2010年7月5日星期一

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Horses dragged driver as he tried to stop rampage (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:51 PM PDT

A child is tended to by onlookers after a horse got loose, trampling people at a Fourth of July parade in downtown Bellevue, Iowa, on Sunday, July 4, 2010. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reported at least 13 people were injured, including several children. (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Karina Schroeder) MANDATORY CREDIT, TV OUT, MAGS OUTAP - The buggy driver whose horses trampled spectators at this town's Fourth of July parade had tried desperately to stop the rampage, clinging to the reins as the animals dragged him down the street, his family said Monday.


Analysis: Militant interaction poses new threats (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 12:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 16, 2010, file photo chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen testifies in Washington on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. Mullen told a Aspen Institute security forum in Colorado last week that a 'synergy of terrorist groups' has 'an expanding desire to kill Americans.' (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - U.S. officials boast that al-Qaida has never been weaker, its upper ranks decimated because of the stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan and special operations raids in Afghanistan.


Officials say BP spill now hitting all Gulf states (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:17 PM PDT

Oil cleanup workers try to remove thick oil that washed ashore in Gulfport, Mississippi. High seas churned up by Hurricane Alex will delay deployment of a third containment vessel over the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well until next week, an official warned.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AP - Tar balls from the Gulf oil spill found on a Texas beach were confirmed Monday as the first evidence that gushing crude from the Deepwater Horizon well has reached all the Gulf states.


Relief well is last best hope to contain gusher (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:02 AM PDT

BP Wellsite Leader Mickey Fruge stands on the deck of the Development Driller II, which is drilling a relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Saturday, June 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, Pool)AP - As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more confident that the relief well it expects to complete in August will succeed where all previous efforts to contain or kill the gusher have failed.


Widow lives with corpses of husband, twin (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:52 PM PDT

AP - The 91-year-old widow lived by herself in a tumbledown house on a desolate country road. But she wasn't alone, not really, not as long as she could visit her husband and twin sister.

Study shows teens benefit from later school day (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 02:17 PM PDT

AP - Giving teens 30 extra minutes to start their school day leads to more alertness in class, better moods, less tardiness, and even healthier breakfasts, a small study found.

Hot enough for ya? Temps soar to near 100 in East (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:03 PM PDT

A child cools off in the East River during a visit to the  Brooklyn Bridge Park, Monday, July 5, 2010, in New York.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The heat wasn't going to keep Jerryll Freels inside on his vacation.


Census worker taken to court for trespassing (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 12:17 PM PDT

AP - In these divisive times, Census worker Russell Haas has come to expect some resistance when he goes door to door to count the residents of the rugged communities near Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. He didn't expect to get arrested.

July 4th partiers fall 3 stories in Ala.; 1 dead (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:48 AM PDT

AP - A wooden deck crumpled under a group of Fourth of July partiers in Alabama, killing one person and injuring six others.

Eating champ leaves NY jail after hot dog fracas (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:25 AM PDT

World Champion hot dog eater Joey Chestnut celebrates his win at the Famous Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest eating 54 hot dogs Sunday, July 4, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi, arrested at a July Fourth hot dog-eating contest, was freed Monday after a night in jail, looking a little weary and saying he was hungry.


Derided no more, suburban life is turning serious (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:13 AM PDT

In this Thursday, April 8, 2010 photo, a class of school children walks through an exhibit on Suburban Life at the Johnson County Museum of History in Shawnee, Kan. Johnson County civic leaders are planning a National Museum of Suburban History. Their contention: With more than 50 percent of the country living in places like Shawnee, it's past time to take the suburbs seriously. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - The numbingly similar tract homes, endless strip malls and multiple minivans filled with youth soccer players indelibly mark this former Indian mission territory as a Kansas City suburb.


Fireworks follow sun-scorched July 4 festivals (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 01:58 AM PDT

The Empire State Building, illuminated with red, white and blue lights, is seen from across the East River in the Queens borough of New York, and is backlit by shells exploding over the Hudson River during the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks show Sunday, July 4, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - The nation's largest fireworks show lit up the sky in a burst of red, white and blue over the Hudson River straddling New York and New Jersey on Sunday, a scene that was repeated in hundreds of communities in a sizzling end to a scorching day for much of the U.S.


Patient among 5 dead in Texas air ambulance crash (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 03:12 AM PDT

Authorities respond after a twin Cessna 421 crashed shortly after taking off from Alpine, Texas Airport Sunday July 4, 2010 killing all five people onboard. They have been identified as Mary Folger, 59, Guy Richard Folger,78, both of Midland, Sharon Falkener, 49, a fight nurse from Fort Davis, Tracy Chambers, 42, a flight nurse from Alpine and the airplane's pilot Ted Caffarel, 59, of Beaumont.  (AP Photo/Walt Frerck)AP - A patient and his wife were among the dead when an air ambulance crashed shortly after takeoff from a West Texas airport, killing all 5 people on board.


Police: Suspect in baby shooting in Calif. jail (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 07:33 PM PDT

AP - A suspect in the shooting death of a 4-month-old boy killed after a family baptism celebration was in a Los Angeles County jail Sunday, three days after he was captured in Mexico and 10 months after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Wyoming threatens to sell prime Grand Teton land (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 08:43 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday, June 24, 2010, Grand Teton National Park spokeswoman Jackie Skaggs strolls across a square mile section of state land in the park near Moose Wyoming. Wyoming is trying to force the Interior Department to trade land, minerals or mineral royalties for 1,366 acres it owns within the park. If the foot-dragging feds don't agree to a deal soon Gov. Dave Freudenthal threatens to put a For Sale sign on the property.  (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)AP - For Sale: Two square miles of Grand Teton National Park.


Tech firms aim to keep wayward walkers on path (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:12 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, June, 29, 2010, a woman text messages while walking across the street in San Francisco. While using a cell phone while driving has triggered the most alarm bells and prompted laws in several states, experts say pedestrians are also suffering the consequences of mobile distraction tripping on curbs, walking into traffic, even stepping into manholes as they chat or type while walking. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Todd Atwood says he doesn't worry too much about accidents when walking down the street using his iPhone to make calls, send text messages or check his e-mail.


On July 4 in spill country, pondering America (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 05:49 PM PDT

An oil cleanup worker walks across the sand in Dauphin Island, Ala., on Sunday, July 4th, 2010. City officials cancelled their Fourth of July festivities because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - From the country's earliest days, when a handful of colonists became fed up with Britain and decided independence was worth dying for, Americans have been guided by fires in their bellies and a deep belief in the ability to accomplish anything.


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