2010年7月21日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

A gathering storm halts Gulf oil well work (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Workers prepare to lay oil boom around an island in St. Bernard Parish, La., Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Crews found about 130 dead birds and 15 live birds affected by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Monday in the eastern part of the parish behind the Chandeleur Islands. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - A storm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug the ruptured oil well to a near standstill Wednesday just as BP was getting tantalizingly close to going in for the kill.

AK couple pleads guilty to lying about hit list (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:40 PM PDT

AP - An Alaska couple accused in a domestic terrorism plot pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of lying about the existence of a hit list of possible targets.

EMT with `fireman's key' accused of NY sex attacks (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:37 PM PDT

AP - A city emergency medical technician who had special access via a universal "fireman's key" has been arrested on rape and other charges in the armed sexual assaults of five women and girls since 2001, police said Wednesday.

2 groups sue Nebraska city over immigration law (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this photo June 19, 2010, file photo a pedestrian passes a patriotic mural in Fremont, Neb. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, July 21, 2010, to stop the city of Fremont from enforcing the eastern Nebraska city's new illegal-immigration ordinance. The lawsuit targets the city's voter-approved ordinance, set to go into effect on July 29, that bars residents from hiring or renting homes to illegal immigrants. A second lawsuit was filed later in the day Wednesday. (AP Photo/Clay Lomneth, File)AP - The two lawsuits filed Wednesday against a small Nebraska city for its ban on renting and hiring illegal immigrants worried some in the community that it would only worsen tensions over the new ordinance.

Blago's surprise move not to testify carries risks (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:50 PM PDT

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich poses for a picture with Mohammed Ahmed of Wood Dale. Ill. upon his arrival at the Federal Court building, Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in Chicago. The impeached governor's attorneys dropped a bombshell at the end of the day Tuesday when they said they could rest their case without calling a single witness, including Blagojevich, who has loudly insisted for months on television, radio and even to bystanders outside the courthouse that he would speak directly to jurors. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Rod Blagojevich's surprise decision not to testify after all at his corruption trial is a high-risk gamble that spared the ousted Illinois governor from a possible ordeal on the witness stand but could backfire with the jury.

Texas mom told 911 operator she killed 2 children (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:23 PM PDT

This photo provided Tuesday July 20, 2010, by the Irving Police Department shows 30-year-old Saiqa Akhter. Police say the Dallas-area mother suspected of strangling her two children, including her 5-year-old-son who died, will be charged with capital murder. Irving police spokesman David Tull says Akhter is in jail pending arraignment Tuesday July 20, 2010, a day after she called 911 and said she had done 'something terrible' to her children.(AP Photo/Irving Police Department)AP - A suburban Dallas mother accused of strangling her two young children told a 911 operator she killed them because they were autistic and she wanted "normal kids," according to a tape released Wednesday.

Police: Decomposed body is missing Calif. teen (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:55 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file image provided by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department shows Norma Lopez, who has been missing since July 15, 2010, after failing to return from a summer school class. An unidentified body was found Tuesday, July 20, 2010, several miles from where Lopez disappeared. (AP Photo/Riverside County Sheriff's Department, File)AP - Authorities identified a decomposed body Wednesday as that of a 17-year-old girl who was likely kidnapped while walking home from school last week in Southern California.

Passengers, drinks tumble in harrowing flight (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:13 PM PDT

This cell phone photo taken from the terminal at Denver International Airport by passenger Kaoma Bechaz shows emergency vehicles around United Flight 967, left, after it experienced severe turbulence en route from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, forcing an emergency landing in Denver, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Kaoma Bechaz)AP - Passengers were thrown from their seats, drinks and loose items flew through the cabin and oxygen masks dropped from overhead when a United Airlines jetliner took a harrowing drop amid severe turbulence on a cross-country flight.

Gingrich latest of nat'l GOP to oppose NYC mosque (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:17 PM PDT

AP - Former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday announced his opposition to a planned mosque near ground zero, becoming the latest Republican leader to place the project on the national political stage.

Judge halts oil, gas development on Chukchi Sea (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge on Wednesday stopped companies from developing oil and gas wells on billions of dollars in leases off Alaska's northwest coast, saying the federal government failed to follow environmental law before it sold the drilling rights.

Detroit police chief resigns in a surprise move (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:46 PM PDT

FILE-In this July 6, 2009 file photo, Warren Evans speaks at a news conference held to announce his appointment as Detroit's new Police Chief as Mayor Dave Bing, left, listens at the mayor's office in Detroit. Evans resigned from his post Wednesday, July 21, 2010 after just over a year on the job. Mayor Bing's office did not offer a reason for Evans' resignation in the brief statement it issued Wednesday announcing the surprise change. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)AP - Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans resigned at the mayor's request Wednesday, months after a 7-year-old girl was killed in a police raid shadowed by a reality television crew, and hours before a video promoting a prospective new show starring Evans was to be made public.

Obama to sign Tribal Law and Order Act (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:53 PM PDT

AP - A bill giving American Indian tribes more authority to combat crime on their reservations has cleared Congress and is headed to President Barack Obama, who said he looks forward to signing it.

New guidelines aim to reduce repeated C-sections (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:19 PM PDT

AP - Most women who've had a C-section, and many who've had two, should be allowed to try labor with their next baby, say new guidelines — a step toward reversing the "once a cesarean, always a cesarean" policies taking root in many hospitals.

NYC police make arrest in `bouquet bandit' case (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:42 PM PDT

This July 15, 2010 security photo provided by the New York Police Department on Monday, July 19, 2010 shows a man police say robbed a bank armed with a bouquet of fresh flowers, in New York. Police say he reached into the arrangement and pulled out a note demanding $100 and $50 bills and warned, 'Don't be a hero.' He was given an undisclosed amount of cash before fleeing the Bank of Smithtown in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP - A man dubbed the "bouquet bandit" because he held fresh flowers while robbing a Manhattan bank was arrested Wednesday at a Brooklyn home where he was hiding in a closet, police said.

'South Park' critic faces unrelated terror charge (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:22 PM PDT

AP - A man known for posting an online warning that the creators of "South Park" risked death by mocking the Prophet Muhammad was arrested Wednesday and charged with providing material support to a Somali terror group linked to al-Qaida.

'Barefoot Bandit' returns to Washington state (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:44 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Island County Sheriff's Office in Washington state shows Colton Harris-Moore, aka the AP - The alleged "Barefoot Bandit" is back in Washington state, where authorities say he began a two-year multistate crime spree.

Judge in Conn.: Cheerleading not a college sport (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:55 PM PDT

AP - Competitive cheerleading is not an official sport that colleges can use to meet gender-equity requirements, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in ordering a Connecticut school to keep its women's volleyball team.

As NYC area spreads, so do bears; NJ hunt approved (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 8, 2003, file photograph, two large bears, taken in the the first black-bear hunt in the state in 33 years, are brought into a New Jersey state Dept. of Fish and Wildlife checking station at Wawayanda State Park in Vernon, N.J. On Wednesday, July 21, 2010, following a recommendation by the state's Fish and Game Council, the head of New Jersey's environmental department approved the state's first bear hunt in five years to thin the growing population. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer,File)AP - New Jersey will hold its first bear hunt in five years this December to thin a growing black bear population that wildlife biologists say is increasingly coming into contact with suburban New Yorkers.

Rehab-first promising for amateur athlete ACL tear (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:13 PM PDT

AP - Attention, weekend athletes: Don't be too quick to agree to surgery for a common type of knee ligament tear.

Conrad Black released from federal prison in Fla. (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 30, 2006 file photo, former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black enters the federal court in Chicago. A federal judge set bond at $2 million for Black on Wednesday July 21, 2010 and ruled that he can't leave the continental United States. The decision from U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve came just two years into the 6 1/2-year sentence Black received for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars. Black is jailed in Florida and did not attend the hearing. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Former media mogul Conrad Black quietly left a federal prison in the blazing central Florida heat Wednesday, free on bond after serving just two years of a 6 1/2-year sentence for defrauding investors, officials said.

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