2010年8月23日星期一

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AZ escapees' NM charges detail grisly crime spree (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:33 PM PDT

Former escaped fugitive John McCluskey arrives for his initial appearance at Apache County Superior Court Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 in St. Johns, Ariz. McCluskey escaped from a Kingman, Ariz. prison and has been on the lam since July 30th with his fiancee Casslyn Welch. Both were apprehended at an eastern Arizona campground on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest on Thursday, Aug. 19th. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Two escaped convicts from Arizona and a woman who accompanied them kidnapped an Oklahoma couple and gunned them down so they could steal their camping trailer, prosecutors said Monday as they released chilling details about the group's crime spree.


Gulf residents struggle in aftermath of oil spill (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:40 PM PDT

A ship is seen close to the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill zone in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. Nearly 80 percent of the oil spilled from a ruptured oil pipeline is still in the sea there, US scientists have estimated, challenging a more optimistic assessment by the US government earlier in the month.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Graythen)AP - The oil has stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, and that should be a relief. But with fewer cleanup jobs to be had, many of the people hit hardest by the huge spill are struggling as badly as ever.


Anxiety still rampant in Katrina kids, study says (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:39 PM PDT

Refugees of Hurricane Katrina fill the floor of the Astrodome in Houston in this September 2, 2005 file photo. August 29, 2010 marks the fifth anniversary of the storm's landfall in Louisiana.    REUTERS/Richard Carson/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY)AP - A startling number of Gulf coast area children displaced by Hurricane Katrina still have serious emotional or behavioral problems five years later, a new study found.


Ex-Marine convicted of killing pregnant colleague (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Mary Lauterbach testifies as images of her daughter, Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach of the U.S.M.C., sit next to the stand during the murder trial of Cesar Laurean at Wayne County Superior Courthouse in Goldsboro, N.C. Laurean is on trial for the murder of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach.  (AP Photo/The News-Argus, Troy Herring)  MANDATORY CREDITAP - A former Marine was convicted Monday of murder in the death of a pregnant colleague who accused him of rape, an allegation that threatened to derail a military career that had earned him promotions and praise.


DEA seeks Ebonics experts to help with cases (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:05 PM PDT

AP - Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations.

Are the eggs sold at my supermarket safe to eat? (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:55 PM PDT

Golden comet chickens mill around in the grass next to a basket of freshly gathered eggs at Pete & Jen's Backyard Birds, a small organic farm in Concord, Mass., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Eggs from Massachusetts farms have not been affected by the FDA's massive recall of more than a half-billion eggs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Two large Iowa farms have recalled 550 million eggs because of possible contamination with salmonella. Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration are trying to find the cause of the outbreak, but so far haven't pinpointed the source.


Ind. ruling halts caregiver choices based on race (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:59 AM PDT

In this July 30, 2010 photo, Brenda Chaney poses in her attorney Denise LaRue's office , in Indianapolis. Chaney worked in a Plainfield, Ind., nursing home that issued her an assignment sheet including a daily reminder that one woman in her unit 'Prefers No Black CNAs.' Nursing home residents have the right to choose who's going to take care of them, except when those choices are based on color, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Chaney's case in July. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Certified nursing assistant Brenda Chaney was on duty in an Indiana nursing home one day when she discovered a patient lying on the floor, unable to stand.


Oil spill investigators focus on communication (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:46 PM PDT

Neil Cramond, BP's Gulf of Mexico marine authority, testifies during the Deepwater Horizon joint investigation hearings by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Management, Regulation and Enforcement Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 in Houston. (AP Photo/Melissa Phillip, Pool)AP - Federal investigators seeking the cause of the rig explosion that led to BP's massive Gulf oil spill focused Monday on communication and chain of command, wondering at times whether the key players knew enough to handle an emergency.


Trains halted on NY's huge Long Island Rail Road (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:32 PM PDT

Christophe Mazuel makes a phone call while lying on the floor in New York's Penn Station after his train to Southampton was canceled, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. A fire in a switching tower near the Long Island Rail Road's Jamaica station has halted all eastbound and westbound service on 10 of the railroad's 11 branches. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - A fire in a Long Island Rail Road switching station knocked out train service for more than four hours Monday, leaving passengers on the nation's largest commuter rail line to contend with delays into the evening commute and possibly longer.


An NYC icon cries foul over proposed rival nearby (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, Madison Square Garden, lower center, and midtown Manhattan are shown in this aerial photo in New York, as the Empire State Building is seen at top. The owner of the Empire State Building says the height of a proposed tower near the iconic skyscraper would forever alter the skyline of New York City. The 67-story tower would rise only 34 feet less than the Empire State Building. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Look at Manhattan from afar, and the first thing you notice is the Empire State Building, spiking like a needle above the carpet of skyscrapers that coats Manhattan from tip to tip.


Ammonia leak at Ala. plant sickens at least 120 (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:53 PM PDT

An unidentified person is loaded into the back of an ambulance Monday Aug. 23, 2010 at Millard Refrigerated Services in Theodore, Ala. Authorities say at least 50 people have been sent to the hospital after a south Alabama refrigeration facility leaked up to 300 gallons of ammonia into the air.  (AP Photo/Press-Register, Bill Starling)AP - An ammonia leak at a coastal Alabama chicken distribution plant sent more than 120 people to the hospital on Monday, including four patients in intensive care, and forced residents to hide in their homes while warning sirens blared.


Police: Wis. ride operator stunned by girl's fall (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:09 PM PDT

AP - Amusement park manager Chuck Carnell fancied himself a star after he appeared on a national television program featuring one of the park's scariest rides. But the limelight shifted in one nightmarish moment.

Group wants to end setting dogs on chained bears (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:32 PM PDT

In an on April 24, 2010 image from video provided by The Humane Society of the United States, a dog is shown barking at a captive bear during a bear baying event in Spartanburg, S.C. Bear baying is a training method for hunting dogs and in the U.S. it is only legal in South Carolina. (AP Photo/The Humane Society of the United States)AP - A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina.


Firm to pay $52.4M in Minneapolis bridge collapse (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 01:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photograph taken Aug. 5, 2007, an inspector climbs over rubble as he examines the Interstate 35W bridge, in Minneapolis, which collapsed over the Mississippi River. An engineering firm that consulted on the Minneapolis bridge that collapsed in 2007 has agreed Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, to pay $52.4 million to victims.(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)AP - After enduring countless surgeries and hours of court hearings, victims of the deadly 2007 Minneapolis Interstate 35W bridge collapse reached the end of their legal fight after an engineering firm agreed to pay $52.4 million to settle scores of lawsuits.


Attorney: Great Lakes waterways a 'carp highway' (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:28 PM PDT

Graphic locates river systems Asian carp travel to reach Lake Michigan; shows maximum size of Asian carp compared to a humanAP - Five states are asking a federal judge in Chicago to take emergency action to close two shipping locks and install barriers to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes via a "carp highway."


40 years later, Wis. bomber is a 'ghost' (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this 1969 file photo, Leo Frederick Burt, also known as Eugene Donald Fieldston, is shown. Forty years after a powerful bomb exploded on the Madison campus, Burt remains the last fugitive wanted by the FBI in connection with radical anti-Vietnam War activities. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - University of Wisconsin student Leo Burt approached his former journalism instructor at the student union one day in August 1970.


3 dead, 4 wounded in shootout in central Virginia (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Major Donald Lowe, right, Chief Deputy of the Louisa County Sheriff's department, speaks during a news conference along with Sheriff Ashland Fortune, left, in  Louisa, Va., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010.  A gunman opened fire Sunday during a domestic dispute, killing two people and injuring four others before he was killed by police.  (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - A man who shot and killed his son and nephew and wounded four other relatives had been involved in an ongoing family dispute over a piece of property in rural central Virginia, authorities said Monday.


3 hurt Oregon football players stay in hospital (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:19 AM PDT

AP - All but three of the players who suffered muscle damage during preseason practice at an Oregon high school are expected to be out of the hospital Monday.

Hurricane Danielle swirls far out over Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:57 PM PDT

This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite images shows Tropical Storm Danielle churning in the Atlantic Ocean. Danielle became the second hurricane of the Atlantic season Monday as its winds reached sustained speeds of near 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center said.(AFP/NOAA)AP - Hurricane Danielle has formed far from land in the Atlantic with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph), and it's expected to strengthen in the next couple of days.


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