2010年4月25日星期日

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Saviors as tornado hit: A table, a wall, a freezer (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 06:57 PM PDT

Yazoo City, Miss., resident Sharron Moore can't believe how close she came to living in what is left of her new house, destroyed by Saturday's tornado, as she reviews the damage Sunday, April 25, 2010. The three bedroom house was blown off its slab for several feet. Moore was to have moved into the new house within a week. Many residents spent the better part of the day cleaning up and trying to salvage possessions in the homes and businesses damaged by Saturday's tornado. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - One prayed to God under a communion table as his church was blown to pieces around him.

Calif. case spotlights dysfunctional death penalty (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:19 PM PDT

AP - Chelsea King's parents reluctantly agreed to a sentence of life in prison for their daughter's rapist and killer, calling the death penalty in California "an empty promise."

Quick end to gulf oil leak depends on robot subs (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 06:43 PM PDT

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard Saturday April 24, 2010 shows oil leaking from the drill pipe of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig after it sank Thursday. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said the leak was a new discovery but could have begun when the rig sank on Thursday, two days after the initial explosion. Bad weather has halted efforts to clean up the mess that threatens the area's fragile marine ecosystem. (AP photo/US Coast Guard)AP - It could take hours or it could take months to stop a 42,000-gallon-a-day oil leak polluting the Gulf of Mexico at the site of a wrecked drilling platform. Whether the environmental threat grows many times bigger depends on whether the oil company can turn the well completely off.

Obama and evangelist Billy Graham share a prayer (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 02:01 PM PDT

In this image released by the White House, President Barack Obama meets with Billy Graham, 91, at his mountainside home in Montreat, N.C., Sunday, April 25, 2010. Obama concluded his North Carolina vacation with his first meeting of the ailing evangelist, who has counseled commanders in chief since Dwight Eisenhower. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)AP - President Barack Obama made a pilgrimage Sunday to Billy Graham's mountainside home, concluding his North Carolina vacation with his first meeting with the ailing evangelist who has counseled commanders in chief since Dwight Eisenhower.

Obama: W.Va. miners died in pursuit of better life (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 04:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, left center, and vice president Joe Biden, left, watch as West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III walks with relatives of a miner as they place a helmet on a cross during a memorial service for the miners killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine, in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - They lived and they died pursuing the American Dream, working in dangerous conditions underground to help keep the lights on across the country, a somber President Barack Obama said Sunday in a eulogy to the workers who died in the worst mine accident in a generation.

16-year-old California teen gives up solo voyage (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:37 PM PDT

AP - A 16-year-old Southern California girl hoping to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone has ended her quest and will head to South Africa for boat repairs.

Advocates seek ways to protect homeless from crime (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:04 PM PDT

AP - Sobs overcome Susanne McGraham-Paisley when she thinks about her mentally ill brother who lived for years on a city sidewalk — John McGraham died when a man doused him with gasoline and set him ablaze.

25 years later, widower recalls slain family (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:31 AM PDT

In this Monday, April 19, 2010 photo, Gary Eastburn is seen during an interview in Spring Lake, N.C. A military jury sentenced Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis to death for the murder of Eastburn's wife and two of his three children in 1985. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - When he moved to Washington state in 1998, Gary Eastburn put the three shoe boxes filled with photographs on the shelf of a closet in a spare bedroom.

Abuser's Catholic order awaits Vatican judgment (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, then Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican. One of the next tests for Pope Benedict XVI in the burgeoning clergy abuse crisis is deciding the fate of a once-prominent, strict religious order that now admits its late founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, fathered at least one child and molested underage seminarians. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)AP - One of the next tests for Pope Benedict XVI in the burgeoning clergy abuse crisis is deciding the fate of a once-prominent, strict religious order that now admits its late founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, fathered at least one child and molested underage seminarians.

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

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:57 AM 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."

Sharpton vows to protest Arizona immigration bill (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 PM PDT

AP - The Rev. Al Sharpton says he's ready to travel to Arizona and march in the streets to protest the state's new immigration law.

Black woman leads former whites-only Philly school (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:54 AM PDT

AP - The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as "a black girl from Richmond, Virginia," would have excluded her in years past.

Vt. towns finally settle colonial map boundaries (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:42 AM PDT

In this April 1, 2010 photo, Phil Gingrow points to a boundary line in St George, Vt. A boundary issue between two Vermont towns that dated to Colonial days is on the verge of being settled. At issue: the boundary between Shelburne and St. George, which were laid out in 1763. When a couple built a house in the disputed territory, the towns had to come to terms with an old legacy but a new realization: Despite modern mapping techniques and global positioning systems, it all comes down to old maps. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - A Colonial-era boundary dispute between two Vermont towns that were never exactly sure where one ended and the other began is finally going to be settled.

Wis. woman braves traffic, saves 14 ducklings (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 PM PDT

Newborn wild ducklings paddle behind their mother in Nora river in La Fresneda, near Oviedo April 20, 2010. Picture taken April 20. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN - Tags: ANIMALS)AP - A mother duck didn't survive her walk across a busy Wisconsin roadway, but a motorist made sure the 14 ducklings stayed safe — even one that wiggled under her dashboard.

发贴者：iwvck2 时间 19:27 0 条评论

bnzv