2010年9月24日星期五

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Judge orders lesbian reinstated to Air Force (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:49 PM PDT

Margaret Witt talks to reporters at the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash., Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. A federal judge ruled Friday that Witt, a flight nurse discharged from the Air Force for being gay, should be given her job back as soon as possible. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - A federal judge ruled Friday that a decorated flight nurse discharged from the Air Force for being gay should be given her job back as soon as possible in the latest legal setback to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

FBI serves terrorism warrants in Minn., Chicago (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:47 PM PDT

AP - The FBI said it searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago as part of a terrorism investigation Friday. Warrants suggest agents were looking for connections between local anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Middle East.

Dry day gives flood fighters break in Minn., Wis. (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:50 PM PDT

Floodwaters partially submerge vehicles in a used car lot in Owatonna, Minn. on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Marlin Levison)AP - Cindy Dorsey has lived near the Straight River in southern Minnesota for 15 years and never laid a sandbag before Friday.

Judge clears way for 1st Calif execution since '06 (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:17 PM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010, the death chamber of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. Death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown is scheduled to die at San Quentin on Sept. 29 for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Riverside County girl abducted on her way home from school in 1980.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - A federal judge cleared the way Friday for California's first execution in nearly five years, citing the state's efforts to revise its lethal injection procedure and a Supreme Court ruling making it more difficult for condemned inmates to delay their death.

Fla. bank robbers strap bomb to abducted teller (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:01 PM PDT

Authorities surround a Bank of America where a robbery may have turned into a hostage situation in Coral Gables, Fla. on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Coral Gables police were called to the bank near the University of Miami. The university sent an alert to students warning them to stay away from the area near the bank. Administrators reported the incident as a hostage situation. (AP Photo/Edouard H.R. Gluck)AP - Bank robbers pulled off a dramatic heist Friday, strapping a bomb to a teller and ordering him to steal as much money as he could grab from the vault — all while his father was being held hostage.

Michigan wife charged in lawyer-husband's death (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:53 PM PDT

This Sept. 22, 2010 photo released by the Farmington Hills, Mich., Police Department shows Laura Johnson, 46, accused of killing her husband Lloyd Johnson, a prominent suburban Detroit lawyer. She was arraigned Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, in Farmington Hills District Court on second-degree murder and other charges. Police say they found suspected human tissue, scalpels and bloody bedding in the couple’s home. (AP Photos/Farmington Hills Police Department)AP - The wife of a dead lawyer was charged with murder Friday after police recovered suspected human tissue, scalpels and bloody bedding from their suburban Detroit home — items the woman's mother insists are related to her husband's treatment for a chronic open wound.

Newark mayor's crime-fighting led to $100M gift (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:36 PM PDT

DILE - In this May, 26, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the social network site's new privacy settings in Palo Alto, Calif. Schools in New Jersey's largest city are poised to receive $100 million Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, from the founder of Facebook. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)AP - Just two months ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was at a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, and found himself seated at dinner with Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

Democrats eye Texas gov.'s office amid tight polls (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:41 AM PDT

In this Sept. 22, 2010 photo, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White talks to high school students in San Antonio. People tell Bill White he picked the wrong election to stage a rescue of the troubled Texas Democratic Party. It's a Republican year in a Republican state. But the former Houston mayor has recently closed within striking distance of longtime Republican Gov. Rick Perry, riding the same anti-incumbent fervor that threatens to upend the Democratic-controlled Congress. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - People tell Bill White he picked the wrong election to stage a rescue of the troubled Texas Democratic Party. It's a Republican year in a Republican state.

Eddie Fisher dies at age of 82 (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:04 PM PDT

**CORRECTS FISHER'S AGE AT DEATH TO 82** FILE - In this 1959 file photo, actress Elizabeth Taylor is seen with singer Eddie Fisher before their marriage. Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, died Wednesday night Sept. 22, 2010 of complications from hip surgery at a hospital in Berkeley. He was 82. (AP Photo/File)AP - Long before the era of Brangelina, TMZ and around-the-clock celebrity obsession, Eddie Fisher had a leading role in arguably the most explosive sex scandal of Hollywood's golden age.

APNewsBreak: 4th man sues Ga. megachurch pastor (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:01 PM PDT

FILE -In this Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 file photo, Bishop Eddie Long speaks during a funeral service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga. Long, the pastor of a nationally known Atlanta-area megachurch will wait until Sunday services to speak publicly about claims he has already denied that he coerced young men into sex. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)AP - A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship.

Judge halts criminal proceedings against Garrido (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:02 PM PDT

Susan Gellman, the court appointed attorney for Phillip Garrido, tallks with reporters after a hearing at the El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 Judge Douglas C. Phimister has suspended the trial against Garrido, expressing concerns over unresponsive behavior during earlier hearings, and is considering appointing a independent expert to evaluate Garrido's mental capacity to stand trail. Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy, face multiple charges related to the 1991 kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Dugard, (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - A judge temporarily suspended criminal proceedings Friday against the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard when she was a child and holding her prisoner for 18 years, citing worries about the defendant's mental state.

Wis. regulators reopen 'sexting DA' investigation (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:38 PM PDT

AP - An agency that declined to discipline a prosecutor for sending harassing text messages to a domestic abuse victim reopened its investigation Friday amid mounting criticism and new allegations of misconduct.

LA judge weighs ownership of jumbo emerald (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:02 PM PDT

FILE - This 2008 file photo provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows the so-called Bahia Emerald. The curious case of an enormous emerald is destined for a Los Angeles courtroom Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 when a judge will try to determine precisely who owns it. Dug up in Brazil in 2001 and tipping the scales at 840 pounds, the boulder-sized Bahia Emerald is one of the largest gems ever discovered. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, File)AP - One of several people claiming ownership of an 840-pound emerald told a judge Friday that he is the legal owner of the gigantic gem after paying just $60,000 for it soon after it was unearthed in Brazil.

Neb. shooting suspect was Sudanese war refugee (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:02 PM PDT

Employees of Americold Logistics are seen outside the plant in Crete, Neb. on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Saline County Attorney Tad Eickman said Thursday that the gunman at the plant near Crete was 26-year-old Akouch Kashoual of Lincoln. Eickman said Kashoual entered the lunchroom at the Americold Logistics plant around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday and began firing a handgun. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - The 26-year-old man who authorities say shot three co-workers at a Nebraska cold-storage plant before killing himself was "a good kid" who had fled the war in southern Sudan with his family, his brother said Friday.

Freed US hiker meets with president of Iran (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans arrested and imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges after violating its borders, listens during an interview in New York, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Shourd was released Sept. 14, but her fiancé Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal remain in Tehran’s Evin Prison. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans arrested last year while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border, met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday to plead for the release of her still-imprisoned fiance and their friend.

NYC police: Hair found in slain diplomat's hands (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:24 PM PDT

In this May 28, 2009 image released by Nicaragua's Vice President's Office on Sept. 23, 2010, Nicaraguan diplomat Cesar Mercado, attends a meeting in Managua, Nicaragua. Mercado, 34, the acting consul general at the Nicaraguan consulate, was found dead Thursday Sept. 23, 2010 with his throat slashed in his apartment and a knife by his side, hours before he was to attend the United Nations General Assembly's annual meeting, officials said. (AP Photo/Nicaraguan Vice President Office, Guillermo Hernandez)AP - A Nicaraguan diplomat found dead in his apartment was grasping hair in both hands that investigators were analyzing and at least some of his wounds appeared to have been self-inflicted, police said Friday.

Pioneering black physician to be honored in NYC (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:38 AM PDT

Antoinette Martignoni, left, and her granddaughter Greta Blau hold a family Bible that contains the name of their ancestor, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation's first African American physician at Martignoni's home in Fairfield, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - He couldn't go to medical school in New York, so James McCune Smith went to Scotland for his degree and returned home to treat the city's poor.

Fire accelerant found on 2 home invasion victims (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:28 PM PDT

This July 2007 police photo released Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 by the Connecticut Judicial Branch as evidence in the Steven Hayes trial in New Haven, Conn., Superior Court, shows restraints used on Jennifer Hawke-Petit, according to testimony by Dr. Susan Williams, associate medical examiner. Hawke-Petit was one of the victims killed in a Chershire, Conn., home invasion on July 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Connecticut Judicial Branch)AP - Flammable liquid was spilled on or around two girls in their bedrooms before they died with their mother in a Connecticut home invasion, a fire investigator testified Friday.

Va. puts woman to death; rare US female execution (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:49 AM PDT

Death penalty protestors hold signs as they protest the execution of Teresa Lewis outside the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Teresa Lewis was executed and pronounced dead at 9:13 p.m. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Teresa Lewis spent the last days before her execution as she had spent one side of her life — singing hymns and praying. That devotion to Christianity, by her own admission, was countered by outrageous bouts of sex and betrayal.

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