2010年6月26日星期六

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Mysterious ex-con draws comparison to Jason Bourne (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:12 PM PDT

This series of handout images provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows Brian Alexik. Alexik has been accused of 10 felonies including weapons charges, narcotics offenses and forgery. He slipped out of the fire escape of his apartment moments before the police sparking a six-week manhunt where his evasiveness drew comparisons to fictional agent Jason Bourne. Police would eventually find their man, Brian Alexik, hiding out in his girlfriend's apartment less than a mile from where he fled. But three weeks on, detectives are still trying to figure out just who he is, what plot they may have thwarted and whether he was a lone wolf or part of a larger group. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department) NO SALESAP - Authorities came upon a startling and mysterious scene when they showed up at a luxury apartment in Los Angeles in April while investigating a call about a gas odor.

Tropical weather is new reason to worry in Gulf (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:11 PM PDT

Vessels of Opportunity skim oil from the water in Pensacola Bay in Pensacola, Fla., Saturday, June 26, 2010. Small amounts of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster have started coming ashore on the Florida and Alabama coast. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The logistics of containing the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico are mind-boggling even in ideal conditions. Add a tropical storm like the one swirling in the Caribbean and things get even more complicated.

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island land (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 11:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated photo released by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plum Island, off the northern shore of New York's Long Island, is seen. Despite environmentalists concerns about the legacy of studies on dangerous animal diseases and top-secret Army germ warfare research, authorities have removed vast amounts of waste and contaminants from Plum Island. The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to sell the 840-acre pork chop-shaped island off northeastern Long Island and build a new laboratory to study dangerous animal diseases in Kansas.(AP Photo/USDA-ARS, File)AP - Government documents obtained by The Associated Press show extensive efforts since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants from Plum Island, site of top-secret Army germ warfare research and decades of studies of dangerous animal diseases.

US teen sailor reunited with brother after ordeal (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:12 PM PDT

Zac Sunderland, from California, right who sailed around the world at age 17, meets his sister Abby Sunderland, 16, on the French fisheries patrol boat 'Osiris', Saturday, June 26, 2010, at Saint Denis de la Reunion, in the Reunion island, a French oversea territory in the Indian Ocean. Zac is coming to pick up his sister Abby Sunderland who was rescued by a French fishing boat after her boat became crippled by storms while trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo and nonstop.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)AP - Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland got a big hug from her older brother Saturday on the appropriately named Reunion Island, and again defended her family for letting her try to sail around the world alone.

Services for slain Outlaw go on without incident (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:57 PM PDT

AP - Funeral and memorial services Saturday for an Outlaws motorcycle club member slain by federal agents were undisturbed amid heavy security and sightings of rival gang members.

Tropical Storm Alex soaks Belize, Mexico's Yucatan (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:49 PM PDT

This June 25, 2010 satellite photo released by NASA, shows a large area of clouds, at far left, in the western Caribbean Sea that on Saturday formed into tropical storm Alex. Forecasters said it was unclear if it would hit the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Hundreds of tourists and residents fled low-lying islands off Belize and beachgoers were warned to stay out of the water along Mexico's resort-studded Caribbean coast, as rain from Tropical Storm Alex began lashing the region.

Little spent on oil spill cleanup technology (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 12:29 PM PDT

SCAT team leader Ivor van Heerdenon, left, climbs off a boat on East Timbalier Island, La., Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Heerdenon is part of a Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Team surveying the shorelines along the Louisiana coast for oil impact from the Deepwater Horizon incident. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico.

Muslim-turned-preacher out as Baptist school dean (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 09:48 PM PDT

AP - A Baptist minister who toured the country to talk about his conversion from Islam to Christianity is no longer the dean of Liberty University's theological seminary following allegations he fabricated or embellished facts about his past, the school said Friday.

Obama, Lee criticize North Korea on ship sinking (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:12 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, walk in the rain after stepping off Marine One helicopter upon arrival in Toronto for the G20 Summit, Saturday, June 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama said Saturday that North Korea must be "held to account" for its alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, a tough statement of support for an ally made at its leader's side.

Prince Harry throws 1st pitch at Mets-Twins game (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 11:53 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Harry gestures as he walks on to the field for before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the New York Mets and the Minnesota Twins Saturday, June 26, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Britain's Prince Harry showed he can shoot. On the second day of his U.S. visit, New Yorkers got to see his arm.

Newly rescued Chihuahua takes 'ugliest dog' title (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 03:09 AM PDT

Kathleen Francis, of Clearlake, Calif., holds her purebred chihuahua 'Princess Abby' after winning the World's Ugliest Dog Contest Friday, June 25, 2010, in Petaluma, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - A Chihuahua's oddly curved back and legs and closed-up left eye earned the 4-year-old rescue dog top honors at the World's Ugliest Dog contest at a Northern California fair on Friday.

发贴者：iwvck2 时间 18:33 0 条评论

bnzv