2010年4月19日星期一

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Gunman opens fire at Tenn. hospital; kills 1, self (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:55 PM PDT

AP - A gunman opened fire outside a hospital Monday, killing a woman and injuring two others before committing suicide, police said.

Advocates carry handguns, rifles at Va. rally (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Don Syfrett of Dallas, Ga., makes a phone call while demonstrating for first and second amendment rights at a 'Restore the Constitution' rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va., Monday, April 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Toby Jorrin)AP - Carrying loaded pistols and unloaded rifles, dozens of gun-rights activists got as close as they could Monday to the nation's capital while still bearing arms and delivered what they said was a simple message: Don't tread on me.

Stranded passengers bathe in restroom sinks (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:23 PM PDT

Stranded travelers sleep or sit on cots at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Monday, April 19, 2010. Many travelers were stranded in New York after flights were canceled due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - During her first four days living in an airport, Dominica Zschiesche cleaned her body with hand wipes and used a public bathroom sink to shave her legs and wash her hair.

In NJ school cut debate, insults overshadow issues (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 24, 2010 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gestures as he speaks at a gathering in Ramsey, N.J. In Facebook messages visible to the world — not to mention their students — New Jersey teachers have called Christie fat, compared him to a genocidal dictator and wished he was dead. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)AP - They're the kind of obscenity-laced schoolyard taunts that could get a student suspended.

911 calls tell of chaos after plane hit IRS office (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2010, file photo smoke billows from a seven-story structure after Joseph Stack III crashed his small plane into an IRS office building in Austin, Texas. In 911 recordings released Monday, April 19, 2010, by the Austin Police Department callers describe the chaos after seeing and hearing a fiery plane crash at the office building that housed IRS offices. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)AP - Callers to 911 emergency officials in February told of seeing and hearing a fiery plane crash at an IRS office building in Austin, Texas and described a chaotic scene afterward with people running all around.

Embattled civil rights group struggles to survive (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:07 PM PDT

Editions of the national magazine for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) featuring a photo of the organization's president Bernice King sit on the tables of an SCLC spring board meeting Monday April 19, 2010, in Atlanta. King was not at the meeting nor has she taken the helm of the organization which has been fractured by infighting and a federal investigation. A group that was opposing the ouster of two board members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference has withdrawn a request seeking a judge to again intervene in the organization's troubles. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Two factions of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference gathered Monday for separate meetings, hundreds of miles apart, with each group claiming to be the SCLC's board of directors as the embattled 53-year-old civil rights organization struggles to survive amid legal woes and bitter infighting.

Oklahoma City marks 15 years since bombing (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:17 PM PDT

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks Monday, April 19, 2010, at the Oklahoma City National Memorial during the memorial ceremony for the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - It's been 15 years since a terrorist's bomb destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people and injuring more than 600 others.

Think the U.S. census is hard? Try counting tiny ocean microbes (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 02:01 AM PDT

This undated handout image provided by the Census of Marine Life shows, the acantharians are one of the four types of large amoebae that occur in marine open waters. Their fragile skeletons are made of a single crystal of strontium sulfate that quickly dissolves in the ocean water after the cell dies. If the Census Bureau thinks it has it;s hands full counting Americans, imagine the problems of scientists trying to tally everything living in the oceans, including microbes so small they seem invisible. (AP Photo/Bob Andersen and D. J. Patterson, Census of Marine Life)AP - If the Census Bureau thinks it has its hands full counting Americans, imagine what scientists are up against in trying to tally every living thing in the ocean, including microbes so small they seem invisible.

Moving faster, Toyota recalls SUVs, agrees to fine (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo, a red 2010 Lexus GX 460 is seen at a dealership, with other Lexus vehicles behind it, in Portland, Maine. A Transportation Department official said Monday, April 19, Toyota will recall the 2010 Lexus GX 460 to address a potential problem with the SUV rolling over.(AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, file)AP - Toyota hurriedly ordered recalls of nearly 10,000 Lexus SUVs for possible rollover dangers Monday and agreed to a record $16.4 million fine for a slow response in its broader earlier recall, scrambling to fix safety worries that threaten the Japanese auto giant's reputation.

Guilty plea in death of UNC student president (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 12:21 PM PDT

FILE - In a 2008 file photo, Demario Atwater arrives in Wake County court in Raleigh, N.C. Atwater pleaded guilty Monday, April 19, 2010 to several charges, including carjacking resulting in the 2008 death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student body president Eve Carson. In response, prosecutors agreed to drop plans to pursue the death penalty. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP - The man accused of killing a University of North Carolina student body president found shot to death in the middle of a street two years ago pleaded guilty Monday to federal crimes, avoiding the death penalty.

'Kick-Ass' claims No. 1 spot over 'Dragon' (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 02:30 PM PDT

AP - The top movies at the weekend box office have flip-flopped again, with the superhero comedy "Kick-Ass" edging out the animated adventure "How to Train Your Dragon."

Death penalty won't be sought in Afghan shootings (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 11:15 AM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors said Monday that they will not seek the death penalty against two former Blackwater contractors charged in the shooting deaths of two Afghans.

Ash not expected to blow toward North America (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 02:09 PM PDT

AP - Questions and answers about the volcanic ash cloud:

Poll: 4 out of 5 Americans don't trust Washington (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 07:23 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 15, 20010 file photo, a couple participate in the Tax Day tea protest in New York. Can you trust Washington? Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they can't and they have little faith in the massive federal bureaucracy solving the nation's ills, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center that shows confidence in the federal government at one of the lowest points in half century. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - America's "Great Compromiser" Henry Clay called government "the great trust," but most Americans today have little faith in Washington's ability to deal with the nation's problems.

Teen guilty of hate crime in NY immigrant's death (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 02:27 PM PDT

Rosario Lucero, center, stands near the site where her son Marcelo Lucero was stabbed to death in 2008, in Patchogue, N.Y., Monday, April 19, 2010, after his killer, Jeffrey Conroy, was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime but acquitted of murder. At left is Marcelo Lucero's brother Joselo Lucero, and at right is sister Isabel Lucero. The family went to the site of the incident after they left the Suffolk County courthouse Monday. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - A white former high school athlete was convicted Monday of manslaughter as a hate crime in the killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant, a case that sparked a federal probe of police investigations of bias attacks against Hispanics.

Mourners recall ex-NAACP director Hooks as humble (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:06 PM PDT

FILE - In a Friday, April 4, 2008 file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., third from left, stands at the spot where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis, Tenn. Second from left is American civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks, and second from right is Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor and former executive director of the NAACP has died. State Rep. Ulysses Jones, a family friend, said Hooks died early Thursday, April 15, 2010 in Memphis, Tenn. He was 85. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Mourners at the church where civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks preached and his body lay in repose Monday remembered him as a humble, down-to-earth man despite his influence as head of the NAACP and a Federal Communications commissioner.

NH state liquor commissioner charged with DWI (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 02:25 PM PDT

AP - One of New Hampshire's state liquor commissioners has been charged with driving while intoxicated.

Recession is ending? Some Americans don't buy it (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:44 AM PDT

Doug Rice, president of the local autoworkers' union, poses with the empty Chrysler stamping plant reflected in his side view mirror in Twinsburg, Ohio on Sunday, April 18, 2010. Once the work place of thousands, the plant will shut down forever in June. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - The clerk at the candy shop does not want to cry. She is determinedly cheerful, a professional smiler, dressed head to toe in bright turquoise.

Del. pediatrician faces more sex abuse charges (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 12:21 PM PDT

AP - A Delaware pediatrician facing more than 470 counts of child sex abuse has been indicted on more charges.

Study: 2 good choices to prevent breast cancer (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:02 PM PDT

AP - Older women at higher risk for breast cancer now have two good drug options for preventing the disease, but they will have to weigh the trade-offs, a major study shows.

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