2010年4月27日星期二

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News


How Arizona became center of immigration debate (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:32 PM PDT

People protest against Senate Bill 1070 outside the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona April 25, 2010. Arizona's tough new immigration law has renewed calls for Washington to reform federal immigration laws, and protesters decried the state's action as a violation of U.S. civil rights at a rally on Sunday in the state's capital.   REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)AP - The frustration had been building for years in Arizona with every drug-related kidnapping, every home invasion, every "safe house" discovered crammed with illegal immigrants from Mexico.


Judge tells defense: Prove militia isn't dangerous (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:23 PM PDT

FILE - This combo of eight file photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service on Monday March 29, 2010 shows from top left, David Brian Stone Sr., 44, of Clayton, Mich,; David Brian Stone Jr. of Adrian, Mich,; Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio,; Tina Mae Stone and bottom row from left, Michael David Meeks,  40, of Manchester, Mich,; Kristopher T. Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio; Joshua John Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Mich.; and Thomas William Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind. Nine members of the Michigan militia, called Hutaree, are returning to court to ask a judge to release them while they fight conspiracy and weapons charges. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshall, File)AP - An FBI agent who led the investigation of nine Michigan militia members charged with trying to launch war against the U.S. couldn't recall many details of the two-year probe Tuesday during a grilling by defense lawyers.


Source: Former Air Force member claims explosives (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:59 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP **People walk out of this Delta Air Lines Flight from Paris to Atlanta which was diverted to Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine Tuesday April 27, 2010. U. S. officials say an American citizen on the flight claimed to have a fake passport and explosives in his luggage. According to Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott there were 235 passengers and eight crew aboard the Airbus 330. Aftet the plane landed safely at 3:37 p.m.,  the passengers deplaned onto the tarmac at BIA and boarded buses to BIA's international arrivals building.  (AP Photo/Bangor Daily News, John Clarke Russ)AP - A former member of the U.S. Air Force on a flight from Paris to Atlanta claimed he had explosives in his luggage and a fake passport, forcing federal air marshals to intervene and the plane to be diverted to Maine on Tuesday, U.S. officials said.


Dad: Fla. man detained on flight never in trouble (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT

AP - The father of an ex-U.S. Air Force member who was detained on a trans-Atlantic flight after allegedly claiming he had explosives in his luggage and a fake passport says his son lives a squeaky clean life and has never been in trouble before.

Malcolm X assassin Hagan is freed on parole in NYC (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:45 PM PDT

This March 12, 2008 photo shows Thomas Hagan who was released by the New York State Department of Corrections, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Hagan, the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing of Black Nationalist leader Malcolm X, was freed from a Manhattan prison where he spent two days a week under a work-release program. (AP Photo/New York State Department of Corrections)AP - NEW YORK — The only man ever to admit involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he helped gun down the civil rights leader.


Soldier arrested in assault on Ohio homeless man (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:27 PM PDT

Michael Hesson, 24, of Norwood, appears before Judge Tyrone Yates for his arraignment Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in Cincinnati, for felonious assault. He is charged with beating John Johnson, 52, a homeless man, earlier this month. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Carrie Cochran) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Four men suspected of beating a homeless man sleeping under a bridge had been drinking when one of them suggested they go out and "kick somebody's butt," police said Tuesday in announcing the arrest of a soldier at Fort Knox.


Jury hears details of NJ schoolyard triple killing (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:33 PM PDT

Wearing headphones for an interpreter, Rodolfo Godinez, center, stands in court with his defense attorney Roy Greenman, left, and an unidentified man, right, Tuesday, April 27, 2010,  in Newark, N.J. Godinez is the first of six defendants to go to trial in the killings of Dashon Harvey, Iofemi Hightower and Terrance Aeriel in 2007 in a Newark schoolyard. In his opening statements, Greenman told jurors Godinez was at the crime scene but didn't participate in the attacks and wasn't identified by the surviving victim.  (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A prosecutor on Tuesday described the systematic attack on four college-age friends at a school playground in 2007 that left three dead and one grievously wounded in a crime that horrified a city familiar with violence.


Ariz. immigrant law draws ire, possible referendum (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:02 PM PDT

Thousands of protesters listen to activists speak as they attend 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 - Politicians weighed in on Arizona's tough new immigration law Tuesday, while Mexico cautioned its citizens about an "adverse political atmosphere" in the state and a Phoenix man said he was aiming to get a referendum to repeal the measure on November's ballot.


Ex-LAPD chief Gates remembered in memorial service (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 01:04 PM PDT

The hearse passes under a giant American Flag as it arrives for the funeral for retired Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 27, 2010  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Thousands of police officers from around California gathered Tuesday to pay their respects to former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, one of the most polarizing figures in modern law enforcement.


Sex offender gets life in Wis. triple slaying (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 01:53 PM PDT

AP - A convicted sex offender was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for strangling and stabbing his neighbor and her two teenage children in their trailer home in southern Wisconsin.

Texas gov. shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:55 PM PDT

AP - Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don't mess with my dog.

LA clinic begins giving free care to thousands (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:59 PM PDT

Hundreds of citizens without medical insurance get free dental services from volunteer dentists and dental technicians at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic inside the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - They began arriving before dawn on a cold, misty morning, people of all ages lining up by the hundreds, some in wheelchairs, others hobbling on crutches, many of them missing teeth, all of them seeking the same thing: free medical care.


APNewsBreak: Idaho scientists find fabled worm (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the University of Idaho, an adult giant Palouse earthworm stretches nearly to its full length of 10 to 12 inches in the laboratory at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, Monday, April 12, 2010.  Two living specimens of the fabled giant Palouse earthworm have been captured for the first time in two decades, University of Idaho scientists revealed on Tuesday. (AP Photo/University of Idaho, Kelly Weaver)AP - Two living specimens of the fabled giant Palouse earthworm have been captured for the first time in two decades in what represents a significant discovery of a creature that has achieved a mythic status in the area.


Jurors deliberate 6 hours in Palin e-mail case (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT

David Kernell, center, leaves the Federal Courthouse with his mother, Lt. Col. Lillian Landrigan, right, and attorney Wade Davies, left, after court was adjourned Monday, April 26, 2010 in Knoxville, Tenn. Kernell was a University of Tennessee student majoring in economics when prosecutors say he hacked into the Yahoo! account Sarah Palin sometimes used for state business. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - A federal jury has deliberated six hours without reaching a verdict in the case against a former University of Tennessee student charged with hacking into Sarah Palin's e-mail.


More names found on man accused in doc's killing (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:18 PM PDT

Lishan Wang is escorted by police out of New Haven Superior Court, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in New Haven, Conn. Wang was arraigned in the killing of Yale doctor Vajinder Toor who was shot outside his Branford home Monday.  A judge continued Wang's bail at $2 million. No plea was entered. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - An unemployed doctor charged with fatally shooting a Yale University doctor was found with documents on two other people involved in his job dismissal and 1,000 rounds of ammunition when he was arrested, police said Tuesday.


Slain Nevada deputy was just back from Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 02:56 PM PDT

AP - Ian Deutch survived a tour of duty as a military forward artillery observer in Afghanistan. But he didn't make it past his second day back on the job as a rural Nevada sheriff's deputy.

125 mph winds in Nevada hamper travel, cut power (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 01:06 PM PDT

AP - Winds gusting more than 100 mph have left thousands without electricity in Reno and caused travel havoc across northern Nevada.

Spring snowstorm hits northern NY, New England (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 01:25 PM PDT

AP - A late-season storm expected to dump as much as a foot of snow across the hills and mountains of northern New York and New England was a boon for skiers and ski resorts in a region largely spared by the massive storms that blasted the rest of the nation this winter.

Judge: Grandparents can't take toddler left in NYC (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 03:37 PM PDT

AP - A 3-year-old boy abandoned at St. Patrick's Cathedral will return to Florida but must remain in the care of child-welfare officials because the case needs further investigation, a family court judge in New York City ruled Tuesday.
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