2010年9月27日星期一

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Some US executions held up by shortage of drug (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - This November 2005 file photo shows the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. How states put condemned inmates to death with drugs could be changing as a shortage of the anesthetic used to render prisoners unconscious extends into 2011, jeopardizing some executions. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - Some executions in the U.S. have been put on hold because of a shortage of one of the drugs used in lethal injections from coast to coast.


Ga. megachurch pastor's flock standing by him (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:13 PM PDT

Bishop Eddie Long, left, embraces a friend, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010, at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta. Long, the pastor of a Georgia megachurch accused of luring young men into sexual relationships, has told his congregation of thousands that all people must face painful and distasteful situations. (AP Photo/John Amis, Pool)AP - Many followers of embattled Baptist megachurch leader Bishop Eddie Long remained unwavering in their support as their pastor vowed to fight like David versus Goliath against claims he lured four young men into sex.


LA teacher who killed himself recalled as caring (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:45 PM PDT

AP - Rigoberto Ruelas Jr. was considered much more than a fifth-grade teacher at Miramonte Elementary School — he was a mentor to youth tempted to join gangs and a tireless booster that kids could make it to college.

Segway owner dies after falling off river cliff (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:17 PM PDT

This undated handout photo issued by Hesco Bastion on Sept. 27, 2010 shows Jimi Heselden, 62, a British businessman who last year bought the company that makes the two-wheeled Segway personal transporter, who has died in an accident on one of the vehicles. Police in West Yorkshire said Monday that James Heselden and a Segway were found in the River Wharfe near Boston Spa, in northern England. Police said a member of the public had reported seeing a man fall over a 30-foot (9-meter) drop into the river on Sunday.    (AP Photo/Andy Paraskos/Hesco/PA Wire) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, UNITED KINGDOM OUT )AP - All police found at the bottom of a cliff was a man's body in a frigid river and a Segway, the two-wheeled electric device that was supposed to revolutionize personal transport.


Md. man charged with slaying other mental patient (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:42 PM PDT

AP - On a medium-security wing at a state mental hospital, El Soundani El-Wahhabi befriended the woman in the room three doors down who, like him, was committed there after a murder trial. He's now accused of killing her.

CA gov delays execution to allow review of appeal (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:51 PM PDT

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at the Commonwealth Club in Santa Clara, Calif., Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Schwarzenegger delayed the state's first execution since 2006 by nearly two days Monday to allow more time for courts to consider the condemned inmate's appeals. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - California's first execution in nearly five years was pushed back almost two days Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to provide more time for the state Supreme Court to consider an appeal by the condemned inmate.


Hearing begins in alleged plot to murder Afghans (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

With a video image of a military courtroom behind her, U.S. Army Maj. Kathy Turner discusses rules for reporters on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. An Article 32 hearing, similar to a grand jury investigation, is being held Monday to determine if there is enough evidence for a court martial for U.S. Army Spec. Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska who is one of five 5th Stryker brigade soldiers accused of killing civilians for sport earlier this year in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - A soldier's videotaped statements describing how he and his colleagues randomly killed three Afghan civilians came under scrutiny Monday at a hearing into one of the most serious war-crimes cases from the war in Afghanistan.


Wis. neighborhood becomes island as levee weakens (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:39 PM PDT

Randy Lloyd, front, and Trevor Hurst drive an all-terrain vehicle out of a flooded area Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, near Portage, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Flood waters from the burgeoning Wisconsin River turned a rural neighborhood into a virtual island Monday, cutting off dozens of homes from the outside world.


Case of Arizona deputy's shooting reopened (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:14 PM PDT

AP - Arizona officials on Monday reopened the investigation into a deputy's explanation of how he was shot in the remote desert south of Phoenix amid speculation it was a hoax timed to enflame the debate over illegal immigration.

Downtown Los Angeles bakes at record 113 degrees (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

People escape the record heat and enjoy the beach in Huntington Beach, Calif., as a heat wave grips Southern California, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010.  (AP Photo/Lori Shepler)AP - California's blistering fall heat wave sent temperatures to an all-time record high of 113 degrees Monday in downtown Los Angeles, and many sought refuge at the beach or in the shade.


Texan imprisoned for child sex assault exonerated (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 24, 2010 file photo, deaf inmate Stephen Brodie uses sign language to answer a question through an interpreter during a jailhouse interview in Dallas.  A judge has set aside the 1993 conviction of Brodie, who was sent to prison for raping a 5-year-old girl despite an absence of physical evidence linking him to the attack.  The district attorney's office supported 39-year-old Stephen Brodie's claim of innocence during a court hearing in Dallas on Monday Sept. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)AP - A judge on Monday overturned the 1993 conviction of a deaf man who was sent to prison for raping a 5-year-old girl despite an absence of physical evidence linking him to the attack.


Philly tow truck driver charged with killing rival (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:44 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Philadelphia Police Department shows tow truck driver Glen McDaniel, 25, who is accused of running over another driver, 30-year-old Ray Santiago, killing him, early Sunday in the parking lot of a bar in the Kensington neighborhood in a dispute over a woman and towing territory. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)AP - Turf wars among tow truck drivers are nothing new in Philadelphia, but they have turned unusually violent — and now deadly — in 2010.


Enraged man kills estranged wife, 4 stepchildren (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:39 PM PDT

Medical examiners remove a body from a crime scene Monday, Sept. 27, 2010 after an overnight murder-suicide that has left six people dead, four of them children ages 10 to 15, in a Riviera Beach, Fla. A South Florida man spared his two biological children when he fatally shot his estranged wife and four stepchildren early Monday before turning the gun on himself, police said.   (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)AP - A man who terrorized his estranged wife for months, threatening her with a knife and telling her she would end up in the morgue, killed the woman and four of his stepchildren during a middle-of-the-night rampage, police said Monday.


Despite economy, Americans don't want farm work (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:21 PM PDT

In this Sept. 24, 2010 photo, Benjamin Reynosa, 49, of Orange Cove, picks table grapes near Fowler, Calif. As the economy tanked over the past two years, the immigration debate has focused on whether immigrants are taking jobs Americans want. Here, amid the sweltering melon fields and vineyards of the nation's top farm state, where one of every eight people is still out of a job, the answer is no.  (AP Photo/Garance Burke)AP - It's a question rekindled by the recession: Are immigrants taking jobs away from American citizens? In the heart of the nation's biggest farming state, the answer is a resounding no.


2nd deadly shooting has Ohio church mourning anew (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:20 PM PDT

AP - A church community haunted by the parking-lot shooting death of an 80-year-old member is mourning the killing of another elderly parishioner minutes after leaving church.

Prosecutors: Fear of jail motivated Tenn. slayings (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT

AP - Jessie Dotson had been out of prison several months when an argument at his brother's house turned violent, authorities said, and he gunned the man down. Desperate not to return to jail, he tried to rid the scene of witnesses — shooting and killing three other adults, then using knives and boards to kill two of his brother's children and seriously injure three others, a prosecutor said at his trial Monday.

'Titanic' co-star Gloria Stuart dies at 100 (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 23, 1998 file photo, actress Gloria Stuart arrives at the 70th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Stuart was nominated for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in the film 'Titanic.'  (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)AP - Gloria Stuart, the 1930s Hollywood beauty who gave up acting for 30 years and later became the oldest Academy Award acting nominee as the spunky survivor in "Titanic," has died. She was 100.


Attorney says 'sexting' Wis. prosecutor to resign (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 14, 2007 file photo, Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz gives closing arguments during a trial at the Calumet County Courthouse in Chilton, Wis. Robert Craanen, the attorney for the Wisconsin prosecutor who acknowledged sending sexually harassing text messages to a domestic abuse victim says Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, that the DA will resign his office, before Oct. 8, the date for a hearing on his possible removal from office. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)AP - A Wisconsin prosecutor facing removal from office over accusations that he abused his position in seeking relationships with vulnerable women will resign instead, his attorney said Monday.


Analysis: Freeze non-renewal bodes ill for talks (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT

Buildings under construction are seen in Naveh, a farming community built by relocated residents from Jewish settlements in Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Settlers uprooted from Gaza are moving into the first independent community established for evacuees after living in temporary caravans since 2005.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)AP - Less than a month after they began, Middle East peace talks are in trouble over Israel's refusal to extend its 10-month-old curbs on new West Bank settlement — in defiance of President Barack Obama's explicit request, delivered last week at the United Nations.


Oil gusher is dead, but not residents' anguish (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:14 PM PDT

In this Sept. 15, 2010 photo, Margaret Carruth sits on the tailgate of her pickup truck going through belongings as she ponders her fate after attending a public hearing to listen concerning BP oil spill claims. Carruth is living in her pickup truck after losing her home in Orange Beach, Ala. after being unable to pay bills after the gulf oil spill.  (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Her income down to virtually nothing because of the BP oil spill, Margaret Carruth put her face in her hands and wept recently at a town hall meeting before walking outside to what passes for home these days, her blue pickup truck.


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