2010年11月12日星期五

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Ticket bought at Michigan porn shop worth $129M (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 05:12 PM PST

** ADDS MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT WINNER STEVE MAYS ** Mike Greer talks about his 'Team Victory' group's $128.6 million winning lottery ticket during a news conference Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, in Lansing, Mich. A $129 million Powerball lottery ticket sold at an urban porn shop is being split by members of a group primarily from southeast Michigan. Separately, Steve Mays of Gladstone, Mich., right, came forward to claim a Mega Millions jackpot worth $141 million. The retiree, who wouldn't disclose his age, bought the ticket at a convenience store. He said he hasn't decided what to do with his winnings, which he will take in 26 annual installments of $5.4 million.  (AP Photo/Al Goldis)AP - A group of friends and family is obscenely rich after winning a nearly $129 million jackpot with a lottery ticket bought at a Detroit-area porn shop. And some of the money will be devoted to sacred purposes.


High court allows gay military ban for now (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 05:12 PM PST

FILE - In this April 9, 2010 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington.  The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on gays in the military to remain in place while a federal appeals court considers the issue.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Pentagon to continue preventing openly gay people from serving in the military while a federal appeals court reviews the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.


Troubled cruise shows unpredictability of the sea (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 04:22 PM PST

This image shot Monday Nov. 8, 2010 shows smoke coming from the engine compartment of the crippled cruise ship, Carnival Splendor, off the coast of Mexico. An engine fire aboard the 952-foot cruise liner on Monday morning knocked out power early in its seven-day trip to the Mexican Riviera, setting the ship adrift about 200 miles outside San Diego and 44 miles off the coast of Mexico.(AP Photo/Justina Victoriano)AP - A luxury cruise liner that limped into San Diego after a fire knocked out its power was lucky in many ways — no one was killed or even seriously hurt, a nearby Navy vessel came quickly with supplies and the mishap occurred in tranquil waters.


With Obama in Asia, His Staff Addresses Midterm-Election Fallout (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST

Time.com - With the boss away, Obama's aides try to make sense of the elections

'Decision Points': What George W. Bush's Memoir Reveals (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST

Time.com - Former President George W. Bush's new memoir, Decision Points, is telling and well written, but his overmatched presidency was a mess

AP Interview: Baucus' dealmaking to be tested (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 04:43 PM PST

Montana Senator Max Baucus speaks to an AP reporter inside The Missoula Club in Missoula, Mont. on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Albans)AP - The key Senate Democrat who delayed health care reform last year while trying to get Republican buy-in is now facing the uncomfortable reality of his own prediction, leading him to weigh some bipartisan changes to his party's signature legislation.


Police think they've found body of missing NC girl (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 05:12 PM PST

FILE- A May 2010 file photo shows Zahra Clare Baker, 10, waiting to get a hearing aid at an event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Hickory, N.C. Police Chief Tom Adkins said Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 that investigators matched a bone found a couple of weeks ago with 10-year-old Zahra Baker's DNA.  Zahra, who had bone cancer that forced her to use a prosthetic leg and hearing aids, was reported missing by her parents Oct. 9. They said she was last seen in her bed at their home in Hickory, about 50 miles northwest of Charlotte.   (AP Photo/Independent Tribune, James Nix, File)AP - Grim police trying to solve the disappearance of a 10-year-old North Carolina girl confirmed Friday what they've long suspected: The freckle-faced child with a prosthetic leg and bone cancer is dead.


Hero pilot criticizes new FAA rules on fatigue (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 04:21 PM PST

AP - The pilot who landed a jetliner safely on the Hudson River last year said Friday that proposed rules aimed at reducing pilot fatigue could end up leaving them more tired than before and endanger passengers' safety.

Police: Man killed, wife hurt in Mich. stabbings (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:25 PM PST

AP - Two intruders wearing Halloween masks climbed through a bedroom window of a rural Michigan home and stabbed a man and his wife as they lay in bed, killing the husband and leaving the woman with more than 20 knife wounds before fleeing the scene, police said Friday.

Air agency issued engine warning then eased checks (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 05:47 PM PST

A Qantas A380 superjumbo jet is shown grounded on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, before being inspected. An Airbus executive said Friday that Rolls-Royce has identified a faulty bearing box as the cause of the oil leak problem implicated in the midair disintegration of an engine. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Three months before a superjumbo jet engine blew apart and forced an emergency landing, European safety regulators had relaxed their inspection order for the same section of the engine implicated in the dangerous mishap.


Trial ordered on attempted murder charge in Mich. (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:53 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2010 photo, Elias Abuelazam, 33, attends an extradition hearing in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta. Abuelazam, described as a serial killer, returns to court in Michigan Friday, Nov. 11, 2010 to learn if he'll face trial in the case of one of three murders he is suspected of comitting.  (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser, Pool, File)AP - A man suspected in a three-state stabbing spree was ordered to stand trial Friday on an attempted murder charge after a survivor of a midnight knife attack described how he desperately fought off his assailant, saying he "almost lost my life."


Witness: Cop said looters 'deserved to be shot' (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:12 PM PST

AP - A former New Orleans police officer on trial for gunning down a man outside a strip mall in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath said after the shooting that looters are "animals" who "deserved to be shot," a fellow officer testified Friday.

AP Exclusive: Suspect turns case against priest (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 01:27 PM PST

Will Lynch, right, talks to a sheriff's deputy as he appears in a San Jose, Calif., courtroom for his arraignment, Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. Lynch is charged with savagely beating Rev. Jerold Lindner. Lynch says Lindner molested him as a child. Lynch plans to try to use this trial to publicly shame Lindner in court. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Will Lynch is looking for justice in an unusual way. Charged with savagely beating the priest he says molested him as a child, he plans to try to use his trial to publicly shame the Rev. Jerold Lindner in court and call attention to clergy abuse.


Pedro Plan flight veterans mark 50th anniversary (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:07 PM PST

AP - The last thing 13-year-old Mercedes Argiz's father told her before she boarded the plane from Cuba to the U.S. was: "I will see you for Christmas."

Pa. game warden investigating poaching is killed (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:51 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Pennsylvania Game Commission shows 31-year-old Wildlife Conservation Officer David Grove.  Police are searching for a person of interest in the fatal shooting of the Pennsylvania Game Commission officer who was investigating reports of illegal hunting activity. The game commission says Grove was shot and killed Thursday night in Freedom Township, Adams County. State police say Christopher Lynn Johnson is being sought for questioning and should be considered armed and dangerous. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Game Commission)AP - A felon caught poaching deer and a state game warden who had him partly handcuffed engaged in a "ferocious exchange of gunfire" that killed the officer and wounded the suspect, who was arrested 11 hours later, authorities said.


Colo police investigate, protect pedophilia author (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 10:58 AM PST

AP - Police are investigating whether the author of a guide for pedophiles did anything illegal even as they try to protect him from a threat posted on a local website.

Palin e-mail hacker sentenced to year in custody (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:32 PM PST

David Kernell, right front, walks to the Federal Courthouse with his mother, Lt. Col. Lillian Landrigan, behind, and attorney's Wade Davies, left front, and Anne Passino Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 in Knoxville, Tenn. Kernell was a University of Tennessee student majoring in economics when prosecutors say he hacked into the Yahoo! e-mail account Palin sometimes used for state business. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - A former University of Tennessee student who hacked into Sarah Palin's e-mail account during the 2008 presidential campaign was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in custody, with the judge recommending a halfway house instead of prison.


Murkowski confident about re-election in Alaska (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:23 PM PST

Election workers and observers look over write-in ballots Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, in Juneau, Alaska.  (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Sen. Lisa Murkowski maintained a healthy 90 percent of the write-in vote in the Alaska Senate race Friday, even as election officials threw out a number of oddball entries like "Donald Duck," "Elmo" and "Revolt."


Sheriff: Blood found in missing Ohio woman's home (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:11 PM PST

This undated family photo provided by WBNS-10TV on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, shows 13-year-old Sarah Maynard. Authorities were searching for Maynard and other members of her family, including her mother, brother and a female friend in an Ohio investigation that prompted an overnight lockdown on the campus of Kenyon College, where her mother's pickup truck was found nearby, a sheriff said Friday. The children's father said blood was discovered in the mother's home. (AP Photo/WBNS-10TV) NO SALESAP - Blood was found in the home of a missing woman and her two children, whose disappearance along with her friend led to a lockdown at a college near where her pickup truck was spotted, a sheriff said Friday.


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