2010年9月16日星期四

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Gunman kills himself, mother at Baltimore hospital (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Members of the Baltimore County SWAT team arrive at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after a man shot and wounded a doctor, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)AP - A man who became distraught as he was being briefed on his mother's condition by a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled a gun and shot the doctor Thursday, then killed his mother and himself in her room at the world-famous medical center, police said.

Police say Wash. acid attack self-inflicted (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 05:06 PM PDT

AP - A woman who gained sympathy worldwide after she claimed a random assailant threw acid on her face came forward Thursday with startling admission: She inflicted the attack on herself.

After blast, states wait to act on aging gas lines (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:54 PM PDT

Officials walk past the remains of homes damaged from a fire caused by an explosion in a mostly residential area in San Bruno, Calif., Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. The explosion prompted California regulators to order the utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, to survey all its natural gas lines in the state in hopes of heading off another disaster. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - Some of Pennsylvania's natural gas pipelines are 120 years old. Portions of lines also date to the 1800s in Massachusetts. And hundreds of miles in New York state are made of leak-prone cast iron.

Brief but strong storm sweeps through NYC; 1 dead (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Residents in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York circle around a car crushed by a fallen tree, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A brief but severe storm has swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - A fast-moving storm packing winds of up to 100 mph ripped through the city Thursday, knocking down trees and power lines, tearing off roofs in one Brooklyn neighborhood and leaving one person dead.

A week without Facebook? Pa. college tries it out (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 01:13 PM PDT

People walk past the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology building, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010, in Harrisburg, Pa. Students and staff at the university are experimenting with shutting off Facebook, Twitter and a host of other social networks while on campus. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)AP - A central Pennsylvania technological college with fewer students than many Facebook users have friends is blacking out social media for a week.

Report: Fracking chemicals in NE Pa. water wells (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:52 PM PDT

AP - A private consulting firm says it found toxic chemicals in the drinking water of a Pennsylvania community already dealing with methane contamination from natural gas drilling.

Grim photos dominate Conn. home invasion trial (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 02:50 PM PDT

This July 2007 police photo released Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2010 by the Connecticut Judicial Branch as evidence in the Steven Hayes trial in New Haven, Conn., Superior Court, shows the charred bedroom of Hayley Petit, one of the victims killed during a home invasion July 23, 2007, In Cheshire, Conn. (AP Photo/Connecticut Judicial Branch)AP - Prosecutors showed jurors grim photos Thursday of rope used to tie up victims, ripped clothing and ransacked rooms in a suburban home invasion that began with the suspects trailing a mother and her two girls at a supermarket and ended with their deaths.

Police: Texas mayor shot daughter well before self (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

AP - The mayor of the affluent Dallas suburb of Coppell found dead in July had shot her 19-year-old daughter in the back of the head, then waited as long as a day before killing herself, according to documents released by police Thursday.

FBI scours northern Vt. for missing woman, 78 (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 03:23 PM PDT

A resident picks up mail at the window surrounded by missing posters in Sheffield, Vt., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010. Vermont State Police investigators say they believe a missing 78-year-old woman was abducted from her Sheffield home. Speaking at a Tuesday news conference in St. Johnsbury, police wouldn't say what led them to believe Pat O'Hagan was abducted sometime late Friday. Police have asked the FBI to get involved in the search. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - FBI agents, police and volunteers in helicopters, on horseback and along remote roads scoured northern Vermont on Thursday for a spunky 78-year-old grandmother who authorities believe was abducted from her home in a town so small it has no stores and no stoplights.

Police: Man who stabbed dean targeted Mo. gov. (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:44 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Kansas City Police Dept. shows Casey Brezik, who was charged with two counts each of first-degree assault and armed criminal action for stabbing the dean of instruction at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City. (AP Photo/Kansas City Police Dept.)AP - A man accused of stabbing a Kansas City college official intended to instead attack Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and mistakenly believed he had done so, police said Thursday.

Pfizer seeking to boost animal health sales (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 02:13 PM PDT

AP - PET MEDS: Giant drugmaker Pfizer Inc. is mining the growing market for medicines for pets and livestock with multiple efforts to boost revenue.

Final well sealing small comfort to Gulf residents (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:03 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 13, 2010, fisherman Donald Johnfroe lights a cigarette near an empty seafood scale at his cousin's seafood stand in Golden Meadow, La. Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the fourth-generation fisherman has had to fall back on his welding experience to secure odd jobs at a shipyard as demand for locally-caught shrimp has dropped. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - News that BP's busted well will probably be sealed once and for all this weekend brings little comfort to many along the Gulf Coast who are still paying dearly for the high-seas mistakes of the company and its partners.

Evacuations ended as crews slow wildfire's advance (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 03:54 PM PDT

AP - Fire officials have called off evacuation orders after a fierce air and ground attack helped them slow the advance of a nearly 13-square-mile forest fire in the southern Sierra Nevada.

Price may drop at 2nd auction of Philly newspapers (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:04 PM PDT

AP - The price of newspapers appears to be falling in Philadelphia.

Schwarzenegger tours Calif. gas line blast site (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 09:19 PM PDT

Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger looks at the damage at the site of a pipeline explosion in San Bruno, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 that exploded last Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Fresh off a weeklong trade mission to Asia, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday made his first official stop at the site of a massive gas line explosion in a San Francisco suburb.

Miss. judge frees 2 men wrongly jailed 30 years (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 11:28 AM PDT

AP - A judge on Thursday freed two men who spent three decades in prison before DNA evidence showed they didn't rape a woman and cut her throat in a grisly 1979 attack.

Discovery hostages tell Oprah Winfrey about ordeal (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 11:14 AM PDT

This photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 and released by Harpo Productions, Inc., shows talk-show host Oprah Winfrey interviewing Chris Wood, left, and Jim McNulty, two of the three hostages who were held at gunpoint inside Discovery Communications headquarters two weeks ago, during taping of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' in Chicago. The show will air nationally on Thursday, Sept. 16. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, Inc., George Burns) **N0 SALES**AP - Two employees of Discovery Communications described to Oprah Winfrey for her show on Thursday how they were taken hostage after walking into the company's headquarters near Washington and finding a gunman who had them lie on the marble floor.

Fort Hood shooting suspect's hearing to be open (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 10:32 AM PDT

FILE - This 2000 file picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he was a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Hasan's defense attorney said Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010, the media and others should not be allowed to hear testimony next month from about three dozen survivors of last year's Fort Hood shooting rampage because his client will be unable to get a fair trial. Defense attorney John Galligan said he has requested that the Oct. 12 Article 32 hearing, similar to a civilian grand jury proceeding, be closed 'to all spectators.' The issue is to be addressed at Fort Hood during a hearing Thursday. Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 shooting at Fort Hood. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, File)AP - A military officer on Thursday rejected a defense request to keep an upcoming hearing about last year's Fort Hood massacre closed, saying the public and the victims' families have a right to hear testimony from those affected by the attack.

NY woman's mom: Craigslist slaying 'destroyed' her (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 04:23 PM PDT

Carmen Guzman, mother of Julissa Brisman, reacts after a family friend read a victim impact statement in Boston, Thursday, September 16, 2010. Philip Markoff, the former Boston University medical student, was accused of killing Julissa Brisman last year. Due to the death of Philip Markoff, authorities have dropped the charges against Markoff. An undated photograph of Julissa Brisman is seen at right. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - A Boston University medical student who police said killed a masseuse he met through Craigslist and later committed suicide in jail was a "monster" who "can never escape God's justice," the victim's mother said Thursday.

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