2010年5月21日星期五

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Woman sentenced to prison in Elizabeth Smart case (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 02:36 PM PDT

Wanda Barzee listens to Ed Smart make a statement during her sentencing hearing on Friday, May 21, 2010. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball has ordered Barzee, 64, to spend 15 years in prison, with credit for about seven years she's already served for the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. In November, Barzee pleaded guilty to federal charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines in Smart's abduction. She also has pleaded guilty in a state case. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)AP - Nearly eight years after Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her Salt Lake City bedroom at knifepoint, the woman who pleaded guilty to the 2002 kidnapping is headed to prison.

Texas board adopts new social studies curriculum (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 04:59 PM PDT

Board member Don McLeroy listens during a meeting of the State Board of Education to discuss social studies standards on Friday May 21, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Conservatives say the Texas history curriculum has been unfairly skewed to the left after years of Democrats controlling the board. Democrats and a moderate Republican accused conservatives on the board of trying to stir up a needless controversy Thursday by using the president's full name, Barack Hussein Obama, saying his middle name was loaded with negative connotation. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner) NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO TV: AP MEMBER, ONLINE AND NEWSPAPERS ONLYAP - The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teaching of the civil rights movement, slavery, America's relationship with the U.N. and hundreds of other items.

Officials: NYC bomb suspect claims Taliban support (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 04:03 PM PDT

This undated booking mug released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Faisal Shahzad. The man accused of plotting a car bombing in New York's Times Square made his first appearance Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in a Manhattan courtroom where he was told by a magistrate judge that he had the right to remain silent. Authorities say Faisal Shahzad's willingness to talk kept him out of court for two weeks, speeding up the progress of an investigation into his May 1 plot to set off a homemade car bomb. The hearing lasted only 10 minutes. Shahzad, 30, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, confirmed with a 'yes' that his financial affidavit was accurate, permitting him to be appointed an assistant public defender, Julia Gatto, who declined to comment afterward. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)AP - The Times Square bomb suspect claimed during his lengthy interrogation that he received financial support from the Pakistani Taliban for his failed one-man operation, two U.S. law enforcement officials close to the probe said Friday.

Conn. Democrats endorse Blumenthal for US Senate (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 05:21 PM PDT

Connecticut Attorney General and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Richard Blumenthal, left, and State Comptroller and Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman greet attendees at a tribute to Hispanic veterans at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, May 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, under fire for misspeaking about his military record during Vietnam, easily won the endorsement Friday night of Connecticut Democrats to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Chris Dodd.

Drug overdose: Medical marijuana facing a backlash (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 04:23 PM PDT

'Budista' Angela Nagel takes information from a client at Starbudz medical marijuana dispensary in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles on May 5, 2010. Los Angeles city officials are attempting to shutter dispensaries that aren't in compliance with a new ordinance and ensure the roughly 130 that remain meet stringent guidelines. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - The vandals struck in the middle of the night, hurling Molotov cocktails through the windows of two medical marijuana businesses and spray-painting "NOT IN OUR TOWN" just before the Billings City Council was supposed to take up a ban on any new pot shops.

Cartoon controversy: Dora the (illegal) explorer mugshot makes waves (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 11:07 AM PDT

In this composite image provided May 20, 2010 courtesy of Debbie Groben and FreakingNews.com, is an image of Nickelodeon cartoon Dora the Explorer created late last year by Debbie Groben of Sarasota, Fla., for a contest for the fake news site FreakingNews.com. The image, and others like it that question or make fun of the Latina cartoon character's immigration status and country of origin, have been in wide circulation since Arizona passed a controversial immigration law. Groben, who is against the immigration law, said she just created it out of good fun and didn't know it would enter the immigration debate. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Debbie Broben and FreakingNews.com)AP - In her police mug shot, the doe-eyed cartoon heroine with the bowl haircut has a black eye, battered lip and bloody nose.

Gun taken from angry JetBlue pilot before flight (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 01:39 PM PDT

AP - A JetBlue pilot who threatened to "harm himself in spectacular fashion" surrendered a gun to authorities in Massachusetts after they confronted him just before he boarded a flight at Logan International Airport, law enforcement authorities said Friday.

At worst, oil spewed already could fill 102 gyms (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 03:22 PM PDT

A May 17, 2010 satellite image provided by NASA shows a large patch of oil visible near the site of the Deepwater oil spill, and a long ribbon of oil stretched far to the southeast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that a small portion of the slick had entered the so-called loop current, a stream of fast moving water that circulates around the Gulf before bending around Florida and up the Atlantic coast. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Day by day, the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is adding up to mind-boggling numbers.

UC Berkeley plan to test freshmen DNA criticized (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 04:19 AM PDT

AP - A plan by the University of California, Berkeley to voluntarily test the DNA of incoming freshman has come under fire from critics who said the school was pushing an unproven technology on impressionable students.

NYC judge blasts Wall Street greed at sentencing (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 02:58 PM PDT

AP - A former top executive at a $1 billion hedge fund investment firm was sentenced to more than two years in prison Friday in the first sentencing to result from what prosecutors have called the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history.

Have gun, will travel into the Texas state capital (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 02:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2010, file photo authorities remove a man from the Texas Capitol following reports of gunfire in Austin, Texas. The incident was one of several secutiry concerns that led to the installation of metal detectors that were turned on Friday, May 21, 2010, at the Capitol. But there's one way citizens, lobbyists and other visitors can escape the lines: carry a concealed handgun. Under the new security procedures officials are creating one line for the masses, one line for lawmakers and their staffs and then a totally separate procedure for concealed handgun license holders. The general public has to get scanned at the entrances. The state officials, and the gun toting citizenry, do not. (AP Photo/Vida Walker Burtis, File)AP - With security concerns on the rise, metal detectors finally were installed and turned on at the Texas Capitol Friday. But citizens, lobbyists and other visitors can escape the lines — if they carry a concealed handgun.

Scientists see video, adjust Gulf leak estimates (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 02:22 PM PDT

Oil stains cover much of a sand bar in South Pass, Louisiana May 21, 2010. A month after BP's Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, oil still pours from the source and has begun to reach coastal Louisiana. REUTERS/Lee Celano (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT ENERGY)AP - Scientists are altering their estimates of how much oil is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico a day after new live video of the leak was posted online.

5th officer charged in Katrina shootings cover-up (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 12:02 PM PDT

AP - Another former police officer has been charged with helping cover up the deadly shootings of unarmed residents on a New Orleans bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina, prosecutors said Friday.

California, other states prepare to honor Milk (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 01:31 PM PDT

AP - Presidential Medal of Freedom? Got that. A place in the California Hall of Fame and Sean Penn playing you on-screen? Those, too.

Oil regulator apologizes for pro-drilling cake (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

AP - The director of the Minerals Management Service in Alaska is apologizing to colleagues for having a cake at a recent meeting with the words "Drill, Baby, Drill" on it.

In blindness, soldiers find new niche in military (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 07:12 AM PDT

In this April 8, 2010 photo, Capt. Scott Smiley, right, greets Col. Michael Tarsa before giving a tour of his staff's offices in West Point, N.Y. Smiley is one of only a few blind soldiers to remain on active duty since the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Though unable to return to his old infantry duties, Smiley has thrived in stateside postings like his latest at West Point, where he graduated in 2003. He now commands the Warrior Transition Unit here for ailing or wounded soldiers. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Since a car bomb blinded Capt. Scott Smiley in Iraq, he has skied Vail, climbed Mount Rainier, earned his MBA, raised two young boys with his wife, won an Espy award and pulled himself up from faith-shaking depths.

Astronauts make 3rd and final spacewalk of mission (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2010 02:19 PM PDT

In an image made from NASA TV, astronaut Michael Good participates in a spacewalk wearing a Notre Dame logo on the left arm of his space suit on Friday, May 21, 2010. Astronauts from the space shuttle Atlantis have finished putting in a new six-pack of batteries at the International Space Station on Friday, a US$22 million power overhaul that was their last major objective. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Spacewalking astronauts finished putting in a new six-pack of batteries at the International Space Station on Friday, a $22 million power overhaul that was their last major objective.

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