2010年9月25日星期六

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Abbas says settlements block Mideast peace deal (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:49 PM PDT

Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, at United Nations headquarters.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday there will be no peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state stops settlement construction in areas the Palestinians claim for their future state.


Newark hopes Facebook gift translates to results (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 10:26 AM 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 - New Jersey has already thrown enough money at its largest school district to make it among the nation's best-funded, yet it remains in the pits. Can a $100 million gift from the founder of Facebook really turn it around?


Some churches like Ga. pastor's thin on safeguards (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 08:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 18 2007 file photo, Bishop Eddie Long, of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in Lithonia, Ga. gestures during an interview in Lithonia. Two men on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 filed a lawsuit accusing Long of exploiting his role as pastor of an Atlanta-area megachurch to coerce them into sexual relationships when they were members of his congregation. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)AP - The 2006 scandal that ousted one of America's most prominent preachers forced independent charismatic and evangelical churches to consider how to keep a closer eye on their leaders, an issue raised again this week with lawsuits accusing another megachurch pastor of misconduct.


Lindsay Lohan spends less than a day in LA jail (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:15 PM PDT

Lindsay Lohan arrives for a hearing at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in Beverly Hills, Calif., Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)AP - Lindsay Lohan was freed from a suburban Los Angeles jail late Friday night, well short of the nearly monthlong stay a judge had intended for the actress following a failed drug test.


5 shot at party near Seton Hall in NJ; 1 killed (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:19 PM PDT

AP - A man who was denied access to a private party at an apartment near Seton Hall University left and returned with a handgun, fatally shooting a university student and wounding four people, sending screaming partygoers rushing out the door and climbing out windows.

Cross-country paddler completes 4,300-mile trip (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 01:13 PM PDT

AP - An extreme paddler who launched a cross-country canoe trip in Portland, Ore., has completed the journey 4,300 miles later in Portland, Maine.

Hermit monks plan monastery on remote Wyo. ranch (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 11:14 AM PDT

In this Aug. 26, 2010 photo, rancher Dave Grabbert stands on the 2,500-acre ranch in northern Wyoming that he wants to sell to a Carmelite monk order's foundation. The monks want to build a 145,000-square-foot monastery, which would be located at the foot of the mountain pictured behind Grabbert. A few neighboring ranchers have objected to the plan, citing concerns about traffic, water and wildlife and whether the monastery would fit in with the rural landscape. (AP Photo/Bob Moen)AP - Plans by a group of Roman Catholic hermit monks to erect an outsized monastery in northern Wyoming have pitted neighbor against neighbor and aroused debate with religious undertones.


Jumbo emerald at center of ownership debate (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 01:14 AM 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 - An enormous emerald valued at upward of $400 million is at the center of a legal battle to determine ownership of the gem that was unearthed almost a decade ago in the jungles in eastern Brazil.


BP fund czar promises bigger, faster claims (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2010 file photo, Gulf Coast Claims Facility Administrator Ken Feinberg speaks at the fall board meeting of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association in Orlando, Fla. Victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should start getting bigger payments faster, Feinberg, the administrator of the fund set up to help them, said Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)AP - Victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should start getting bigger payments faster, the administrator of the fund set up to help them said Saturday.


ND police chief, ex-judge charged in abuse case (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 02:32 AM PDT

In this photo provided Sept. 24, 2010, by the Mercer County Sheriff's Department  is Randall Hoffman. Hoffman, the Elgin, N.D., Police Chief and a former state district judge was charged by authorities Friday, Sept. 24, 2010,  with 52 felonies accusing him of molesting and attempting to rape of a young girl over the course of about five years. Hoffman, 55, is accused of having sexual contact with the girl beginning in 2005, when she was 12 or 13 years old, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint alleges Hoffman 'engaged in at least 50 sexual acts' with the girl from August 2008 until this month, then attempted to rape her Wednesday.  (AP Photo/Mercer County Sheriff)AP - A North Dakota police chief and former state district judge has been charged with 52 felonies accusing him of molesting and attempting to rape a girl over the course of about five years, authorities said Friday.


Lehman Brothers art auctioned off in NYC (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:17 PM PDT

AP - Lehman Brothers may have blundered its way to disaster on Wall Street, but at least the bank's art curators knew what they were doing.

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

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:22 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 suspected 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.


Flood fight continues in parts of Minn., Wis. (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:17 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 - With 240 guests expected, Luke Fischer and Rachel Smith weren't about to let the widespread flooding in southern Minnesota get in the way of their wedding Saturday.


Official: Shooter may have targeted Neb. workers (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 10:26 AM 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 - Three employees wounded in a shooting this week at a cold-storage warehouse in southeast Nebraska don't appear to be random victims, a prosecutor said Saturday.


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

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 06:24 PM PDT

Supporters of anti-war activists whose homes were raided by FBI agents gathered, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 in Minneapolis. The FBI searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago on Friday. Warrants suggest they're looking for connections between local anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)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.


APNewsBreak: Remains identified as missing NM pair (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 07:53 PM PDT

AP - A New Mexico family finally has a small bit of closure with confirmation that skeletal remains found at El Malpais National Monument were their loved ones, but mystery lingers over how they died on a day hike among the rugged lava beds where five other people have gone missing in recent years.

Judge orders lesbian reinstated to Air Force (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:28 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.


Lawyer questions CA execution set before election (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:13 PM PDT

In this June 2007 photo released by the California Department of Corrections is condemned inmate Albert Greenwood Brown. Brown is scheduled to die at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., 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/California Department of Corrections)AP - San Quentin Prison's warden walked to the death row cell of Albert Greenwood Brown on Aug. 31 and read a warrant informing him of his scheduled execution this week.


Court appearance set Wednesday in acid hoax case (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT

AP - A prosecutor in Washington state says a woman who falsely claimed a stranger threw acid in her face will appear in court Wednesday.

Cast of Lady Liberty's nose unsold at NYC auction (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:38 AM PDT

AP - Lady Liberty has been jilted at an auction of iconic items in New York City.
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