2010年10月20日星期三

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Crystal Cathedral teeters on the edge (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 04:47 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 9, 2006 file photo shows Robert A. Schuller, left, poses for a photo with his father, Robert H. Schuller, outside the Crystal Cathedral in Orange, Calif. The Crystal Cathedral declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, donations are in free-fall and dozens of creditors are clamoring for payment from a church that's $43 million in debt.   (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)AP - Capitalizing on the emerging car culture of Southern California in the 1950s, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller started a drive-in church and built it into an international televangelist empire, symbolized by the soaring glass Crystal Cathedral and its weekly "Hour of Power" show.


Appeals court keeps military gay policy for now (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 04:36 PM PDT

A protester rallying to demand the AP - A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a government request to temporarily freeze a judge's order telling the military to stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops.


TiVo Gets a Major Upgrade, but Can It Beat Google TV? (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 01:10 AM PDT

Time.com - The venerable DVR retains some advantages compared with new rivals from Google and Apple. But it's not all good news

Midterm Polls: How the GOP and Dems Manage Expectations (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 01:10 AM PDT

Time.com - Both the Democrats and the Republicans are using the final days before the midterm elections to rally, goad or reassure their bases. Don't believe the hype

Rent is 2 Damn High: NY gov candidate's star rises (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 01:09 PM PDT

Jimmy McMillan, candidate for Rent is 2 Damn High party makes a point during the 2010 New York State Gubernatorial debate held at Hoftstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010.  (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)AP - His profile is suddenly higher than the rent.


Army: 4 soldiers hurt in Ohio parachuting accident (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 04:43 PM PDT

First Lieutenant Kimberly Snow of the National Guard public affairs office answers questions at Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, about four soldiers who were injured at the airport after they parachuted from a plane during an airborne training operation, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)AP - Four soldiers parachuting from a plane during an airborne training operation were injured Wednesday when they caught a wind gust and hit the ground hard, officials said.


Preservationists' new cry: Save the windows! (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 03:44 PM PDT

AP - There's no need to tear off the shutters and throw out the sash in the name of energy efficiency, say groups that are seeking to preserve the historic look of buildings.

FBI: Would-be bomber said he'd die for bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 01:04 PM PDT

FILE -  An undated file photo provided by the Ellis County Sheriff's Department, shows Hosam Maher Smadi. Smadi's sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 in federal court in Dallas.(AP Photo/Ellis County Sheriff's Department, File)AP - Before he pushed the button that he hoped would blow up a 60-story office tower and kill thousands of people, Hosam Smadi did two things that still bother FBI officials 13 months later.


Stepmom of missing NC girl deemed flight risk (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 02:36 PM PDT

Elisa Baker watches proceedings via video at a court appearance in Newton, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. Catawba County District Judge Robert Mullinax Jr. increased bond for Baker, from $45,000 to $65,000 Wednesday after prosecutors convinced him she was a flight risk. Mullinax Jr. said there were 'disturbing and unsettling allegations' in the case as he dismissed a request by Baker's lawyers to reduce her bond on a charge of obstructing justice to $10,000.  (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - A judge deemed the stepmother of a missing 10-year-old girl a flight risk and raised her bond Wednesday after the woman's grown daughter testfied that she's carrying on an online relationship with an man in England who was sending her thousands of dollars.


Octomom's fertility doc testifies to save license (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Fertility specialist Dr. Michael Kamrava prepares for a hearing before the California Board of Medical Examiners on possible suspension or revocation of his medical license, in Los Angeles Monday, Oct. 18, 2010.  He is accused of 'grossly negligent'' treatment of `'Octomom'' Nadya Suleman and another patient. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - The fertility doctor whose in vitro treatments gave Nadya Suleman her octuplets tearfully began testimony Wednesday as he defended his methods in the fight to keep his medical license.


Players confused by NFL crackdown on hard hits (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 04:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2010, file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison (92) hits Cleveland Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi (11) during the second quarter of a an NFL football game in Pittsburgh.  Harrison was fined $75,000 on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, for his hit against Massaquoi. (AP Photo/Don Wright, File)AP - Ray Lewis is worried about what's happening to his sport.


Father found guilty in NJ incest case (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT

AP - A New Jersey man whose apocalyptic visions allegedly led him to rape his five daughters and terrorize his family for years was found guilty Wednesday of sexually assaulting a daughter who testified that she bore him a child.

Chicago bomb suspect pleads not guilty (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 11:20 AM PDT

AP - A Lebanese immigrant pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges alleging that he placed a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field last month.

Lawyer: No evidence student shot by cops broke law (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 02:49 PM PDT

FILE- This file handout photo from Pace University shows Danroy Henry, 20, a student and football player at Pace University's Pleasantville campus who was shot and killed by local police .  (AP Photo/Pace University,Handout)  NO SALESAP - A lawyer for the family of a college football player killed by police outside a suburban New York bar says there's no evidence he did anything criminal.


Ohioan pleads not guilty in gunpoint abortion case (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Dominic L. Holt-Reid, right, talks with his attorney Priya Tamilarasan during his arraignment hearing in Franklin County Common Pleas Court Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio. Reid accused of pointing a handgun at his pregnant girlfriend and forcing her to drive to an abortion clinic has been charged with attempted murder under an Ohio law prohibiting the unlawful termination of a pregnancy, a prosecutor said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)AP - A father of six pleaded not guilty Wednesday to an attempted murder charge that accuses him of trying to force his girlfriend at gunpoint to have an abortion.


Fort Hood gunman had nearly 200 rounds of ammo (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 01:53 PM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, Army investigator Kelly T. Jameson testifies during the Article 32 hearing for U.S. Major Nidal Hasan, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 in Fort Hood, Texas. The Article 32 hearing will determine whether Hasan should stand trial on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the 2009 attack at the Texas Army post, the worst mass shooting at an American military base. (AP Photo/Pat Lopez)AP - An Army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood still had nearly 200 rounds of ammunition and a second gun in his pockets when he was shot by police, a military court heard Wednesday.


Hispanic media influence grows in election year (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 06:57 AM PDT

FILE- In this Oct. 2, 2010 file photo, Meg Whitman, left, the republican candidate for governor, shakes hands with debate moderator Maria Elena Salinas, before the start of her second debate with Democratic opponent Jerry Brown, center, held at California State University in Fresno, Calif.  Spanish-language media is taking an unprecedented role in this year's election season, highlighting the growing influence of Hispanic voters. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)AP - Note to candidates: What plays in Spanish no longer stays in Spanish.


New oil siphon would take only weeks to be in use (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 11:56 AM PDT

AP - The senior manager of a project to build a more efficient system to contain oil in deep water said Wednesday that once built and tested, the cap-and-siphon contraption could be deployed and in use within weeks of a future well blowout.
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