2010年6月15日星期二

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Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:29 PM PDT

A cleanup worker pauses while vacuuming oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill along the Northern shores of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., Tuesday, June 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day.

Colo. man went on solo mission to kill bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:29 PM PDT

This May 30, 2010 picture provided by Dr. Scott Faulkner shows his brother Gary Brooks Faulkner at the Denver International Airport en route to Pakistan. The American citizen has been detained in the mountains of Pakistan after local authorities found him carrying a sword, pistol and night-vision goggles on a solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott Faulkner)AP - An American construction worker has been detained in the mountains of Pakistan after authorities there found him carrying a sword, pistol and night-vision goggles on a solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.

Man who tried self-amputation thought of MacGyver (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:08 PM PDT

Jonathan Metz speaks at a news conference at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Metz recounted the events leading up to and including his attempt at self-amputating his left arm after it became stuck while he was repairing a furnace in his home in West Hartford, Conn., on June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - Jonathan Metz had his left arm stuck in his furnace boiler for about 12 hours when he asked himself "what would MacGyver do?" and concluded that amputating the limb was his only chance for survival.

Ariz. lawmaker takes aim at automatic citizenship (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:05 PM PDT

FILE - This April 19, 2010 file photo shows Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, making a point during a vote on SB1070 , a new immigration bill, in Phoenix. With the passage of the nation's toughest law against illegal immigration, Pearce now wants Arizona to deny U.S. citizenship to babies born to undocumented parents. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Emboldened by passage of the nation's toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to undocumented parents.

6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Flames shoot up from the 'King of King's' statue of Jesus Christ standing outside of Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio in the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 15, 2010. The six-story-tall statue of Jesus with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night, June 14, 2010 around 11:15 p.m. and burned to the ground, police said. (AP Photo/The Dayton Daily News, Tiffani West-May)AP - A six-story statue of Jesus Christ was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leaving only a blackened steel skeleton and pieces of foam that were scooped up by curious onlookers Tuesday.

Calif man who killed alleged molester is sentenced (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:25 PM PDT

AP - A man who said he had been sexually abused by a family friend since he was a child was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday for shooting the victim with a Civil War-style pistol and watching him die.

LA cardinal's deposition in abuse case released (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 02:07 PM PDT

FILE - This June 14, 2006 file photo shows Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony speaking at a news conference in Los Angeles. Mahony didn't call police in 1986 after a priest admitted to molesting two boys and didn't warn parishioners because the cleric told him they were illegal immigrants who had returned to Mexico, according to a court deposition released Tuesday, June 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony didn't call police in 1986 after a priest admitted to molesting two boys, and he didn't warn parishioners because the priest told him the children were illegal immigrants who had returned to Mexico, according to court documents released Tuesday.

Massey says teams find crack in W.Va. mine's floor (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 03:42 PM PDT

AP - Exploratory teams have found a crack that could have allowed methane gas to pour through the floor of the West Virginia mine where 29 men died in the nation's worst coal mining explosion in 40 years, owner Massey Energy Co. said Tuesday.

Son turns on aging father at NYC mob trial (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 03:37 PM PDT

AP - If John "Sonny" Franzese — once known as a tough-talking wiseguy, Frank Sinatra acquaintance and porn industry investor — is upset about his son betraying him, he hasn't shown it.

Drug dealer executed for 1978 slaying of Texas cop (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:47 PM PDT

FILE - This photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Davie Lee Powell. Powell, now 59, is scheduled to die Tuesday evening for killing Austin police officer Ralph Ablanedo with a Soviet assault rifle 32 years ago. Only five of the 322 prisoners now on Texas death row have served more time there than Powell. ( (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, file)AP - A former drug dealer convicted of killing an Austin police officer during a traffic stop 32 years ago has been executed in Texas.

BP: Oil containment efforts resume after ship fire (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Leaking oil is pictured during dispersant operations at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in this screen grab taken from a BP live video feed June 14, 2010. REUTERS/BP/HandoutAP - A drill ship resumed siphoning off oil gushing from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday after a bolt of lightning struck the vessel and ignited a fire that halted containment efforts, the company said.

Home in Calif murder-suicide in foreclosure (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 03:46 PM PDT

An unidentified neighbor reacts as she arrived with her son at the site of a home shooting in Anaheim, Calif. on Monday, June 14, 2010. A 5-year-old boy's 911 call brought police to the Southern California home where they found a 3-year-old boy alive but with a gunshot wound to the chest, and the bodies of a man and a woman. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Bruce Chambers) NO SALES; MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUTAP - A man who shot his wife to death and critically wounded his 3-year-old son before killing himself had money troubles and the family home was in foreclosure, police said Tuesday.

Feds approve NY tribe recognition (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 02:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 15, 2005 file photo, Shinnecock Indian Nation trustee James Eleazer, Jr., third from right, addresses the media as tribal Chairman Randy King, center and Charles Smith, left, listen outside court in Central Islip, N.Y., where King filed papers claiming tribal ownership of 3,600 acres of land in Southampton, N.Y. Members of the small Indian tribe on New York's Long Island were celebrating with prayers and song Tuesday June 15, 2010 after receiving notification from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs that it has been formally recognized as a tribe. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File)AP - A small Indian tribe on New York's Long Island learned Tuesday that it had won a decades-long fight for formal federal recognition, inching it closer to opening a casino.

Few states change rules post-Blagojevitch (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:54 PM PDT

AP - Lawmakers in at least 15 states backed stripping governors of their power to fill U.S. Senate vacancies after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was accused of trying to sell President Barack Obama's seat, but only Connecticut and Rhode Island have done so.

Old-timers go modern in quest to stay in Congress (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:25 PM PDT

In this Friday, June 4, 2010 photo, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., talks with an exhibitor at a economic development meeting in the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Building at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Mo. The 78-year-old Democrat from rural Missouri is facing what may be the most difficult election of his career. But he's trying to adapt. Skelton has embraced Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. He's amassing thousands of e-mail addresses and hired a cadre of consultants to manage his message. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - It's 7:19 p.m., yet Rep. Ike Skelton appears hard at work. "I just voted against the repeal of DADT," Skelton tweets via BlackBerry to alert a few hundred followers to his stance against gays openly serving in the military.

Texas judge orders DNA test decade after execution (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Claude Howard Jones. A Texas judge has ordered DNA testing on a strand of hair that was the only physical evidence linking the death row inmate to the murder for which he was executed 10 years ago. Judge Paul C. Murphy ordered DNA testing Friday June 11, 2010 on a strand of hair that helped prosecutors convict Jones of capital murder in the 1989 shooting death of a liquor store owner. Jones, who maintained his innocence, was executed in 2000. (AP Photo/Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, File)AP - For the second time in a year, the guilt of an inmate executed in Texas is in doubt after a judge ordered DNA testing on a strand of hair that was the only physical evidence linking a man to the murder for which he was killed 10 years ago.

Obama to Florida: 'I'm with you for the long haul' (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:50 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is telling residents of coastal Florida areas threatened by the spreading Gulf of Mexico oil spill that his administration will be with them for the long haul.

Marine in Iraqi war crimes case to return to unit (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:58 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2006 file photo, Marine Corps Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III, of Plymouth, Mass., is shown at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Calif. Monday's surprise decision by a military judge to release the Camp Pendleton Marine while a higher court reviews his case deals another blow to the government's prosecution of U.S. troops accused of killing unarmed Iraqis (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - A Marine sergeant accused of killing an unarmed Iraqi man in a major war crimes case will return to his unit now that he has been released from a military jail, a Marine Corps spokesman said Tuesday.

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