2010年8月26日星期四

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Analysis: Oil spill cleanup both a bonanza and bust (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:49 PM PDT

Convenience store owner Sharon Couture stocks cases of beer in Sharon's Discount Store in Yscloskey, La., Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Couture's business, which served local commercial and recreational fishermen before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, has remained mostly intact thanks to contract workers from nearby spill response bases. But she worries about the future, when the spill workers pack up and the fishermen go back to their businesses, convincing consumers that their products are safe to eat. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others.

Mayor seeks to calm cabbie, NYC after knife attack (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:49 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, speaks about the attack on taxi driver Ahmed Sharif, right, during a media conference at City Hall in New York, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Michael Enright, who once volunteered with a group that promotes interfaith tolerance, was charged Wednesday with using a folding knife to attack Sharif after he said he was Muslim. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - A Muslim cab driver whose face and throat were slashed in a suspected hate crime attack appeared with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday as city officials sought to ease tensions in the debate over a plan to put a mosque near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Migrants turn to the sea to enter US illegally (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 10:08 AM PDT

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents patrol from a speedboat near the California-Mexico border of the coast of San Diego, Friday, July 30, 2010. California-Mexico coastline is the new frontier for illegal immigrants entering the United States a roughly 400-square-mile ocean expanse that stretches from a bullring on the shores of Tijuana, Mexico, to suburban Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - The speedboat is about three miles offshore when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent cuts the engine to drift on the current in quiet darkness, hoping for the telltale signs of immigrant smuggling — a motor's whirr or sulfur exhaust fumes.

For panel, details on BP's structure out of reach (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:39 PM PDT

BP senior vice president Kent Wells, right, looks toward the back of the room as he waits to testify 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 Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool)AP - Federal investigators became visibly annoyed Thursday as BP executives were unwilling or unable to provide a clear picture of the company's heirarchy or say who was in charge of the rig leased by the oil giant the day it blew up.

Rod Blagojevich headed for retrial early next year (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Robert Blagojevich, brother of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, talks to reporters at his son's apartment after federal prosecutors dropped all corruption charges against him, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, in Chicago. Prosecutors said Thursday they would not retry the Nashville, Tenn., businessman, but would retry the ex-governor. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Jurors who deadlocked last week on all but one of 24 charges in the first trial described the case against Robert Blagojevich as by far the weaker of the two. And they said the former Army officer presented an earnest, sympathetic figure when he insisted on the witness stand that he and his brother did nothing wrong.

Jury: No more child support for billionaire's kids (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:53 PM PDT

AP - A jury on Thursday rejected a claim by billionaire Donald Bren's two grown children for $134 million in retroactive child support.

Serial stabbings suspect ordered held without bond (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Elias Abuelazam is escorted by authorites after arriving in Flint, Mich., Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Abuelazam had been held in an Atlanta jail since his Aug. 11 arrest at the city's airport. He waived extradition Aug. 13, and officials had 15 days to bring him to Michigan. The 33-year-old is charged with assault with intent to commit murder in the July 27 stabbing of a 26-year-old Flint man. It's one of 14 stabbings, of men in the Flint area, about 70 miles northwest of Detroit. He's also suspected in similar stabbings in Virginia and Ohio. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool)AP - Elias Abuelazam arrived back in Michigan on Thursday shackled, surrounded by a more than a dozen police and wrapped — for his own safety — in a bulletproof vest to face the first of what likely will be numerous charges related to more than a dozen stabbing attacks.

Tires of plane catch fire during landing in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 05:24 PM PDT

A woman who was a passenger on a Jet Blue flight from Long Beach to Sacramento is transported to the hospital by emergency workers after the airplane blew two tires upon landing in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)AP - The tires of a JetBlue airplane caught fire Thursday during a hard landing in Sacramento that left 15 people with minor injuries and sent passengers down emergency slides to escape the aircraft.

Lawsuit: SeaWorld trainer's death traumatized boy (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:02 PM PDT

AP - A New Hampshire couple who witnessed a whale kill a trainer at SeaWorld is suing the Orlando theme park, saying their 10-year-old son suffered emotional distress from what he saw.

Army ending its GED program for aspiring soldiers (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2008 file photo, Army 1st Sgt. Dimetrius Nash, left, talks to his soldiers at Fort Jackson, S.C., before they break to go to class to work on getting their General Educational Development certificates under a new Army program dedicated to helping high school dropouts earn their GEDs before they move on to basic training. The Army is ending the program that helped nearly 3,000 high school dropouts earn high school equivalency certificates and become soldiers. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - The Army is ending a program that helped nearly 3,000 high school dropouts earn high school equivalency certificates and become soldiers.

Ground zero's boundaries evolve in mosque debate (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:14 PM PDT

FILE- In this April 20, 2010 file photo, neighborhoods in lower Manhattan surround the World Trade Center construction site in this aerial photo, in New York. While some feel that 'Ground Zero' is the real estate that the World Trade Center occupied before falling in the 2001 terrorist attacks, others recognize an area that extends beyond the fence and into its lower Manhattan neighborhood. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - The furor over how close is too close to ground zero for a planned Islamic center and mosque has raised a simple question nine years after Sept. 11: Where exactly is ground zero?

War planes to be the star in WWII museum expansion (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:49 PM PDT

This artist rendering provided by Boeing shows what the US Freedom Pavilion will look like upon completion at The Boeing Center in New Orleans. Construction of the new $35 million exhibit will be formally announced Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. One of Boeing Co.'s most famous World War II aircraft, the B-17G Flying Fortress heavy bomber, will be a centerpiece of the new exhibit. (AP Photo/Boeing)AP - Bombers and torpedo planes will be the stars of the latest expansion of the National World War II Museum, and visitors will be able to get close-up views of the war planes on elevated catwalks.

Restaurants scramble after massive egg recall (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 09:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2010 file photo, Chef Felipe Escamilla prepares Huevos Rancheros at Restaurante Tenochtitlan, in Blue Island, Ill. The restaurant buys its eggs from local area producers and has not been affected by the recall of more than a half-billion eggs from two Iowa farms linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella illnesses. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)AP - Eggs sunny-side-up are still on the menu. But restaurants nationwide are keeping a closer eye on egg suppliers and reminding diners of the dangers of undercooked food after a massive recall tied to a salmonella outbreak.

Kan. coroner identifies charred body as teen girl (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:52 PM PDT

AP - A severely charred body found at an asphalt plant in central Kansas is that of a 14-year-old girl who had been missing since the weekend, the attorney general said Thursday.

Suspect in deadly NY shooting pleads not guilty (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:48 PM PDT

Defense attorney Terrence McKelvey, center, talks with Judge Thomas Amodeo, left, and assistant prosecutor James Bargnesi, right, as they enter court for an arraignment for Riccardo McCray in Buffalo City Court in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. McCray was charged with four counts of second-degree murder. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)AP - The high school dropout accused of fatally shooting four people outside a downtown bar insists he has never fired a gun in his life, despite past weapons charges, his lawyer said Thursday.

Michigan tea partiers launch surprise push (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:46 AM PDT

This Aug. 18, 2010 photo shows Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ron Weiser, in Lansing, Mich. Weiser talks enthusiastically about welcoming tea party supporters into the GOP, but he wasn't planning to give them his seat at the state convention. Michigan tea party supporters flocked to Republican party meetings across the state this month and won several hundred delegate seats for the Aug. 28 state convention, including Weiser's. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)AP - Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ron Weiser talks enthusiastically about welcoming tea party supporters into the GOP, but he wasn't planning to give them his seat at the state convention.

MSHA: New evidence found in W.Va. mine explosion (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:35 PM PDT

AP - A federal official says a handheld meter found deep inside the Upper Big Branch mine detected explosive levels of methane before a blast killed 29 miners — the first concrete evidence of dangerous concentrations of gas ahead of the April 5 disaster.

State obscures elite Texas Rangers' border work (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks about border security during a news conference in Houston. While the Ranger Recon initiative has served as a strong rhetorical counterpoint when Perry slams the federal government, details about what the taxpayer-funded teams actually accomplish remain a secret. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)AP - Gov. Rick Perry has told just about anyone who will listen about his plan to dispatch elite teams of Texas Rangers to the border to do what he says the federal government won't â€" keep Texans safe from encroaching Mexican drug violence.

Colleges see prospective donors among new students (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:17 AM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 18, 2010, University of Michigan senior D.J. Heebner, right, of Farmington Hills, Mich., leads a prospective student tour on campus in Ann Arbor, Mich. The University of Michigan doesn't wait until freshman orientation to discuss student philanthropy. Instead prospective Wolverines learn about the importance of private contributions while touring the campus. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The drill for new college students remains pretty consistent: grab a campus map, buy some overpriced textbooks, save those quarters for laundry and don't forget to call home.

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