2010年5月26日星期三

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BP: effort to plug Gulf oil spill going as planned (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 05:25 PM PDT

An image from a live video feed the oil plume is seen on the BP.com website early Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The oil company planned a 'top kill' designed to choke off the gusher of oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico by force-feeding it heavy drilling mud and cement early Wednesday May 26, 2010. (AP Photo/BP.com)AP - One of BP's top executives says crews trying to plug a massive Gulf oil leak are pumping mud into a blown-out well as effectively and efficiently as they had hoped.

Ill. man says he has nightmares about police abuse (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 05:22 PM PDT

AP - A 63-year-old former gang member nicknamed "Satan" says he still has nightmares about being shocked and suffocated by Chicago police more than 35 years ago.

Kan. doctor takes stand in overdose death trial (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT

AP - A Kansas physician whose clinic is linked to 68 overdose deaths testified Wednesday at his trial that he never intentionally gave anyone medication he believed would cause them harm.

LA Catholics welcome coadjutor archbishop (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:59 PM PDT

AP - The future leader of the nation's most populous Roman Catholic archdiocese was welcomed Wednesday with a standing ovation in a religious service at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Aborted sting at official residence dogs Ohio gov. (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 04:28 PM PDT

AP - While the governor entertained John Glenn at his official residence in a posh suburb, law enforcers planned to descend on a supplier of contraband tobacco skulking around the perimeter in an attempt to drop goods to a prison inmate working there.

Feds bust child porn 'social networking site' (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 04:52 PM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they had broken up a major online international child pornography ring that at its peak had more than 1,000 members trading millions of sexually explicit images.

Minn. lawyer aims to track, sue child porn users (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 03:15 PM PDT

AP - An attorney who has filed thousands of lawsuits against priests accused of sexual abuse said Wednesday he plans to use a little-known federal law to take on those who download child pornography.

Shuttle Atlantis completes 32nd and final flight (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 03:20 PM PDT

A member of the NASA debris team inspects minor damage to the tiles on the space shuttle Atlantis after the orbiter landed on Kennedy Space Center's runway 33 Wednesday, May 26, 2010, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Joe Skipper, Pool) (AP Photo/Joe Skipper, Pool)AP - How would you look after 120 million miles?

AP Exclusive: Workers describe failures on oil rig (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 04:28 PM PDT

An image from a live video feed the oil plume is seen on the BP.com website early Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The oil company planned a 'top kill' designed to choke off the gusher of oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico by force-feeding it heavy drilling mud and cement early Wednesday May 26, 2010. (AP Photo/BP.com)AP - As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned around him, Chris Pleasant hesitated, waiting for approval from his superiors before activating the emergency disconnect system that was supposed to slam the oil well shut at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

How should we teach our future teachers? (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 03:32 PM PDT

In this May 4, 2010 photo, Hemant Mehta teaches his Honors Algebra Two/Trigonometry class at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Ill. A handful of education leaders want to standardize the way the next generation of American teachers is trained. (AP Photo/Corey R. Minkanic)AP - Hemant Mehta's formal training taught him how to write a lesson plan and how public schooling began in the U.S., but it was useless when it came to keeping order in the classroom and getting students to pay attention.

AP Exclusive: Palin aides worked to sell gas deal (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 3. 2007 picture, Marty Rutherford, Dept. of Natural Resources Deputy Commissioner, left, Gov, Sarah Palin, center, and Department of Revenue commissioner Patrick Galvin, answer questions during a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Palin's administration was consumed two years ago with how the public perceived her recommendation to have a Canadian firm build a 1,700-mile natural gas pipeline, with one aide even worrying the then-Alaska governor would face criticism of grandstanding for a planned trip 'back east.' More than 2,000 pages of e-mails between her office and others involved in the pipeline negotiations were released to The Associated Press in May 2010 under a public records request filed in 2008, when Palin was the Republican vice presidential nominee. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Sarah Palin's administration paid close attention two years ago to how the public perceived her plans to bring a massive natural gas pipeline to Alaska, with one aide worrying the then-governor would face criticism of grandstanding for traveling out of state at a critical time for the plan's prospects.

TV's 'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 03:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, television host Art Linkletter poses on the press line at the 'Target Presents Variety's Power of Youth' event to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Los Angeles. Linkletter, who hosted the popular TV shows 'People Are Funny' and 'House Party' in the 1950s and 1960s, died Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. He was 97. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)AP - Art Linkletter, who as the gently mischievous host of TV's "People Are Funny" and "House Party" in the 1950s and '60s delighted viewers with his ability to get kids — and grownups — to say the darndest things on national television, died Wednesday. He was 97.

11 arrested after Maine college party gets rowdy (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 01:57 PM PDT

Paul Chiampa, of Pembroke, Mass., shows off some of the bruises on his leg that he claims Lewiston police officers caused, at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. An incident involving students being arrested occurred the night before, where some students claim they were injured by police actions. ( AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - An alcohol-fueled party for college seniors to blow off steam turned rowdy early Wednesday, leading to 11 arrests, an officer with a broken a leg and student complaints about police overreaction.

Short term, oil spill means mini job boom in Gulf (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:55 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2010 file photo, John Rahim, boom deployment coordinator for St. Bernard Parish, enlists out of work fishermen to be hired to lay oil booms to protect their fishing grounds in preparation for the looming oil spill from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in Hopedale, La. A BP spokesman said the company has hired more than 20,000 people as part of the response to the April 20 accident and its aftermath. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Much as he hates to say it, Mark Leonard knows it's true: The oil spill that is fouling the Gulf of Mexico may save his family's business.

Oregon mystery man used murdered Ohio boy's name (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 10:21 AM PDT

This image provided by the U.S. Department of State shows three pictures of an Oregon man who had identified himself as Jason Robert Evers. The man is sitting behind bars, refusing to reveal his identity to a federal judge as he awaits a court hearing. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of State)AP - A boy killed during a kidnapping, a stolen identity and an enigmatic man.

FDA probing hundreds of complaints with J&J meds (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 10:37 AM PDT

AP - Federal health regulators are investigating hundreds of consumer complaints involving children's medicines recalled by Johnson & Johnson last month, according to a congressional memo.

Activist guilty in phone caper at senator's office (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:25 PM PDT

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 17, 2010, during the committee's hearing to assess the nation's response to BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of entering federal property under false pretenses.

Spill hasn't emptied Gulf Coast hotels — yet (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 12:20 PM PDT

AP - Dramatic rate cuts are luring visitors to Gulf Coast resorts despite a massive oil spill that threatens beaches and salt marshes from Texas to Florida, but it's too early to say whether the disaster will leave a more permanent stain on Southeastern tourism.

Man sentenced to 7 years for 1983 Conn. robbery (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:48 PM PDT

AP - A Puerto Rican nationalist who lived a double life as a fugitive after participating in a $7 million armored truck robbery in Connecticut in 1983 was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison.

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