2010年6月20日星期日

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Far offshore, crews drill into Gulf to stop oil (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:30 PM PDT

Oil absorbent boom sits on top of oiled marsh grass in Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico on the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, June 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Fly by helicopter above the patchy wetlands along the Mississippi River Delta and past the floating boom and skimmers that have failed to protect the Gulf Coast from the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Keep following the finger-like oil slicks speckled orange and brown that threaten it still.

Arizona wildfire forces hundreds to evacuate (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:50 PM PDT

A new wildfire burns at Shultz Pass between the San Francisco Peaks and Mount Elden Sunday, June 20, 2010, in Flagstaff, Ariz. The Timberline Estates, Wupatki Trails, and Fernwood neighborhoods are being evacuated due to the blaze. (AP Photo/Michele Legg)AP - The second wildfire to hit this forested city in two days grew to 3,000 acres Sunday, driving residents from hundreds of homes and prompting a search for some missing hikers.

Tornado rips businesses, arena in Billings, Mont. (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:47 PM PDT

AP - A tornado that ripped the roof off a sports arena in Billings, Mont., Sunday evening also tore through businesses, damaging a bar and a casino and leaving just the walls of an auto glass shop standing.

Official: Chicago subway fire sends 19 to hospital (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:06 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say a fire in a Chicago subway has injured 19 people and sent black smoke billowing from grates along city streets.

US exec must clean up oil spill and BP's image (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 16, 2010 file photo, BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, right, arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington, for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Hayward will be handing over oil spill duties to fellow BP executive Bob Dudley. That means a man who spent time in southern Mississippi as a boy will get to oversee the Gulf Coast cleanup. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - BP's new strategy to clean up its image and the Gulf Coast is to hand the job from its British CEO, widely criticized for tone-deaf comments and yachting amid the crisis, to one of its top-ranking Americans.

Neb. town to vote on illegal immigration measure (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:29 PM PDT

**CORRECTS SPELLING OF OSTROM, NOT OLSTROM** In this photo taken June 19, 2010, activist Kristin Ostrom, right, who is opposed to a proposed law that would ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants in the city of Fremont, gives election material to supporter Bryan Henricksen, who has a house in Fremont, Neb. Angered by a recent influx of Hispanic workers attracted by jobs at local meatpacking plants, voters in the eastern Nebraska city of Fremont will vote Monday whether to ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Clay Lomneth)AP - Angered by a recent influx of Hispanic workers attracted by jobs at local meatpacking plants, voters in the eastern Nebraska city of Fremont will decide Monday whether to ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants.

'UN' of faith groups set roles in disaster relief (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 photo, Betty Buff, of Carbondale, Ill., with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, scoops up a pitcher of mixed vegetables as she and several other volunteers from across the country prepare meals for the people of Galveston in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, in Galveston. Southern Baptists cook meals from Texas to Massachusetts. Seventh Day Adventists dispense aid from makeshift warehouses that can be running within eight hours. Mennonites haul away debris, Buddhists provide financial aid and chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team counsel the traumatized and grieving. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer, File)AP - For every hurricane, earthquake or flood, there is help: food, bottled water, crews of volunteers nailing shingles to brand new roofs.

Documents: BP estimated 4.2M gallon in worst case (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 02:44 PM PDT

This image from video provided by BP PLC early Sunday morning, June 20, 2010 shows oil continuing to gush millions of gallons a day, from the broken wellhead, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALESAP - Newly released internal documents show BP PLC estimated 4.2 million gallons of oil a day could gush from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico if all equipment restricting the flow was removed and company models were wrong.

2 killed in Calif. restaurant shooting identified (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:49 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the San Bernardino Police Department, Jimmy Schlager is shown. Authorities say Schlager walked into a Southern California fast food restaurant on Sunday, June 20, 2010 with two handguns and opened fire on his stepdaughter's family. Schlager shot himself at the restaurant and died at an area hospital. (AP Photo/San Bernardino Police Department)AP - Authorities on Sunday identified the two people killed when a man walked into a Southern California fast food restaurant with two handguns and opened fire on his stepdaughter's family.

Rare husband-wife duo stump for Ga.'s top offices (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 08:44 AM PDT

AP - After running her husband's political campaigns for 26 years, Carol Porter won't be in charge of helping him get elected this year.

This sand's not your sand; this sand is my sand (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2008 file photo, a beach badge checker sits under an umbrella next to a deserted beach in Mantoloking, N.J. Some Jersey shore beach towns have plenty of ways to keep outsiders off their sand: Limit on-street parking, prohibit food and drink, and have no public bathrooms. One town literally walls off the public from much of the ocean with a protective stone seawall, and offers virtually no parking for miles along it. Beach access has become a long drawn-out court battle in many coastal states. And now in New Jersey, the state Department of Environmental Protection is bowing to complaints from some local governments and private property owners that state access rules are too strict. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)AP - Some Jersey shore beach towns have plenty of ways to keep outsiders off their sand: Limit on-street parking, prohibit food and drink, and have no public bathrooms.

Protesters at Port of Oakland picket Israeli ship (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 04:17 PM PDT

AP - Hundreds of protesters condemning Israel's recent raid on an international flotilla bound for Gaza are picketing at the Port of Oakland, where an Israeli ship is due to arrive.

Celia becomes season's first hurricane (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 01:52 PM PDT

AP - Celia was upgraded to hurricane status Sunday as it howled toward open seas, away from Mexico's Pacific coast.

AP timeline details Michael Jackson's last day (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 6, 2009 image released courtesy of Michael Jackson, pop star Michael Jackson is shown in Los Angeles during rehearsals for his upcoming concert in London. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Michael Jackson, File) NO SALESAP - A year ago, the world watched as Michael Jackson balanced on the edge of a precipice. Behind the once-proclaimed King of Pop was a bleak stretch of pain and artistic decline. Ahead lay a series of 50 London concerts — a high-rolling bid to reassert his musical brilliance and re-establish control of his life.

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