2010年4月20日星期二

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American Idol winner sparks smoking debate (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:58 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Sunday, April 17, 2010, a food vendor walks past a banner promoting a Kelly Clarkson concert sponsored by a cigarette brand L.A. Lights, in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. The world's fourth most populous nation allows tobacco companies virtual free rein to peddle their products, from movies to sports sponsorships and television shows. It also remains one of the last holdouts that has not signed the World Health Organization's tobacco treaty. (AP Photo/Margie Mason)AP - Just a few miles after passing a towering Marlboro Man ad, a second billboard off the highway promotes cigarettes with a new American face: Kelly Clarkson.

Judge says ex-Detroit mayor violated probation (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:05 PM PDT

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, and attorney Daniel Haji listen to Wayne County Judge David Groner during a probation violation hearing in Detroit, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick violated terms of his probation by failing to report assets and turn over tax refunds, a judge ruled Tuesday, strongly suggesting he may send him to jail when he's sentenced next month.

Pot smokers out in nation, proud for high holiday (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday Sept. 25, 2009 file photo, attendees at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) conference, smoke marijuana in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels, File)AP - Forget Hippie Hill. For thoroughly modern marijuana smokers in the San Francisco Bay area, the hip place to celebrate their movement's high holiday this year was the inside of a stretch Hummer parked outside a pot gardening superstore.

New Yorkers brace for possible doorman strike (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:42 PM PDT

William Ortiz, a porter in New York, wipes down surfaces as he cleans in the stairwell of the building Tuesday April 20, 2010. New Yorkers are bracing for a possible strike by 30,000 doormen, porters and other building workers. If the workers go on strike, hundreds of New York City buildings will lose the people who accept packages, fix leaky faucets and hail taxis, among other things. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - They sign for deliveries, hail taxis, fix leaky faucets and, of course, open doors.

ACORN CEO outside court: 'We're on life support' (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:28 PM PDT

AP - The head of activist group ACORN came to a federal court Tuesday to observe a legal fight over its funding and said the group was on "life support" after waves of bad publicity and an attempt by Congress to cut off its money.

Red X's mark Atlanta start to transit cut protests (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 01:44 PM PDT

Public transit riders walk to a waiting Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, or MARTA bus on Tuesday, April, 20, 2010 at the Lindbergh Marta Station in Atlanta. Transit workers put giant red X's on Atlanta area buses and trains as part of a multi-city protest against cutting funds for mass transportation. The red X's mark services that could be cut. A few hundred riders and workers rallied at a downtown Atlanta station Tuesday to urge the Georgia legislature to approve funding and avoid cutbacks. (AP Photo/The Journal & Constitution, John Spink) ** MARIETTA DAILY OUT, GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT**AP - Transit workers put giant red X's on Atlanta-area buses and trains and a few hundred riders and workers rallied at a downtown transit station Tuesday as part of a multi-city protest against funding cuts to mass transportation.

Police: Hospital shooter mentally ill, had grudge (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:02 PM PDT

Police work the scene where a gunman opened fire outside Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn., killing a woman and injuring two others before committing suicide, Monday, April 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - A mentally ill convenience store operator took a revolver with him to look for the doctor he believed implanted a tracking device in his body during an appendectomy in 2001. Told the doctor wasn't at the hospital, he went to a nearby parking lot and opened fire on three hospital workers he apparently didn't know, killing one of them.

Goldman reports huge profits, but troubles mount (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:24 PM PDT

Goldman Sachs headquarters, top center, overlooks the World Trade Center construction site, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 in New York. Goldman Sachs reaffirmed its leadership among Wall Street banks as it reported its first-quarter earnings of $3.3 billion. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Goldman Sachs is still the king of Wall Street — at least when it comes to making money.

Group wants evangelist's Pentagon event canceled (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, May 24, 2009 file photo, Franklin Graham prepares to give the invocation before the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. A watchdog group objected Tuesday, April 20, 2010 to Graham's invitation to speak at the Pentagon in May, saying his past description of Islam as 'evil' offended Muslims who work for the Department of Defense and the appearance should be canceled. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, file)AP - A watchdog group objected Tuesday to an evangelist's invitation to speak at the Pentagon next month, saying his past description of Islam as "evil" offended Muslims who work for the Department of Defense and the appearance should be canceled.

FBI file on accused museum shooter dates to 1963 (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Talbot County, Md., Sheriff Office shows James von Brunn. The accused U.S. Holocaust museum shooter has died in a prison hospital in North Carolina on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. James von Brunn, the white supremacist who died before he could stand trial in the shooting death of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, first came to the FBI's attention 47 years ago when he was accused of making a death threat over a business dispute. (AP Photo/Talbot County Sheriff Office, File)AP - James von Brunn, the white supremacist who died before he could stand trial in the shooting death of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, first came to the FBI's attention 47 years ago when he was accused of making a death threat over a business dispute.

Ore. victim: Scouts had no abuse prevention plan (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo, plaintiff Kerry Lewis reacts after the verdict against the Boy Scouts of America was announced in Portland, Ore. The jury has already awarded Lewis, 38, $1.4 million for the 1980s abuse and could decide the Boy Scouts organization must pay as much as $25 million more in punitive damages. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)AP - Lawyers for an Oregon man who won a sex abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America told a jury Tuesday that the organization should pay $25 million in punitive damages for failing to prevent that abuse.

Mo. father convicted of murder in incest case (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:06 PM PDT

AP - A 47-year-old man accused of impregnating his daughter four times and causing the death of one of the babies was convicted of second-degree murder and other charges on Tuesday.

To fly through ash or not? That's no easy question (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:15 PM PDT

Passengers queue for check-in at Tegel airport in Berlin, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Airspace is closed for regular flights until Tuesday at 1200 GMT (8 a.m. EDT). However, airlines were permitted to operate a limited number of passenger flights Monday under so-called visual flight rules, meaning that they had to fly at low levels in German airspace.(AP Photo/Gero Breloer)AP - Six days after volcanic ash shut down the skies over much of Europe, planes are back in the air, but science still can't answer the question:

Prison tower guards, an American staple, disappear (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 01:16 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, April 13, 2010 photo, a solitary corrections officer looks out from a tower at one corner of the state prison in Camp Hill, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is evaluating whether it needs to have officers constantly on tower duty, since security has been enhanced and only five of 27 state facilities even have towers due to changes in prison design. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - In the movies, it's the prison guard perched in the perimeter tower who spots the escaped prisoner and sounds the alarm. In reality, video cameras and electrified fences are replacing the watchful, pacing corrections officer.

Court to review raunchy gifts in Ga. death trial (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:47 PM PDT

AP - A 1993 Georgia death penalty case will get fresh scrutiny from a federal court because of allegations that a juror sent raunchy gifts made of chocolate to the judge and a courtroom bailiff at the end of the trial.

Report says school food making kids unfit to serve (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:30 PM PDT

File photo shows students eating lunch at a high school in Chicago, Illinois. The same molecular pathways that steer people into drug addiction also lie behind the craving to overeat, driving individuals into obesity, a study published suggests.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)AP - Too fat to fight? Many American children are so overweight from being fed french fries, pizza and other unhealthy foods at school lunchrooms that they cannot handle the physical rigors of being in the military, a group of retired officers say in a new report.

Space shuttle Discovery, crew of 7 back on Earth (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:14 AM PDT

The space shuttle Discovery lands on Kennedy Space Center's Runway 33 Tuesday, April 20, 2010, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/ Bruce Weaver, Pool)AP - Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts returned safely to Earth on Tuesday after making a rare flyover of America's heartland to wrap up their 15-day, 6 million-mile journey to the International Space Station.

US Mint dedicates first parks quarter in Arkansas (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 01:53 PM PDT

This artist's rendering made available by the U.S. Mint shows the tail side of the first in the new line of quarters that goes into circulation on Tuesday April 20, 2010 in Hot Springs, Ark. The quarter is the first of 56 being released by the United States Mint and the National Park Service to honor national parks and sites in each state, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories. They're being released in the order in which the parks and sites were put under the care of the federal government. Hot Springs National Park is the nation's oldest, established as a federal reservation in 1832. A thermal fountain sits in front of the facade of the Hot Springs National Park Administration Building. (AP Photo/U.S. Mint)AP - The U.S. Mint launched its new series of quarters depicting national parks and wildlife sites on Tuesday at the first natural site reserved by the federal government, Hot Springs National Park.

AP-CNBC Poll: Most in US against legalizing pot (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 07:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of May 13, 2009 a grower holds a marijuana plant being grown for medical purposes inside a greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)AP - Most Americans still oppose legalizing marijuana but larger majorities believe pot has medical benefits and the government should allow its use for that purpose, according to an Associated Press-CNBC poll released Tuesday.

Head of sex-crimes unit charged in Pa. sex assault (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:45 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Bucks County District Attorney's Office, Michael Marren is seen. Prosecutors in suburban Philadelphia say DNA evidence in a sexual assault matches that of Marren, a police sergeant charged in the attack. Marren has been fired from his job leading Bensalem Police Department's sex crimes unit. (AP Photo/Bucks County District Attorney's Office)AP - DNA evidence in an alleged sexual assault at a township building matches that of a sergeant who led a sex crimes unit in suburban Philadelphia, a district attorney said Tuesday.

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