2010年7月2日星期五

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Court sides with Schwarzenegger on minimum wage (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 9, 2010 file photo, California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at news conference to applaud the passage of Proposition 14 in Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger's order to pay 200,000 state workers just the minimum wage sent a signal to California lawmakers: In the impasse over closing California's $19 billion budget deficit, the governor is ready to play hardball. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A state appellate court on Friday sided with the Schwarzenegger administration in its attempt to temporarily impose the federal minimum wage on tens of thousands of state workers.

Children of accused spies confront identity crisis (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:38 PM PDT

Tim Foley, 20, left, and his brother leave federal court after a bail hearing for their parents, Donald Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley, in Boston, on Thursday, July 1, 2010, who are among 11 people accused of trying to infiltrate U.S. policymaking circles. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Children often ask the question "Who am I?" as they come of age, but that's nothing like the identity crisis now confronting the sons and daughters of four couples accused of spying for Russia.

Volunteers ready but left out of spill cleanup (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:44 PM PDT

A huge oil slick approaches the beach in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, July 2, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is expected to come ashore over the July 4th weekend. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico.

West Virginia, political elite say goodbye to Byrd (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:29 PM PDT

An honor guard carries the casket of Sen. Robert Byrd during a memorial service at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, W.V. ,Friday July 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Craning their necks and clapping to Appalachian music, West Virginians bid farewell Friday to Robert C. Byrd, their beloved senator who rose from childhood poverty in a coal mining town to become the nation's longest-serving member of Congress.

LA toy company accused of laundering drug money (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:30 PM PDT

AP - Three executives at a Los Angeles cuddly toy maker have been arrested on suspicion of laundering millions of dollars for Mexican and Colombian drug traffickers.

Teenager's death puts focus on LA's rave parties (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:19 PM PDT

AP - More than 180,000 people packed into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum over two days for a rave party that featured spectacular light shows, pulsating techno music on stages the size of small buildings — and a lot of bad drug trips.

Prosecutors: 2 spy suspects admit using fake names (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:52 PM PDT

Artist's rendering of, from left, Patricia Mills, Michael Zottoli, and Mikhail Semenko, standing, at their appearance in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, July 1, 2010. The three northern Virginia residents are accused of being foreign agents for Russia. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)AP - Two Virginia suspects in an alleged spy ring have admitted they are Russian citizens living in the U.S. under false identities, prosecutors said Friday, as officials in Cyprus said another defendant in the bust has likely fled the island after being set free on bail.

Jurors deliberate California transit shooting case (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:31 PM PDT

Protesters carry a banner outside a Los Angeles Courthouse on Thursday, July 1, 2010. Closing arguments have begun in the trial of a former San Francisco Bay area transit police officer accused of murdering, Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man in an altercation on a train platform last year. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Police in Oakland underwent crowd-control training and were put on 12-hour shifts as they awaited a verdict in the shooting death of an unarmed black man by a white transit police officer who claimed he mistakenly drew his gun instead of his Taser.

July 4th travel rolls on, a little close to home (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:06 PM PDT

Passersby walk past a full-scale balloon replica of the Statue of Liberty head shortly after its inflation in Seattle's Gas Works Park Friday, July 2, 2010. The 30-foot replica will remain atop the hill at the park through the annual Independence Day celebrations, which include a fireworks display on July 4. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Standing in line on hot asphalt waiting to see the Liberty Bell, Don Shelley couldn't help but think that, if the nation's economy were better, he would be basking on a beach in Hawaii.

Chicago approves tough new handgun restrictions (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley speaks during a news conference, Thursday, July 1, 2010 in Chicago. Daley introduced what the city says is the most comprehensive gun ordinance in the United States. Daley said the ordinance would include a ban on gun shops in the city and prohibit guns from anywhere except inside the owner's home. That would mean owners couldn't bring a gun into a garage, yard or porch. The ordinance would bar gun ownership for anyone convicted of a violent crime or with two or more convictions for drunken driving. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The Chicago City Council on Friday approved what city officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in the nation, but not before lashing out at the Supreme Court ruling they contend makes the city more dangerous because it will put more guns in people's hands.

Kan. race shows earmarks are tricky business (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:43 PM PDT

In this This June 1, 2010 photo is the renovated Opera House in McPherson, Kan., which opened in January 2010. U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, whose district includes McPherson, secured a $142,500 earmark in the 2009 federal budget to help pay off a construction loan for the three-story Opera House. (AP Photo/John Hanna)AP - The three-story Opera House rises above neighboring storefronts on South Main Street, a mecca of culture on the prairie. Not so long ago, arts enthusiasts in this south-central Kansas town worried about running out of money for its $8 million renovation.

Case of mom accused in underage affair dropped (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:55 PM PDT

AP - The case against a Houston mother accused of flying to Canada to lure away a 16-year-old boy she had an online sexual relationship with has been dropped, prosecutors in Texas said Friday.

Gulf Coast is expecting a glum Fourth of July (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:30 PM PDT

FILE - In a Monday, June 21, 2010 photo, the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., is nearly deserted. The July fourth is normally one of the busiest times for tourism dollars, but local business owners fear that the oil spill will keep tourists away. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Fireworks displays have been canceled. White-sand beaches that should be crowded with sunbathers are instead dotted with cleanup workers, booms and sand-sifting equipment. Normally packed hotels are trying to fill rooms ahead of what is a crucial weekend for beach businesses.

4 child porn ring members sentenced in Indiana (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:08 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge sentenced two high-ranking members of a major international online child pornography ring to 15 years in prison Friday.

Florida tests inventors' sand-cleaning ideas (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:36 AM PDT

Workers demonstrate a sand-cleaning technology, called Green Tech, for evaluators from Florida's Department of Environmental Protection and BP on Pensacola Beach Thursday morning, July 1, 2010. The Florida DEP organized the event to find new ideas for treating the oil spill. (AP Photo/Melissa Nelson)AP - Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida beach and prove they have the right stuff to combat the gummy onshore residue of the massive Gulf oil spill.

Thomas Jefferson made slip in Declaration (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:16 PM PDT

James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, is reflected in a computer screen at the Library of Congress in Washington, Friday, July 2, 2010, showing a correction to the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson. Recent imaging of the document clearly confirmed that Jefferson originally wrote 'subject' then changed it to 'citizen.' (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Preservation scientists at the Library of Congress have discovered that Thomas Jefferson, even in the act of declaring independence from England, had trouble breaking free from monarchial rule.

Boaters told to be alert for sharks off Northeast (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:27 AM PDT

This Saturday, June 26, 2010 photo released by Bruce Sweet shows a juvenile great white shark swimming in the Atlantic Ocean about 20 miles off the coast of Gloucester, Mass., in the rich fishing ground known as Stellwagen Bank. The shark was pulled up by Gloucester-based Sweet Dream III, tagged, and returned to the sea. (AP Photo/www.SportFishingMA.com, Bruce Sweet) MANDATORY CREDIT. NO SALESAP - As the summer tourist season ramps up, the Coast Guard told recreational boaters and paddlers Friday to keep an eye out for predatory sharks in the ocean waters off the Northeast, warning that the creatures could easily capsize a small boat or kayak.

Oil giant BP picks up tab for Durango fireworks (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:32 PM PDT

AP - The fireworks display in the city of Durango will go on thanks to embattled oil giant BP.

Health overhaul may mean longer ER waits, crowding (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:31 AM PDT

In this May 27, 2010 photo, a patient is transferred to Hope Children's Hospital from Advocate Trinity Hospital's emergency room in Chicago. Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded and wait times even longer under the nation's new health law. By later this decade, 32 million more Americans will have health insurance. A shortage of primary care doctors will mean many of those newly insured patients will visit ERs for both real emergencies and problems that could be handled more cheaply in doctor's offices. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation's new health law.

No money means no July 4 fireworks for strapped cities (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:03 AM PDT

An early evening rain may have thinned out the crowd at the Mississippi War Memorial in downtown Jackson, Miss., Thursday, July 1, 2010, but attendees were treated to a patriotic address by a retired state adjutant general, music and song and of course fireworks. The event marks the start of the Fourth of July activities throughout the state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Expect fewer booms this July Fourth because of financial busts in some cities and towns.

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