2010年11月30日星期二

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Wis. gunman dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST

A K-9 unit drives past a roadblock near Marinette High School Monday night Nov. 29, 2010 in Marinette, Wis. during a hostage situation. A student armed with a handgun burst into a Wisconsin high school classroom at the end of the school day and held nearly two dozen students and a teacher hostage for more than five hours Monday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)AP - A 15-year-old student who held about two dozen students and a teacher hostage for several hours in a classroom at a Wisconsin high school died Tuesday at a hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.


4 dead in shooting at Missouri apartment complex (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:11 PM PST

Bonne Terre police chief Doug Calvert speaks with members of the media about a shooting that took place earlier in the day, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 in Bonne Terre, Mo. Authorities say two children were found unharmed after a gunman killed three people before shooting himself near an apartment complex in the eastern Missouri. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)AP - A gunman open fired at an eastern Missouri apartment complex Tuesday, killing three people but leaving two children unharmed before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.


AP Enterprise: Guards shown watching inmate attack (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST

In a frame grab from video obtained by The Associated Press, an inmate attacks fellow inmate Hanni Elabed at the privately-run Idaho Correctional Center just south of Boise, Idaho. Elabed suffered brain damage and persistent short-term memory loss after he was beaten by inmate James Haver while multiple guards watched at the Idaho prison operated by Corrections Corporation of America. (AP Photo)AP - The surveillance video from the overhead cameras shows Hanni Elabed being beaten by a fellow inmate in an Idaho prison, managing to bang on a prison guard station window, pleading for help. Behind the glass, correctional officers look on, but no one intervenes when Elabed is knocked unconscious.


Go (Less) Broke for the Holidays: Cyber Monday's Best Deals (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:35 AM PST

Time.com - Exhausted from all the bargain hunting/shopper trampling you did over Black Friday weekend? Too bad

Online Dating Enjoying a Boom Among Boomers (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:35 AM PST

Time.com - Older singles were initially reluctant to use online datingsites, but now they're the fastest-growing demographic

2 dead in shooting outside St. Louis funeral home (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:26 PM PST

AP - As many as three gunmen opened fire Tuesday outside a funeral home during services for a murder victim, killing two people and critically wounding another before fleeing the scene of the apparent gang-related shootings, police said.

Cops: Grandma threw child to her death at Va. mall (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST

FILE - This handout photo provided by Fairfax County, Va., Police Department shows Carmela Dela Rosa. A toddler has died after police say she was thrown off a shopping mall walkway in Virginia by a woman believed to be her grandmother. Carmela Dela Rosa of Fairfax was arrested and charged with aggravated malicious wounding, the charge will be amended to murder now that the girl, Angelyn Ogdoc, has died. (AP Photo/Fairfax County, Va., Police Department, (File)AP - A Virginia toddler was walking out of a shopping mall with relatives when her grandmother suddenly flung her over a railing, sending the girl on a fatal plunge to the pavement several stories below, police said Tuesday.


More charges vs. father in foiled NYC subway plot (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:46 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Mohammed Wali Zazi, left, leaves the federal courthouse in Denver with U.S. Marshals. Zazi, who previously pleaded not guilty to conspiracy in the terror case against his son, Najibullah Zazi, was charged by federal prosecutors in New York with obstruction of justice and other counts on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in February 2010, of plotting to bomb New York City subways in 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - Federal prosecutors have brought additional charges against the father of an al-Qaida associate who plotted to use homemade bombs for a suicide attack on New York's subway system, according to an indictment made public Tuesday.


Smithsonian removes video after group complains (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:24 PM PST

AP - The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery quickly removed a video Tuesday that was part of an exhibit after complaints from a Catholic group that the images were sacrilegious.

APNewsBreak: Jackson wrongful death case refiled (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:35 PM PST

FILE - In this March 5, 2009 file photo, US singer Michael Jackson is shown at a press conference in London. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)AP - Michael Jackson's father refiled a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday in state court against the doctor charged in his son's death and added a Las Vegas pharmacy as a defendant.


Missing Mich. boys' father charged with kidnapping (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:51 PM PST

This Nov. 30, 2010 photo provided by Lucas County Sheriff's Dept. shows John Skelton, who was under psychiatric care at a hospital, and has been speaking with investigators after his three sons went missing on Thanksgiving Day. Searchers have been scouring the countryside for four days. (AP Photo/Lucas County Sheriff's Dept.)AP - The search for three young Michigan brothers darkened Tuesday as authorities warned the public to expect the worst and charged the children's father with their kidnapping.


15 people hurt as storms tear through Miss., La. (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 01:53 PM PST

A worker cleans up glass and debris from a shattered window at Grace Hardware in downtown Yazoo City, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 as some business owners and residents start cleanup of damages caused by a possible twister Monday night. Severe weather was reported throughout the state Monday night and Tuesday morning, including some areas that are still recovering from a April tornado.  (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Clarence Taylor slipped on a pair of gloves Tuesday and went to work cleaning up damage from the possible tornado that tore through his hometown. He knows the drill — another twister devastated the area in April, leaving a path of destruction nearly a mile wide and killing a dozen people.


GAO: Lost natural gas costs gov't $23M per year (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:41 PM PST

AP - The government is losing tens of millions of dollars in potential royalties from energy companies that let immense volumes of natural gas escape into the atmosphere, congressional investigators said in a new report.

Fewer than half of Americans have had HIV test (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:06 PM PST

AP - Fewer than half of Americans have had an AIDS test since guidelines were expanded to include routine screening, according to a government report released Tuesday.

Elizabeth Smart defendant suffers seizure in court (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:46 PM PST

A letter from Brian David Mitchell, the self-styled prophet who calls himself 'Immanuel', on trial for kidnapping Elizabeth Smart in 2002, is shown in this undated photograph admitted into evidence in his federal kidnapping trial in Salt Lake City, Utah. The image was released to Reuters November 29, 2010. REUTERS/United States District Court/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - A former street preacher on trial for kidnapping and assaulting Elizabeth Smart suffered an apparent seizure in the courtroom Tuesday and was rushed to a hospital.


Ex-cop guilty of '60s shooting fears jail attack (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:55 AM PST

AP - A former Alabama state trooper who recently pleaded guilty to the civil rights-era killing of a black man says he fears he could be attacked by other inmates after he begins his jail sentence on Wednesday.

Spreadsheets add up to perception in Minn. recount (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:01 PM PST

A copy of a challenged ballot is shown at Mark Dayton's recount headquarters Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 in St. Paul, Minn.  Democrat Dayton has a nearly 8,800 lead over Republican Tom Emmer in the gubernatorial race. More than 2.1 million votes must be recounted in a process that will run into next week. The ballot shows that the oval for Dayton is not fully blocked in. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Notes jotted on hundreds of clipboards create the raw data stream. Number crunchers in back offices do the rest as both sides in Minnesota's close governor's race chart every ballot challenged in a statewide manual recount of more than 2.1 million ballots.


Ohio woman: Man kept me in closet for days for sex (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:41 AM PST

AP - A woman who says she was tied up in a closet for 10 days and raped repeatedly said her captor told her he had intended to sell her as a sex slave but decided to keep her as "a pet."
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