartial jury can be seated for a trial in the death of one of the world's most famous and idolized entertainers.

Calif. lawmakers mix scouting with sexual politics (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 10:53 AM PDT

File - In this file photo taken Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, Assemblyman Curt Hagman, R- Diamond Bar, talks with Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Yuba City, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Hagman, an Eagle Scout, whose Assembly Resolution honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Boy's Scouts was rejected by the Assembly Judiciary Committee, said, 'Political agendas at the Capitol got in the way of this' after the Assembly approved a similar resolution honoring the Girl Scouts, Thursday, April 15, 2010.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)AP - Minority Republican lawmakers sponsored a resolution this week honoring the 100-year anniversary of the Boy Scouts. This being California, the political equivalent of a school-yard brawl broke out.

Buried in a DC yard: WWI chemicals, weapons (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:34 PM PDT

FILE - A site in the Spring Valley neighborhood adjacent to American University is the focus of cleanup efforts to dispose of buried chemical weapons from testing dating back to World War I in Washington in this Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007 file photo. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncovered what could be a fourth major disposal area for World War I-era munitions and chemical weapons in the nation's capital. Digging was suspended April 8 as a precaution at the site in the pricey Spring Valley neighborhood near American University after workers pulled smoking glassware from the pit, project manager Dan Noble said Thursday April 15, 2010. This is the first discovery of the smoking chemical arsenic trichloride in the cleanup project. It can be used to develop the blistering agent lewisite, Noble said. (AP Photo/Melissa Golden)AP - A year ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers thought chances of finding any more chemical weapons in the front yard of a home in the nation's capital were slim. So they removed an airtight protective structure from the World War I munitions cleanup site. Then, they uncovered a small arsenal.

Va. governor commemorates 2007 VaTech shootings (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 10:35 AM PDT

Virginia State Police Superintendent, Col. W. Steven Flaherty, center, bows his head along with other attendees during a ceremony on Friday, April 16, 2010 at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., marking the third anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Tech, where 32 people plus the shooter died. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Virginia's governor led a ceremony at the state Capitol to mark the third anniversary of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history at Virginia Tech.

Pickers want Fla. chain to pay more for tomatoes (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 09:24 AM PDT

Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers take part in a march through the streets of Tampa, Fla., Friday, April 16, 2010, to try to persuade the supermarket chain Publix to pay more for its tomatoes and take a stand against abusive work conditions in the fields. The produce pickers group has already persuaded McDonald's, Whole Foods and Subway to pay an extra penny per pound for tomatoes. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - After persuading McDonald's, Whole Foods and Subway that they should pay an extra penny per pound for tomatoes, a farmworkers group took on supermarket giant Publix on Friday.

Judge: No allergy risk proven for Ohio execution (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 02:35 PM PDT

AP - An inmate scheduled to die next week for raping and strangling a 16-year-old girl has failed to present enough evidence of an allergy to anesthesia that could affect the execution, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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