2010年7月14日星期三

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Calif. AG sues feds over renewable energy loans (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 05:07 PM PDT

AP - State Attorney General Jerry Brown sued the federal government Wednesday, asking a judge to stop government-sponsored mortgage buyers from blocking a program that lets homeowners pay for energy-efficient improvements through increased property taxes.

Accused 'Barefoot Bandit' has US court appearance (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Colton Harris-Moore, the teenage fugitive police have dubbed the 'Barefoot Bandit,' is escorted to court in Nassau, Tuesday July 13, 2010. Harris-Moore, who was captured Sunday following a high-speed boat chase in Eleuthera island, pleaded guilty to a minor offense in the Bahamas and is expected to be deported soon to the U.S. to face prosecution. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)AP - The teenager dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" by authorities will cool his heels in a Miami jail at least two more days while he sorts out which attorney will represent him.

Helena school board gets earful on sex ed proposal (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 03:40 PM PDT

AP - A proposed sex education program that teaches fifth-graders the different ways people have intercourse and first-graders about gay love has infuriated parents and forced the school board to take a closer look at the issue.

3 officers plead not guilty in Katrina shootings (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 03:25 PM PDT

A New Orleans Police Department car patrols Canal Street in 2008. Six New Orleans police officers were indicted Tuesday in the shooting of unarmed civilians in the days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, the US Justice Department said.(AFP/File/Matthew Hinton)AP - Three police officers charged in the killing of two unarmed residents on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina and a cover-up that followed pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.

Explosion at Pittsburgh-area coke plant hurts 21 (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:12 PM PDT

An Allegheny County policeman guards the Maple Avenue entrance to the United States Steel Corp.'s Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa., Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Allegheny County spokesman Kevin Evanto said 15 people were injured, at least one critically when a coke oven exploded at the plant around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - An oven at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh exploded Wednesday, injuring 21 workers, at least three critically, causing a fire that burned for hours, emergency officials said.

Agency to reconsider natural gas drilling stoppage (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:04 PM PDT

AP - The Delaware River Basin Commission agreed Wednesday to hold hearings in northeast Pennsylvania on whether to strengthen or weaken its moratorium on natural gas drilling deep below the river basin.

Illegal immigrants hold DC 'teach-in' to push bill (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2010 photo, activists from a group called the Student Immigrant Movement protest at the Statehouse in Boston. Members of the group announced that they will attend a 'Dream University,' a makeshift school in front of the U.S. Capitol, in an effort to highlight the plight of illegal immigrant students who can't attend college for in-state tuition rates in states like Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)AP - They can't get citizenship or in-state tuition rates, so they're taking the next steps — the Capitol and White House steps, that is.

Texas mayor apparently shot teen daughter, self (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:54 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the City of Coppell, Texas shows Mayor Jayne Peters. The mayor and her teenage daughter have been found shot to death at their home, city officials said Wednesday July 14, 2010. Police discovered the bodies of Coppell Mayor Jayne Peters, 55, and Corrine Peters, 19, Tuesday evening, community information officer Sharon Logan said. Police found no signs of forced entry, Logan said. (AP Photo/City of Coppell)AP - Four notes were found at a home where the mayor of an upscale Dallas suburb apparently shot her 19-year-old daughter to death before fatally shooting herself, police said Wednesday.

Medal of Honor hero Vernon Baker dies at age 90 (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT

AP - Vernon Baker, who belatedly received the Medal of Honor for his role in World War II, died at his home near St. Maries, Idaho. He was 90.

Police say gas cans, wires in NJ car not a bomb (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 01:29 PM PDT

A mechanical robot and the red gas cans that it removed sit nearby as authorities look through a car Wednesday, July 14, 2010, in Newark, N.J. The car was found in New Jersey's largest city containing what appeared to be two gasoline canisters and some wires. (AP Photo/ Mel Evans)AP - A report of gas cans and wires in the back of a car near a railroad overpass Wednesday brought traffic in New Jersey's largest city to a standstill before police determined the items were not components of an explosive.

Ex-officer gets no jail time in NYC bicycle clash (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:08 PM PDT

Former New York City police officer Patrick Pogan leaves New York State Supreme Court after his sentencing in New York, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Pogan, convicted of lying about a 2008 confrontation with a bike-riding demonstrator in a clash that was later seen by millions of YouTube viewers, was discharged without jail time Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - The clash between the rookie police officer and the bike-riding activist happened in an instant. The fallout lasted for almost two years after video of the Times Square confrontation became a YouTube sensation.

UK won't let Iroquois lacrosse team go to tourney (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:51 PM PDT

Percy Abrams, Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team board of directors executive director, shows his Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy, passport during a news conference in New York, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The U.S. government on Wednesday agreed to let the Native American lacrosse team travel to England for a tournament under Iroquois Confederacy passports, but their travel plans were still on hold because they lacked visas from Britain and because some players needed clearance from Canada. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - An American Indian lacrosse team will not be allowed entry into England for the world championship of the sport the Iroquois helped invent unless members accept U.S. or Canadian passports, the British government said Wednesday.

Problems underground hamper W.Va. mine blast probe (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 01:13 PM PDT

AP - Obstructions and other hazards inside the Upper Big Branch mine are slowing a probe of what caused the worst U.S. coal mining disaster in decades, and at least one investigation may not be finished until the end of the year, a special adviser to Gov. Joe Manchin said Wednesday.

Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:04 AM PDT

This June 15, 2010 photo provided by the University of California Santa Barbara, shows pyrosomes- cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles, pulled up after a deep cast in the vicinity of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists are seeing early signs that the massive Gulf spill is altering the food web, by killing or tainting creatures that form the foundation of marine life and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment. (AP Photo/David L. Valentine, Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara) NO SALESAP - Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment.

Foes tell nuclear regulator to shutter Vt. plant (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:10 PM PDT

AP - Venturing into unfriendly territory, the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission sat down Wednesday with representatives of seven anti-nuke groups who say the agency has fallen down on the job in keeping tabs on the problem-plagued Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.

Deaf inmate says fingerprint proves his innocence (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 12:53 PM PDT

In this photo made Thursday, June 24, 2010, deaf inmate Stephen Brodie sits in a cell during a jailhouse interview in Dallas. Brodie is in prison for a crime that fingerprint evidence suggests he didn't commit and could become the next exoneree in a county that's freed more of the wrongly convicted than any other. Brodie was convicted of sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl, even though police in a Dallas suburb knew a fingerprint at the crime scene matched a known child rapist. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - Through a sign-language interpreter at the Dallas County Jail, Stephen Brodie cops to all sorts of crimes save the one that put him behind bars for 10 years: sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl.

Prosecutor accuses hotel heir wife in Fla. death (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:40 PM PDT

In this Broward Sheriff's Office photo is Narcy Novack, 53, who was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Thursday, July 8, 2010 following an indictment for her role in the killing of her husband Ben Novack Jr. who was beaten to death in a suburban New York hotel on July 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Broward Sheriff's Office)AP - A woman already charged with orchestrating the brutal slaying of her wealthy hotel heir husband in New York was accused by a prosecutor Wednesday of also plotting the beating death of her elderly mother-in-law in Florida, all in hopes of reaping millions of dollars from their wills.

Pilot, 3 grandchildren die in Michigan plane crash (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 03:50 PM PDT

** TAKES OUT SKOKIE, ILL. IN REFERENCE TO SHALOM MENORA'S RESIDENCE ** This photo taken July 12, 2010 at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and provided by the Menora famiy shows Shalom Menora and three of his children Yossi Menora, 13, left; Rikki Menora, 16, second from right; and Rachel Menora, 14, right, all from Bet Shemesh, Israel. The two daughters along with their grandfather Moshe Menora, of Skokie, Ill., and another one of his granddaughters, Sara Klein, 17, of Jerusalem were killed Tuesday, July 13, 2010, when their small plane crashed on an interstate in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Yossi was hospitalized Wednesday after being ejected from the aircraft. He was the only survivor from the Tuesday evening crash. (AP Photo/Museum of Science and Industry via courtesy the Menora family) **NO SALES**AP - A 73-year-old Chicago area man and three of his granddaughters from Israel were killed when their small plane crashed on an interstate in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Utah firm nixes plan to import Italian nuke waste (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 12:21 PM PDT

EnergySolutions CEO Val Christensen announces a change in the company's mission in Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. It will no longer accept low level nuclear waste from foreign countries. It will help countries develop on site facilities of their own. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)AP - EnergySolutions Inc. said Wednesday it is abandoning its plans to dispose of nuclear waste from Italy in Utah's west desert and instead will try to help open a disposal facility in that country.

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