2010年9月14日星期二

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American woman freed by Iran after bail deal (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:02 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP OF CAI103 ** Sarah Shourd, 32, of the U.S., right, embraces her mother Nora Shourd, left, on Sarah Shourd's arrival at the royal airport in Muscat, Oman, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, after leaving Tehran, Iran. The American woman released by Iran on Tuesday after more than a year in prison said she was grateful to Iran's president for her freedom shortly before she boarded a flight to the Gulf sultanate of Oman where her mother greeted her with a warm embrace. (AP Photo/Sultan al-Hasani)AP - In just a few dizzying hours, American Sarah Shourd exchanged a cell in Tehran's Evin Prison for a private jet crossing the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, after an apparent diplomatic deal to cover a $500,000 bail and secure a release that seemed in jeopardy from the start.

Years after floods, homeowners await FEMA buyouts (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:14 PM PDT

In this Aug. 18, 2010 photo, Kellie DeVault looks over a flood-damaged basement in Greenwood, Ind. DeVault and her family are moving out of the damaged home and are seeking a buyout for the damaged property. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Karen Niece loves her idyllic bungalow in the Indiana countryside, but when storms dumped nearly a foot of rain on her 19-acre property in 2008, flash floods left mold in the foundation — and gave Niece a lung infection she will have the rest of her life.

Working while sick? Study finds even doctors do it (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:33 PM PDT

AP - Junior doctors quickly learn that exposure to patients' germs is part of the job, but a study suggests many are returning the favor. More than half of doctors in training said in a survey that they'd shown up sick to work, and almost one-third said they'd done it more than once.

New rules slow Gulf drilling pace in shallow water (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Sept. 2, 2010, boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. All 13 crew members were rescued. America's ban on offshore drilling was meant only for the deep water, yet rules created in the wake of the BP disaster appear to have halted numerous projects at safer depths where most of the industry works. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)AP - The drilling moratorium enacted after the BP oil spill applies only to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Yet energy exploration in the Gulf's shallow waters has come to a virtual standstill as drillers grapple with tougher federal rules since the spill.

Jimmy Carter: NKorea requested prisoner mission (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:50 PM PDT

AP - Former President Jimmy Carter says North Korean officials asked him to travel to the peninsula to secure the release of an American prisoner.

Progress made on Colorado blaze as winds return (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:28 PM PDT

A slurry bomber drops retardant on a burning ridge as the sun sets behind it as a wildfire burns west of Loveland, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Firefighters were trying to gain ground on a wildfire in the northern Colorado foothills Tuesday ahead of strong winds expected to move in, potentially spreading the flames.

NAACP backs pardon for 2 serving life for robbery (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:05 PM PDT

AP - The head of the NAACP urged Mississippi's governor on Tuesday to pardon two black women who are serving life in prison for their role in an $11 armed robbery.

6 hurt in explosion at Tenn. plant making flares (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:44 PM PDT

AP - A fire was still burning Thursday afternoon after an explosion injured six workers at a manufacturing plant in southwestern that makes flares for the military.

Latinos could be key in Chicago's mayoral race (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this photo taken Oct. 13, 2009, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., speaks at a rally for immigration reform on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Chicago's burgeoning Latino population finds itself in position to be a deciding factor in the race to choose who will run the nation's third-largest city, since Mayor Richard M. Daley announced he would not seek a seventh term. Several Latino leaders are toying with a run: City Clerk Miguel del Valle, born in Puerto Rico, was the first to declare his intentions, and U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, whose family is Puerto Rican, says he's leaning toward it. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - Two days after Mayor Richard M. Daley announced he wouldn't seek a seventh term, a group of Latino activists pondered an idea that seemed implausible the last time Chicago chose a new leader: An outcome decided by Latinos.

Boeing tearing down historic Plant 2 (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:47 AM PDT

In this 1942 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, B-17E Flying Fortress airplanes are shown being built at Boeing's historic 'Plant 2' in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)AP - The dilapidated factory that helped make Seattle a high-tech town is being demolished after 75 years, a casualty of time, technology and tails that grew too tall.

Aging gas pipes at risk of explosion nationwide (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:46 AM PDT

Residents aboard a school bus are given a tour of a burned down neighborhood damaged by a gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, Calif., Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.

Detained Americans' families relieved, heartbroken (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 09:07 AM PDT

FILE - This file photo taken May 20, 2010, shows Sarah Shourd at a hotel in Tehran, Iran. On Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, Iran's English language state television has reported that American Sarah Shourd has been released after more than a year in prison. 'Iran has released US national Sarah Shourd,' flashed the red colored urgent banner on Press TV Tuesday. (AP Photo/Press TV, File)AP - The families of three Americans detained in Iran say they're relieved one woman has been released, but heartbroken her two friends remain in custody.

Blagojevich asks judge to nullify conviction (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2010 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks to members of the media at the federal building in Chicago after a jury found him guilty of one count of lying to federal agents. Jurors only managed to convict the ex-governor on one of 24 counts. In a motion filed late Monday, Sept. 13, 2010, Blagojevich's defense lawyers called on trial Judge James Zagel to override the jury's decision and acquit Blagojevich of lying to the FBI. At right is his wife Patti. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has asked a judge to nullify the lone conviction in his mostly deadlocked corruption trial, saying the jury's decision was underpinned by errors at trial and misconduct by prosecutors.

Lawsuit on Obama health plan likely going to trial (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 12:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2010 file photo, Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, is interviewed by the Associated Press at the White House in Washington. When a government report found that President Barack Obama's health overhaul would modestly raise the nation's total health care tab, the White House responded with a statistic suggesting costs would go down. Health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle wrote on the White House blog last week that the same government report indicates spending per insured person will be more than $1,000 lower in 2019 because of the law — some 9 percent below previous projections. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A federal judge said Tuesday he will likely dismiss only parts of a lawsuit by 20 states challenging the Obama administration's health care overhaul as unconstitutional, though he didn't specifically say what portions.

Conn. family hopes to solve cruise disappearance (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 01:33 PM PDT

FILE - This July 5, 205 file photo provided by the Smith family, shows George Allen Smith IV and his wife, Jennifer Hagel Smith. The family of the Connecticut man who disappeared from his honeymoon cruise in 2005 says an amended settlement with the cruise line could help solve the mystery of what happened to him. The family says the amended US$1.3 million settlement reached Tuesday requires the cruise line to turn over witness statements and other information from its investigation. Their lawyers say the FBI recently reaffirmed that its criminal investigation is still open and active. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Smith Family, File) NO SALESAP - The parents of a Connecticut man who disappeared from his honeymoon cruise in 2005 say an amended settlement with the cruise line could help solve the mystery of what happened to him.

Judge weighs gov't terror case witness testimony (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:00 PM PDT

In this photo reviewed by US military officials, a member of the US military mans one of the guard posts at sunrise at Camp Delta, part of the US Detention Center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, March 2010. The Pentagon Friday issued new ground rules for media coverage of the prison and trials at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, creating an appeals process in the event of a dispute.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - A Tanzanian man who admitted he provided explosives used in attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa wanted to "clear his heart" by testifying against the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court, an FBI agent said Tuesday.

NJ dad pleads not guilty in baby's bridge death (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 01:52 PM PDT

Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem sits beside his attorney Richard Klein, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, while being arraigned by Judge Frederick DeVesa in State Superior Court in New Brunswick, NJ. Prosecutors say Abdur-Raheem parked along the shoulder of the Garden State Parkway and threw or dropped his 3-month-old baby off the Driscoll Bridge in February. Zara Malani-Lin Abdur-Raheem's body was found along the banks of the Raritan River in April. (AP Photo/Jason Towlen, Pool)AP - A New Jersey father accused of tossing his 3-month-old daughter to her death off a bridge pleaded not guilty Tuesday, as a judge ordered him to have no further contact with the child's mother.

US man's healing prompts Newman's beatification (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 09:16 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 8, 2010, Jack Sullivan, of Marshfield, Mass., stands for a portrait near a cross in his home in Marshfield. Sullivan, whose case has become central in the planned beatification of 19th century Catholic Cardinal John Henry Newman, of England, claiming he made a miraculous recovery after praying to Newman following surgery on his spine. Newman plans to attend the beatification in England on Sept. 19 where Pope Benedict XVI is to preside. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - The pain overwhelmed every drug Jack Sullivan's doctors gave him to fight it, coursing through his back in vicious bursts that made sleep impossible.

Ex-Hartford, Conn., mayor gets 3 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 12:48 PM PDT

Former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez listens to the state prosecutor describe the sentence he would recommend for the former mayor, during his sentencing at Hartford Superior Court in Hartford, Conn., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010. Prosecutors say Perez accepted $40,000 in home improvements as a bribe from a contractor who wanted to keep a $2.4 million city contract. They say he also tried to extort $100,000 from a developer for a political ally. He is appealing his conviction. (AP Photo/Stephen Dunn, Pool)AP - A judge on Tuesday sentenced former Mayor Eddie Perez to three years in prison for taking a bribe and attempted extortion, saying he must be held accountable for his actions despite his good deeds.

Feds seek to halt inmate's frequent lawsuits (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 12:55 PM PDT

AP - A federal inmate who has filed more than 3,800 lawsuits and targeted the famous, the infamous and even the long-dead is now being sued by federal officials who want him to knock it off.

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