2010年11月17日星期三

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Gitmo detainee acquitted of all but 1 charge in NY (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:55 PM PST

Courtroom sketch shows defendant Ahmed Ghailani (L) listening to his defense attorney Steve Zissou (C) during opening statements at his trial in New York in October 2010. Ghailani faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years after his conspiracy conviction Wednesday in the first civilian trial of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, prosecutors said.(AFP/File/Shirley Shepard)AP - The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday of all but one of the hundreds of charges he helped unleash death and destruction on two U.S. embassies in 1998 — a mixed result for what's been viewed as a terror test case.

Murkowski becomes 1st write-in senator since '54 (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 file photo, Alaska's Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai, center, looks over a ballot with Mags Paton Walsh, right and Laura Fox, both from the Department of Law, in Juneau, Alaska. An optimistic Sen. Lisa Murkowski headed back to her home state Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 after widening her lead over bitter rival Joe Miller to more than 10,400 votes. Murkowski, who is seeking to make history as the first U.S. Senate candidate to win as a write-in since 1954, planned to address supporters in Alaska after the last few hundred uncounted ballots were tabulated. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)AP - History, the GOP, the tea party, Sarah Palin and her own mouthful of a name worked against her. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski conquered them all Wednesday, becoming the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to win a write-in campaign.

Fla. gov. wants The Doors' Jim Morrison pardoned (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:19 PM PST

FILE - James Morrison of The Doors in an undated file photo. Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist Crist told the St. Petersburg Times Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010 he is looking to pardoning the long-dead rocker Jim Morrison who was convicted of exposing himself at a raucous 1969 concert in Miami. (AP Photo, File)AP - The time to hesitate is through, no time to wallow in the mire: Florida's outgoing governor wants to posthumously pardon rock 'n' roll wild man Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors who was famously convicted of exposing himself at an anarchic 1969 concert in Miami.

National Unfriend Day: Why You Should Purge Your Facebook Friends (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 10:30 AM PST

Time.com - NewsFeed has been waiting for November 17th since Jimmy Kimmel first declared it the newest national holiday.

Before the Tea Party, There Was the Tea Party (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 08:10 AM PST

Time.com - Before the Tea Party, There Was the Tea Party

Investigators probe twins' shootings in Colo. (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:50 PM PST

Shooters head to the range at the outdoor shooting range at Cherry Creek State Park in Denver, on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. Authorities are trying to determine how twin sisters from Australia were both shot in the head at the range on Monday and which sister died and which is critically injured. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Investigators remained baffled Wednesday over a bizarre case in which twin sisters from Australia were mysteriously found at a shooting range south of Denver with gunshot wounds to the head.

Jurors in Conn. home invasion trial get counseling (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 01:22 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 photo, juror Maico Cardona sits for a photograph in Hamden, Conn. Cardona and the other jurors in the two-month Connecticut home invasion trial have been offered counseling by the state's Judicial Branch for exposure to detailed testimony about the slaying of two girls and their mother inside a suburban Connecticut home. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - In his sleep, Maico Cardona sees a little girl tied to a bed, burning up in a house fire. She cries out for help, but he can't reach her.

Producer accused of wife's killing to stay in jail (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:47 PM PST

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Bruce Beresford-Redman, the former 'Survivor' producer pauses for a photo at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Redman was arrested Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010 at his home as a fugutive. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - Lawyers for a reality TV producer charged with killing his wife in Mexico attacked the investigation Wednesday and promised a vigorous fight against extradition at a hearing where the defendant was ordered to remain in jail at least until a bail hearing later this month.

Medicare panel backs costly cancer drug Provenge (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:33 PM PST

AP - Medicare advisers on Wednesday supported the effectiveness of the prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy that has prompted questions about the cost of medical care and the government's role in paying for it.

Judge refuses to stop construction of Tenn. mosque (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:47 PM PST

AP - A judge refused Wednesday to stop construction of a proposed mosque in Tennessee that was opposed by some local residents who tried to argue that there was a conspiracy by Muslims to impose extremist law on the United States.

Slaying of publicist baffles police, Hollywood (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:35 PM PST

A utility worker examines the site of a crash where a woman, Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, 64, was found inside her vehicle shot several times in the chest and killed, afterward crashing into this light pole early Tuesday, Nov 16, 2010 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - It's the latest mystery to grip Hollywood. A prominent publicist and woman-about-town is killed, her body slumped in her Mercedes near Sunset Boulevard.

Feds: Russian arms suspect not beyond law's reach (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:31 PM PST

This image provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration shows Russian arms trafficking suspect Viktor Bout, center, in U.S. custody after being flown from Bangkok to New York on Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010 in a chartered U.S. plane, extradited in manacles to face terrorism charges despite a final outraged push by Russian diplomats to persuade Thailand to release him. (AP Photo/Drug Enforcement Administration)AP - A former Soviet military officer dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for allegedly selling an arsenal of weapons that would be "the envy of some small countries" was in the United States on Wednesday to face justice, a prosecutor announced, refusing to address the possibility that the extradition had chilled U.S.-Russian relations.

Wis. man accused of shooting TV over Palin dance (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:28 PM PST

This photo provided Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010, by the Dane County Sheriff's Department shows Steven Cowan, 67, of Vermont, Wis. Cowan blasted his television set with a shotgun after watching Bristol Palin's 'Dancing with the Stars' routine Monday night, saying he was fed up with politics and Palin wasn't a very good dancer, according to court documents. Authorities said Cowan then pointed the gun at his wife who escaped and called police. A SWAT team surrounded the couple's Vermont farmhouse and officers were able to talk Cowan out Tuesday after an all-night standoff. (AP Photo/Dane County Sheriff's Department)AP - A rural Wisconsin man apparently enraged by Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine blasted his television with a shotgun, leading to an all-night standoff with a SWAT team, investigators said.

Ohio city consumed by search for missing family (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:51 PM PST

A spray painted van with messages to 'Keep Faith', 'Don't Give Up', 'Pray 4 them' and 'Bring Home Steph, Tina, Kody' is parked in Mount Vernon, Ohio on Wednesday Nov. 16, 2010 days after 13-year-old Sarah Maynard was found bound and gagged in a basement, and with her mother, brother and another woman feared dead. A few dozen volunteers from as far as Columbus, 40 miles away, gathered Wednesday morning near the family's home to resume foot searches both there and around the home of a man charged with kidnapping the girl. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)AP - People in the tiny Ohio town of Mount Vernon used to have to think back years to recall a violent crime.

Rastafarian inmates no longer isolated over hair (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:02 PM PST

AP - Many Rastafarians and other inmates in Virginia who have spent years in isolation for refusing to cut their hair were moved to a prison where they can live together, the state Corrections Department said Wednesday.

New drug produces steep drop in bad cholesterol (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:28 PM PST

An undated photo provided by the American Heart Association shows Dr. Christopher Cannon of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Cannon is the leader of a study on an experimental Merck drug that safely boosted good cholesterol to record highs while dropping bad cholesterol to unprecedented lows in a study that stunned researchers and renewed hopes for an entirely new way of lowering heart risks. The study results were presented Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 at an American Heart Association conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/American Heart Association) NO SALESAP - An experimental drug boosted good cholesterol so high and dropped bad cholesterol so low in a study that doctors were stunned and voiced renewed hopes for an entirely new way of preventing heart attacks and strokes.

Zapping nerves helps control high blood pressure (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 11:12 AM PST

Graphic shows a procedure that helps relieve high blood pressureAP - Some people who couldn't get their blood pressure under control despite taking a fistful of pills every day found relief from an experimental treatment that shows promise as a permanent fix for the condition.

Rev. to NJ church leaders: Thou shalt not Facebook (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 10:12 AM PST

AP - Thou shalt not commit adultery. And thou also shalt not use Facebook.

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