2010年6月18日星期五

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Getting life back? BP CEO on way off spill duty (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 06:05 PM PDT

Workers wash oil off a brown pelican at the Fort Jackson Bird Rehabilitation Center Friday, June 18, 2010, in Buras, La. The bird was rescued after being covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - BP's chairman said Friday that CEO Tony Hayward is on his way out as the company's point man on the Gulf oil spill crisis, a day after Hayward enraged members of Congress by offering few answers about how the environmental disaster happened. Other BP officials, however, said the switch had been previously announced and will not take place for some time.

Hartford mayor convicted of corruption steps down (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:07 PM PDT

Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez, center, is shown in Hartford Superior Court on Friday, June 18, 2010 on the second day of jury deliberations in his corruption trial in Hartford, Conn. At left is his attorney Hope Seeley. A Connecticut jury has convicted Perez of corruption charges, including accepting home improvements as a bribe and trying to extort money from a real estate developer. (AP Photo/Michael McAndrews, Pool)AP - A one-time gang leader who escaped an impoverished childhood to become Hartford's first Latino mayor announced Friday that he would step down after being convicted of five corruption charges, including taking a bribe and attempted extortion.

Vast amounts of methane in Gulf spill pose threat (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:07 PM PDT

The oil damaged shoreline in the Northern reaches of Barataria Bay is seen amidst work boats in oil polluted waters as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's tours oil damage in Barataria Bay, La., Thursday, June 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico oil well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.

Mexican man to sue Legion of Christ for fraud (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:15 PM PDT

AP - A man who claims the priest-founder of a once-powerful religious order was his father plans to sue the group, saying the Roman Catholic clergyman molested him for years.

AP source: Accused prof attempts suicide in jail (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 06:01 PM PDT

This police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Prosecutors are set to hold a news conference to announce the results of an investigation into the 1986 shooting death of 18-year-old Seth Bishop, brother of Amy Bishop, that was originally ruled an accident. Authorities reopened the case after Amy Bishop was charged in February in a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept.)AP - The biology professor charged with killing three Alabama university colleagues in a shooting rampage attempted suicide in jail early Friday, a person with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press.

Ore. judge grants, stays Scouts files release (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:07 PM PDT

AP - A Portland judge granted and then stayed a request by news organizations to release more than 1,000 Boy Scouts of America files on suspected child molesters given to a jury that found the Scouts liable for $20 million in damages.

Vote system that elected NY Hispanic could expand (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT

FILE -This undated file photo provided by the Port Chester, N.Y., village clerk shows the ballot for the election of six village trustees in Port Chester, N.Y. The apparent success of the unusual election in the New York suburbs this week, in which residents could cast six votes for one candidate and elected a Hispanic for the first time, could mean wider use of that balloting system in other jurisdictions, experts say. (AP Photo/Port Chester Village Clerk, File) NO SALESAP - The court-ordered election that allowed residents of one New York town to flip the lever six times for one candidate — and produced a Hispanic winner — could expand to other towns where minorities complain their voices aren't being heard.

Minn. digs out from tornadoes; 3 dead, dozens hurt (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:06 PM PDT

Cindy Wood, far right, stands in front of her tornado-damaged home in Wadena, Minn., on Thursday June 17, 2010. At least three people were killed and dozens injured as a series of tornadoes tore through Minnesota on Thursday, flattening homes and toppling power lines. (AP Photo/The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Kelly Humphrey)AP - As tornadoes bore down on southern Minnesota, Angie Woodside called her in-laws and said they should rush to her house west of Albert Lea, where there was a basement to take cover. Her mother-in-law, Kathy Woodside, refused.

Texas town mourns NM plane crash victims (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:39 PM PDT

AP - A day after five residents died in a plane crash in New Mexico, the small, close-knit town of Granbury on Friday mourned the losses that included a coach, a teacher and a homebuilder.

Jury awards $2.4M in first Chinese drywall trial (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:01 PM PDT

AP - A Florida couple who fled their dream home because of foul-smelling, ruinous Chinese drywall was awarded $2.4 million in damages Friday in the nation's first jury trial over the defective wallboard that could have legal ramifications for thousands of similar cases.

Mass. man arraigned in 4 relatives' slayings (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:09 PM PDT

Thomas Mortimer IV, center, is led to court Friday, June 18, 2010, in Woburn, Mass., for arraignment on charges he murdered his wife, two children and mother-in-law, who all were found dead in their home Wednesday in Winchester, Mass. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)AP - A man accused of killing his wife, two children and mother-in-law in their suburban Boston home pleaded not guilty Friday as his lawyer said he may use an insanity defense.

Firing squad execution sobering, but dramatic (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 11:52 AM PDT

The execution chamber at the Utah State Prison after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad Friday, June 18, 2010. Four bullet holes are visible in the wood panel behind the chair. Gardner was convicted of aggravated murder, a capital felony, in 1985. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson - Pool)AP - The explosive reports sent a volley of .30-caliber bullets from the five marksmen into the chest of Ronnie Lee Gardner.

Reservist dead, 1 in custody in Ga. post shooting (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:54 PM PDT

U.S. Army Forces Command Public Affairs Officer Colonel Dan Baggio, right, gives a statement to media at the entrance to Fort Gillem about an Army reservist who shot another reservist on the confines, Thursday, June 17, 2010, in Forest Park, Ga . (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Army officials are investigating the shooting death of an Army reservist at a military base south of Atlanta. Another reservist is in custody.

Koppel's son died from overdose of drugs, alcohol (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file family photo released by Illona Lieberman, Andrew Koppel, top left, is seen with his girlfriend Illona Lieberman and their daughter Alice Juliet. The New York City medical examiner says the son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel died from a lethal dose of alcohol plus illegal and prescription drugs. Andrew Koppel's death was ruled an accident. The medical examiner says he died from acute intoxication due to the combined effects of alcohol, heroin, cocaine and the generic form of the painkiller Valium. (AP Photo/Illona Lieberman, File) NO SALESAP - The son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel, who was found dead in a stranger's apartment after a day of bar-hopping, overdosed on a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol, the medical examiner's office said Friday.

LA teacher makes algebra cool with a hip-hop beat (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 06:25 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010, Algebra teacher LaMar Queen wears his rap glasses as he sings along to his Algebra students at the Los Angeles Academy in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Unified School District teacher has won two awards for his innovative teaching method, by creating rap songs out of math concepts. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The class of eighth graders at a Los Angeles middle school tap their rulers and nod their heads to the rhythm of the rap video projected on a screen. It's not Snoop Dogg or Jay-Z.

BP: Hayward relieved of day-to-day spill duties (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:40 PM PDT

BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward testifies before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on June 17 in Washington, DC. Hayward is in the process of handing over day-to-day management of the Gulf oil leak operation to another top manager, Bob Dudley, BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AP - The chairman of BP says embattled chief executive Tony Hayward is being relieved of day-to-day responsibility for managing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a day after he angered U.S. lawmakers with his refusal to answer many of their questions.

Texas judge's career in disciplinary panel's hands (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2009 file photo, Judge Sharon Keller waits for her trial to begin at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio. Keller will answer charges on Friday June 18, 2010 of closing her courtroom to a man on death row. In 2007, Keller said 'We close at 5' while attorneys for a condemned man scrambled to file a last-minute appeal before his execution. The appeal never made it. Critics from death penalty opponents to The New York Times editorial board have since called for Keller's ouster, and the State Commission on Judicial Conduct will finally consider her fate Friday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)AP - The top criminal judge in Texas was left waiting Friday to find out if a disciplinary panel would recommend her removal from the state's eminent death-penalty court after charges she closed her courtroom to a death row inmate's last-minute appeal.

Analysis: Bad news bares reality of Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2010 file photo, U.S. Marine armored vehicles and troopers are pictured in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. President Barack Obama may face a difficult choice next year: slow the withdrawal of U.S. troops that he promised would start in July 2011 or risk an Afghanistan where the Taliban have a significant political role. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)AP - Rising death tolls, military timetables slowed. Infighting in the partner government. War-weary allies packing up to leave — and others eyeing an exit.

Obama tells G-20 nations to seal economic recovery (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT

A note which reads the metro is closed is attached to closed shutters of the Monastiraki metro station in Athens, on Friday, June 18, 2010. Greek metro employees in Athens were on strike for a third day on Friday, to protest the sacking of contract workers who have had their contracts terminated. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - President Barack Obama is appealing to the world's major economies not to waver in their efforts to support a sustained rebound from the near collapse of the global economic system in the fall of 2008.

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