2010年4月26日星期一

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Furor grows over Ariz. law against immigrants (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:17 PM PDT

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks to thousands of protesters attending a rally at the Arizona Capitol voicing their displeasure on Sunday, April, 25, 2010, over the Friday bill signing of SB1070 by the Arizona governor, in Phoenix. The sweeping measure makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally, and would require local law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - The furor over Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants grew Monday as opponents used refried beans to smear swastikas on the state Capitol, civil rights leaders demanded a boycott of the state, and the Obama administration weighed a possible legal challenge.

Wal-Mart to limit toxic cadmium in kids' products (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:51 PM PDT

AP - The world's largest retailer revealed Monday that it has started to crack down on the use of the toxic metal cadmium in children's jewelry and other kids' products.

Fundraising spares Hollywood sign from sprawl (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:29 PM PDT

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left , joins Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge, right, and officials from the Trust for Public Land to announce the success of the 'Save the Cahuenga Peak' campaign, after raising $12.5 million to acquire Cahuenga Peak, a 138-acre parcel of land just west of the landmark Hollywood sign on Monday, April 26, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The Hollywood sign has been spared from urban sprawl and will stand unobscured to welcome future actors, writers and Austrian bodybuilders, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday.

Oil leak from sunken rig off La. could foul coast (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:33 PM PDT

In this aerial photo taken over the Gulf of Mexico, a boat and crew work in oil which leaked from a pipeline at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, Monday, April 26, 2010. Officials say there will be no shoreline impact from an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico for at least another three days. Crews were ramping up Monday to protect the coastline after the oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast nearly a week ago. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Crews raced to protect the Gulf of Mexico coastline Monday as a remote sub tried to shut off an underwater oil well that's gushing 42,000 gallons a day from the site of a wrecked drilling platform.

Massey: W.Va. mine clear of gases before explosion (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:47 PM PDT

Massey Energy Co. Chairman and CEO, Don Blankenship, second from right, attends a press conference with board directors, from left, Robert Foglesong, Bobby Inman, and Stanley Suboleski, Monday, April 26, 2010 at in Charleston, W.Va. Air samples did not show high levels of explosive gases just before an explosion in Massey's Upper Big Branch coal mine that killed 29 workers, the mine's owner said Monday. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)AP - Air samples did not show high levels of explosive gases just before an explosion in a West Virginia coal mine that killed 29 workers, and what caused the disaster remains unknown, the mine's owner said Monday.

Firing over creationism e-mail leads to appeal (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:37 PM PDT

AP - The former director of the science program for Texas' public schools asked a federal appeals court Monday to revive a lawsuit over her firing for forwarding an e-mail about a forum opposed to teaching creationism.

Friends suggest armed man no threat to Obama in NC (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:57 PM PDT

In this police mug shot provided by the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office on Sunday, April 25, 2010, Joseph Sean McVey is shown. McVey has been charged after authorities spotted him with a gun in a North Carolina airport parking lot as Air Force One was departing Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/Buncombe County Sheriff's Office)AP - An Ohio man who authorities say was carrying a gun and driving a car loaded with law enforcement equipment when he said he wanted to see the president is a "public-service-minded" ham-radio, weather and police buff, acquaintances said Monday.

Warrants suggest Calif killer followed 11-year-old (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 16, 2010 photo, John Gardner pleads guilty to both counts of murder in San Diego Superior Court. Sex offender John Albert Gardner has pleaded guilty to killing two San Diego County teenage girls. Gardner agreed to enter the pleas in the deaths of 14-year-old Amber Dubois and 17-year-old Chelsea King. In exchange, prosecutors will not seek the death penalty. 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.' (AP Photo/Earnie Grafton, Pool)AP - An 11-year-old girl told police a man followed her home from school the day before registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III raped and murdered a 17-year-old girl in a nearby park, according to search warrants unsealed Monday.

Remains in Pa. ID'd as woman last seen at NYC club (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo released by the New York City Police Department shows Laura Garza, of the Brooklyn borough of New York, who disappeared after leaving a New York City night club in 2008 with a registered sex offender. Garza's remains have been found in Pennsylvania, state police said Monday, April 26, 2010. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department, File)AP - Remains found two weeks ago in Pennsylvania have been identified as those of an aspiring dancer from Texas who disappeared after leaving a New York City night club in 2008 with a registered sex offender, state police said Monday.

eBay de-lists Kevorkian death van, citing policy (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:31 PM PDT

FILE - This June 6, 1990 file photo shows a Volkswagen minivan then belonging to Dr. Jack Kevorkian at a Michigan State Police garage in Pontiac, Mich. Kevorkian used the van in several of the deaths that were part of his assisted suicide campaign. The van's current owner Jack Finn has listed it for sale on eBay, and the top bid was $3,400 at midday Monday, April 26, 2010, three days ahead of the sale. (AP Photo/Michael E. Samojeden)AP - Online auction site eBay pulled a listing Monday for a van used by Dr. Jack Kevorkian to perform several assisted suicides, saying the sale of the van would violate the company's policy against the sale of "murderabilia."

Nat'l Guard in Chicago? Idea gets chilly reception (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:17 PM PDT

AP - While two Illinois lawmakers want National Guard troops deployed to help quell violence on Chicago's streets, Mayor Richard Daley and the city's police superintendent aren't embracing the idea and crime statistics show the number of homicides is no worse than in previous years.

Okla. House overrides abortion restrictions vetoes (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:54 PM PDT

A policeman looks at the paper crosses left on the steps of the Angel of Independence Monument by anti-abortion activists after a rally in Mexico City April 24, 2010. The activists arranged the paper crosses in neat rows to symbolise a cemetery in commemoration of the third year that the Programme of Legal Termination of Pregnancy law has been enacted in Mexico City. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)AP - The Oklahoma House voted overwhelmingly Monday to override vetoes of two restrictive abortion measures Gov. Brad Henry has called unconstitutional intrusions into citizens' private lives and decisions.

Dirty-bomb test for terror may aid cancer research (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 12:27 PM PDT

AP - With a few drops of blood, scientists are creating a way to tell who's absorbed dangerous radiation levels, part of the government's preparations against a terrorist attack — and research that just might point toward new cancer care, too.

Kan. doctor tried on charges he ran 'pill mill' (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:41 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors plan to portray a Kansas doctor at his trial as "the candy man" who illegally provided painkillers to drug addicted patients to boost his bottom line. Meanwhile, defense attorneys claim he's a compassionate health care provider who gave high doses to chronic pain sufferers because that's what they need.

Calif.'s costly trout recovery effort criticized (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Supervisory biologist Mary Larson and fish habitat specialist Chris Lima walk though a tunnel containing a series of man-made weirs, areas of still water where fish can rest as they swim upstream, behind concrete curbs, each six inches higher than the next, that have been installed in the tunnel where Arroyo Hondo Creek passes under Highway 101 on its way to the Pacific Ocean, at the Arroyo Hondo Preserve in Gaviota, Calif., Friday, March 19, 2010. It's one of several projects, intended to save the steelhead trout, an endangered species that was once teeming along the Southern California coast, but which may now number only about 500. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - In hopes of luring the endangered steelhead trout into the Santa Monica Mountains, California's transportation agency is planning to spend $935,000 to pave over part of a popular beach with cement and boulders to build a freeway of sorts for fish.

Homeless good Samaritan left to die on NYC street (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:33 PM PDT

In this frame grab from an April 18, 2010 surveillance video obtained and released by ABC, is shown a pedestrian approaching a homeless man, lower right, lying on the ground after being stabbed after he assisted a woman being attacked in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/ABC)AP - The homeless man lay face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building, blood from knife wounds pooling underneath his body.

Calif. Assembly modifies law seeking to cure gays (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:03 PM PDT

AP - California lawmakers have voted to modify a decades-old law that classifies gays as sexual deviants and calls for research on the causes of homosexuality.

Police: Former colleague kills Yale doctor at home (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:21 PM PDT

Police move the body of Yale University doctor Vajinder Toor at the crime scene in Branford, Conn., Monday, April 26, 2010. Toor was shot and killed while walking to his car in the parking lot of his condominium complex. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - A doctor was charged Monday with fatally shooting a Yale University doctor and firing at the victim's pregnant wife after a history of confrontations with the victim and other colleagues that led to his dismissal from a New York hospital.

Suspect in death of Miss. supremacist speaks out (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:49 PM PDT

This is a Feb. 24, 2010 photograph released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections of Vincent McGee of Pearl, Miss., who is charged with the murder of Richard Barrett, a white supremacist lawyer who was found stabbed to death in his burning house in Rankin County near Pearl, Miss., Thursday, April 22, 2010. Barrett, a New York City native and Vietnam War veteran, moved to Mississippi in 1966, and soon after, he began traveling the country to promote anti-black and anti-immigrant views, and founded a supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement. McGee has been arrested and taken to the Rankin County jail in Brandon. As a MDOC inmate McGee was out of prison on earned release supervision granted in February, 2010. He lived with family in a home several houses down the block from Barrett. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections)AP - A black man accused of stabbing an outspoken white supremacist to death in Mississippi said Monday he didn't know about the man's racist views before the killing.

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