2010年7月17日星期六

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For US, ongoing battle against changing oil 'Blob' (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2010 file photo, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles talks about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill while visiting with employees and workers in the command center at the Houma Joint Information Center, Saturday, June 12, 2010, in Houma, La. Cleaning the oil far beyond the time the leak is capped will become the job of the U.S. Coast Guard and BP. The center in Houma, La., coordinates the different teams cleaning water from the land and sea. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Inside a sprawling command post in southern Louisiana, The Blob is everywhere.

Evidence of abduction found for missing SoCal teen (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:05 PM PDT

AP - Deputies and detectives on Saturday searched for a Southern California teen girl missing for a third day, and authorities said evidence points to an abduction.

Officials: No one under NJ parking garage rubble (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:38 PM PDT

Hackensack Fire Department Lt. Stephen A. Lindner says Saturday, July 17, 2010, in Hackensack, N.J., that searchers have not found any victims in crushed vehicles as officials originally thought, following the collapse of a parking garage and the front of an apartment building on Friday. (AP Photo/ Mel Evans)AP - Authorities called off a 22-hour rescue mission at a partly collapsed parking garage Saturday after determining that no one had been trapped when a glass canopy attached to a high-rise condominium building fell the day before, a fire official said.

Giant oil skimmer won't work in Gulf spill cleanup (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 16, 2010 file photo, the 'A Whale' skimmer, billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, is seen on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. The giant oil skimmer brought in from Portugal is too big to be used in the Gulf cleanup effort. The Taiwanese vessel 'A Whale' was deployed last week along the oil-slicked Gulf Coast. But it's been determined the skimmer didn't collect enough oil. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)AP - A giant oil skimmer brought in from Portugal is too big to be used in the Gulf cleanup effort.

Iroquois lacrosse team ends bid to go to England (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:39 PM PDT

Brett Bucktooth, a member of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team and Syracuse University's 2004 national championship team, visit Times Square, New York, Monday, July 12, 2010. The 23 players on the Iroquois Indian lacrosse team cannot fly to England for what's considered the Olympics of the sport because the U.S. government won't allow them to re-enter the country on Iroquois nation passports. 'This is a world championship. I am hoping there is a resolution to this problem quickly,' said Bucktooth. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Iroquois lacrosse players who refused to travel on passports issued by the U.S. and Canada because they do not consider themselves citizens of those countries exhausted their last option Saturday for going to the sport's world championship in England.

Iroquois passport dispute raises sovereignty issue (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 1940 picture, Iroquois Indians who were born in Canada march through the main street of Buffalo, N.Y., carrying signs protesting that the U.S. pilgrim fathers were not required to be fingerprinted. They registered as aliens. Chief George Nash, right, was born on the Grand River, Ontario, Canada. An American Indian lacrosse team's refusal to travel on passports not issued by the Iroquois confederacy goes to the heart of one of the most sensitive issues in Indian Country — sovereignty. The rights of Native nations to govern themselves independently has long been recognized by federal treaties, but the extent of that recognition beyond U.S borders is under challenge in a post-Sept. 11 world. (AP Photo, File)AP - An American Indian lacrosse team's refusal to travel on passports not issued by the Iroquois confederacy goes to the heart of one of the most sensitive issues in Indian Country — sovereignty.

Man with neo-Nazi ties leading patrols in AZ (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:08 PM PDT

In this undated handout photo from J.T. Ready, J.T. Ready is shown. Ready. Ready is a reputed neo-Nazi who has been conducting heavily armed patrols to catch illegal aliens in the Arizona desert amid the furor over immigration in the state and angering local law enforcement officials who say right-wing radicals are not welcome. The militia said it was emboldened because of the federal government's inability to secure the border, and it has declared war on what it calls 'narco-terrorists.' (AP Photo/J.T. Ready) NO SALESAP - Minutemen groups, a surge in Border Patrol agents, and a tough new immigration law aren't enough for a reputed neo-Nazi who's now leading a militia in the Arizona desert.

94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 06:38 PM PDT

Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, left, speaks to the media as Loretta Lynch, center, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and other law enforcement officials announce charges against doctors, health care company owners, executives and others in a case of alleged false medicare billing at a news conference in the U.S. Attorney's office in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, July 16, 2010. The poster at right which says in Russian 'Do Not Gossip' was, allegedly, in the back room of a doctor's office where patients were being bribed for their cooperation in the scheme. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)AP - Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occurred. One professional patient was named in nearly 4,000 false Medicare claims.

Immigrant deaths in Arizona desert soaring in July (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 05:59 PM PDT

AP - The number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the medical examiner's office that handles the bodies is using a refrigerated truck to store some of them, the chief examiner said Friday.

First family enjoys tennis, sights on Maine coast (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:37 PM PDT

President Barack Obama steps off of Marine One before speaking to reporters outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama and the first family played tennis and took in the sights around a Maine resort Saturday even as he contemplated a new struggle over jobless benefits with his GOP foes.

Short-snouted dogs face greater air travel risks (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2008 file photo, Uga VII, the seventh English bulldog mascot for the University of Georgia team, who died last football season, keeps to the sidelines in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)AP - The University of Georgia's bulldog mascot, Uga, gets a special medical procedure to help him fly safely. But many other short-snouted dogs do not fare as well when put on an aircraft, new data shows.

Top Texas criminal judge warned but keeps job (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 06:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2009 file photo, Judge Sharon Keller waits for her trial to begin at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio. Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals, faces judicial misconduct charges after she refused to keep her court open late to accept a condemned man's last-minute appeal. Keller faces five charges of judicial misconduct. A judicial conduct panel has issued a 'public warning' Friday July 16, 2010, for Texas' top criminal judge but has decided that she will not be removed from the bench. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)AP - The top criminal judge in Texas was spared her job but still punished Friday by a state panel that reprimanded embattled Judge Sharon Keller for turning away a death-row inmate's late appeal hours before his 2007 execution.

Texas mayor who killed self had financial troubles (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 08:47 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 - A Dallas area mayor who authorities believe killed herself and her daughter left a note saying the two were still grieving over the 2008 death of their husband and father from cancer, police said Friday.

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