2010年7月22日星期四

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Key ships ordered to leave spill site before storm (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:27 PM PDT

Waves partially obscure the Development Driller II, left, Development Driller III, which are drilling the relief wells, at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast on Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Key ships stationed over BP's crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico were ordered to evacuate Thursday ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie, but engineers have grown so confident in the leaky cap fixed to well head that they will leave it closed while they are gone.

Judge hears arguments over Arizona immigration law (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:18 PM PDT

Omar Jadwat, center, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrant's Rights Project, talks with reporters after a court hearing regarding the lawsuit brought by the National Immigration Law Center and a variety of civil rights groups against the SB1070 Arizona immigration law at a news conference in front of U.S. District Court Thursday, July 22, 2010, in Phoenix. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is holding multiple hearings on whether the new Arizona immigration law should take effect on July 29. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - The Arizona immigration law came under new legal scrutiny in a packed courtroom Thursday as a federal judge considered whether the crackdown should take effect next week amid a flurry of legal challenges.

Feds work to put a price tag on oil spill damage (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:41 PM PDT

In this July 15, 2010 photo, BP consultant Robert Nailon checks to see whether oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has soaked marsh grasses in marshes around Bay Ronquille, La. Nailon is part of a joint government-BP team trying to gauge the impact of the oil on the region's fragile saltwater marshes. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)AP - The marsh is soaked with oil and the grass is dying. It's a common sight on the Gulf coast these days, and it's nothing new for Robert Nailon.

Key question for Blago jury: Was he just talking? (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:14 PM PDT

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks to members of the media at the Federal Court building, Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in Chicago after his defense rested without calling any witnesses. Blagojevich is accused of scheming to sell or trade President Obama's old Senate seat for personal gain. At right is his wife Patti. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - As Rod Blagojevich's attorneys prepare to make their last pitch to jurors, their closing arguments may come down to this: The former Illinois governor wasn't capable of doing anything but talk. And talk.

Police suspect murder-suicide in NYC house fire (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:45 PM PDT

** ADDS POSSIBLE MURDER-SUICIDE ** Shannon Barback is comforted by her boyfriend, Nicholas Cotton, after a fire in their neighbors' apartment in New York, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The early morning fire in a house on New York City's Staten Island has killed five people. The deaths of a mother and four children in a torched New York city apartment were being investigated Thursday as a possible murder-suicide committed by one of the children, a troubled teenager with a history of setting fires, police said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The deaths of a mother and four children in a torched New York City apartment were being investigated Thursday as a possible murder-suicide committed by one of the children, a troubled teenager with a history of setting fires, police said.

2 dead, 1 injured in Pa. zinc plant explosion (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:57 PM PDT

News crews gather outside the fence after an explosion at the Horseheads Inc. zinc plant in Monaca, Pa., Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - An explosion Thursday at a zinc smelting plant in western Pennsylvania killed two people and injured at least one, authorities said.

RFK Jr.'s wife guilty of driving impaired in NY (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:28 PM PDT

AP - The wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has resolved her New York drunken-driving case by pleading guilty to a lesser charge.

Former Nev. Gov. Kenny Guinn dies in Las Vegas (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2005 file photo, former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn reflects on his two terms at his Carson City, Nev., office. Guinn died Thursday, July 22, 2010, after falling from the roof of his home in Las Vegas, the Clark County coroner said. The 73-year-old Republican, the predecessor to current Gov. Jim Gibbons, was pronounced dead at University Medical Center after being taken there following the fall, according to law enforcement, school and hospital officials. (AP Photo/Catheen Allison, file)AP - Former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, a two-term moderate Republican whose tenure marked a prosperous era in a state now facing severe budget problems, died Thursday after falling from the roof of his Las Vegas home while making repairs. He was 73.

CA city seeks resignations of high-paid officials (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:22 PM PDT

People chat as they wait in line for food outside Bell Food Station in Bell, Calif., Thursday, July 22, 2010. The City Council in this small Los Angeles suburb is meeting Thursday to consider firing the police chief and two top administrators over their huge salaries, including Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo who makes more than $787,000 a year, nearly twice the salary of President Barack Obama. Revelations about the pay in Bell has sparked anger in this blue-collar town that is one of the poorest in Los Angeles County. The council also will consider firing Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia, who makes $376,288 a year, and Police Chief Randy Adams, whose annual salary of $457,000 is 50 percent more than that of Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - The City Council in this small, blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles intends to ask three administrators whose salaries total more than $1.6 million to resign Thursday or face possible firing.

Owner of pitbulls that killed CA boy arrested (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:35 PM PDT

AP - The owner of the pit bulls that attacked and killed a 2-year-old California boy has been arrested.

Authorities seek cause of deadly Calif. bus crash (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:44 PM PDT

California Highway Patrol officers investigate a Greyhound bus crash on Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif., that killed at least six people and injured many others Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)AP - Authorities were investigating the cause of a deadly crash Thursday in California's Central Valley that killed six people and seriously injured nine others when a Greyhound bus slammed into an overturned SUV.

Slain CA teen's sister urges killer to surrender (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:09 PM PDT

AP - The grieving older sister of a 17-year-old girl who was abducted and killed pleaded with the murderer Thursday to surrender and explain why the teen was targeted blocks from her high school.

Rigger acquitted in deadly '08 NYC crane collapse (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2008 file photo, rescue workers search through wreckage as a section of collapsed crane lies on top of a crushed building on 50th Street near Second Avenue in New York. Construction crane rigger William Rapetti has been acquitted of all criminal charges stemming from collapse that killed seven people. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)AP - The lone person criminally charged in a construction crane collapse that killed seven people was acquitted Thursday after challenging the conclusion prosecutors, federal regulators and city officials had all reached about what caused the accident.

'Barefoot Bandit' doesn't seek bail, stays jailed (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:39 PM PDT

A surveillance camera peers down from overhead Thursday, July 22, 2010, at the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle. Colton Harris-Moore, the 19-year-old accused in a two-year string of thefts from Washington state to the Caribbean, did not seek bail in his first court appearance Thursday in Washington state and will remain jailed. Federal prosecutors said Harris-Moore poses 'an extreme risk of flight' and should remain jailed until his trial. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - The teenager accused in a two-year string of thefts from Washington state to the Caribbean made a brief court appearance Thursday in the state where his escapades began, and opted not to seek bail.

Father's death turning point for fired ag official (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 03:52 PM PDT

An undated photo provided by the United States Department of Agriculture shows USDA official Shirley Sherrod. Sherrod is at the center of a racially tinged firestorm involving the Obama administration and the NAACP. Sherrod was ousted Tuesday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack over her comments that she didn't give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago. (AP Photo/United States Department of Agriculture)AP - Forty-five years before she became the central figure in a racial firestorm between the White House and the political right, Shirley Sherrod was a black 17-year-old in rural Georgia brimming with righteous anger over her father's shooting death. She blamed a white neighbor squabbling over some cows, but the law did nothing.

Peruvian presidential candidate courts votes in NJ (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:59 PM PDT

AP - A candidate for preisdent of Peru was planning a campaign stop Thursday to court the votes of an increasingly important constituency: Peruvians living abroad.

Texas mom challenges transgender widow's marriage (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Nikki Araguz, transgender wife of a firefighter killed in the line of duty July 4, 2010, enters a press conference at her attorneys' office Thursday, July 22, 2010 in Houston. Relatives of Thomas Araguz are suing to keep her from getting benefits as Texas does not recognize same-sex weddings. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - The family of a southeast Texas firefighter killed in a July 4 blaze has sued to void his marriage to his transgender widow and prevent her from getting his death benefits because she was born a man and Texas doesn't recognize same-sex marriages.

2 arrested at likely NY Clinton wedding site (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2009 file photo, Chelsea Clinton attends the 3rd Annual DKMS Gala benefit at Cipriani's 42nd Street in New York. Clinton plans to tie the knot with fiance Marc Mezvinsky in the upstate New York village of Rhinebeck on July 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)AP - Two Norwegian journalists face trespassing charges after they were arrested snapping photos of the New York estate where Chelsea Clinton is expected to get married.

Source: Computer worker suspected in Utah list (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:21 PM PDT

AP - A computer specialist for a Utah state agency has come under suspicion in the distribution of a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants.

Tropical Storm Bonnie moving toward oil spill (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:07 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:45 AM EDT shows clouds over the Greater and Lesser Antilles. These are produced by Tropical Depression Three, which has developed from a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The system currently sits about 400 miles Southeast of Key Largo, Florida with maximum sustained winds at 35 mph and moves west-northwest and 15 mph. This system kicks up moderate to heavy showers and thunderstorms with strong winds over the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, with scattered showers stretching into the Bahamas and down the Lesser Antilles. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - A rainstorm in the southern Bahamas accelerated into Tropical Storm Bonnie on Thursday while following a course that could take it over the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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