2010年10月7日星期四

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Lawyers compete for big payoff, control in BP case (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 12:42 PM PDT

FILE - In a Aug. 15, 2002 file photo, attorney Ron Motley of Charleston, S.C., meets reporters in Washington. About a dozen attorneys will be given a giant task and the promise of a huge payoff when a judge picks from among more than 100 lawyers seeking leadership roles in the gusher of litigation against BP PLC and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Motley is seeking one of the positions. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)AP - More than 100 lawyers are battling for the biggest chunks of what is likely to be a multibillion-dollar settlement for Gulf of Mexico oil spill victims, jockeying for spots on the elite team that will control the plaintiffs' cases.

Foes of health care law lose key court ruling (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge on Thursday upheld the authority of the federal government to require everyone to have health insurance, dealing a setback to groups seeking to block the new national health care plan.

Tax-slashing proposals scare GOP, Democrats (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:58 PM PDT

AP - Businessmen gather at an empty Denver Broncos stadium, with an ominous warning: The more than 70,000 vacant seats around them represent the number of state jobs that would be lost if three tax-slashing and debt-cutting measures are approved in next month's election.

Don't Count on 'Waiting for Superman': Think Education Change Is Gonna Come? Think Again (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Despite all the attention a high-profile documentary is bringing to education right now, school reformers shouldn't pop the champagne just yet

Richard Stengel: Voice of Influence (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Fareed Zakaria, one of the world's most agenda-setting thinkers, joins TIME as a regular columnist and cover-story writer

NJ gov. scraps long-planned NJ-NY rail tunnel (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announces Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, in Trenton, N.J., that he has stopped a decades-in-the-making train tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, saying the state can't afford to pay for cost overruns on the already under-construction project. The largest federal transportation project in the country, it was expected to double train traffic in and out of New York City during peak commute times once completed in 2018. But over the years, the cost for the tunnel also has nearly doubled. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Gov. Chris Christie pulled the plug on a decades-in-the-making train tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, saying Thursday that New Jersey can't afford to pay for cost overruns on the already under-construction project.

Recite pledge or go to jail? Lawyer sent to lockup (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Attorney Danny Lampley is seen in an undated photo provided by the Lee County, Miss., Sheriff's Department. Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn jailed Oxford attorney Danny Lampley for several hours Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court. After Lampley spent about five hours in the county jail Wednesday, the judge let him go free. Lampley, 49, was released so that he could represent another client, the judge said in a later order. (AP Photo/Lee County, Miss., Sheriff's Department)AP - When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed.

Search for missing tourist thwarted by drug gangs (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Tiffany Hartley, right, and family members, take part in a news conference with Zapata County sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jr., left, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 in Zapata, Texas. Hartman husband, David, was shot by Mexican pirates on Falcon Lake last week as they were returning to the United States on Jet Skis.(AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - A search for a missing American tourist presumably shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake has been thwarted by threats of an ambush from drug gangs, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Ind. money manager who crashed plane gets 10 years (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:56 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 31, 2008 file photo shows Marcus Schrenker. Schrenker, an Indianapolis-area money manager who tried to fake his death in a Florida plane crash is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday Oct. 7, 2010 in Hamilton Superior Court in Noblesville, Ind. He faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced on securities fraud charges. (AP Photo/File) NO SALESAP - A judge Thursday ignored pleas for leniency from an Indiana money manager who conned friends into investing in a fund that didn't exist and tried to fake his death by parachuting out of a plane and crashing it when the scheme started to unravel.

Wayward baggage handler causes Pa. security scare (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:23 PM PDT

Authorities move items near a plane on a closed runway at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. Transportation security officials removed passengers from the Bermuda-bound flight Thursday after reports that someone was helping to load the plane without a security badge. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Two US Airways workers loading a Bermuda-bound plane grew suspicious of whether another baggage handler was allowed to be near the jet and confronted him Thursday, leading the man to flee and forcing transportation security officials to remove passengers and rescan all their luggage.

Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 01:31 PM PDT

Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa attends a news conference Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, in New York. The Peruvian won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once came close to being elected president of his tumultuous homeland. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Mario Vargas Llosa, the newest winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has never found much honor in boundaries.

9th Circuit upholds Wash. ban on voting by inmates (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:11 PM PDT

AP - A federal appeals court reversed course Thursday and upheld Washington state's ban on voting by prison inmates in a case that challenged the disproportionate effect it has on minority voters.

Final defense lawyer offers argument in Smith case (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2000 file photo, Anna Nicole Smith, right, smiles as she walks to the courthouse with her attorney Howard K. Stern in Houston. Attorneys in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial are set with final arguments aimed at swaying jurors in reaching a complicated and crucial set of verdicts that will affect two doctors and the deceased model's former boyfriend. (AP Photo/Brett Cooomer, File)AP - Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-manager Howard K. Stern was also her best friend and lover and would never have been part of an alleged plot to provide her with harmful drugs, a defense lawyer said Thursday.

Wildfires frequent at Utah base where blaze raged (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 01:19 PM PDT

A destroyed structure is seen through the window of a burned out camping trailer Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, in Herriman, Utah. The blaze, which forced the evacuation of more than 1,600 homes, was started by live-fire exercises at Camp Williams, an Army National Guard base southwest of Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Colin E. Braley)AP - Firearms and explosives training at a Utah military base have ignited dozens of wildfires in the past three decades, including one that swept into neighborhoods and drove residents from more than 1,600 homes, according to a review of documents requested by The Associated Press.

NY seeks to ban sugary drinks from food stamp buys (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 12:32 PM PDT

AP - Using food stamps to buy sodas, teas, sports drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages would not be allowed in New York City under a new government effort to battle obesity.

Pa. teens say they covered up assault on immigrant (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2010 file photo, Brandon J. Piekarsky, 18, of Shenandoah Heights, left, and Derrick M. Donchak, 20, of Shenandoah, return to the William J. Nealon Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Scranton, Pa. A teenager who witnessed the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez in Pennsylvania has told a court, Thursday Oct. 7, 2010, that the assailants concocted a story to cover up the assault. Prosecutors say Piekarsky and Donchak participated in the beating because of racial animosity toward Hispanics. The defendants say Ramirez's ethnicity was not a factor. (AP Photo/Republican-Herald, Nick Meyer, File)AP - After beating and kicking an illegal Mexican immigrant and leaving him for dead in the street, a group of white teens in a small Pennsylvania mining town knew they had a serious problem on their hands.

AP-mtvU Poll: Technology brings connection, stress (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 08:23 AM PDT

AP - Technology has become so entwined with college students' often frantic lives that most in a new survey say they'd be more frazzled without it.

Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:04 PM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, Stephanie Dillon conducts a yoga class in Louisville, Ky. Dillon's practice of yoga puts her at odds with Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler who feels the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - A Southern Baptist leader who is calling for Christians to avoid yoga and its spiritual attachments is getting plenty of pushback from enthusiasts who defend the ancient practice.

FAA proposes new rules for helicopter safety (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 01:47 PM PDT

AP - The Federal Aviation Administration proposed stricter flight rules for helicopters Thursday, including many to increase safety for medical helicopters after a recent spike in fatal accidents.

NJ senator calls for anti-bully law after suicide (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 07:45 AM PDT

This West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North 2010 yearbook photo shows high school senior Molly Wei. Rutgers University student, 18-year-old freshman, Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River on Sept. 22 after intimate images of him with another man in his dorm room were broadcast online. Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, N.J., and another Rutgers freshman, Molly Wei, of Princeton, N.J., both 18, have been charged with invasion of privacy. (AP Photo/West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North) NO SALESAP - Colleges should adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment in the wake of the suicide of a Rutgers University student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was streamed online, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg said at a town meeting on campus.

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