2010年11月14日星期日

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FBI: Man once thought dead arrested in kidnapping (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:32 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the FBI in New Orleans shows Thomas Steven Sanders. The FBI says the Mississippi man who was once considered legally dead was arrested Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010 in the kidnapping of a slain Las Vegas girl whose body was found in the woods of central Louisiana. (AP Photo/FBI New Orleans, File)AP - A man who was declared legally dead 16 years ago in Mississippi was arrested Sunday in the kidnapping of a slain Las Vegas girl whose body was found in the woods of central Louisiana, the FBI said.

Driver held in Calif motorcycle crash that kills 5 (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 04:49 PM PST

AP - A man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after he slammed his car head-on into a group of motorcycle riders celebrating their club's 10th anniversary, killing four motorcyclists and his companion, authorities said Sunday. But they also are looking for another driver who they say played a role in the crash.

Ohio girl found alive, bound; no word on 3 others (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 04:40 PM PST

Knox County Sheriff's deputies and investigators from the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation process evidence at the residence of 30-year-old Matthew Hoffman, who has been arrested for kidnapping, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The 13-year-old girl who went missing with her mother, brother and a friend was found bound and gagged Sunday in the basement of the home about 10 miles from her house, authorities said. Knox County Sheriff David Barber said Sarah Maynard's mother, Tina Herrmann, is still missing, along with her 10-year-old brother, Kody, and her mother's 41-year-old friend Stephanie Sprang. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)AP - A 13-year-old girl missing for days was found bound and gagged but alive in a basement Sunday, and authorities hoped a man charged with kidnapping her might lead them to her mother, brother and another woman who disappeared with her.

Texas: DNA Test Disproves Evidence in Death-Penalty Case (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST

Time.com - Ten years after Claude Jones was put to death for murder, the supposedly damning physical evidence that tied him to the crime has been scientifically disproven

Indian leaders gather in NM to address challenges (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 10:07 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2009 photo, Jefferson Keel, Lt. Governor of the Chickasaw Nation participates in a meeting with American Indian leaders to discuss affordable health care, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Keel says tribal leaders have a chance to capitalize on recent federal legislative successes to begin solving some of the problems that have plagued their communities for decades — from high unemployment rates and crime to limited access to health care and other necessities. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - American Indians have won some key victories on Capitol Hill this year and should capitalize on them to start solving some of the problems that have plagued tribal communities for decades, said the leader of the oldest and largest Indian organization in the nation.

Study: Women with high job stress face heart risks (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 04:14 PM PST

AP - Working women are equal to men in a way they'll wish they weren't. Female workers with stressful jobs were more likely than women with less job strain to suffer a heart attack or a stroke or to have clogged arteries, a big federally funded study found.

Mother of disabled girl crushed by news of death (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 10:02 AM PST

FILE - This 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. Zahra's stepmother, Elisa Baker, is currently in jail, charged with trying to throw off investigators with a bogus ransom note. (AP Photo/Independent Tribune, James Nix, File)AP - The biological mother of the disabled girl whose remains were found in North Carolina told a television station Sunday that she has been devastated by her daughter's death but buoyed by support from the community where the 10-year-old lived.

UH is 1 of 2 universities eyeing an Obama library (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 12:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2008 file photo, students cheer on stage at a Barack Obama rally with a poster of Obama at the right at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, in Honolulu. Barack Obama hasn't even finished the second year of his first term in the White House, but officials with two universities that are interested in building his presidential library are already positioning themselves to win the Hawaii-born president's favor. The University of Hawaii is well into early preparations — including preliminary searches for potential sites, talks with National Archives officials and deliberations on what if any new academic center might accompany an Obama library and museum. The University of Chicago, located in the city where Obama's political career began, signaled an interest a year ago but is saying very little now. (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni, File)AP - Barack Obama hasn't even finished the second year of his first term in the White House, but officials with two universities that are interested in building his presidential library are already positioning themselves to win the Hawaii-born president's favor.

Studies: Drug, device help treat heart failure (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 10:10 AM PST

AP - Millions of people with mild or moderate heart failure got good news Sunday, with studies showing a Pfizer drug and a device from Medtronic can boost survival and cut trips to the hospital by patients having trouble breathing.

SF Opera: Domingo, Mattila and eternal youth (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 03:29 PM PST

AP - One is about a fictional opera singer who possesses the secret of eternal youth. The other stars a real-life tenor who merely seems to.

Driver in fatal Conn. crash sues victim's parents (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 09:56 AM PST

This 2007 photo released by Joanne Kenney shows her late son Matthew Kenney, five months before he was struck and killed while riding a bicycle. Motorist David Weaving, who was convicted of reckless driving in the accident, has filed a lawsuit against the parents, saying they were negligent in allowing their son to ride his bike on the roadway without a helmet. (AP Photo/Courtesy Joanne Kenney) NO SALESAP - A driver who's serving a manslaughter sentence for striking and killing a 14-year-old boy is suing the victim's parents, blaming them for their son's death because they allowed him to ride his bike in the street without a helmet.

Probe is sought of lead in reusable grocery bags (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 04:06 AM PST

AP - Sen. Charles Schumer of New York is seeking a federal investigation after a newspaper's report of lead content in some reusable grocery bags.

Daughter 1 of 3 charged in Mich. couple's stabbing (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 01:58 PM PST

AP - The 17-year-old daughter of two Michigan stabbing victims and two other teenagers were charged Sunday with multiple murder counts in the small-town attack that killed the girl's father and seriously wounded her mother.

Miller: Ballot fight unlikely if math doesn't work (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:09 AM PST

At right, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) Alaska completes an autograph for videographer Kim Daehnke following a studio interview Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)AP - Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller is watching absentee ballots from military voters as he takes his next steps in Alaska's still-undecided Senate race.

Former VA doctor picks up pieces after prosecution (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 04:33 AM PST

In this photo taken Friday Nov. 12, 2010 Dr. William Weeks sits in his office in Lebanon, N.H. A respected psychiatrist and expert on rural health care for veterans, he was accused of violating conflict-of-interest provisions in his work at a Veterans Administration hospital in Vermont. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - For years, Dr. William Weeks' name commanded respect. He was a prominent psychiatrist, a nationally known expert on rural health care, a medical professor at Dartmouth College, a father of six who led the school board in his New Hampshire town, the treasurer of his church.

Voters approve Arizona medical marijuana measure (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:04 AM PST

FILE - In this July 24, 2009 file photo, Boulder County Caregivers employees Randy, left, and Peter Kurzawski, behind the counter, assist medical marijuana customers at the dispensary in Boulder, Colo. Some 1,300 people waiting for medical marijuana cards in Colorado are in limbo because of a dispute over which doctors can recommend pot. Colorado health regulators are puzzling over how to interpret a new state law requiring doctors that recommend pot to be 'in good standing.' The requirement, which took effect in July, led the state to send rejection letters to thousands of marijuana-card applicants who used recommendations from doctors with restrictions or conditions on their medical licenses. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - The decision makes Arizona the 15th state to approve a medical marijuana law. California was the first in 1996, and 13 other states and Washington, D.C., have followed suit.

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