2010年11月13日星期六

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Mystery deepens over disabled NC girl's killing (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 04:26 AM PST

AP - Police were confident a freckle-faced disabled 10-year-old girl was killed, but the mystery of how she died deepened when police said a set of remains was uncovered five miles away from where one of her bones was found.

Police: Daughter of Mich. stabbing victims in jail (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 11:36 AM PST

AP - The stabbing victims' 17-year-old daughter was one of three people in custody Saturday in the investigation of a small-town attack that killed a man and seriously injured his wife, police said.

Pa. police: Dad killed woman, 2 girls, then self (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 05:54 PM PST

AP - A man shot and killed a woman and their two daughters in his home late Saturday morning before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.

Snowstorm causes 400 Minn. crashes; 2 die in Wis. (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 05:59 PM PST

AP - Authorities say a heavy snowstorm has caused a traffic collision in Wisconsin that killed two people and more than 400 minor crashes in Minnesota.

Government sells spoils of Madoff's lavish life (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 04:12 PM PST

This undated picture made available by Proxibid, Gaston and Sheehan and the U.S. Marshals Service shows a pair of black velveteen slippers with 'BLM' embroidered in gold thread, part of thousands of belongings from Bernard Madoff's New York City penthouse on the auction block in New York on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010. When Madoff was arrested two years ago, U.S. marshals seized everything from his and his wife's daily life. The proceeds will go to more than 3,000 clients Madoff swindled in a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. The 72-year-old former Wall Street trader is serving a 150-year sentence in a North Carolina prison. (AP Photo/Proxibid, Gaston and Sheehan, U.S. Marshals Service)AP - Anyone wanting to walk in the shoes of fallen financier Bernard Madoff was in luck Saturday: Thousands of belongings from his New York City penthouse, including his used shoes, went on the auction block.


Va. sturgeon may be key to ancient fish's recovery (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 09:44 AM PST

In this Oct. 8, 2010 photo, Virginia Commonwealth University graduate student Matt Balazik, gets ready to toss a 70-lb Atlantic sturgeon into the James River near  Charles City, Va. Balazik is a sturgeon census taker, using electronic tracking devices to monitor the movements of the armor-plated fish.  (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Researcher Matt Balazik wears his passion for saving the Atlantic sturgeon on his right arm — a tattoo of the ancient fish — and lives it by counting the bottom-feeding giants in the James River.


Calif rejects legal pot, but cities embrace drug (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 03:34 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, smoking paraphernalia is displayed in a storefront as Californians decide to vote for the legalization of marijuana in San Francisco. Californians may have rejected legalizing recreational marijuana, but voters across the state were more than ready to reap revenue from the state's largest cash crop. On election day, all 10 cities with local measures on their ballots approved new or higher taxes on marijuana sales that put the need for cash above the stigma of a federally banned drug. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)AP - Californians may have rejected legalizing recreational marijuana, but voters across the state are more than ready to reap revenue from the state's largest cash crop.


Dog stuck on cliff rescued by sheriff's deputy (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 04:12 PM PST

This photo released by Pueblo County, Colo.  Sheriff's Department shows an emergency personnel rescuing a springer spaniel stuck  on a cliff ledge in Lake Pueblo State Park on Nov. 12, 2010 in Pueblo, Colo.  The dog named 'Doc' went over an 80-foot cliff Thursday morning while training to become a hunting dog.  The Pueblo Chieftain reports the spaniel became trapped after sliding down a shale canyon side, and landing on a ledge about 80 feet down a 200-foot ravine. The dog was rescued safely Friday morning.  (AP Photo/Pueblo County, Colo.  Sheriff's Department)AP - A springer spaniel stuck overnight on a cliff ledge in Lake Pueblo State Park is OK after a sheriff's deputy rappelled down a canyon to retrieve him. The dog named "Doc" went over an 80-foot cliff Thursday morning while training to become a hunting dog.


War orphans get first look at childhood records (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 05:58 PM PST

This undated photo provided by Arizona Lost Boys Center, shows the refugee identification document of Ajak Dau Akech. The documents of the Sudanese war orphan and part of the group known as the Lost Boys of Sudan , were thought lost for many years.  For the first time in most of their lives, survivors of the civil war in Sudan known as the Lost Boys are finding out more about families and history, and getting the only known photographs of themselves as children. It has taken years to track down personal records kept by humanitarians at refugee camps in the 1980s and compile them in an online database. (AP Photo/Arizona Lost Boys Center)  NO SALESAP - When a humanitarian worker asked Ajak Dau Akech in 1988 why he fled civil war in Sudan and walked 1,000 perilous miles to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, the boy answered with words few 8-year-olds would know.


Ohio sheriff: Blood in home a factor in 4 missing (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 04:12 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 - An unusual amount of blood found in a missing woman's home is evidence of an injury apparently related to her disappearance with her two children and a female friend, a sheriff in Ohio said Saturday.


Catholic bishops: More exorcists needed (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:19 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday Jan. 26, 1999 file picture, Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez of Chile, holds the book 'De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam' (Of Exorcisms and Supplications), the Vatican's new guidelines on exorcism, presented during a news conference at the Vatican. The 1999 guidelines, written in Latin, update the last set written in 1614. After four centuries, The Vatican's guidelines for driving out the devil includes a caveat not to mistake psychiatric illness for diabolic possession. America's Roman Catholic bishops say there's a shortage of exorcists in the country. To fix the problem, they're holding a conference Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 and Saturday in Baltimore on how to perform the rite. (AP Photo/Marco Ravagli)AP - Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms.


FBI: Top county official, wife tried to hide cash (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 08:38 PM PST

AP - A married pair of top officials in a Maryland county is accused of tampering with evidence after FBI agents said they recorded the husband telling his wife to flush a $100,000 check from a real estate developer down the toilet and to stuff almost $80,000 in cash in her underwear.

Accident at Oklahoma fairgrounds kills child (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 11:45 AM PST

AP - An accident involving a barrel ride at an Oklahoma fairgrounds has killed an 8-year-old girl and left four other children seriously injured.

Bush on post-presidency: 'I miss being pampered' (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 02:56 PM PST

Former President George W. Bush gives a Veteran's Day address, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Former President George W. Bush says he doesn't miss much about the White House, just the pampering. Bush told more than 3,000 people at a sprawling central Florida retirement community on Saturday that he misses the convenience of Air Force One and never waiting in traffic jams. The 43rd president said, most of all, he misses being commander in chief of the U.S. military.


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