2011年1月14日星期五

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Funeral for Tucson judge held amid tight security (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 03:23 PM PST

U.S. Federal Judge John Roll is pictured in this undated handout photograph released on January 8, 2011. REUTERS/Federal 9th Circuit Court/HandoutReuters - Hundreds of mourners, some clutching roses, said farewell amid tight security on Friday to respected federal judge John Roll, who was among six people shot to death outside a Tucson grocery last weekend.

Police describe accused Arizona gunman's night (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 04:42 PM PST

An artist's depiction shows Jared Lee Loughner (L), the Arizona man accused of shooting 20 people while trying to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend, and his attorney public defender Judy Clarke during a court appearance in Phoenix, Arizona January 10, 2011. REUTERS/Joan AndrewReuters - Jared Lee Loughner, charged with killing six people and trying to assassinate a U.S. congresswoman in Arizona, checked into a motel, bought bullets and had photographs developed on the night before the shooting, police said on Friday.

Man held in California school threat had weapons cache (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 03:16 PM PST

Reuters - Police found a cache of firearms at the house of a man they suspect of triggering a security scare at a San Diego-area high school on Friday when he called authorities to tell them he heard about a shooting there.

Yes, It Happens: Paramedics Race to Boy, Tongue Frozen to Stop Sign Pole (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 12:35 PM PST

Time.com - We thought it was a given, if you lick a frozen pole, you are going to get stuck

U.S. market cops say threats part of the beat (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 02:09 PM PST

Reuters - People who police financial markets say profanity-filled phone messages and hate-filled emails come with the territory, but a New York money manager who allegedly posted a hit list of regulators on his website is a more extreme example of the job hazard.

Give me back my sign! Horoscope readers atwitter (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 03:56 PM PST

Parke Kunkle, who teaches astronomy at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, talks with a reporter about the changing astrological signs in his office in Minneapolis, Minn., Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. Kunkle told a newspaper interviewer that the Earth's wobbly orbit means it's no longer aligned to the stars in the same way as when the signs of the zodiac were first conceived. That means when astrologers say the sun is in Pisces, it's really in Aquarius, and so on, Kunkle said. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - Sofia Whitcombe began her day with the startling realization that she might not be exactly who she thought she was.

Official: Ariz. suspect posed in G-string with gun (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 06:35 PM PST

A law enforcement official puts police tape outside the house of Jared L. Loughner Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - The suspect in the mass shooting in Arizona posed for photos with a gun, dressed only in a bright red G-string, and had the film developed on the eve of the rampage that killed six people and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities said Friday.

Poll: Certainty about equality unchanged since '06 (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 06:33 PM PST

Students from Watkins Elementary hold a hand drawn sign of Martin Luther King, Jr., before the fourth grade performs the 1963 'I Have A Dream' speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Having a black president hasn't exactly led Americans to believe their country has moved closer to the ideal of racial equality preached by Martin Luther King Jr., according to a new poll.

Papers detail NYC death of Portuguese journalist (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 04:21 PM PST

In this Dec. 1, 2010 photo, Carlos Castro, right, presents an award during the 'Transvestites' Night' show at the Sao Luiz theater in Lisbon, Portugal. The 65-year-old Portuguese television journalist was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 and his companion, Renato Seabra, a male model who had recently been a contestant on a Portuguese reality TV show, was in police custody Saturday according to the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - A man admitted castrating a Portuguese celebrity TV journalist and killing him in a New York hotel by slamming his head into a television, stabbing him with a corkscrew, and choking and stomping on him, a court document said Friday.

Federal judge mourned as fair jurist, family man (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 04:54 PM PST

A hearse with the remains of U.S. District Judge John Roll leaves St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church after his funeral Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Judge Roll, whose legal career spanned 40 years, had stopped by a supermarket meet-and-greet for Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday when he was shot and killed, along with five others. Authorities say the shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, was targeting Giffords, who was wounded along with 12 others. Giffords' husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, posted a message on Twitter Friday saying 'GG' was 'improving each day.' (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - The federal judge killed in the Arizona shooting rampage was known for an immigration ruling that got him death threats, but on Friday he was remembered as a man devoted to his family, his basset hounds and his Irish-Catholic heritage.

Obama to ease Cuba travel restrictions (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 06:35 PM PST

Employees from a restaurant repair a truck in front of the Capitol building early in the morning in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - President Barack Obama plans to loosen Cuban travel policy to allow students and church groups to go to the communist country, the administration announced Friday.

Giffords' doctors balancing role as rock stars (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 10:25 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2011 file photo, Dr. Peter Rhee, Trauma and Critical Care Emergency Surgery doctor at University Medical Center, describes in more detail the gunshot wound Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.,received on Saturday, during a news briefing at UMC in Tucson, Ariz. Giffords remains in critical condition, but doctors have reported steady progress each day since she was wounded last weekend. If all goes well, she may be 'out of the woods' on Friday, said Rhee. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)AP - One is an irrepressible South Korea native who has treated some of the most horrific wartime injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. The other is a reserved neurosurgeon who happens to be the brother-in-law of television show host Dr. Oz.

With police watching, lawmakers resume meetings (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 06:35 PM PST

Rep. Shelley Berkley of D-Nev., meets with constituents during a two-hour 'Congress on Your Corner' event Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, at her office in Las Vegas. Berkley met with with constituents in one of the first public congressional events since an assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Rep. Shelley Berkley threw open the doors of her congressional office Friday, inviting constituents to stop in to ask questions, lodge complaints or plead for help. There was no metal detector, no pat-downs. People had only to fill out a card to see the congresswoman.

Calif. man used Facebook to hack women's e-mails (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 06:19 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the California Attorney General's office, George Bronk is shown. Bronk admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into dozens of women's e-mail accounts across the nation and overseas. The California attorney general's office says the 23-year-old would scan the e-mails for nude and seminude photos and videos that he often forwarded to the victim's entire e-mail address book. (AP Photo/California Attorney General's office)AP - In a cautionary tale for users of social-networking sites, a California man has admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into women's e-mail accounts, then send nude pictures of them to everyone in their address book.

Doctors amputate Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 05:03 PM PST

FILE - This Aug. 15, 1986 file photo shows actress Zsa Zsa Gabor on her wedding day in Los Angeles. Doctors in Los Angeles say Friday Jan. 14, 2011 they have successfully amputated most of Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg.(AP Photo/File)AP - Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg was amputated Friday in a life-saving surgery that doctors called successful. Gabor, who turns 94 on Feb. 6, was being watched carefully, but there were no complications, doctors at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center said after the surgery.

Gun fair organizer acquitted in boy's Uzi death (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 02:12 PM PST

AP - A gun fair organizer was acquitted of manslaughter and other charges Friday in the 2008 death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi at a machine gun expo in western Massachusetts.

Jackson: Don't use MLK Day to make up snow days (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 01:11 PM PST

A person walks up the middle of a downtown street covered in ice Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 in Atlanta. Days after several inches of snow crippled the city, children are still home from school, icy highways are still littered with hundreds of abandoned cars and grocery store shelves are still running low on staples like milk and juice. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - Civil rights leaders said Friday that school districts around the Southeast should scrap plans to use the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to make up for snow days, calling the decision an insult to the civil rights icon's legacy.

Geriatric NY gangster, 93, gets 8 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 09:38 AM PST

FILE - In this June 15, 2010 file photo, John 'Sonny' Franzese, left, arrives at federal court in the Brooklyn Borough of New York. To the dismay of supporters who insist the frail 93-year-old is a decrepit shadow of his former self, the government has asked a judge in federal court in Brooklyn to sentence him on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, to 12 years or more in prison. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)AP - Convicted mob boss John "Sonny" Franzese is so old, he knew Frank Sinatra in his heyday. He's so old, his recent extortion trial became nap time — even when his turncoat son took the witness stand against him.

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