2010年8月10日星期二

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Senator delivered billions for Alaska's future (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2008 file photo, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, greets supporters during a welcome home rally in Anchorage, Alaska. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)AP - To much of the nation, Ted Stevens was the crotchety senator who famously referred to the Internet as "a series of tubes" and fought to build the "Bridge to Nowhere."

Hunt for suspected serial killer hits 3 states (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:27 PM PDT

This composite sketch provided by the Michigan State Police on Friday Aug. 6, 2010 shows a suspect in a string of murders in the Flint area. Investigators say a knife-wielding serial killer has been attacking men on Flint-area streets since May, killing five people and wounding eight others in a vicious spate of violence that may be motivated by racial hatred. (AP Photo/Michigan State Police)AP - Tony Leno was taking a smoking break outside the Toledo, Ohio, church where he works when a tall, muscular white man pulled over in his Chevy Blazer, got out and asked him for directions.

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT

One of the survivors of the plane crash near Dillingham is transferred from a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 to a waiting Anchorage Fire Department Paramedic rig on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Three of the plane crash survivors were transported aboard this flight to Kulis Air National Guard Base in Anchorage. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth) THE MAT-SU VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN OUTAP - An amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens crashed into a remote Alaska mountainside, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight until rescuers could reach them.

US govt sending ground zero mosque imam to Mideast (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:11 PM PDT

AP - The imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks is being sent by the State Department on a religious outreach trip to the Middle East, officials said Tuesday, in a move that drew criticism from conservative lawmakers.

Bus driver under investigation for Utah crash (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:42 PM PDT

In this Aug. 9, 2010 photo, firefighters work to extract victims from a tour bus that crashed on Interstate 15, near Cedar City, Utah. Authorities say the bus carrying Japanese sightseers from Las Vegas to a national park in Utah crashed when it veered into a median and rolled over. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Mark Havnes) DESERET NEWS OUT, NO MAGSAP - Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against the driver of a tour bus that careened off a Utah highway, killing three Japanese tourists. Eleven other members of the tour group were injured, with seven of them in critical condition late Tuesday.

Tropical depression forms in Gulf, heads for spill (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:59 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows clouds move into the eastern Gulf of Mexico as a low pressure system moves in from the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. The system sits about 70 miles southwest of Naples, Florida and has a moderate, 50%, chance of tropical storm development as atmospheric winds are becoming more conducive for development. The Gulf states have already seen strong winds, heavy rainfall, and large swells along the shores as this system approaches. Elsewhere, a low pressure system develops in the North and pushes a front through the Northern Plains and kicks up clouds with scattered storms. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and it is heading toward the oil spill site off the coast of Louisiana.

Flight attendant's grand exit draws charges, fans (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:52 PM PDT

This screen grab taken from MySpace shows Steven Slater. Slater, a flight attendant for JetBlue Airways Corp., looked pleased and relieved after cursing out a passenger on an airplane public-address system, grabbing some beer from the galley and using an emergency slide to hop off, another passenger said Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Steven Slater lost his temper after a passenger accidentally hit him on the head with luggage on the ground at Kennedy Airport on Monday, police said. (AP Photo) NO SALESAP - No fed-up worker has ever said "I've had it" quite like Steven Slater.

Search for Ariz. fugitive focuses on Mont., Canada (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:39 PM PDT

Tracy Province leaves a Cody, Wyo., courtroom on Tuesday Aug. 10, 2010, after waiving extradition for his return to Arizona to face charges of escape, kidnapping and armed robbery, among others. Province escaped from an Arizona prison and was arrested in Meeteetse on Monday, a day after he dropped by for Sunday services at a church there and was recognized by a woman who chatted with him. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)AP - Authorities Tuesday focused on western Montana and southwest Canada in the search for an escaped convict from Arizona and his suspected accomplice who fashion themselves a present-day "Bonnie and Clyde."

SC's top cop disturbed by video of inmate beating (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:39 PM PDT

AP - South Carolina's top cop said Tuesday that video footage of a now-fired deputy beating a handcuffed inmate with a baton hard enough to break the prisoner's leg is disturbing and raises questions about how force is used.

Feds: Storms delay drilling for final BP well plug (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:21 PM PDT

A worker cleans oil boom used for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with a pressure washer in Lafitte, La., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - An approaching tropical depression forced crews to suspend drilling Tuesday on the final stretch of a relief well aimed at shooting a permanent underground plug into BP's busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

NY governor offers help moving ground zero mosque (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Supporters and media gather at a rally in support near the intended site of an Islamic center and mosque near the World Trade Center, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - New York Gov. David Paterson offered state help Tuesday if the developers of a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks agree to move the project farther from the site.

9/11 museum going up in NYC offers raw experience (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:52 PM PDT

Members of the media pass the 'survivors' staircase' during a tour of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, in New York. The staircase served as an escape route for people fleeing the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - The Sept. 11 museum is taking shape 70 feet below ground, a cavernous space that provides an emotionally raw journey and ends at bedrock where huge surviving remnants and spacial voids reveal the scale of the devastation of what once was the World Trade Center.

Nurses fear even more ER assaults as programs cut (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:47 AM PDT

In this July 28, 2010 photo, nurse Erin Riley poses for a photograph in Lakewood, Ohio. A victim of on-the-job violence herself, Riley is not alone, according to an examination by The Associated Press. Violence against nurses and other health professionals is rising as an influx of drug addicts, alcohol abusers and psychiatric patients are forced into hospital emergency departments by cuts to state treatment programs. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off the hand of a doctor at a suburban Cleveland hospital.

New Orleans judge to handle most Gulf spill suits (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:25 PM PDT

Thick oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill floats on the surface of the water and coats the marsh wetlands in Bay Jimmy near Port Sulphur, Louisiana, in June 2010. BP prepared Tuesday to plug the worst oil leak in history, although the Gulf of Mexico region will be counting the environmental and economic costs for years, perhaps decades, to come.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - A federal judge in New Orleans was picked Tuesday to preside over more than 300 lawsuits filed against BP PLC and other companies over the Gulf oil spill, in a move that should please many of the plaintiffs' lawyers and their clients.

Huge ice island could pose threat to oil, shipping (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:55 PM PDT

This combination of two satellite images provided by NASA and taken on July 28, 2010, at left, and Aug. 5, 2010, at right, shows the Petermann Glacier in Northern Greenland. A giant ice island, seen in image at right, has broken off the Petermann Glacier. A University of Delaware researcher says the floating ice sheet covers 100 square miles (260 sq. kilometers) — more than four times the size of New York's Manhattan Island. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.

At 101, Neb. woman wins award for older workers (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:20 PM PDT

Hundred and one-year-old Sally Gordon listens to speakers as she is given America's Outstanding Oldest Worker award for 2010, at a ceremony in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Gordon has been in the work force 84 years. For the last 26 years, she has been an assistant sergeant-at-arms, or 'red coat' for the state, serving the Nebraska Legislature while it is in session.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - A 101-year-old woman who works for the Nebraska Legislature has been chosen as America's Outstanding Oldest Worker for 2010.

NY police find live cat 'marinating' in car trunk (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:37 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the SPCA Serving Erie County, Navarro, a four-year-old cat found 'marinating' in oil and peppers in the trunk of a car in Buffalo, N.Y. on Sunday night, is shown Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the agency's Tonawanda, N.Y. shelter infirmary. Buffalo police say officers heard the cat meowing when they stopped 51-year-old Gary Korkuc of Cheektowaga to ticket him for running a stop sign. (AP Photo/SPCA Serving Erie County) NO SALESAP - Police say a traffic stop led to animal cruelty charges after they found a live cat "marinating" in oil and peppers in the trunk of a car.

Utah cookie bakery finds Doughboy packs a punch (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:40 PM PDT

This photo provided Aug. 10, 2010, by Tami Cromar shows Cromar holding a plate of the company's cookies in Salt Lake City. Cromar, the owner of tiny My Dough Girl cookie bakery, agreed to find a new name for her retro-themed business after General Mills, which owns the Pillsbury brand, told her to stop using it because it believes My Dough Girl diminishes the value of its trademark Doughboy figure. (AP Photo/Tami Cromar) NO SALESAP - A tiny Salt Lake City cookie bakery has discovered the giggly Pillsbury Doughboy can pack quite a punch.

US sees drop in dangerous hospital staph illnesses (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:21 PM PDT

AP - Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a prevention effort that has become a national public health priority.

Ex-NASA chief, son survive Alaska plane crash (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:03 PM PDT

AP - A former NASA spokesman says ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe survived the plane crash in Alaska that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens.

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