2010年5月8日星期六

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AP INVESTIGATION: Blowout preventers known to fail (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:10 AM PDT

FILE - This April 22, 2010 photo provided Sunday, April 25 by the US Coast Guard shows the arm of a robot submarine attempting to activate a shutoff device known as a blowout preventer (BOP) to close off the flow of oil at the Deepwater Horizon well head. Engineers have deployed an armada of remote-controlled submarine robots that are essentially turning wrenches to repair malfunctioning equipment and cap the leak while spraying chemicals from a wand into the muck and mire to disperse the oil. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard)AP - Cutoff valves like the one that failed to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster have repeatedly broken down at other wells in the years since federal regulators weakened testing requirements, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Staten Island ferry slams into dock; dozens hurt (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 04:24 PM PDT

A young woman cries as she sits in an ambulance in the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Staten Island, New York, Saturday, May 8, 2010, after a ferry boat crashed into the dock. Authorities say at least one person was seriously hurt and as many as 35 suffered minor injuries when a Staten Island ferry boat struck a pier at a terminal in New York. Authorities say the vessel is the Andrew J. Barberi, the same one involved in a 2003 crash that killed 11 at the same terminal. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)AP - A Staten Island ferry with a history of accidents, including a fatal wreck in 2003, malfunctioned as it approached its terminal Saturday and smashed into a pier with a jolt that tossed passengers to the deck and hurt as many as 37 people.

A bullet in Baghdad, a son's need, a mother's love (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 02:29 PM PDT

In this April 8, 2010 photo, Malerie Briseno, 22, left, talks to her brother, Joseph Briseno Jr., 27, as their mother Eva Briseno watches at their home in Manassas, Va. A bullet to the back of his head in a Baghdad marketplace in 2003 left Briseno Jr., paralyzed, brain-damaged and blind, but awake and aware of his condition. The family takes care of 'Jay' in their suburban Virginia home where the family room has been transformed into an intensive care unit, with the breathing machine and tubes he needs to stay alive. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - There are mothers who will spend today missing sons and daughters fighting overseas. There are women who have lost children in those wars, for whom Mother's Day will never be the same.

Times Square plot may have cost as little as $7K (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 10:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo from the social networking site Orkut.com, a man who was identified by neighbors in Connecticut as Faisal Shahzad, is shown. Shahzad was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said. The Pakistani-American who police say admitted to trying to blow up a car bomb in busy Times Square has made no court appearance since his arrest almost a week ago and, although he is cooperating with authorities, there's been no consensus he was acting alone and no word on why he planned the terror attack that has left many New Yorkers on edge for days. (AP Photo/Orkut.com, File) NO SALESAP - Terror can come cheap.

Protesters rally against drilling after oil spill (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 03:53 PM PDT

AP - About 200 people protested the dangers of offshore drilling at a rally in New Orleans.

Pieces still missing in NYC car bomb plot puzzle (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 11:47 PM PDT

A member of the New York Police Department bomb squad prepares to check a suspicious package in New York's Times Square, Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - The Pakistani-American who police say admitted to igniting a failed car bomb in busy Times Square has made no court appearance since his arrest early this week and, though he is cooperating, authorities remain unsure he was acting alone.

13 injured in LA apartment fire, 2 critically (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:51 AM PDT

AP - A morning fire at an apartment building near downtown Los Angeles injured 13 people Saturday, including a woman who jumped from a window and a 5-year-old girl who suffered third-degree burns, authorities said.

45-year-old civil rights slaying still unresolved (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 09:54 AM PDT

In this Sept. 19, 2008 photo, a historic marker honoring Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was shot during a civil rights protest in 1965, stands in the courthouse square in Marion, Ala. It took more than four decades for a former Alabama state trooper to be indicted on charges that he gunned down Jackson, a killing that helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Now a three-year delay for the trial has both sides fearing that elderly witnesses could die before they get a chance to testify. (AP Photo/Phillip Rawls)AP - It took more than four decades for a former Alabama state trooper to be indicted on charges that he gunned down a black demonstrator — a killing that helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Now a three-year delay for the trial has both sides fearing that elderly witnesses could die before they get a chance to testify.

Experts re-examine audio from Kent State shootings (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 03:58 PM PDT

AP - A new analysis of a 40-year-old audio recording reveals that someone ordered National Guard troops to prepare to fire on students during a deadly Vietnam War protest at Kent State University in 1970, two forensics experts said.

Jimmy Carter hits the campaign trail with grandson (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 01:17 PM PDT

Candidate for the Georgia Senate Jason Carter, center, greets an Atlanta voter as his grandfather former President Jimmy Carter and Christine Marsteller look on Saturday, May 8, 2010 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Most candidates for the state Legislature would love to campaign door-to-door with a former president, but Jason Carter wanted to keep his famous grandfather away for a while.

Former Interior Secretary Walter Hickel dies at 90 (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 01:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo from Feb. 1991, Gov. Walter J. Hickel is shown in Alaska. Hickel, who was Richard Nixon's interior secretary until he was fired after criticizing the handling of Vietnam protests, died Friday night May 7, 2010 at Horizon House, an assisted living facility in Anchorage.. He was 90.(AP Photo, File)AP - Former Alaska Gov. Walter J. Hickel, who served as Interior secretary under President Nixon until he was dismissed for objecting to the treatment of Vietnam War protesters, has died at age 90.

Feds: Lawrence Taylor admitted paying for sex (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 01:17 AM PDT

Former New York Giants linebacker and Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor appears at Ramapo Town Court in Suffern, N.Y., Thursday, May 6, 2010. Taylor was arraigned on rape and prostitution charges in an assault on a 16-year-old runaway who police said was brought to his suburban New York hotel room against her will. (AP Photo/Seth Harrison, Pool)AP - Disgraced gridiron great Lawrence Taylor admitted paying for sex at a suburban Holiday Inn where police say he raped a 16-year-old runaway, federal prosecutors said Friday in a criminal complaint against the girl's alleged pimp.

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