2010年6月24日星期四

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Indiana woman tries to snatch baby, stabs parents (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:30 PM PDT

This June 23, 2010 booking photo provided by the Vigo County Sheriff's Department shows Stephanie Foster, 34. Police say foster forced her way into a western Indiana home at gunpoint and then stabbed a husband and wife in an apparent attempt to kidnap their newborn boy. The man was able to stop the attack and call police to the home. Sheriff Jon Marvel says Foster didn't know the couple she attacked. He said investigators believe Foster was faking a pregnancy and looking for a baby. (AP Photo/Vigo County Sheriff)AP - Stephanie Foster wanted a baby so badly that when she suffered another miscarriage last fall, she didn't tell her husband.

Army of undersea robots at work on Gulf oil spill (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:58 PM PDT

FILE - This April 22, 2010 photo provided by the US Coast Guard shows the arm of a robot submarine attempting to activate a shutoff device known as a blowout preventer (BOP) to close off the flow of oil at the Deepwater Horizon well head. A subcity of underwater robots are busily working to help contain the runaway oil leak that has been dumping millions of gallons of oil into the water since the Deepwater Horizon blew up April 20, killing 11 workers. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard, File)AP - They're like Superman, but underwater: able to withstand 5,000 pounds of subsea pressure, lift up to a ton, take 3D video images and transfer hydraulic power to other equipment.

Massachusetts town to rethink school condom policy (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:10 PM PDT

AP - Gov. Deval Patrick used his bully pulpit Thursday to call the superintendent of a Cape Cod school district and urge her to revise a new policy allowing even elementary school students to receive free condoms without the knowledge of their parents. School officials later said the policy would be revisited.

Police: Calif couple tried to sell baby at Walmart (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 06:20 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Salinas Police Department, Samantha Tomasini, 20, is shown. Tomasini and 38-year-old Patrick Fousek face child endangerment charges after police say they tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 outside a Walmart store. (AP Photo/Salinas Police department via the Salinas Californian)AP - A California couple faces child endangerment charges after police say they tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 outside a Walmart store.

Jamaican gang leader arrives to face NY charges (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 06:41 PM PDT

DEA agents bring Jamaican gang leader Christopher 'Dudus' Coke From Westchester County Airport to a waiting vehicle, Thursday, June 24, 2010, in White Plains, New York. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - Following bloodshed over his capture, Jamaican gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke arrived in New York City under tight security on Thursday to face charges he flooded the East Coast with shipments of cocaine and marijuana, authorities said.

Pet turtle causes taxiing plane to return to gate (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:46 PM PDT

AP - A caged, 2-inch turtle traveling with a 10-year-old girl caused a crew to turn around a taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters off the flight and tell them they couldn't bring their pet along.

Immigrant farm workers' challenge: Take our jobs (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 9, 2008 file photo, Stephen Colbert is photographed at his office in New York. In a tongue-in-cheek call for immigration reform, farm workers are teaming up with comedian Colbert to challenge unemployed Americans: Come on, take our jobs. (AP Photo/ Jim Cooper, file)AP - In a tongue-in-cheek call for immigration reform, farm workers are teaming up with comedian Stephen Colbert to challenge unemployed Americans: Come on, take our jobs.

Life sentences overturned in smuggling deaths case (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 05:28 PM PDT

AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the multiple life sentences a truck driver received for his role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt, more than seven years after the bodies of 19 illegal immigrants were discovered in a tractor-trailer.

Latest blunder feeds frustration in the Gulf (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 06:39 PM PDT

Mary Ann Sadler of Gulf Breeze, Fla., leans across the police tape to take photos of oil cleanup efforts at Pensacola Beach, Fla., Thursday, June 24, 2010. Pensacola Beach officials have closed the public beaches to swimmers. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Earlier this month, BP boldly predicted the oil gushing from the bottom of the sea would be reduced to a "relative trickle" within days, and President Barack Obama told the nation last week that as much as 90 percent would soon be captured. But those goals seemed wildly optimistic Thursday after yet another setback a mile underwater.

Suspected tornado shatters largest city in Conn. (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 06:20 PM PDT

A person runs through the rain during an afternoon thunderstorm in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 24, 2010. A sudden thunderstorm has knocked down trees, damaged the roof of a daycare center and caused traffic headaches in the Philadelphia area. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A suspected tornado tore through Connecticut's largest city Thursday, toppling trees and power lines and collapsing several buildings as a powerful line of storms swept across parts of the Northeast. Remarkably, no serious injuries were reported.

Ethics probe: Palin legal defense fund was illegal (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, seen here in May 2010 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, said Monday she hopes to arrange a meeting with former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher during an upcoming visit to London.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - A legal defense fund set up for Sarah Palin when she was Alaska governor was illegal, an investigator for the state Personnel Board said Thursday.

Lake Michigan shipwreck found after 112 years (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:25 PM PDT

This photograph, provided Thursday, June 24, 2010, by Great Lakes Shipwreck Research, shows the gangway under the boiler house of the wooden steamship L.R. Doty found off the Milwaukee, Wis. shoreline. Divers say the Doty, which sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm, appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters. It was carrying a cargo of corn from South Chicago to Ontario, Canada when it sank in October 1898. (AP Photo/Great Lakes Shipwreck Research) NO SALESAP - A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters.

A year after public downfall, SC governor thrives (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:51 PM PDT

FILE - In a Wednesday, June 24, 2009 photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wipes his tears as he admits to having an affair during a news conference in Columbia, S.C. In recent weeks, Sanford has won a state budget victory and seen his chosen candidate nominated to succeed him. He's won ovations from Republicans who months ago called for his resignation. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - The governor who became the butt of late-night jokes for "hiking the Appalachian Trail" may be having the last laugh.

Airline: Arrest threatened if Conn. plane unloaded (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:35 PM PDT

A Virgin Atlantic Airways plane sits on the tarmac at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Passengers on this plane, which was grounded by bad weather en route to Newark, N.J., from London, spent more than four hours stuck on the tarmac. (AP photo/Journal Inquirer, Jim Michaud) MANDATORY CREDITAP - The pilot on a Virgin Atlantic flight that spent several hours on the tarmac after being diverted to Connecticut had asked for permission to let the passengers get off the plane, but a customs official threatened to have them arrested if they did, the airline said Thursday.

Chicago mayor won't 'roll over' if gun ban lifted (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley speaks during a news conference in Chicago. Daley, one of the nation's most vocal gun control advocates, said the city will not roll over if the Supreme Court rules against the city's gun ban. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - If the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Chicago's handgun ban, the city will likely do what Washington, D.C., did when its own ban was overturned two years ago: Put in place all sorts of restrictions to make it tougher to buy guns and easier for police to know who has them.

APNewsBreak: Thorpe's son seeks return of remains (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:23 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, Jim Thorpe's tomb, left, and a statue of him, right, are shown in Jim Thorpe, Pa. A son of Jim Thorpe is suing the Poconos town that bears his father's name over the remains of the Native American often called the 20th Century's greatest athlete. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A son of sports great Jim Thorpe sued the Pennsylvania town that bears his father's name Thursday, demanding that it return his remains to Oklahoma under a federal law designed to give Native American artifacts back to their tribal homelands.

Hiker moms 'shocked' by story on children's arrest (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:32 PM PDT

FILE - This combination of undated file photos released by freethehikers.org shows, from left Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd. (AP Photo/freethehikers.org, File) NO SALESAP - The mothers of three American hikers held in Iran on suspicion of espionage said Thursday they hope a report that their children were arrested on the Iraqi side of the border will help lead to their release.

Kan. doc convicted of conspiracy in pill mill case (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 10, 2010 file photo, Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, of Haysville, Kan., leave the Federal Courthouse in Wichita, Kan. A federal jury found Thursday June 24, 2010 the Kansas doctor and his wife guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients who later died. (AP Photo/Jeff Tuttle, File)AP - A federal jury Thursday found a Kansas doctor and his wife guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients who later died, in a case highlighting medical treatment of chronic pain sufferers and prescription drug abuse.

Alaska geologist survives 2 attacks by grizzly (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:24 PM PDT

Robert Miller, 54, recovers from a bear attack in his hospital room in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. The bear attack occurred June 20 as Miller, a Millrock Resources Inc. geologist working near Rainy Pass in the Alaska Range, waited for a helicopter to pick him up. Miller was using a small handsaw to clear brush so the helicopter could land when the bear emerged from the brush about 25 feet away. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)AP - The bearded, sandy-haired geologist was on a job in the remote Alaska wilderness when a grizzly bear suddenly emerged from the brush just yards away.

1 killed, 2 injured in Milwaukee concrete collapse (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 06:48 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say a concrete slab fell from a Milwaukee lakefront parking ramp, killing one person and injuring two others.

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