2010年12月7日星期二

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Elizabeth Edwards shared private pain with public (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:57 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2010 file photo, Elizabeth Edwards arrives at the 'Stand Up To Cancer' television event at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif. A family friend on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 said Edwards has died after a battle with cancer. She was 61. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - Elizabeth Edwards lost her hair to cancer, her son to an accident, her husband to another woman.

Chewing tobacco maker agrees to $5M settlement (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST

AP - The maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what is believed to be the first wrongful-death settlement won from a chewing tobacco company.

Court weighs constitutionality of gay marriage ban (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:49 AM PST

Co-lead counsel of the legal team challenging California's same-sex marriage ban, David Boies, standing, argues during a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, in San Francisco. The federal appeals court in San Francisco was scheduled 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, Pool)AP - A line of questioning at an appeals court hearing over California's gay marriage ban suggested the three judges could issue a decision that would legalize same-sex marriage in that state but leave intact bans in other western states under the court's jurisdiction.

Working Out The Costs Of Obama's Grand Tax Cut Bargain (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST

Time.com - Like the 2009 Recovery Act, there are good reasons for the government to do short term borrowing to avoid deep recessions and therefore boost longer-term growth.

Will Madoff's Investors Break Even? (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST

Time.com - Bernie Madoff investors might end up getting more of their money back then they thought

Innocent Wis. convict wavers between anger, hope (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 01:37 PM PST

AP - It wasn't the 23 years behind bars that made Robert Lee Stinson's prison sentence so agonizing. Nor was it the humiliating treatment by prison guards.

Dozens look for Ill. mom missing since fatal crash (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:20 PM PST

AP - After three days of scouring in the frigid cold, investigators have turned up very few clues in their search for the northern Illinois mother of four who has vanished since a weekend car crash that killed her husband.

NY feds: Boston businessman giving up $625 million (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:29 PM PST

AP - A 97-year-old Boston-area apparel entrepreneur agreed Tuesday to forfeit $625 million to be distributed to cheated investors in jailed Bernard Madoff's historic Ponzi scheme, authorities revealed, as a court trustee said negotiations are under way to recover money as well from the owners of the New York Mets.

Lake-fed storm leaving big snow totals in NY, Pa. (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 01:55 PM PST

A pedestrian walks past a lake in University Circle, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, in Cleveland. Cold weather and snow is expected throughout the week. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - Bands of snow blasting off the Great Lakes buried one western New York town under four feet of snow and caused a pileup that left motorists stranded for hours on a stretch of Interstate 80 in northwestern Pennsylvania.

NYC officials bust Ivy League coke, LSD, pot ring (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST

Columbia University students Adam Klein, center, and Jose Perez, right are walked from the New York Police Department's 25th Precinct in Manhattan after they were arrested with three other students on Tuesday Dec. 7, 2010 in New York. Authorities say the five Columbia University students sold LSD-spiked candy and a full menu of other drugs at three fraternity houses and other residences on the Ivy League campus, where it was believed at least one of the suspects was using the drug money for school expenses. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - Five Columbia University students were charged Tuesday with selling LSD-spiked candy and other drugs at three fraternity houses and other residences on the Ivy League campus, with two allegedly claiming they needed the drug money to cover tuition.

Top Catholic educator concealed abuse knowledge (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 12:11 PM PST

In this Thursday July 22, 2010 photo, Kevin Price poses on the banks of the James River in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Kevin Price was struggling with memories of the sexual abuse he says he suffered at the hands of a high school teacher, so he reached out to the religious order that runs the Catholic school he attended.

Prosecution rests in 1975 AIM slaying trial (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:51 PM PST

AP - The prosecution rested its case Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of shooting an American Indian Movement activist in late 1975 and leaving her to die, after two federal agents testified that the suspect became nervous while discussing the crime.

Pearl Harbor survivors gather 69 years later (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:12 PM PST

Pearl Harbor survivor John Hughes, left, and Lance Cpl. Zackary Morphew attend the 69th anniversary ceremony marking the attack on Pearl Harbor, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)AP - Aging Pearl Harbor survivors on Tuesday heard reassurances their sacrifice would be remembered and passed on to future generations as they gathered to mark the 69th anniversary of the attack.

86-year-old Pa. man hunts from recliner, bags buck (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:21 PM PST

In this Nov. 29, 2010 photo provided by Scott Warner, Lester Warner, 86, poses with an 8-point buck he shot on his son's property near Broad Top City, Pa. Warner recently stopped receiving treatment for an advanced form of cancer, and his son brought a recliner to the mountain so he could hunt comfortably. (AP Photo/Scott Warner)AP - Lester Warner left the hospital in a weakened state last month, his frail body wracked by late-stage cancer. At 86 years old, he and his family had decided to stop treatment. But that didn't mean he planned to stop hunting.

Ala. dad admits burying children, blames stepmom (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:24 AM PST

This Dec. 1, 2010 photo released by the Louisville Metropolitan Dept. of Corrections shows Heather Leavell Kenton. Police are still searching for two missing Alabama children: five-year-old Natalie DeBlase and three-year-old Jonathan DeBlase. Their father, John Deblase, was arrested in Florida and charged with child abuse and two counts of abuse of a corpse. The children's step-mother, Heather Keaton, was arrested h in Louisville last week. (AP Photo/Louisville Metropolitan Dept. of Corrections)AP - A father whose missing children are believed to be dead told investigators he buried one of them in Mississippi and the other in Alabama but says it was their stepmother who killed them, police said.

Mass. judge: Jurors can see video of Uzi death (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:13 AM PST

AP - A graphic video showing an 8-year-old boy accidentally killing himself with an Uzi submachine gun at a fair can be shown to the jury during the manslaughter trial of a former police chief, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Beating video shown at murder trial of Chicago boy (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:13 PM PST

FILE - This Sept. 28, 2009 file photo shows posters of 16-year-old Derrion Albert who was beaten to death Sept. 24, 2009, outside Fenger High School in Chicago. On Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, opening statements began for a now 15-year-old boy charged in the beating death. Four other suspects have been charged as adults and are awaiting trial. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)AP - The trial of a teen charged in the beating death of a 16-year-old Chicago honor student began Tuesday with jurors watching a video showing the teen punching the other boy in the face — a recording played around the world that drew attention to school violence.

Showdown nears on release of NYC teacher ratings (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:31 AM PST

AP - A dispute over whether to release performance ratings for 12,000 New York City schoolteachers is pitting the public's right to know which teachers are making the grade against teachers' fears that they will be unfairly subjected to ridicule based on student test scores.

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

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:26 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.

Ill. casino plan could amp up gambling competition (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 01:21 PM PST

This May 28, 2008 photo shows the Grand Victoria Casino on the Fox River in Chicago suburban Elgin, Ill. Illinois, desperate for relief from its budget woes, is considering a massive casino expansion including one in Chicago that experts say could leave neighboring states playing for smaller stakes and even squeeze out some competition from within. The proposed expansion would more than triple the state’s gambling capacity, putting a land-based casino in Chicago, two more riverboats in the Chicago suburbs and two riverboats in more rural parts of the state. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Brian Hill) **MANDATORY CREDIT**AP - Cash-strapped Illinois is considering a massive casino expansion in Chicago and elsewhere that could leave nearby competitors playing for smaller stakes.

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