2010年10月11日星期一

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Dems seize on tea party candidates' social stances (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 03:15 PM PDT

Republican New York State gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino marches in the Columbus Day Parade, Monday Oct. 11, 2010 in New York.(AP Photo Stephen Chernin)AP - The tea party movement was born in anger over the recession and the Obama administration's bailouts, and built largely on a platform of lower taxes and smaller government. But some of its candidates are getting tripped up on social issues.


APNewsBreak: 6 missing NJ boaters found alive (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 06:11 PM PDT

AP - Six missing boaters were found alive and well on their disabled boat Monday about 120 miles off the coast after failing to return from an overnight fishing trip, the Coast Guard said.

Senior citizens brace for Social Security freeze (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:41 PM PDT

Jack Dawson, right, gestures as he speaks during an interview as Everett Rawlings, rear, looks on, at the St. Andrews Estates North retirement community, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 in Boca Raton, Fla. Seniors prepared to cut back on everything from food to charitable donations to whiskey as the news spread Monday that they will have to wait until at least 2012 to see their Social Security checks increase. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - Seniors prepared to cut back on everything from food to charitable donations to whiskey as word spread Monday that they will have to wait until at least 2012 to see their Social Security checks increase.


Former FBI Negotiator Gary Noesner on Waco and Standoffs (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:20 AM PDT

Time.com - For most of his 30-year FBI career, Gary Noesner served as a hostage negotiator. In a chat with TIME, he explains how negotiators and rescue teams butt heads, how more could have been saved in Waco and how negotiation skills can help politicians

How Mexican Border 'Pirates' Barged into Texas Politics (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:20 AM PDT

Time.com - The alleged murder of David Hartley on the Mexican side of a border waterway has worked itself into the Texas gubernatorial race -- and into the illegal-immigration debate

NYC police arrest 9th suspect in anti-gay beatings (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:16 PM PDT

David Rivera is lead out of the Detective Borough Bronx, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 in New York. Rivera is one of seven suspects under arrest in connection with a horrific anti-gay gang attack on three men in the Bronx. Members of the street gang who discovered one of their teenage recruits was gay brutally beat and tortured him and two other people in gruesome assaults, police said. Seven of the suspects in the attacks were arrested and being held pending arraignment on charges of robbery, sodomy, menacing and assault as hate crimes. Two others were being sought.  (AP Photo/Uli Seit) NEW YORK LOCALS OUTAP - Police on Monday arrested the ninth and final suspect in the brutal attacks on four people touched off because gang members thought one of their recruits was gay.


Explosives found at NY cemetery in '09 cause scare (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:31 PM PDT

** CORRECTS NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE LOWER EAST SIDE INSTEAD OF EAST VILLAGE ** Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly holds a photo of explosives found in New York City Marble Cemetery on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, in New York. A caretaker doing gardening work at a historic cemetery dug up a plastic garbage bag containing military-grade explosives last fall and left it at the site, where it remained until a volunteer told authorities about it Monday, setting off a big police response. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - A caretaker doing gardening work at a historic cemetery dug up a plastic garbage bag containing military-grade explosives last year and left it at the site, where it remained until a volunteer told authorities about it Monday, setting off a big police response.


Univ. may sanction students from Wash. party (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:13 PM PDT

AP - Police are questioning dozens of Central Washington University students to find out what sickened many of them at a party in Roslyn.

Reprimand tossed for 'We close at 5' Texas judge (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:34 PM PDT

AP - A special court of review on Monday dismissed a public reprimand of Texas' top criminal courts judge, who closed her court at 5 p.m., preventing attorneys from filing a last-minute appeal hours before their client was executed.

Man guilty of 6 murder counts in Memphis rampage (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:37 PM PDT

AP - Jurors took less than two hours Monday to convict a man of murdering his brother and five others, including two young nephews, in a bloody rampage in a Memphis home two years ago.

Diamond wins Nobel, but still blocked on Fed job (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:54 PM PDT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Peter A. Diamond during a news conference in Cambridge, Mass., after learning he is one of three economists to win the 2010 Nobel Prize in economics Monday morning, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Peter Diamond's research on unemployment is good enough to earn him the Nobel Prize in economics — but not to get him on the Federal Reserve.


Police dogs smell remains at missing girl's house (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SPELLING FOR ZAHRA ** This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Zahra Clare Baker, a 10 year-old North Carolina hearing-impaired girl with a prosthetic leg who is missing.  The girl was last seen by her stepmother at 2:30 a.m. Saturday Oct. 9, 2010. A fire was reported in the Bakers' backyard about 5 a.m. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - Investigators cast doubt Monday on accounts given by the father and stepmother of a missing 10-year-old whose battles with bone cancer left her with a prosthetic leg and hearing aids in both ears.


NY GOP gov hopeful Paladino says he'd hire gays (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 03:15 PM PDT

Rabbi Yechezkel Roth, left, and another Orthodox Jewish supporter, center, accompany New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, after Paladino made campaign stops at the K'Hal Aadas Kasho synagogue, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino said in separate appearances Monday that he stands up for the rights of everyone, including gays, but thinks young children shouldn't be exposed to homosexuality, especially at gay pride parades.


Feds say cost concerns slowed Calif. fire response (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT

AP - Concerns over firefighting costs slowed the U.S. Forest Service's initial response to last year's 250-square-mile Southern California wildfire that killed two firefighters and destroyed 89 homes, a federal panel said in a report.

Witnesses to recall Fort Hood attack at hearing (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:49 AM PDT

FILE - This 2000 file photo provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when was a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The Fort Hood shooting suspect's attorney, John Galligan,  blocked a mental exam that a military commander had ordered to start the week of Monday Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, File)AP - For the first time in nearly a year, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan will come face to face with dozens of people he's accused of attacking in last year's shooting rampage at Fort Hood.


Report: College dropouts cost taxpayers billions (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 08:32 AM PDT

AP - Dropping out of college after a year can mean lost time, burdensome debt and an uncertain future for students.

Ohio district where 4 died says it fights bullying (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:21 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT NUMBER OF DEATHS ** In this Sept. 9, 2010 photo, Mentor High School is seen in Mentor, Ohio.  Four Mentor High School teenagers have died within two and a half years, with three committing suicide and the fourth dying of what her parents say was an accidental prescription drug overdose. Friends and family say bullying drove most of them to kill themselves. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Teachers and administrators confronting the issue of four bullied students who died by their own hands must get involved to end bullying, an attorney for grieving families said Monday.


Tropical Storm Paula forms near Honduras (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:48 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, October 11, 2010 at 01:45 PM EDT shows clouds associated with an area of low pressure in the Caribbean Sea.  The system currently has a high chance of tropical storm development and spreads heavy rain and thunderstorms over Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, the Yucatan Peninsula, the Cayman Islands, and western Cuba.   (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Paula has formed near Honduras and is expected to blow into a hurricane by Tuesday.


Law punishing fake heroes may go to Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 03:23 AM PDT

AP - The Justice Department is battling to save a federal law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero, appealing two court rulings that the statute is an unconstitutional muzzle on free speech.

Beverly Hills to make a splash with city scents (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 03:05 AM PDT

In this photo taken Oct. 6, 2010, Beverly Hills mayor Jimmy Delshad poses a print that shows the city's logo in Beverly Hills, Calif. The City of Beverly Hills will be selling its own fragrance line featuring the their trademarked Beverly Hills shield sign. The three luxury perfumes will be launched worldwide on Oct. 12. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - Ah, there's nothing like the sweet smell of success. That's what this bastion of ostentatious wealth wants you to believe — quite literally.


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