2010年9月4日星期六

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BP: Crews lifting device from Gulf face delay (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 05:11 PM PDT

In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 12:23 a.m. EDT, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 Aug. 3, 2010 shows the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico being raised to the surface. The blowout preventer wasn't expected to reach the surface until Saturday, at which point government investigators will take possession of it. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALESAP - Investigators may now be able to answer the most elusive question since a rig explosion unleashed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill more than four months ago, as they get a close-up view of a key piece of equipment for the first time.

Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 03:40 PM PDT

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark stands in front of the Craigslist office in San Francisco, California in 2006. Online classifieds website Craigslist has blocked US access to its AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."

AP Interview: Author leaving home next to Palins (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 04:20 PM PDT

In this Sept. 3, 2010 photo, Joe McGinniss, who is working on a book on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, poses for a photograph at the home he's renting next to Palin's home in Wasilla, Alaska. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)AP - Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.

Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 04:15 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Huntington Library/Independent Television Service shows cartoonist Paul Conrad at his drawing board. Conrad, the political cartoonist who won three Pulitzer Prizes and used his pencil to poke at politicians for more than 50 years, died Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 of natural causes at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. (AP Photo/Huntington Library/Independent Television Service, File) NO SALESAP - Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating.

Suspect in consulate deaths appears in Texas court (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 10:26 AM PDT

AP - A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

Muslims take to Minn. State Fair to repair image (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 07:11 AM PDT

In this Sept. 1, 2010 photo, Zuleyha Ozonder, left, hands out cards explaining Islam to fair-goers as they exit of the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights, Minn. 'You just want people to take the card, spend a minute reading it and say, 'Oh. They're not terrorists,'' said 27-year-old Zuleyha who volunteered with her husband Salim for The Islamic Circle of North America's Minnesota chapter's outreach effort. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)AP - Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street.

Earl's biggest damage in Northeast: business (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 04:01 PM PDT

From left in the canoe, Lexi Olson, 12, Petunia the pug, Corey Olsen, 9, and Amber Racette, 13, and in the water, Bennett Hartley, 7, and sister Ella, all of Brewster, Mass., enjoy what the neighborhood jokingly calls 'Lake Leona' after Leona Terrace was flooded by Tropical Storm Earl in Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. According to residents, the road frequently floods during major storms but this is the highest they've seen it. (AP Photo/Julia Cumes)AP - In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note.

Farms being prosecuted for importing Thai workers (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 02:39 PM PDT

AP - Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges — they pleaded guilty — but two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison.

911 calls describe Discovery Channel gunman, IED (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 11:37 PM PDT

AP - A security guard who called 911 after a gunman entered Discovery Channel's headquarters calmly told the operator: "You're probably going to need a sniper."

Body of boxing promoter's son found on Wash. peak (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 03:23 AM PDT

AP - A five-day search for the missing son of top boxing promoter Bob Arum ended when a helicopter located John Arum's body on a rugged Washington state mountain in North Cascades National Park, authorities say.

Calif landfill searched for possible murder victim (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 11:45 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the California Department of Motor vehicles, Cindy Tran is shown. Tran's body was found in Efren Valdemoro's car after a high speed chase that ended with Valdemoro being killed by police at a Richmond, Calif., mall on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 (AP photo/ California Department of Motor vehicles via the San Francisco Chronicle)AP - Authorities searched a Northern California landfill Friday for signs of a missing man authorities said might be a fifth murder victim linked to a suspect who was shot and killed by police after a high-speed chase.

Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 03:11 PM PDT

AP - A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up.

Head of alleged trafficking scheme arrested (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:32 PM PDT

AP - The head of a labor recruiting company accused of exploiting 400 workers from Thailand and forcing them to work on U.S. farms pleaded not guilty Friday, part of what the FBI calls the largest human-trafficking case charged in U.S. history

Backer of NYC mosque gave to Hamas-linked charity (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:20 PM PDT

VIDEO: The proposed construction of a 100-million-dollar, 13-story mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City, has stirred raw emotions in the United States as the country prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Duration: 01:00(afp.com)AP - One of the investors in a proposed Islamic center near ground zero is a Long Island medical clinic owner whose expressions of sympathy for Palestinians included a donation to a charity later shut down for links to Hamas.

2 abortion Drs. ordered to stop after Md. injury (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:27 PM PDT

AP - Maryland health officials have ordered two doctors to stop performing abortions after a woman was critically injured during a procedure last month.

Commercial pilot sentenced for drug-masking powder (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:21 PM PDT

AP - A former US Airways Express pilot will spend nine months in prison for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was "100 percent" effective in helping drug-using truck drivers, pilots and train engineers pass federally mandated drug tests.

What now for Gulf? Fire complicates drill debate (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:24 PM PDT

Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - What now for the Gulf? News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling.

Authorities: Fire at Tenn. mosque site was arson (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 05:37 PM PDT

In a Saturday, Aug. 28. 2010 photo, Rutherford County Sheriff's Office and ATF investigators examine equipment damaged in a fire at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. Authorities told mosque officials that four pieces of heavy construction equipment on the site were doused with an accelerant and one set ablaze, said Camie Ayash, spokeswoman for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. (AP Photo/The Daily News Journal, John A. Gillis)AP - Federal investigators said Friday that a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee was arson and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

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