2010年8月17日星期二

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Jury deadlocks on all but 1 charge against Blago (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:37 PM PDT

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his wife Patti leave the Federal Court building, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Chicago. A federal jury found former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty on Tuesday of one count of lying to federal agents, and the judge said he intended to declare a mistrial on the more serious remaining 23 counts. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - A federal jury deadlocked Tuesday on all but one of 24 charges against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, including the most explosive of all â€" that he tried to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. Blagojevich was convicted on a single count of lying to federal agents, one of the least serious charges.

Fighters sent after violation of Air Force 1 space (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Air Force One sits on the tarmac at King County International Airport in Seattle, before President Barack Obama boards and travels to Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - A passenger aboard a float plane that violated the airspace around Air Force One while President Obama was in town Monday was stunned to find out about the fuss that resulted, saying the incursion wasn't intentional.

Study: 1 in 5 US teenagers has slight hearing loss (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:35 PM PDT

In this Aug. 13, 2010 photo, Matthew Brady, 17, of Foxborough, Mass., poses for a portrait in his home while wearing ear phones and displaying an iPod, Friday. Brady, who has some mild hearing loss, used to listen to the device while running on a treadmill with the volume turned up. A stunning number of teens have lost a little bit of their hearing — nearly one in five — and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, a new national study has found. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - A stunning one in five teens has lost a little bit of hearing, and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, a new national study has found.

Police: Texas gunman had explosives in trailer (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Law enforcement work a crime scene area where a shooting took place in McKinney, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A gunman who apparently opened fire at a suburban Dallas police station Tuesday has died, officials said. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - A 29-year-old man towed a trailer full of explosives into a suburban Dallas police station's parking lot on Tuesday, then set fire to his pickup truck and began shooting at the building in an apparent attempt to lure people outside to kill them, authorities said.

Sheriff: SC mom killed kids, dumped car in river (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:34 PM PDT

The house at 992 Hammock Street, in Orangeburg, S.C., where Shaquan Duley lived with her mother and three children, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)AP - Investigators didn't buy it when a woman said her two young sons drowned after her car plunged into a river. She ultimately confessed to killing the toddlers, they say — not by dumping them in the water but by suffocating them earlier with her own hands.

Poll: Hispanic immigrants hopeful about life in US (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT

Sindy Avila poses at the offices of POWER in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. POWER stands for People Organized to Win Employment Rights. An Associated Press-Univision poll of more than 1,500 Latinos finds that Hispanic immigrants, many of whom faced huge problems in their homelands, have more idealized views of the U.S. than do Hispanics who were born in America. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Daily life for Marlen Lopez sounds anything but easy: The undocumented worker cleans offices to pay her bills and hasn't seen her 8-year-old son since she left El Salvador three years ago. Yet Lopez is happy with her job, hopeful about the future and confident her son will one day graduate from college in the United States.

Colo. man wants another try at capturing bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:57 PM PDT

FILE - This June 23, 2010 file photo shows Gary Faulkner getting ready to board a plane back home to Colorado after he arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. Faulkner, the Colorado man detained in Pakistan while trying to track down Osama bin Laden, says he wants to try again. Faulkner said Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 it could be weeks or months before he makes another trip and still has to raise money for it. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)AP - The Colorado man detained in Pakistan while trying to track down Osama bin Laden says he wants to try again.

Mourners pay respects to Ted Stevens in Anchorage (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF ANCHORAGE ** Mourners pay their respects to former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens at the All Saints Episcopal Church Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Scores of Alaskans personally said goodbye to former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens on Tuesday, eight days after he was killed in a plane crash.

Texas executes gang leader for murder of 2 girls (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:31 PM PDT

In this July 11, 2006 .FILE photo, Randy Ertman leaves the Huntsville, Texas prison after witnessing the execution of condemned murderer Derrick Sean O'Brien. Ertman is poised for his third journey to the Texas death chamber, this time to see the scheduled Tuesday evening lethal injection of Peter Anthony Cantu, the leader of five young men sentenced to die for the June 1993 murders of 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - Texas on Tuesday executed the leader of a former gang of Houston teenagers who raped and murdered two young girls who were walking home from a neighborhood party 17 years ago.

NY gov. aims to meet with NYC mosque developers (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:58 PM PDT

New York Governor David Paterson smiles during a media conference in which Delta Airlines announced plans of a $1.2 billion enhancement and expansion of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York August 11, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS POLITICS)AP - Gov. David Paterson, who last week suggested that a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero might want to consider a different location, will meet soon with the developers, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Nevada off-road race going forward on BLM land (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:03 PM PDT

Lou Peralta, racing promoter for Alta Vista Events is photographed in Mojave, Calif. on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. The federal Bureau of Land Management is conducting an official review of a weekend accident at an off-road desert race that left eight spectators dead and 12 injured. The race promoter, Mojave Desert Racing, had a BLM permit for the event, which has raised questions about oversight and safety at long-distance races on federal land. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)AP - Plans for a major off-road vehicle race across federal wilderness in Nevada moved forward Tuesday even as critics charged that last weekend's racing tragedy on Bureau of Land Management territory in California shows the agency is unable to enforce safety conditions at such events.

Judge throws out piracy charges against 6 Somalis (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:44 PM PDT

FILE - In a Friday, April 23, 2010 photo, an injured Somalia national suspected of being a pirate is escorted into federal court by U.S. Marshall's in Norfolk, Va. U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 dismissed piracy charges against six Somali nationals accused of attacking a Navy ship off the coast of Africa, concluding the U.S. government failed to make the case their alleged actions amounted to piracy. The dismissal of the piracy count tosses the most serious charge against the men, but leaves intact seven other charges related to the alleged April 10 attack on the USS Ashland in the Gulf of Aden.(AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)AP - A judge on Tuesday dismissed piracy charges against six Somali men accused of attacking a Navy ship off the coast of Africa, concluding the U.S. government failed to make the case their alleged actions amounted to piracy.

Rostenkowski remembered as generous, if flawed (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:45 PM PDT

Pall bearers carry the casket of former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski out of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Chicago. Hundreds of mourners, including some former congressional colleagues and the city's mayor, packed a Chicago church Tuesday to pay final tribute to Rostenkowski. Rostenkowski died last week of lung cancer at age 82. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Inside the Chicago church where he was baptized and confirmed, former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski was remembered Tuesday as a guy from the neighborhood who just happened to be one of the most powerful men in the nation.

Craigslist suspect wrote ex-fiancee's name in cell (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:59 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 scrawled the name of his former fiancee on the wall of his cell — apparently in blood — before committing suicide, authorities said Tuesday.

AP Enterprise: Old-style coal plants expanding (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:19 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 28, 2010, Marty Snell with Black Hills Power monitors a bank of computer screens used to track operations of the Wygen III power plant in Wyodak, Wyo. Utilities across the country are building dozens of old style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest industrial source of climate changing gases for decades. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)AP - Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come.

Flight attendant takes baby after slap from mother (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT

AP - Police say a Southwest Airlines flight attendant took a baby from her parents on a flight from Dallas to Albuquerque after the mother slapped the crying child.

For the class of '14, email is nearly obsolete (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 06:24 AM PDT

AP - For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.

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