2010年7月23日星期五

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Longtime journalist Daniel Schorr dies at age 93 (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 03:47 PM PDT

FILE - In a Thursday, Jan 25, 1996 photo, Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst for National Public Radio, poses for a portrait before he was awarded the Golden Batton, the highest of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards, on the university campus in New York. Veteran reporter-commentator Daniel Schorr, whose hard-hitting reporting for CBS got him on President Richard Nixon's notorious 'enemies list' in the 1970s, has died. He was 93. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Daniel Schorr, whose journalism career over more than six decades landed him in the dark corners of Europe during the Cold War and the shadows of President Richard Nixon's notorious "enemies list" in the 1970s, has died. He was 93.

Mexican official charged with aiding drug dealing (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 04:33 PM PDT

Federal policemen and explosive experts work at the site of a car bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez July 16, 2010. A Mexican drug cartel was responsible for a cell phone-detonated car bomb that killed four people in a city on the U.S. border, state security forces said on Friday. In the first attack of its kind during Mexico's drug war, the explosion tore through a major intersection in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas, late on Thursday. REUTERS/Alejandro BringasAP - A Mexican law enforcement official who worked with U.S. authorities was charged with sharing confidential information with drug traffickers and arranging the arrests of his drug boss' rivals, according to a far-reaching indictment against a gang that ferries drugs along California's border with Mexico.

Calif. town outraged to learn of officials' pay (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:03 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 - Residents in this modest blue-collar Los Angeles suburb where one in six lives in poverty were angry: Their city manager was getting paid more than President Barack Obama and the police chief more than the commander of the nearly 13,000-member LAPD.

BP tries to limit release of oil spill research (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 04:14 PM PDT

Storm clouds form near a BP station in Alexandria, Virginia, July 19, 2010. REUTERS/Molly RileyAP - Faced with hundreds of lawsuits and a deep need for experts, BP has been offering some Gulf Coast scientists lucrative consulting contracts that bar them from releasing their findings on the company's massive oil spill for three years.

American Samoa detective shot outside courthouse (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 04:38 PM PDT

Siaumau Siaumau Jr., middle, screams while a court marshal and police officers, try to restrain him after he fatally shot Det. Lt. Lusila Brown on Thursday, July 22, 2010 in Pago Pago, American Samoa. Brown was killed by the suspect while providing security outside the high court building. (AP Photo/Samoa News, Ausage Fausia) NO SALESAP - A man who had just attended a relative's court hearing fatally shot a veteran police officer outside the courthouse, then stood over the fallen detective and fired two more times as officers and several reporters were nearby, police officials said.

Woman, 23, charged in Facebook-feud fatal crash (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Tracy Emery, right, and her husband, name unavailable, react outside the courthouse after their daughter, 23-year-old Torrie Emery's arraignment in Pontiac, Mich. on Friday July 23, 2010. Torrie Emery was charged with second-degree murder, assault and child abuse in a fatal car crash stemming from a dispute on the social networking site Facebook. Police say the woman had her 3-year-old daughter in the car Wednesday afternoon when she rammed a car being driven by Alesha Abernathy of Pontiac. Police said Abernathy's car hit a dump truck while being chased. (AP Photo/The Oakland Press, Vaughn Gurganian) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A Facebook feud between two women who claimed to love the same prison inmate led to a high-speed chase and a crash that critically injured one of the rivals, killed her friend and left the second rival facing murder charges.

NYC police: Charred note found at fatal fire scene (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT

** ADDS POSSIBLE MURDER-SUICIDE ** Firefighters and other first responders work on the site of a fatal fire 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 - A badly charred note with the words "am sorry" was discovered Friday in the torched apartment where investigators suspect a teenager killed his mother and siblings before committing suicide, police said.

Seeds of distrust in Ala. town's big cleanup haul (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 02:41 PM PDT

In this Monday, July 5, 2010 photo, Chris LaForce talks with other fisherman during a protest meeting at the city docks in Bayou La Batre, Ala. The city has received $8.5 million in BP money that was passed along through the state — enough for every resident to get a check for $3,675. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The Gulf oil spill has replaced most of the shrimp, oysters and crabs flowing into this sleepy coastal hamlet with cash — gobs of it. But if this is a boomtown, it's a bitter one.

2 killed in explosion near Pittsburgh-area well (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 04:27 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT THE DATELINE FROM INDIANOLA TO CHESWICK, PA. **In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion burns in Cheswick, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI) **MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES , PITTSBURGH TV MARKET OUT, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW OUT, PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE OUT **AP - An oil storage tank at a natural gas well exploded Friday morning, killing two workers, leaving a third man remarkably uninjured and sparking a smoky well fire that was still smoldering hours later.

Husband: Zsa Zsa Gabor in critical condition (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 1986 file photo, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is shown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/File)AP - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was in critical condition Friday after undergoing hip replacement surgery earlier in the week, her husband said.

Utah man arrested in sheepskin store fire (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:26 PM PDT

AP - A man who has been arrested on suspicion of starting a fire that destroyed a sheepskin store near Denver has been linked to two other fires in Utah which destroyed business he allegedly deemed were cruel to animals, police said.

Historian stages sleep-ins to save SC slave cabins (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 12:00 PM PDT

AP - When Joe McGill spreads his sleeping bag on the floor of a slave cabin, he knows that spending the night there will conjure the specter of slavery.

Pilot rescued from Lake Mich. crash identified (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 03:38 PM PDT

Map locates Ludington, Mich., where a small medical transport plane crashed.AP - The U.S. Coast Guard has identified the rescued pilot of a small plane that crashed in Lake Michigan heading to the Mayo Clinic with four others aboard.

Texas panel: Arson investigators didn't err (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 03:18 PM PDT

AP - The head of a Texas panel reviewing the case of a man who was executed for setting fire to his home and killing his children say the panel doesn't believe arson investigators committed negligence or misconduct.

Michelle Obama smashes bubbly for ship christening (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 11:18 AM PDT

First Lady Michelle Obama breaks a bottle of sparkling wine on the bow of the third U.S. Coast Guard National Security cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) Friday, July 23, 2010 in Pascagoula, Miss., at the Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding facility as Mike Petters, president of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding looks on. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - It took First Lady Michelle Obama two swings to smash open the sparkling wine she used to christen a ship in honor of the Coast Guard's first female commissioned officer.

Hundreds of DC school employees to be dismissed (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 02:04 PM PDT

AP - The D.C. Public Schools are firing 241 teachers and warning more than 700 other employees that they could be fired in the next year if their performance doesn't improve.

Detroit hit man gets 52 years for killing 8 people (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 12:35 PM PDT

Vincent Smothers enters Judge Craig Strong's courtroom in Detroit, Friday, July 23, 2010. Smothers, a Detroit hit man who pleaded guilty to killing eight people returned to court for sentencing. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - A killer-for-hire who admitted murdering eight people and other victims he can't remember was sentenced Friday to at least 52 years in prison in a plea deal that spared him from a mandatory life term and averted a series of emotional trials.

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