2010年6月12日星期六

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Search for flood victims goes from frantic to grim (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 04:32 PM PDT

A young man is consoled outside the family center in Lodi, Ark., Saturday, June 12, 2010, where family and friends wait for word on possible flooding victims. Search and recovery teams have recovered a 17th body. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - The search for nearly two dozen people who disappeared after flash floods swept through a popular campground went from desperate to grim on Saturday, after teams that scoured miles of river and rugged wilderness found just two bodies.


Ark. campers had only seconds to escape from flood (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:07 PM PDT

A young man is consoled outside the family center in Lodi, Ark., Saturday, June 12, 2010, where family and friends wait for word on possible flooding victims. Search and recovery teams have recovered a 17th body. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - Some people awoke to roaring floodwaters. Others were roused by panicked banging on their cabin doors. At least a few got out of bed and were plunged almost immediately into deep, churning water.


Coast Guard to BP: Speed it up, stop the spill (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 05:43 PM PDT

Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washes ashore in Orange Beach, Ala., Saturday, June 12, 2010.  Large amounts of the oil battered the Alabama coast, leaving deposits of the slick mess some 4-6 inches thick on the beach in some parts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The Coast Guard has demanded that BP step up its efforts to contain the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the weekend, telling the British oil giant that its slow pace in stopping the spill is becoming increasingly alarming as the disaster fouled the coastline in ugly new ways Saturday.


Spirit Airlines pilots strike, stranding thousands (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 04:14 PM PDT

Laurie Holmes of Grand Rapids, Michigan, right, talks with a Spirit Airlines employee at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Saturday, June 12, 2010. Holmes' flight to Detroit was canceled due to a strike by Spirit Airlines pilots. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - A strike by Spirit Airlines pilots has shut down the discount carrier, stranding thousands of travelers.


4 bodies found on plane that crashed into school (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 06:10 PM PDT

AP - Authorities searching through the wreckage of a small plane that nosedived into an Arizona high school and exploded found four bodies Saturday.

Authorities: 5 killed in Seattle apartment fire (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Distraught firefighters gather on the sidewalk after a fire in an apartment building killed 5 people on Saturday June 12, 2010 in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood. The first engine to respond had an equipment problem that prevented it from spraying water on the fire, but the second unit to arrive was able to fight the fire, which was put out within about 40 minutes of when it was reported. (AP Photo/Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SEATTLE TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT; TV OUTAP - A blaze tore through a Seattle apartment Saturday and killed five people, including a number of children, fire officials said.


In bold move, Colorado alters teacher tenure rules (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:59 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 20, 2010 at the Capitol in Denver, State Senator Michael Johnston, D-Denver, right, leans on the shoulder of Romel Greer, left, a member of Project Voyce who supported the teacher's tenure Bill that was being signed into law by the Governor. Greer, who just graduated from Bruce Randolph High School, was one of the key spokesman who met with legislators. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Colorado is changing the rules for how teachers earn and keep the sweeping job protections known as tenure, linking student performance to job security despite outcry from teacher unions that have steadfastly defended the system for decades.


CA teen sailor healthy, weary after 3 days adrift (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:55 PM PDT

FILE - In a, Jan 23, 2010 file photo , Abby Sunderland, 16, looks out from her sailboat, Wild Eyes, as she leaves for her world record attempting journey at the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, Calif.Sunderland who was feared lost at sea while sailing solo around the world has been found alive and well, adrift in the southern Indian Ocean with rescue boats headed toward her, officials said.  (AP Photo/Richard Hartog/file)AP - A California teenager who spent three days adrift on the turbulent Indian Ocean described her ordeal as "crazy" as she started a long journey home aboard a French fishing boat that rescued her Saturday from her crippled sailboat.


Authorities widen search for missing Oregon boy (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:39 PM PDT

AP - The search for a missing 7-year-old Portland boy grew larger on Saturday as teams spent another day combing the hills and deep woods near a rural elementary school.

Va. inmate: 'Only way to stop me' is death row (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 09:18 AM PDT

This  May 26, 2010 photo provided by Ernie Benko, shows death row inmate Robert Gleason during a meeting with his defense team in the Wise County courthouse in Wise, Va. For seven days Robert Gleason begged correctional officers and counselors at Wallens Ridge State Prison to move his new cellmate.  He killed his cellmate on the eighth day, May 8, 2009  and pled guilty to capitol murder on May 28. Now, Gleason says he'll kill again if he isn't put to death for killing Watson, who had a history of mental illness. (AP Photo/Ernie Benko) NO SALESAP - For seven days, Robert Gleason Jr. begged correctional officers and counselors at Wallens Ridge State Prison to move his new cellmate. The constant singing, screaming and obnoxious behavior were too much, and Gleason knew he was ready to snap.


One-time flagship Philly Catholic school closing (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:26 PM PDT

In this June 4, 2010 photo, English teacher Charlotte Drummond speaks to a student as other pass by at Cardinal Dougherty High School in Philadelphia. The archdiocese plans to close the Catholic school's doors this month after 54 years and more than 40,000 graduates. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Even as financially strapped Catholic schools continue to close across the country, no one in Philadelphia ever thought the church would shutter Cardinal Dougherty High School.


OJ jury makeup, judge conduct questioned in appeal (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:22 AM PDT

** RETANSMISSION TO CLARIFY SIMPSON WILL NOT ATTEND FRIDAY'S HEARING ** FILE - This is a Dec. 5, 2008, file photo showing O.J. Simpson in court during his sentencing hearing at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Simpson's lawyer says time could be the biggest hurdle he'll face during his oral appeal scheduled for a Nevada Supreme Court panel to overturn the imprisoned former football star's conviction. Simpson's lawyers will have 15 minutes Friday June 11, 2010 to make his case and answer questions from a trio of justices in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, Pool, File)AP - The racial makeup of the jury and the conduct of the judge who oversaw O.J. Simpson's conviction have emerged as key issues in the former football star's appeal for the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn his conviction in a gunpoint Las Vegas hotel room heist.


Calif. hostage standoff ends with man shot dead (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 09:34 PM PDT

AP - An armed man who held a 1-year-old boy hostage in a barricaded Sacramento apartment complex for several days was fatally shot by police Friday evening, authorities said.

Pipe bomb, weed found outside Mass. VA hospital (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 10:20 PM PDT

AP - Police detaining a man on an outstanding warrant outside a Massachusetts veterans affairs hospital got a surprise when the man's friend handed them a pipe bomb.

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:08 AM PDT

This photo provided by Sotheby's shows Ansel Adams'  'Canyon de Chelle National Monument, Arizona, 1942.' The image is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography being offered at Sotheby's on June 21-22 as part of a bankruptcy court-approved sale.The largest number of works were taken by Adams, about 400 Polaroid and non-Polaroid images. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, Ansel Adams)AP - A striking black-and-white photograph of the majestic Bridalveil waterfall is among numerous that landscape photographer Ansel Adams took with Polaroid film — a technology many celebrated artists embraced to produce innovative and surprising works.


Ex-Marines, knitter among Blagojevich jurors (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:24 AM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, jurors listen to opening arguments in the federal corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his brother Rob Tuesday, June 8, 2010 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock)AP - A former Marine severely injured serving in the Middle East, a voracious reader of knitting magazines and a man born in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II.


Van der Sloot taken to prison on murder charge (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 11:24 PM PDT

Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, second left, is escorted by police officers in Lima, Friday, June 11, 2010. According to Peruvian police Van der Sloot has confessed to killing Peruvian citizen Stephany Flores in his Lima hotel room on May 30. (AP Photo)AP - Angry onlookers shouted "Disgrace!" and "Murderer!" at Joran van der Sloot on Friday after a judge ordered him jailed on first-degree murder and robbery charges in the beating and strangling death of a young Lima woman.


French fishing vessel steams toward stranded teen (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:30 AM PDT

This undated picture provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority via the Sunderland family on Friday, June 11, 2010 shows the 'Wild Eyes' boat of 16-year-old Southern California girl Abby Sunderland who was feared lost at sea. Searchers in an airplane spotted her vessel in an upright position and made contact with her via radio late Thursday, June 10, 2010 according to a family spokesperson. (AP Photo/Australian Maritime Safety Authority via the Sunderland family)AP - A French fishing vessel was steaming across the southern Indian Ocean on Saturday to reach a stranded California teenager awaiting rescue after the mast on her boat broke, ending her around-the-world sailing effort.


Conn. man who tried to cut off arm in recovery (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 08:15 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by Melissa Mowder, fiancee of Jonathan Metz, the furnace is seen where Metz got his arm caught Sunday, June 6, 2010, while working on the furnace boiler in the basement of his home, in West Hartford, Conn.  Metz was rescued Wednesday, a day after he used his own tools and cut through most of his left arm. (AP Photo/Family Handout Photo)AP - The family of a Connecticut man who tried to amputate his own arm after being trapped for days while working on his basement furnace said they expected him to make a full recovery and that he was ready for life with an artificial limb.


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