2010年5月24日星期一

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SC governor hopeful denies blogger claim of affair (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT

South Carolina Republican candidates for governor, from left Rep. Nikki Haley, R-Lexington, U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, R-SC and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, listen during their debate on the issues at ETV studios Monday, May 3, 2010, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Tea party favorite Nikki Haley, a Republican candidate for governor whose campaign gained momentum with recent endorsements from Sarah Palin and Jenny Sanford, vehemently denied allegations Monday that she had an inappropriate relationship with a political blogger several years ago.

Fired UN diplomat Galbraith seeks office in Vt. (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:50 PM PDT

AP - Peter Galbraith, the former U.N. diplomat in Afghanistan who was fired over his cries of fraud following last year's presidential election there, is running for the Vermont state Senate.

GOP tries to upend NC campaign backed by tea party (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 03:18 PM PDT

Tim D'Annunzio, republican congressional candidate for North Carolina's 8th district, answers a question during a press conference in Concord, N.C. on Monday, May 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)AP - Republican officials are working to derail the campaign of a tea party supported candidate in North Carolina — circulating documents from the man's messy divorce that depict him as a pot smoker who has called himself the messiah.

2 Ark. officers slain in roadside shootout mourned (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:54 PM PDT

Police officers arrive at West Memphis High School's gymnasium in West Memphis, Ark., for the funeral of slain police Sgt. Brandon Paudert Monday, May 24, 2010. Paudert and fellow Officer Bill Evans were killed during a shootout along Interstate 40 on Thursday. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Two West Memphis police officers slain during a roadside shootout with an anti-government advocate and his son were remembered Monday as dedicated public servants and as loving fathers.

Attorney: Texas man didn't want to fight US troops (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:17 PM PDT

AP - A Pakistani student accused of conspiring to aid the Taliban and undergoing training to fight U.S. troops never intended to commit "battlefield Jihad" or help a terrorist group, his attorney told jurors Monday.

AP IMPACT: Bad cement jobs plague offshore rigs (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 05:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, May 3, 2010 file photo provided by Transocean, the ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rig Development Drill III begins operations for drilling a relief well in the Gulf of Mexico. A relief well is designed to drill down and intersect the existing well bore and pump heavy fluids and cement in to stop the leaking oil. (AP Photo/Transocean, File) NO SALESAP - The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement â€" suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster â€" has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an Associated Press investigation.

BP CEO inspects La. beach stained by Gulf oil (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 12:41 PM PDT

BP CEO Tony Hayward (C) looks over clean-up efforts at the site of beached oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Port Fourchon, Louisiana May 24, 2010. REUTERS/Lee Celano (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS ENERGY)AP - The chief executive of BP PLC walked the oil-stained sands of a closed Louisiana beach as workers in white coveralls and yellow boots tended to equipment being used to keep away crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Feds: Government can't push BP aside on oil spill (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT

Workers shovel oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., Monday, May 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - The Obama administration's point man on the oil spill rejected the notion of removing BP and taking over the crisis Monday, saying the government has neither the company's expertise nor its deep-sea equipment.

Teacher in trouble after students don white robes (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:00 PM PDT

AP - A north Georgia history teacher faces punishment after administrators say she let four students wear Ku Klux Klan-like robes for a historical reenactment.

Arizona sheriff urges no travel to Mexico after ad (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:40 PM PDT

AP - Upset by an ad placed in a Phoenix newspaper, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is calling on Arizonans to avoid traveling to Mexico.

As Spitzer did a cycle ago, Cuomo tries to take NY (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 2, 2010 file photo, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media before entering a fundraiser in New York. As New Yorkers watch Cuomo rev up his campaign for governor, it's hard not to recall the same race four years ago when Eliot Spitzer, also a Democratic attorney general at the time, ran for and won the same seat. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)AP - A hard-charging Democratic attorney general who whipped Wall Street and corporate boardrooms to become the most popular politician in New York is running for governor on a platform to clean up and revive the Empire State.

Miss. board denies staging 'sham' prom for lesbian (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2010 file photograph, Constance McMillen, a 18-year-old student at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, looks around the federal courthouse in Aberdeen, Miss., prior to a hearing regarding the ACLU's preliminary injunction to force the prom at her high school. McMillen told The Associated Press on Thursday, May 20, 2010, that she has transferred from the rural school district to attend a Jackson, Miss., high school where she will graduate June 2. The graduating senior said she faced hostility on her former campus and in the community in the aftermath of her actions, making it hard to concentrate on her studies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - A rural Mississippi school district that was sued by a lesbian student who wanted to bring a same-sex date to the high school prom is denying accusations it routed her to a "sham prom" at a country club while most of her schoolmates partied elsewhere.

2 Americans imprisoned in Iran plan to get married (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:03 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo, released by freethehikers.org, Aug. 20, 2009, shows Shane Bauer, left, and Sarah Shourd. Bauer and Shourd, two Americans who have been held for months in an Iranian prison have become engaged and plan to marry after they are released, according to their mothers who are back in the United States after a visit to Iran to see their children. Shourd's mother, Nora Shourd told 'Good Morning America' on Monday May 24, 2010 that Bauer made a ring out of threads from his shirt and proposed to Shourd in the exercise area of Evin Prison in Tehran. The other captured American, Josh Fattal, will be their best man. (AP Photo/freethehikers.org, File) NO SALESAP - Shane Bauer wove an engagement ring out of threads from his shirt, then met his girlfriend in an unlikely place for a marriage proposal: the exercise yard of the Iranian prison where the couple has been locked up for nearly a year.

9 in Iowa plead not guilty in Obama loan case (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:10 PM PDT

AP - Nine people charged with illegally accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court.

Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this photo taken on July 17, 2007 file photo, Dr Andrew Wakefield in London. The doctor who sparked an international vaccine scare by claiming autism was linked to a common vaccine has been banned from practising medicine in Britain, the country's top medical body ruled on Monday. Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first to publish research suggesting a connection between the measles vaccine and autism. After the vaccine scandal hit, Wakefield moved to the U.S. and set up an autism center in Texas, where he faces similar skepticism from the medical community. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons/PA File) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - The doctor whose research linking autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella influenced millions of parents to refuse the shot for their children was banned Monday from practicing medicine in his native Britain.

Shuttle Atlantis closes in on 120 million miles (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 11:31 AM PDT

In this image taken from NASA television, the space shuttle Atlantis moves away from the International Space Station after undocking, Sunday, May 23, 2010. After a week of flying together, shuttle Atlantis undocked from a larger and virtually completed International Space Station on Sunday and headed for home on its final voyage. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Space shuttle Atlantis closed in on the 120 million-mile mark as its final voyage neared an end and astronauts inspected their ship in advance of Wednesday's landing.

No lard for Navy plebes in yearly academy ritual (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:53 PM PDT

3rd Company's Keegan Albi from Eugene, Ore., center with back to camera, is helped down from the 21-foot Herndon Monument after completing his two minutes and five seconds climb to the top, Monday, May 24, 2010, in Annapolis, Md., at the United States Naval Academy. As they have for 70 years, students at the Academy scale the monument to celebrate the end of their grueling first year. The Herndon obelisk was not greased with lard as in years past. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - As they have for 70 years, students at the U.S. Naval Academy celebrated the end of their grueling first year by scaling a 21-foot obelisk on Monday. But this time, without a lard coating on the monument, students completed the task in minutes.

AP IMPACT: Deadly, ultra-pure heroin arrives in US (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:07 PM PDT

In this April 22, 2010 photo, Sue Tayon poses for a photo in her home holding an urn containing her daughter Nikki Tayon's ashes in Overland, Mo. Tayon's 28-year-old daughter, Nikki, died of an overdose on heroin that was 90 percent pure, her mother said. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins.

1st defendant guilty in NJ schoolyard slaying case (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Rodolfo Godinez watches as the jury returns with a verdict during his trial at the Essex County Courthouse, Monday, May 24, 2010, in Newark, N.J. Godinez, a Nicaraguan who was one of six men and boys charged with the brutal slayings of Dashon Harvey, Iofemi Hightower and Terrance Aeriel and the wounding of a fourth victim, was convicted on all 17 counts. A jury returned the verdict in state Superior Court after nearly four hours of deliberations. All four victims were enrolled or about to be enrolled at Delaware State University. (AP Photo/John O'Boyle, Pool)AP - The first defendant to be tried for a triple schoolyard killing that jolted New Jersey's largest city into trying to fix its crime problem was convicted on all counts Monday.

Lawmaker wants Gates to answer for Texas reservist (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:05 PM PDT

This undated photo shows Jesse Bernard Johnston III, 26, wearing a Marine dress uniform with ribbons and medals even though records show he never served in the Marine Corps. An Associated Press investigation has found that, despite not having a military background, Johnston was able to join the Army Reserve in February and was given the rank of sergeant. Records show his only military experience was attending part of a 12-week Marine officer candidate course for college students in 2004. Because he didn't complete the course, he didn't become a Marine. The Army is now investigating the circumstances surrounding his enlistment and whether he was able to gain his rank based on a phony Marine record. (AP Photo) NO SALESAP - A Colorado congressman wants Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to provide answers on how a Texas man apparently tricked the Army into allowing him to enter the reserves as a noncommissioned officer.

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