2010年11月10日星期三

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Ill. man pleads guilty to '04 murder of 3-year-old (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 05:24 PM PST

AP - A convicted sex offender pleaded guilty Wednesday in the 2004 sexual assault and murder of a 3-year-old suburban Chicago girl whose father was wrongly accused in the crime.

Risks grow for those whose lives straddle border (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 01:25 PM PST

FILE - This Oct. 20, 2010 file photo shows police officers inspecting the bodies of 2 men that were shot dead in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Authorities later identified the dead men as Jose Gil Hernandez Ramirez, 21, of El Paso, a Texas National Guardsman, and his uncle, Rafael Ramirez Reza, 42. (AP Photo, file)AP - Eder Diaz and Manuel Acosta were Americans whose lives straddled the border, business students attending classes at the University of Texas at El Paso but living in Ciudad Juarez amid family and friends.

Washington state bans alcoholic energy drinks (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 06:22 PM PST

Four Loko and other alcoholic energy drinks are seen in the cooler of a convenience store Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, in Seattle. Following a vote by the state Liquor Control Board Wednesday morning, Washington state is banning the drinks effective Nov. 18. The ban comes after nine Central Washington University students were hospitalized after a party last month, where authorities say they drank the caffeinated malt liquor beverage Four Loko. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Retailers have a week to clear millions of dollars worth of alcoholic energy drinks from their shelves after state regulators banned them Wednesday, citing the hospitalization of nine dangerously drunk college students last month.

'Living Large' Author Sarah Wexler on American Supersizing (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - In her new book, Living Large: From SUVs to Double Ds, Sarah Z. Wexler explores all the ways Americans go big, from breast implants to megachurches to Hummers to McMansions

Constitutional Conservative? Oldest Trick in the Book (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - Politicians' sudden interest in the Constitution isn't that different from religions relying on their sacred texts to separate the sinners from the saved

Passengers cheer as hobbled ship heads to Calif. (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 06:15 PM PST

A Navy Seahawk helicopter from the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier carries supplies towards the Carnival Splendor cruise ship during relief operations Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, in waters off Mexico's Baja Penninsula. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - The food on the disabled cruise ship Carnival Splendor is cold and the lines to get it stretch for hours.

Elizabeth Smart finishes Utah trial testimony (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 06:04 PM PST

Elizabeth Smart leaves the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Smart took the stand after her mother and younger sister testified. Opening arguments in the Brian David Mitchell trial relating to the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart in 2002 resumed in Salt Lake City's U.S. District Court Monday after a three-judge panel of the Federal Appeals Court stopped the trial last Thursday in a motion to have it moved out of Utah. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)AP - Elizabeth Smart testified Wednesday that the street preacher accused of kidnapping her in 2002 frequently prayed that the teenager would fulfill her marital duty of having sex — something she said was "about the farthest thing" from her prayers.

Disabled veterans memorial has DC groundbreaking (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:12 PM PST

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks duing the groundbreaking ceremony for the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - For South Florida philanthropist Lois Pope, the journey to create a memorial for disabled veterans began more than 40 years ago when she sang for Vietnam War vets at a rehabilitation center.

Fla. county locks down schools after threat (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 06:28 PM PST

Students from Pines Middle School in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Over 300 schools in Florida's second most-populous county were put on lockdown Wednesday after a woman told a radio station her husband was going to AP - Thousands of students in the nation's sixth-largest school district spent hours locked in their classrooms Wednesday after an unidentified woman called a South Florida radio station and said her husband might go to a campus and open fire with a gun.

Scarcity of peyote means hard times for dealers (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 08:01 AM PST

In this photo made Friday, Oct. 22, 2010, peyote dealer Mauro Morales points out growing peyote buttons in Rio Grande City, Texas, Morales has a shed full of peyote behind his house and a sign in his front yard identifying him as a legal distributor of the hallucinogen, just in case would-be customers happen past. He is one of three 'Peyoteros,' Texans licensed to sell peyote that grows wild near the border with Mexico to tens of thousands of Native American Church members across the U.S. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - When the state of Texas licensed him as a peyote distributor in 1990, Mauro Morales put a sign in his front yard with his name and phone number: "Peyote Dealer. Buy or Sell Peyote."

Rape charge dropped after accuser commits suicide (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:33 PM PST

A stuffed animal memorial is shown at the home of Samantha Kelly in Huron Township, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Kelly, who endured merciless taunting from classmates after they learned that the high school freshman had accused a senior of rape, hanged herself Monday at her home following classes at Huron High School. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Samantha Kelly endured merciless taunting from classmates after they learned that the high school freshman had accused a senior of rape.

Cracks found in shuttle fuel tank, not just foam (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:20 PM PST

In this picture made available by NASA, a technician examines the area of the space shuttle Discovery's external tank where foam was removed to study the source a cracks on the tank in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/NASA, Troy Cryder)AP - NASA discovered cracks in Discovery's fuel tank Wednesday, an added problem that will complicate trying to launch the space shuttle on its final voyage this year.

US survey: 1 in 10 kids has ADHD, awareness cited (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 01:23 PM PST

AP - A government survey says 1 in 10 U.S. children has ADHD, a sizable increase from a few years earlier that researchers think might be explained by growing awareness and better screening.

APNewsBreak: Rig owner complains of BOP delays (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:27 PM PST

A view of vessels assisting near the source of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in July 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. A final cap sealing BP's catastrophic Macondo well is emblazoned with an 11-point star to honor the workers who lost their lives when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AP - The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico has told federal investigators that the now infamous blowout preventer is in danger of corroding and its value as a key piece of evidence may be compromised.

Feds propose graphic cigarette warning labels (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

Three examples of proposed warning graphics that will appear on cigarette packaging as part of the government's new tobacco prevention efforts, seen in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs are among the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels that would take up half of each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States.

Hospitals try high-tech to better inform patients (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:38 PM PST

In this photo taken Oct. 29, 2010, Kristen Miller, a colonoscopy patient, views with Dr. Stephen Hanauer, gastroenterology chief at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, an interactive computer program describing benefits and risks of the procedure. The hospital is among many hospitals using computer programs to improve the informed consent process. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)AP - Learning he had prostate cancer floored John Noble. Then came the prospect of surgery and his overpowering fear of being "put under" with anesthesia.

Tearful deliberations before Conn. death sentence (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 01:57 AM PST

FILE - This July 2007 booking file photo provided by the Connecticut State Police shows Steven Hayes. On Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, in New Haven Superior Court, a jury voted unanimously to send Hayes to death row, after previously convicting him for killing the wife and two daughters of Dr. William Petit during a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., July 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Connecticut State Police, File)AP - Juror Paula Calzetta witnessed evidence in a gruesome triple murder trial that she fears will stay with her for as long as she lives: photographs of the remains of an 11-year-old young girl killed by a fire in her own bedroom.

Police: Slain CA officer likely shot with own gun (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:12 PM PST

This image made from surveillance video released by the Riverside Police Department Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, shows a man authorities say they believe is the gunman suspected of fatally shooting Riverside police officer Ryan Bonaminio earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Riverside Police Department)AP - A police officer in Southern California was likely shot to death with his own gun as he struggled with a suspected truck thief, police said Wednesday after arresting a career criminal in the weekend attack.

NY woman sentenced in antifreeze margarita death (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:14 AM PST

AP - A woman drew a 23-year prison sentence Wednesday for killing her alcoholic boyfriend by lacing a jug of margarita cocktails with antifreeze at her apartment in western New York.

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