2010年9月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Study: Teacher bonuses fail to boost test scores (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:33 PM PDT

AP - Offering big bonuses to teachers failed to raise students' test scores in a three-year study released Tuesday that calls into question the Obama administration's push for merit pay to improve education.

Jackson Jr. denies report about Blagojevich funds (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2006 file picture, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., speaks at a news conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. denied allegations Tuesday that he directed a businessman to offer former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in exchange for being appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.

Man pleads guilty to murder in NJ school killings (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

AP - A suspect in the execution-style killings of three college students in a New Jersey schoolyard in 2007 pleaded guilty Tuesday, days before his trial was set to begin.

Fla. dad sorry for storming school bus, threats (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:01 PM PDT

James Willie Jones, center, and his wife Deborah McFadden-Jones, right, along with their attorney, Natalie Jackson talk to reporters at the Spirit of Truth Worship Ministries in Lake Mary, Fla.,Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. James Willie Jones spoke about the events that transpired on a public school bus involving his disabled daughter on Sept. 3, 2010. (Photo/Reinhold Matay)AP - A father tearfully apologized Tuesday for acting like a bully himself when he stormed onto a school bus to confront students he believed were harassing his 13-year-old daughter who has cerebral palsy.

Body of Texas man recovered as rain finally eases (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:39 PM PDT

Gus Lopez checks one of his vehicles as the water begins to recede in the Las Colonias Subdivision in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. He has lived in the neighborhood for the last ten years and said this is the third time it's flooded and water has come into him home. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Rachel Denny Clow)AP - Storms partly fueled by Hurricane Karl finally began weakening along the Texas coast on Tuesday after dumping more than 10 inches of rain, and authorities found the body of driver who had been swept away by floods.

Firefighters in Utah race to beat wildfire, winds (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 10:42 AM PDT

Family members walk past the smoldering remains of Val Johnson's house after a fire swept through the hills of Herriman, Utah the night before, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. The fire which was started at a machine gun shooting range at Utah National Guard Camp Williams caused more than 1600 homes to be evacuated. (AP Photo/George Frey)AP - The National Guard joined forces with firefighters again Tuesday to battle a fast-moving, wind-driven blaze that the guard ignited during a machine-gun training exercise.

APNewsBreak: 3rd woman says Wis. DA harassed her (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:34 PM PDT

AP - A law student said Tuesday that a Wisconsin prosecutor accused of abusing his power to seek relationships with two other women also sent her sexually harassing text messages in 2008 while helping her seek a pardon for a drug conviction.

Ex-city manager among 8 arrested in Calif. scandal (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:39 PM PDT

Jose Magallon applauds as residents of the city of Bell, Calif., celebrate the arrest of former city officials on corruption charges, outside City Hall Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - The mayor and former city manager of Bell were led away in handcuffs Tuesday, charged with six other officials with taking more than $5.5 million from the working-class suburb in a scandal that triggered nationwide outrage and calls for more transparency in government.

Detroit interim police chief's job made permanent (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:44 PM PDT

AP - Mayor Dave Bing on Tuesday named the city's interim police chief to the role permanently, saying the new chief has shown he can "deliver the results" the city deserves.

Ex-girlfriend says Ind. teen idolized TV killer (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:44 PM PDT

Andrew Conley is led into an Ohio County courtroom after a lunch break for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 in Rising Sun, Ind. The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to murder Monday in the death of his brother, avoiding a jury trial. (AP Photo/David Kohl)AP - An Indiana teenager who pleaded guilty to murder confided that he wanted to be just like the TV serial killer Dexter a few weeks before he strangled his 10-year-old brother, his ex-girlfriend testified Tuesday.

Ohio exotic dancer indicted in dragging death (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:36 PM PDT

AP - An exotic dancer was indicted Tuesday on murder and other charges in the death of a man authorities say she dragged over a mile under her SUV.

Mourners remember slain NC woman's smile, jokes (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:56 PM PDT

Michael Harvey, center, appears in front of a judge with his public defender Michael White, left, in Niagara County Court in Lockport, N.Y., Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Harvey waived extradition and is wanted on a murder warrant in the killing of Valerie Hamilton, a preschool teacher and swim instructor whose body was found in a Charlotte self-storage unit on Saturday. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)AP - The man accused of killing a police chief's daughter and dumping her body in a self-storage unit said Tuesday he would not fight his return to North Carolina, as mourners in her hometown remembered her smile and penchant for making people laugh.

Republican's financial woes recast Ga. race (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2010 file photo, Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former Governor Roy Barnes speaks during a forum in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton, File)AP - In a Republican-leaning state in what's shaping up as a Republican year, Nathan Deal was seen as a pretty sure bet to become Georgia's next governor.

AP Investigation: Calif. pension bonuses examined (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:59 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 13, 2010, California Public Employees Retirement System board member Tony Olivera, left, confers with board Vice President and George Diehr, right, during a CalPERS meeting in Sacramento, Calif. Both men severed on the CalPERS performance and compensation committee which doled out six-figure bonuses and substantial raises to its top employees, while its investment portfolio was losing nearly a quarter of it's value.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - As its investment portfolio was losing nearly a quarter of its value, the country's largest public pension fund doled out six-figure bonuses and substantial raises to its top employees, an analysis by The Associated Press has found.

Ga. execution delayed after suicide attempt (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:52 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows inmate Brandon Rhode. The Georgia death row inmate scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the 1998 triple murders of a trucking company owner and his two children has been transferred to an outside hospital hours before he was to be put to death. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sharmelle Brooks said 31-year-old Brandon Joseph Rhode was transferred to the hospital Tuesday morning after 'an incident ocurred with him this morning.' She did not elaborate on what took place or where he was taken. She said she was uncertain whether the incident will delay his execution. (AP Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections)AP - The Georgia Supreme Court delayed the execution Tuesday of a convicted killer who attempted suicide hours before he was to be put to death by injection.

Police: Indiana kids died after 10 hours in closet (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:32 PM PDT

AP - A woman charged in the deaths of two of her children allegedly locked them and three siblings inside a small closet and left to visit a friend, returning about 10 hours later to find the boy and girl dead inside.

SC prisons brace for lawsuit over inmates with HIV (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:17 PM PDT

AP - South Carolina prison officials say they have no plans to stop segregating HIV-positive inmates despite the threat of a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department.

Obama's aunt says US obligated to make her citizen (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in her home in Boston. In her first interview since being granted asylum, Onyango said the the United States has an 'obligation' to grant her citizenship. 'If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen,' Zeituni Onyango told WBZ-TV in an interview that first aired Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)AP - President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston before being granted asylum in May, said the United States has an "obligation" to grant her citizenship.

Kan. airman with HIV charged with assault for sex (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 10:33 AM PDT

AP - An airman in Kansas has been charged with assault and related crimes for having unprotected sex without telling his partners he was HIV positive, the Air Force said Tuesday.

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