2010年7月19日星期一

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Feds: Oil, gas leaking from cap on ruptured well (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:39 PM PDT

In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 15:47 p.m. CDT, a remotely operated vehicle maneuvers around the containment stack at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Monday, July 19, 2010. Oil and gas are leaking from the cap on BP's ruptured oil well, but federal officials intend to leave the cork in place for now. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says Monday afternoon that the leaks are so far not a major concern. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALESAP - BP's broken well was leaking oil and gas again Monday for the first time since the company capped it last week, but the Obama administration's spill chief said it was no cause for alarm. The stopper was left in plac for now.

Abducted Calif. girl, 7, placed with foster family (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:28 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows Amber Nicklas, who was abducted seven years ago, when she was 1-year-old, by her three aunts during a visit with them and her foster parents at a restaurant in Norwalk, Calif., according to authorities.(AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department)AP - A 7-year-old girl who was snatched from California as a toddler and raised in Arizona has learned her true name and was being given therapy to cope with the trauma of leaving the only family she remembers, an investigator said Monday.

RI, Ariz. immigrant measures diverge on key points (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:38 PM PDT

AP - Supporters of Arizona's new illegal immigration law have in recent weeks cited Rhode Island as a state where police have been quietly carrying out comparably tough enforcement without a court challenge from the Obama administration.

Gun permit allows quick access to Texas Capitol (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:28 PM PDT

In this June 17, 2010, image made from video Austin lobbyist Michelle Wittenburg, right, takes aim on a shooting range during a class run by Mike Cox near Wimberely, Texas, for people seeking a concealed handgun license. A shooting incident in January outside the Texas capitol prompted lawmakers to order metal detectors at public entrances as well as a separate lane for CHL holders. Capitol insiders are now signing up in droves for the couse that will get them a license now known as the express pass. (AP Photo/Jay Root)AP - Everyone from lobbyists to lawyers and journalists is rushing to get permits to carry guns inside the Texas Capitol, where legislators already often tote pistols in boots and purses or stow them away inside their desks.

Court grants bail to jailed ex-media mogul Black (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2007 file photo, convicted newspaper mogul Conrad Black arrives at the federal building in Chicago for sentencing in his racketeering and fraud trial. A federal appeals court has granted bail to Black. Black's lawyers were granted the motion for bail Monday, July 19, 2010 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. (AP photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Jailed former newspaper magnate Conrad Black was granted bail on Monday by a federal appeals court, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court kicked his 2007 fraud conviction back to a lower court.

AIDS breakthrough: Gel helps prevent infection (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:28 PM PDT

A researcher at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative laboratory works on samples at the lab in May in New York. The UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued the first overhaul of its guidelines on HIV drugs in four years, saying the therapy now saving more than five million lives should be initiated at an earlier stage of infection.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)AP - For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women whose partners won't use condoms.

Attorneys: Accused pirates blindfolded, handcuffed (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:03 PM PDT

A French gendarme and a Somalian suspected pirate attend the reconstruction in Nice of the hijacking of luxury sailing ship AP - Three Somali men being prosecuted on U.S. piracy charges say they were held naked, blindfolded and handcuffed for days without an interpreter, while another says an interpreter threatened to toss him overboard, attorneys argued in court papers Monday.

Ga. softens once lauded strict sex offender law (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:10 AM PDT

AP - Georgia was lauded four years ago by conservatives for passing one of the nation's toughest sex offender laws. But the state has had to significantly — and without fanfare — scale back its once-intense restrictions.

Tea party group on defensive over blog about NAACP (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Bryan Schroyer, political director of the Tea Party Express, speaks at a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday, July 19, 2010. Tea Party Express was expelled from the National Tea Party Federation, a coalition of grass-roots political groups, for refusing to publicly rebuke and oust spokesman Mark Williams. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)AP - An official with the Tea Party Express on Monday blasted its expulsion from a national coalition over its refusal to oust a former chairman who satirized the NAACP in a controversial blog posting.

Friends: Slain cop looking forward to retirement (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:33 PM PDT

AP - After 20 years on the force, Chicago police officer Michael Bailey was like a teenager — tooling around in the new car he'd bought himself as a retirement gift, driving it to friends' houses, cleaning it over and over and telling everyone about it.

Could feds keep Barefoot Bandit, mom from profit? (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:44 AM PDT

AP - The tale of the Barefoot Bandit is Hollywood-ready, with its barely schooled, shoeless scamp dodging police as he allegedly stole planes and cars in a cross-country dash before he was nabbed in a high-speed boat chase in the Bahamas.

2 skydiving seniors die when chutes tangle in Pa. (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:50 PM PDT

AP - A retired ironworker and a 70-year-old friend who had been skydiving together for years were killed when their parachutes got tangled during a weekend jump.

Gulf forecast: Cloudy with a chance of tar balls (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:02 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, July 13, 2010 image taken from video provided by WALA-TV FOX10, meteorologist Jason Smith shows viewers the projected path of oil spewing from the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico during a broadcast at the FOX10 television station in Mobile, Ala. TV forecasters along the Gulf Coast have added forecasts about oil movements in the Gulf to their daily weather segments but say predicting the slick's moves is much harder than forecasting showers and sunshine. (AP Photo/WALA-TV FOX10)AP - Call it cloudy with a chance of tar balls.

In US cities, HIV linked more to poverty than race (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:23 AM PDT

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, addresses a joint news conference with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, July 19, 2010. Clinton opened high-level talks with Pakistan on Monday by announcing several new aid projects aimed at improving the country's water, energy and health sectors. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)AP - Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind.

EMT accused of ignoring dying NYC woman is killed (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 01:46 PM PDT

This Jan. 21, 2010 photo shows Emergency Medical Technician Jason Green in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Green and a fellow EMT were under criminal investigation for refusing to help a dying pregnant woman during a coffee break Dec. 9, 2009. Green was fatally shot near New York City nightclub Greenhouse, on Sunday, July 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Daily News, Anthony DelMundo) NYC OUTAP - Jason Green had already gained notoriety last year as a New York City paramedic accused of walking away from an ailing pregnant woman who later died.

Climate scientist Stephen Schneider dead at 65 (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 25, 2008 file photo, Dr. Stephen Schneider talks to the media at his home in Haysville, Kan. following his release on bond from federal custody. A federal jury on Thursday June 24, 2010 found the Kansas doctor and his wife guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients who later died. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)AP - Stephen Schneider, a Stanford University scientist who served on the international research panel on global warming that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, has died. He was 65.

Judge: NY can try to detain man who infected women (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - This 1996 file booking photo released by the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department shows Nushawn Williams in Mayville, N.Y. New York can continue its efforts to keep Williams, a sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus, locked up beyond the 12-year prison sentence he completed in April. A state Supreme Court judge in Buffalo refused a request by Williams' lawyer to throw out the attorney general's case to have Williams held indefinitely under a civil-confinement law, The Associated Press reported Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department, File)AP - The state can try to keep a sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus locked up beyond the 12-year prison sentence he completed in April, a judge ruled Monday.

RICO law made to combat Mafia used in BP lawsuits (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:09 AM PDT

In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 22:19 CDT, the containment stack is shown at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, July 18, 2010. BP and the Obama administration offered significantly differing views Sunday on whether the capped Gulf of Mexico oil well will have to be reopened, a contradiction that may be an effort by the oil giant to avoid blame if crude starts spewing again. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALESAP - Using a law originally enacted to combat the Mafia, attorneys are filing lawsuits accusing BP PLC and Transocean Ltd. of committing a longterm series of crimes by concealing flaws in deepwater drilling plans and lacking safeguards to contain a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spill.

Blago brother calls fundraising offer 'a joke' (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:01 PM PDT

Robert Blagojevich, brother of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, right, and his wife Julie arrive at the Federal Court building, Monday, July 19, 2010, in Chicago, as the defense phase of his federal corruption trial begins. Blagojevich and his brother are accused of scheming to sell or trade President Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Rod Blagojevich's brother testified Monday that a businessman claimed he could raise millions in campaign funds if U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. were named to the Senate, but that he and the Illinois governor considered it "a joke."

Argument led to deadly Wash. state park shooting (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:01 AM PDT

AP - A shooting at a state park near Seattle that left two dead and four wounded stemmed from an argument between two groups, one of which was celebrating a birthday party, investigators said Sunday.

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