2010年12月6日星期一

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Teen arrested in Oregon car bomb plot led 2 lives (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST

This recent, undated photo taken from a cell phone video obtained and aired by Portland, Ore., televsion station KPTV, shows 19-year-old Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud. In the video, which the station says was recorded May 22, 2010 in an Oregon State University dorm room, Mohamud rants against the West. Mohamud has pleaded not guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction Nov. 26, during the lighting of Portland's Christmas tree, an annual event that draws thousands of people. The FBI said it arrested the Somali-born man after a sting operation that featured six 55-gallon drums rigged to look like a bomb and placed in a van across the street from the square. (AP Photo/KPTV)AP - The plot described by the FBI was horrific: a 19-year-old Somali-born Muslim with a grudge against the West, ready to kill and maim thousands at a busy Portland Christmas tree lighting ceremony.


Police: Dad buried 1 child in Miss., other in Ala. (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:18 PM PST

AP - A father whose missing children are believed to be dead told investigators he buried one of his young children in Mississippi in March, then buried the other in Alabama in June, police said Monday.

Man testifies at SD trial he saw AIM activist shot (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 06:28 PM PST

AP - A man who is serving a life sentence for his role in the 1975 death of an American Indian Movement activist testified Monday that he stood nearby and watched another man shoot her.

Did the Labor Department Miss 350,000 Jobs (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 09:35 PM PST

Time.com - We might need a jobs recount

GOP Race for House Budget Panel Shows Tea Party Influence (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST

Time.com - The outcome of the fight to head up the key spending committee could be a telltale sign of where the clout in the new Republican-controlled House will lie

Warrant: NC sailor looked to sell military secrets (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:39 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by the US Navy shows Navy Reserve Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Bryan Minkyu Martin. Martin, a sailor stationed at Fort Bragg passed classified documents to someone he thought was a foreign intelligence agent in exchange for cash, according to a federal search warrant. Martin was arrested last week but has not been charged, according to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Martin, 22, is being held in the naval brig in Norfolk, Virginia, while the investigation continues. (AP Photo/US Navy)AP - A U.S. Navy sailor stationed at Fort Bragg passed classified documents to someone he thought was a foreign intelligence agent in exchange for cash, according to a federal search warrant.


Ex-Cowboys QB, 'Monday Night' announcer dies at 72 (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:03 PM PST

FILE - This Aug. 31, 2002, file photo shows former Dallas Cowboys and Southern Methodist University quarterback Don Meredith walking out for the coin toss before the Navy-SMU football game in Dallas. Meredith died in Santa Fe, N.M.,  after suffering a brain hemorrhage and lapsing into a coma,  on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. He was 72. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)AP - Don Meredith was the happiest, most fun-loving guy wherever he went, whether crooning country tunes in the huddle as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys or jawing with Howard Cosell in the broadcast booth as analyst on the groundbreaking "Monday Night Football."


Katrina looms over deadly police shooting trial (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:35 PM PST

** ADDS THAT ITALIANO IS A FORMER POLICE LIEUTENANT ** Former New Orleans police Lt. Robert Italiano, who is charged with writing and submitting a false report on the police shooting death of 31-year-old Henry Glover in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, enters federal court with family members in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)AP - Officers shot an unarmed man in the back, burned his body, then doctored a police report in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a federal prosecutor said Monday at the close of a trial that will test the government's push to clean up the troubled New Orleans police department.


AP IMPACT: US fails to tackle student visa abuses (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:18 PM PST

In this Sept. 1, 2010 photo, a check for J-1 visa worker Kateryna Totskaya shows zero pay for the pay period. Middlemen commonly dock students' pay so heavily for lodging, transportation and other necessities that the wages work out to $1 an hour or less, according to George Collins, an inspector at the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Department in the Florida Panhandle who has worked cases involving J-1 students since 2001. (AP Photo/Mari Darr-Welch)AP - Lured by unsupervised, third-party brokers with promises of steady jobs and a chance to sightsee, some foreign college students on summer work programs in the U.S. get a far different taste of life in America.


Transient charged in killing in Disney-built town (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:01 PM PST

This photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, shows a reward sign near the entrance to a condominium in Celebration, Fla. Police are investigating the first ever murder in Celebration, the Disney-developed community in Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - A homeless man was charged Monday with beating and strangling a man in what was the first homicide in Celebration, Disney's master-planned central Florida community.


Pilot survives crash that clipped 2 Utah houses (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 10:55 AM PST

Firefighters work at the scene of a plane crash in Roy, Utah on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. Wreckage of the plane appears to be on the lawn in the left and right of the frame. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Trent Nelson)AP - Authorities said Monday it was a miracle that a pilot survived a plane crash without injuring 17 people inside two houses clipped by the plane's wings and set afire in a northern Utah town.


Gun likely not linked to Hollywood publicist death (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:41 PM PST

FILE - This undated photo released by the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Hollywood publicist Ronni Sue Chasen, who was shot to death Nov. 16, 2010,  in her Mercedes-Benz in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. The mayor of Beverly Hills says detectives believe a Chasen was probably shot from another vehicle, possibly an SUV, in a targeted hit.(AP Photo/California Department of Motor Vehicles, File)AP - The gun a man used to kill himself as undercover police tried to talk to him about the slaying of a Hollywood publicist was likely not the same weapon used in her slaying.


Getty Museum's statue transfer ends Italy dispute (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:26 PM PST

AP - The love goddess Aphrodite is going home to Italy after the new year, stronger and more stable than she has been in 2,500 years.

Televised gay marriage hearing attracts audience (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:29 PM PST

Gus Thompson, left, and Eric Hufford of San Diego, hold signs in support of gay marriage as a truck with an anti-gay marriage message drives past them before a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, in San Francisco. The federal appeals court in San Francisco plans to hear two hours of arguments Monday about the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8. A trial court judge overturned the measure as a violation of gay Californians' civil rights in August.  (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - The legal fight over California's gay marriage ban went before a federal appeals court Monday in a hearing that reached a nationwide TV audience anxious for a final decision on whether the measure violates the U.S. Constitution.


NH man admits hacking woman, girl, claims insanity (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:32 PM PST

Christopher Gribble is seen Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 during a hearing at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua, N.H. Gribble admitted in court Monday that he hacked a mother to death and seriously wounded her young daughter during a 2009 home invasion but said he was insane when he did it. (AP Photo/Don Himsel, Pool)AP - A 21-year-old man admitted in court Monday that he hacked a mother to death and seriously wounded her young daughter during a 2009 home invasion but said he was insane when he did it.


Germ inspector helps prevent hospital infections (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:00 PM PST

University of Maryland Medical Center infection control specialist Michael Anne Preas talks with ICU nurses about infection control, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, in Baltimore. Every doctor, nurse and visitor who enters an intensive care patient's room at the University of Maryland Medical Center dons a bright yellow surgical gown and gloves so germs don't spread. Patroling the ICU like a cop on the beat is an infection preventionist, part of the change under way in U.S. hospitals to slash hospital-spread infections that claim an estimated 99,000 lives a year. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - This is no ordinary intensive care unit: Every doctor, nurse, friend or loved one must cover their clothes with a bright yellow gown and don purple gloves before entering a patient's room so some scary germs don't hitch a ride in or out.


Crippled ship due Tuesday at Dutch Harbor, Alaska (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:38 AM PST

AP - Fears that a crippled cargo ship would run aground in Alaskan waters are easing as it nears Dutch Harbor, safely under tow.

5-alarm fire roars in Baltimore's adult district (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:38 PM PST

Pedestrians walk near a fire scene Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, in Baltimore. Firefighters are battling a multi-alarm blaze in a row of strip clubs in downtown Baltimore. (AP Photo/Alex Dominguez)AP - A five-alarm fire broke out Monday afternoon in a building in Baltimore's adult-entertainment district, spreading quickly, sending thick smoke throughout downtown and snarling traffic.


Jet lands in Pittsburgh after dog bites 2 aboard (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:49 PM PST

AP - A dog accompanying an elderly New Jersey woman on a US Airways flight to Phoenix became agitated and bit a passenger and a flight attendant Monday, forcing the pilot to make an unexpected stop in Pittsburgh.

Lawyer wants video of Conn. boy's Uzi death barred (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST

AP - Prosecutors and defense lawyers argued Monday over whether jurors should see a video that shows an 8-year-old boy accidentally shooting himself in the head with an Uzi and his father dropping the camera and praying that his son is all right.
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