2010年8月15日星期日

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Off-road racer rolls truck into crowd, killing 8 (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 05:51 PM PDT

Law enforcement officers examine the accident scene Sunday where an off-road race truck, background, went out of control and plowed into a crowd of spectators during a race in Lucerne Valley, Calif., Saturday Aug. 14, 2010. At least eight people were killed and 12 injured during the incident about 100 miles east of Los Angeles.(AP Photo/Francis Specker)AP - The crowd at the off-road race could almost touch the trucks as they hurtled and bounced over the desert sand. They were close enough for one mistake to end eight lives.

Teen sex not always bad for school performance (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 11:09 AM PDT

AP - There's good news for parents who worry that their teenagers' sex lives are affecting their school performance: A provocative new study has found that teens in committed relationships do no better or worse in school than those who don't have sex.

Craigslist killing suspect dead in Mass. suicide (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 04:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 22, 2009 file photo, former Boston University medical student Philip Markoff stands during his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, on charges he killed a masseuse at a Boston hotel that he met through Craigslist. Officials confirmed that Markoff was found dead of apparent suicide in his jail cell Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 in Boston. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, Pool, File)AP - A former medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist committed suicide in the Boston jail where he was awaiting trial, authorities said Sunday.

Tea party activists rally on Arizona-Mexico border (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 05:35 PM PDT

John Henderson, of Tucson, Ariz., stands at the Arizona-Mexico border Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 in Hereford, Ariz. Henderson was attending the United Border Coalition Tea Party Rally in support of Arizona's immigration law, SB1070 with conservative tea party activists along a remote stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border about 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Nogales.(AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona's controversial immigration law and hear from more than a dozen conservative speakers, many of them candidates running for office in crowded Republican primaries.

Gulf driller to light up cigar after job is done (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 04:37 PM PDT

This June 2010 photo provided by Boots and Coots, shows John Wright, Senior Vice President Technology of Boots and Coots, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The man with pinpoint accuracy who is drilling the relief well meant to plug BP's runaway well is looking forward to finishing his mission and celebrating with a cigar, a dinner party with his crew and a trip somewhere quiet to unwind with his wife. John Wright has never missed his target over the years, successfully drilling 40 relief wells that were used to plug leaks around the world. People along the Gulf Coast aren't the only ones hoping he can make it 41-for-41. (AP Photo/Boots and Coots via John Wright) NO SALESAP - The man with pinpoint accuracy who is drilling the relief well meant to plug BP's runaway well is looking forward to finishing his mission and celebrating with a cigar, a dinner party with his crew and a trip somewhere quiet to unwind with his wife.

Charges dropped in NY slayings; no new arrest (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 04:41 PM PDT

Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, left, and Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita travel the escalator to the courtroom for proceedings involving Keith Johnson, not shown, in Buffalo, N.Y. on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Johnson is accused of opening fire outside a downtown restaurant killing four people and wounding four others. (AP Photo/Don Heupel)AP - A prosecutor dropped charges Sunday against a parolee initially accused of killing four people and wounding four others outside a downtown restaurant and said the real shooter appeared on surveillance tape.

Slain Okla. couple's family hopes fugitives caught (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 04:15 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows John McCluskey. The search for an John McCluskey, an Arizona prison inmate and Casslyn Welch, a woman who helped him and two murder suspects escape is still focused on western Montana and the northwestern U.S. and Canada. The last credible sighting of Casslyn Welch and John McCluskey was on Aug. 6 in Billings, Mont., and the couple are likely still traveling in a gold, tan or gray 1997 Nissan Sentra. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)AP - Lost in the Bonnie and Clyde tale of Arizona fugitives on the run for two weeks is the grisly slaying of an Oklahoma couple whose bodies were found in a burned-out travel trailer on a remote ranch in eastern New Mexico.

Teen survivor of fatal Alaska plane crash released (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 02:15 PM PDT

George Dailey, owner of the Alaska Candle Company, poses for a photo with the sign outside his shop, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010, in Girdwood, Alaska, the long-time residence of former Sen. Ted Stevens. Dailey, who said he has known Stevens for more than 40 years, said he decided to put the phrase 'Thank you Uncle Ted' on his sign in tribute to Stevens, who died in a single-engine plane crash in southwest Alaska Monday that also killed four other people. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - An Anchorage hospital has released one of the four people who survived a plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others.

Company confirms 2 miners died in Nev. mine shaft (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 11:55 PM PDT

AP - Searchers in Nevada found the remains of two miners at the bottom of a gold mine shaft, company officials said Saturday, after crews worked for more than 32 hours to safely access the area 1,300 feet underground.

NY DA who prosecuted Long Island Lolita dies at 76 (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 01:41 PM PDT

AP - Former Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon, who in more than three decades on the job prosecuted Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher and the gunman in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre, has died.

Fishing legacy fades from some New England ports (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 09:26 AM PDT

AP - Mike Secondo remembers the days when Plymouth's docks outshone its rock.

Vows for justice in NJ child rape falling short (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 09:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 2, 2010 photo, people gather outside vacant apartment 13C at Rowan Towers in Trenton, N.J., in protest of the recent alleged gang rape of a 7-year-old girl in the apartment. It's been nearly five months since the alleged gang rape, and vows for legal vengeance are falling short, officials aren't talking and efforts to reform the neighborhood have stalled. Calls for justice for the young victim have quieted and questions are now being raised about what happened, or didn't happen, that day. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)AP - The allegations were unthinkable, the outrage immediate, justice promised: A 7-year-old girl had been handed over to a group of men and boys by her older 15-year-old stepsister and gang-raped.

GOP senator suggests mosque will be election issue (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 09:03 AM PDT

Pedestrians walk past the 19th century building on Park Place in Manhattan where Muslims plan to build a mosque and cultural center Saturday, Aug.14, 2010, in New York. President Barack Obama says Muslims have the right to build a mosque near ground zero in New York, but he's not saying whether he thinks it's a good idea to do so. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - A Republican senator is suggesting there could be political fallout from President Barack Obama's remarks about building a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City.

Hundreds kiss in NYC in honor of end of WWII (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 11:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1945 picture, a sailor and a nurse kiss in Manhattan's Times Square during celebrations for the end of World War II. The celebration followed the official announcement that Japan had accepted the terms of Potsdam conference and surrendered. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Victor Jorgensen)AP - Hundreds of couples donned sailor hats and nurse's caps and smooched in Times Square on Saturday to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Warden, security chief resign after prison escape (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 07:48 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows John McCluskey. The search for an John McCluskey, an Arizona prison inmate and Casslyn Welch, a woman who helped him and two murder suspects escape is still focused on western Montana and the northwestern U.S. and Canada. The last credible sighting of Casslyn Welch and John McCluskey was on Aug. 6 in Billings, Mont., and the couple are likely still traveling in a gold, tan or gray 1997 Nissan Sentra. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)AP - A warden and a security official have resigned their posts at an Arizona state prison where three inmates escaped last month, setting off a nationwide search.

Stabbings initially drew little attention in Mich. (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 09:53 AM PDT

Elias Abuelazam, 33, attends an extradition hearing in Fulton County Superior Court on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, in Atlanta. Abuelazam, an Israeli citizen, is suspected in several stabbing attacts in Michigan, Ohio and Virginia. He was arresting at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport before boarding a flight to Israel.(AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser, Pool)AP - The first body was discovered in late spring, slashed and bloodied. Even when another man was fatally stabbed a few weeks later in this tired, rust-belt Michigan city, police had no hint of what lay ahead.

Man drowns about 8 miles from where Obamas swam (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:53 PM PDT

AP - A man has drowned in the Gulf of Mexico about eight miles from where President Barack Obama and daughter Sasha were taking a dip.

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