2010年4月24日星期六

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Tornadoes tear through Southeast, killing 10 (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 05:26 PM PDT

A motorist drives past an overturned truck which was among several vehicles damaged when a tornado crossed Interstate Highway 55 south of Durant, Miss., Saturday, April 24, 2010. Gov. Haley Barbour told The Associated Press there was 'utter obliteration' in parts of Yazoo County, an area where he is from. About 15 other counties were also damaged, he said. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Tornadoes ripped through the Southeast on Saturday, killing 10 people in Mississippi and injuring more than a dozen others. Roofs were torn off businesses, homes were splintered, vehicles were overturned and roads were blocked by toppled trees.

Arizona law raises fears of racial profiling (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 06:09 PM PDT

Demonstrators protest Arizona's new immigration law outside the Arizona state capitol building on April 23. Authorities in Arizona faced new protests Saturday after the US state's governor signed a tough new law targeting illegal immigrants, which critics claim enshrines racial profiling and President Barack Obama branded AP - Arodi Berrelleza isn't one of the targets of Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law — he's a U.S. citizen.

Goldman e-mails show how crash turned into cash (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 03:15 PM PDT

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein attends a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama about Wall Street reform at Cooper Union in New York April 22, 2010. REUTERS/Natalie BehringAP - As the U.S. housing turned downward in January 2007, a Goldman Sachs trader wrote in e-mails to a woman he apparently was courting that investments he had sold were "like Frankenstein turning against his own inventor."

Coast Guard: Oil leaking from well at blast site (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 05:17 PM PDT

In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, a boat with an oil boom tries to contain oil spilled from the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, approximately seven miles from where the rig sunk, on Friday, April 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The Coast Guard discovered Saturday that oil is leaking from the damaged well underneath a massive rig that exploded this week off Louisiana's coast, while bad weather halted efforts to clean up the mess that threatens the area's fragile marine ecosystem.

The good and bad of life on an offshore oil rig (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 01:57 PM PDT

In this April 21, 2010 picture, pelicans fly past oil platforms off the coast of Port Fourchon, La. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Life on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has come a long way since the black gold was discovered underwater here 60 years ago.

Fear lingers for some years after civil rights era (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 11:01 AM PDT

AP - More than 50 years after Emmett Till was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman, one of his relatives still worries that her brother might suffer violence for being a black man married to a white woman.

Obama's home congressional district in play (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 04:51 PM PDT

FILE - This April 9, 2010 picture shows Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Case of Kaneohe, Hawaii, who is running for the 1st Congressional District seat vacated by Neil Abercrombie who resigned from Congress to run for the Hawaii's governor's post. Case is running against Hawaii state Senate President and Democrat Colleen Hanabusa and Republican candidate and Honolulu Councilman Charles Djou. In all 14 candidates are running in the May 22 special election. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)AP - Republicans believe they've seen this movie before: Campaign ads blanketing the airwaves. Money from national political parties flowing in. And polls showing their candidate virtually tied with the competition.

Plans percolate to revive some SF native creeks (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 02:58 PM PDT

In this April 21, 2010 photo, Islais Creek just before it is diverted underground near Glen Park in San Francisco. San Francisco is studying the best sites for unearthing these historic creeks, and officials say the first phase of projects would likely start in five to 10 years. Islais Creek, which starts in the city's Glen Park neighborhood, and Mission Creek, which runs beneath the trendy Mission and South of Market districts, are likely the first candidates. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Riffling through old maps while researching a history project for San Francisco public schools, landscape architect Bonnie Sherk made a discovery: a century ago a creek coursed where two school campuses stand today.

Palin raises money for GOP in liberal Oregon town (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 02:07 PM PDT

Protestors hold signs outside the hotel where former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is scheduled to speak to a gathering of Lane County Republicans in Eugene, Ore., Friday, April 23, 2010.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Sarah Palin praised Republicans at a fundraising dinner in a liberal-leaning Oregon town for having the boldness to invite her to speak.

Police: Detroit strip club employed 14-year-old (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 07:25 PM PDT

All Star topless bar on Eight Mile Road is shown in Detroit, Friday, April 23, 2010. Police say the manager of a northwest Detroit strip club has been charged after authorities learned a 14-year-old girl was employed as a topless dancer. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The manager of a Detroit strip club was charged after authorities learned a 14-year-old girl was employed as a topless dancer, making several hundred dollars a night, authorities said Friday.

Obama pal Patrick banks on 3-way Mass. gov. race (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2009 file photo, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick speaks during an interview in his office at the Statehouse in Boston. Patrick will face Republican Charles Baker and independent Tim Cahill when he runs for re-election in November 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)AP - In a tough year for Democrats, the political fate of Obama pal Deval Patrick is on the line in his bid for a second term as Massachusetts' governor.

Sandwich-board job hunter finds work after 2 years (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 08:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of Nov. 18, 2008, Paul Nawrocki looks for work wearing a sandwich board reading 'Almost Homeless,'' in New York, where he became a symbol of the nation's economic meltdown. Two years later, as the failed economy reverses itself, Nawrocki has a job. But his newfound stability is still fragile: he still wonders if he will lose his house and is coping with difficulties left by long stretches of joblessness. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)AP - When laid-off toy company executive Paul Nawrocki hit the streets of Manhattan wearing a sandwich board and handing out his resume, he became the face of the recession.

Tracheostomy tubes recalled after 3 deaths (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 09:52 PM PDT

AP - A Massachusetts company is recalling tracheostomy tubes used to help patients on ventilators breathe after receiving reports that three people died while using them.

Mich. hookah fanciers fume about smoking ban (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 01:40 AM PDT

Hamze Nasser, assistant manager of 360, a Dearborn, Mich., restaurant, starts a hookah for a customer, Friday, April 9, 2010. Come May 1 a new state law will ban the hookhas from Dearborn eateries. Cafes will have to choose between serving food and liquor or allowing smoking. Hookahs will be welcome only in specialty tobacco stores. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - The main thoroughfares of this Detroit suburb, like those of many Michigan cities, aren't as busy as they used to be. Thousands of jobs shed locally by the Ford Motor Co. have forced smaller businesses to shutter and left fewer customers for those that remain.

Alaska dog honored for leading troopers to fire (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Buddy appears at a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday, April 23, 2010. The German shepherd was hailed Friday as a hero for guiding Alaska State Troopers through winding back roads to a fire at his owner Ben Heinrichs' workshop on April 4. He received a commendation and a stainless steel dog dish from the troopers. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)AP - Buddy the German shepherd was hailed as a hero for guiding Alaska State Troopers through winding back roads to a fire at his owners' workshop.

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