2010年12月16日星期四

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Calif. regulators OK major greenhouse gas rules (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 07:28 PM PST

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses the California Air Resources Board urging them to adopt some of the nation's most sweeping clean air regulations, in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. The CRB was expected to pass a key piece of the state’s 2006 climate law, called AB32. If it passes, power plants, refineries and other major greenhouse gas emitters will have pollution capped by new regulations being considered by the regulatory agency. The new rules set up the nation's most extensive carbon trading market that officials hope will provide a financial incentive for the state's worst polluters to cut emissions.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California regulators on Thursday approved the first system in the nation to give polluting companies such as utilities and refineries financial incentives to emit fewer greenhouse gases.

Oklahoma executes man using new drug combination (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:38 PM PST

In this Oct. 2, 2003 photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, John Duty is shown. Duty is scheduled to be executed on Thursday. Duty was convicted of the Dec. 19, 2001, killing of 22-year-old Curtis Wise, who was Duty's cellmate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections)AP - Oklahoma officials executed a convicted murderer Thursday using a drug combination that includes a sedative commonly used to euthanize animals, after a nationwide shortage of a key ingredient forced the state to tinker with the usual formula.

Inmate who fled Iowa hospital on lam for 18 hours (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:14 AM PST

AP - A jail inmate with a history of fleeing custody escaped from an Iowa City hospital and eluded authorities during a more than 18-hour crime spree that police say included multiple carjackings and subsequent crashes.

Biggest Loser 2010: And the Winner Is... (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - ...a whole lot lighter

Top 10 Animal Stories of 2010 (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 11:35 AM PST

Time.com - In 50 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months

Military jury: Prison, dismissal for Army birther (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:38 PM PST

Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin of Greeley, Colo., left, leaves a military court after being found guilty of missing a flight for deployment Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 at Fort Meade, Md. Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan because he does not believe that President Barack Obama was born in the United States and therefore questions his eligibility to be commander in chief. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)AP - An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Barack Obama's eligibility to be commander in chief was sentenced by a jury Thursday to six months in a military prison and dismissal from the Army.

Snow, sleet wreak havoc in Mid-Atlantic, South (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 07:30 PM PST

A U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officer stands watch on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, as snow falls in the Washington area. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Snow, sleet and freezing rain wreaked havoc across Mid-Atlantic and Southern states on Thursday, causing hundreds of accidents, four fatal. The nasty pre-winter mix also forced schools to start late, close early or cancel classes altogether.

LAPD releases pics in 'Grim Sleeper' killer case (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:33 PM PST

Photographs found in the possession of Lonnie David Franklin Jr. are shown during a news conference in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Bracing for a flood of tips from the public, detectives released dozens of photographs of unidentified women that were found at the home of the suspected 'Grim Sleeper' serial killer. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Police found a stash of sexually explicit photographs and home videos of scores of women when they searched the home of a car mechanic accused of the "Grim Sleeper" serial killings.

Police: NJ prostitute not among 4 bodies on beach (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:38 PM PST

K-9 unit police use a cadaver dog to search an area in Oak Beach, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, on New York's Long Island, as authorities continue scouring a 10-mile stretch of beach access road where four bodies were discovered this week. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - A missing New Jersey prostitute was not among the four women whose bodies were found over the past week on a deserted beach highway in New York, detectives said Thursday.

Fed. officials plan stepped-up fight against carp (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:56 PM PST

AP - Federal officials promised a stepped-up fight Thursday to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes by better tracking their movements, blocking potential migration pathways and killing any that manage to evade a network of new and improved barriers.

Bids for Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin top $37,000 (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:54 PM PST

FILE - This file photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, shows the wooden coffin in which John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was buried in, seen at the Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles. The ghoulish piece of American history is expected to be purchased at auction by the end of the day Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - The simple wooden coffin that was supposed to be Lee Harvey Oswald's final resting place will soon have a new resting place of its own.

Pa. girls fight 'boobies' bracelet ban in US court (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:20 PM PST

AP - In a test case of whether breast cancer fundraising bracelets that proclaim "I (heart) boobies!" can be banned in public schools, one district is calling the slogan a sexually charged double entendre.

Emanuel's hearing for Chicago mayoral bid over (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:53 PM PST

Rahm Emanuel right, testifies before the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners during a hearing challenging his residency to run as Mayor in Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - A hearing over residency challenges to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral bid in Chicago has ended after three days of testimony.

Almost no oil recovered from sand berms (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST

In this Dec. 15, 2010 aerial photo from a southwings.org flight, berm construction by the State of Louisiana is seen along the Chandeleur Islands, in the Gulf of Mexico. The big set of sand barriers erected by Louisiana's governor to protect the coastline at the height of the Gulf oil spill is being criticized by a presidential commission as a colossal, $200 million waste of money so far. In its stinging report, the commission said Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 that its staff can 'comfortably conclude that the decision to green-light the underwhelmingly effective, overwhelmingly expensive Louisiana berms project was flawed.' (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The big set of sand barriers erected by Louisiana's governor to protect the coastline at the height of the Gulf oil spill was criticized by a presidential commission Thursday as a colossal, $200 million waste of BP's money so far.

US files new charges against ex-Detroit mayor, dad (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:54 PM PST

U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade, at podium, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Attorney office in Detroit on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. They announced a 38 count indictment against Kwame Kilpatrick, Bernard Kilpatrick and others. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Robin Buckson)AP - Imprisoned ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was indicted Wednesday on new corruption charges, and his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, also was implicated in what a federal prosecutor called a "pattern of extortion, bribery and fraud" among some of the city's most prominent officials.

Vick says he would like a pet dog, renewing debate (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:20 PM PST

FILE - This Dec. 12, 2010, file photo shows Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick after an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys, in Arlington, Texas. The convicted dogfighting-ring operator tells TheGrio.com in a video interview that he genuinely cares for animals and one day hopes to have a dog as a household pet. Vick says it would a 'big step' in his rehabilitation process.(AP Photo/LM Otero, File)AP - Michael Vick is barred from owning a dog for a year and a half, but the star quarterback's comment that he'd like to bring one into his house generated renewed outrage — and support.

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