2011年1月11日星期二

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Family of Arizona shooting suspect expresses sorrow (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 06:19 PM PST

U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) is seen in an 2008 EMILY's List photo made available for Reuters on January 9, 2011. Giffords was battling for her life on Sunday after an assailant shot her in the head and killed six others as she met with constituents in Tucson. The 40-year-old Democratic lawmaker was in critical condition and doctors were cautiously optimistic she would survive. The suspected gunman was in federal custody as investigators sought a motive in the rare shooting of a U.S. lawmaker and looked for a possible accomplice. REUTERS/EMILY's List/HandoutReuters - The family of the accused gunman in the Arizona shooting spree expressed sorrow on Tuesday over the "heinous events" while the congresswoman shot in the head showed signs of improvement.

Illinois poised to abolish death penalty (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 06:06 PM PST

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Attorney General Lisa Madigan in Chicago, January 30, 2009. REUTERS/John GressReuters - Illinois was poised to become the first state since 2009 to abolish the death penalty after the state Senate approved the ban on Tuesday and sent it to Democratic Governor Pat Quinn for his signature.

Arizona trauma surgeon unfazed by shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 03:47 PM PST

Peter Rhee, medical director of the University Medical Center's Trauma and Critical Care unit, where U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is now treated, talks to reporters at a memorial outside the hospital in Tucson, Arizona January 10, 2011, where victims of last Saturday's shootings are recovering. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - The head of the trauma team that fought to save the lives of Arizona shooting victims on Saturday may lack swagger, but not confidence.

In Tucson, an Effort to Restore Peace After Shooting (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:25 PM PST

Time.com - Refusing to surrender to sorrow and shame, residents of Tucson gather and pray for a restoration of civic grace

Loughner's Mental Illness: Six Disturbing Warning Signs (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:25 PM PST

Time.com - The lessons of the Virginia Tech shooter are analogous to those of Tucson suspect Jared Loughner. But what exactly could have been done to prevent the latest tragedy?

Prosecutors urge judge not to clear ex-Guantanamo detainee (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:41 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday that a partial conviction of the first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial cannot form a basis for the judge to clear the Tanzanian terrorism suspect or grant him a new trial.

Man denies role in Chicago teen's fatal beating (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 05:21 PM PST

AP - A man accused of fatally beating a high school honors student who walked into a Chicago street brawl testified Tuesday that he was defending himself and never jumped on the teen's head during the videotaped melee.

F. Lee Bailey: Paper proves OJ Simpson's innocence (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 03:27 PM PST

F. Lee Bailey answers questions during an interview at his office in Yarmouth, Maine on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Bailey, O.J. Simpson's former defense attorney, defended Simpson's 1995 acquittal on murder charges in a 46-page paper on his website in which he presents evidence he says proves Simpson's innocence. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - Evidence of O.J. Simpson's innocence was held back in the 1995 trial in which he was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles, one of his former lawyers says in a new document.

Winter storm that shut down the South turns north (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 05:15 PM PST

Mark Kalinoski clears snow from sidewalks surrounding office buildings in Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh as snow from a predicted large snowstorm begins to fall, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. Predictors are saying over six inches could fall in the area by Thursday. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - The snow-and-ice storm that has shut down much of the South slowly rolled toward the Northeast on Tuesday, revealing a regional culture clash along the way.

Tension before opening arguments in Posada trial (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 05:42 PM PST

In this photo taken Nov. 8, 2010, Luis Posada Carriles talks to a reporter in Miami. As he prepares for trial Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 in El Paso, Texas, on federal charges connected to the decade-old bombings that killed an Italian tourist, Posada's art says much about the cagey former CIA asset who remains a lightning rod in much of Latin America. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - With opening statements set for Wednesday in an immigration fraud trial for an anti-communist militant considered Fidel Castro's nemesis, attorneys are arguing about how much of the defendant's cold-warrior past and the Cuban government's credibility should be admissible.

Giffords moves arms, survival odds at '101 pct' (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 05:14 PM PST

Peter Rhee, Director of Trauma Critical Care Emergency Surgery, right, Michael Lemole, middle, Chief of Neurosurgery, and Steve Goldschmid, Dean of the University of Arizona School of Medicine, confer before a news briefing at University Medical Center, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who is still in critical condition, and other victims were shot on Saturday, leaving six dead and more injured. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - One of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' doctors declared Tuesday she has "a 101 percent chance of surviving," as she made more progress, moving both arms and breathing on her own for the first time — just three days after a bullet shot through her brain.

9-year-old shot while holding hands with neighbor (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 01:54 PM PST

Bill Heilman, husband of injured shooting victim Susan Heilman, pauses as he describes his reaction after he found out his wife had been shot and Christina Green, 9, who was with his wife at the time had died in the shooting, during a news briefing at University Medical Center, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who is still in critical condition, and other victims who were shot on Saturday, leaving six dead and more injured. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Susan Hileman was holding hands with her 9-year-old neighbor Christina Taylor Green, waiting to meet U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, when gunshots rang out.

AP Enterprise: FDA helps states get execution drug (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 06:23 PM PST

FILE - This November 2005 file photo shows the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. In response to state queries, the FDA has announced it will not stop overseas shipments to the U.S. of the execution drug sodium thiopental, because the agency does not regulate products used in lethal injection. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - The Food and Drug Administration, which has long maintained that it has nothing to do with drugs used in executions, has quietly helped Arizona and California obtain a scarce type of anesthetic so the states could continue putting inmates to death.

Judge orders Michael Jackson doctor to stand trial (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 06:25 PM PST

Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson's sister, arrives at court, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, in Los Angeles for a preliminary hearing to decide if there is enough evidence for Dr. Conrad Murray to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who was demonized by Michael Jackson's family and fans, was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter after court testimony showed he administered a powerful anesthetic and other sedatives then left the pop star alone.

Giffords called real, hardworking, a fighter (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 01:07 PM PST

FILE - In a Jan. 5, 2011 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio reenacts the swearing in of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington. She loves motorcycles and yoga, and is as comfortable in a business suit walking the halls of Congress as she is clad in leather riding gear at the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. She holds a master's degree in urban planning, yet can mount a tire in a flash. Pretty and petite, sometimes soft-spoken, she will take on even her most ardent adversaries and try talking them down with a firm hand but also a smile. Said one friend of Gabrielle Giffords: 'She really pretty much defies a lot of description.' (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - She loves motorcycles and yoga, and is as comfortable in a business suit walking the halls of Congress as she is in leather riding gear at the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. She holds a master's degree from an Ivy League university, yet can mount a tire in a flash.

San Francisco's 1st Asian-American mayor sworn-in (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 05:26 PM PST

AP - San Francisco welcomed its first Asian-American leader Tuesday, as City Administrator Edwin Lee was sworn in as interim mayor before a crowd of hundreds.

Tucson suspect's troubles didn't keep him from gun (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

This undated photo obtained from MySpace shows Jarad L. Loughner. At an event roughly three years ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords took a question from Jared Loughner, the man accused of trying to assassinate her and killing six other people. According to two of his high school friends the question was essentially this: 'What is government if words have no meaning?' Loughner was angry about her response — she read the question and didn't have much to say. On Sunday, Loughner was charged in the shootings a day earlier at a political event outside a Tucson supermarket. Aside from the six killed, 14 people were injured., including Giffords. (AP Photo) NO SALESAP - Jared Loughner had trouble with the law, was rejected by the Army after flunking a drug test and was considered so mentally unstable that he was banned from his college campus, where officials considered him a threat to other students and faculty.

APNewsBreak: More warning signs on day of shooting (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 06:25 PM PST

A florist delivers a bouquet of flowers to the home where Jared Loughner's parents live, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Loughner is the alleged gunman in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. and other victims on Saturday, leaving six dead and more injured. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Investigators on Tuesday revealed more disturbing details about the events leading up to the assassination attempt against U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, including a menacing handwritten note in the suspect's home with the words "Die, bitch."

Protecting lawmakers: Arm them? Install shields? (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 04:18 PM PST

Members of Congress and staff members observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and other shooting victims, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, on the East Steps of the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington. Giffords was shot Saturday in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead. Pictured from left to right: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.; Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.; Steve Lawrence, chief of staff to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif.; Barry Jackson chief of staff to House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio; Del. Madeleine Bordallo, D-Guam; and Senate Sergeant at Arms Terry Gainer. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Several lawmakers defiantly vowed Tuesday to arm themselves after the shooting rampage in Arizona despite the Senate's top law enforcement officer's admonition that more guns would not be the answer. "It's not that I'm going to be like Wyatt Earp," declared Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., who said he was re-applying for a state permit to carry a concealed weapon even if he didn't necessarily plan to carry the pistol to public events.

Bill to abolish Ill. death penalty heading to gov. (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 03:14 PM PST

AP - The Illinois Senate voted Tuesday to abolish capital punishment, sending the historic issue to Gov. Pat Quinn and putting the state back at the center of an ongoing national debate.

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