2011年1月15日星期六

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Doctors open breathing hole in Giffords' throat (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 01:18 PM PST

Reuters - Doctors performed a tracheotomy on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, inserting a breathing tube through a hole in her neck and removing her from a ventilator, hospital officials said.

Obama urges bipartisanship after Arizona shootings (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 03:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, Bo Obama walks with a ball on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, the trainer who prepared President Barack Obama's dog Bo for life as the first dog, has died. Sylvia-Stasiewicz, 52, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at a Virginia hospital, her ex-husband Paul Stasiewicz said Saturday. Sylvia-Stasiewicz initially had no idea the Portuguese water dog that arrived at her Virginia home two years ago was destined for life at the White House — an experience she described in a recent book. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Reuters - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday to maintain the "spirit of common cause" that arose from grieving over the Arizona shootings and use it to solve the nation's problems.


Business brisk at Tucson gun show week after rampage (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 02:45 PM PST

Reuters - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive gun laws in the United States.

Obama Tucson Speech: Call for Unity Over Divisive Rhetoric (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 01:05 PM PST

Time.com - As President Obama addressed Jared Lee Loughner's alleged crime before a crowd of 14,000 in Tucson on Wednesday night, his message boiled down to this: Loughner had failed

Tucson Tragedy: The Real Lesson of the Senseless Violence (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 01:05 PM PST

Time.com - On Jan. 8, a man at war with "normal" unleashed other forces also at war with normal, people who are turning our politics into a freak show for their own cynical or sanctimonious reasons

Amtrak train strikes jogger listening to music (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 12:33 PM PST

Reuters - An Amtrak train struck and killed a woman who was listening to music while jogging along the tracks, police said on Saturday.

Year ahead looms as toughest yet for state budgets (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2011 file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown points to a chart as he explains his approach to dealing with an estimated $25.4 billion state budget deficit during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. California is just one of many states facing a year of reckoning as they deal with multi-billion dollar budget deficits. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)AP - If 2011 is hinting at a national recovery, there is little sign of it in statehouses across the country.


Doctors replace Giffords' breathing tube (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 01:51 PM PST

This local Motel 6 is where alleged gunman Jared Loughner stayed only hours prior to the mass shooting of 19 that left six dead, show here, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz.  One of the victims was Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who is still in critical condition. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Doctors on Saturday removed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' breathing tube and could soon know if she can speak.


At 100, Boston NAACP confronts city's mixed past (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST

AP - For years, Michael Curry has heard this joke from African-Americans living in the South: No matter how bad things are for black people here, at least we don't live in Boston.

Late Sen. Edward Kennedy honored by King Center (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 03:14 PM PST

AP - The widow of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy will accept a posthumous award from the King Center recognizing her husband's work for civil rights.

Before shooting, suspect embarked on chaotic night (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 11:55 AM PST

**CORRECTS SPELLING OF GIFFORDS** FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2011 file photo, emergency personnel move Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.,  after she was shot in the head outside a shopping center in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/James Palka, File)AP - He wandered through the dark streets of his hometown, meandering from one store to another on a furious all-night excursion as he prepared what authorities say were the final steps in taking revenge on a world from which he'd become progressively alienated.


Emergency responders talk about Ariz. shooting (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:20 AM PST

In this Jan. 14, 2011 photo, Safeway produce merchandiser Amy Williams stocks tomatoes as Safeway prepares to re-open after the shootings almost a week ago in Tucson, Ariz.  The harrowing first week is over. Now as the national focus drifts away and a quietness returns to this laid-back college city, the profound pain is settling in as victims of last weekend's shooting spree, and their tight-knit community_ enter the toughest part of their healing process. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic,  Cheryl Evans, File)  NO SALES, MAGS OUTAP - Emergency officials who went to the scene of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others are talking about their response one week after the rampage in Arizona.


Texas town holds onto hope for teen's safe return (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 12:05 PM PST

In this photo provided by Clint Dunn, his 13-year-old daughter, Hailey Dunn, left, is photographed with her mother Billie Jean Dunn, center, and her mother's boyfriend Shawn Adkins on Christmas, Dec. 25, 2010 in Colorado City, Texas. Three weeks after the teen disappeared, there are few clues about where she may have gone. Police now are zeroing in on Adkins. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Clint Dunn)AP - There are signs of anguish all across this West Texas town: Orange ribbons are tied around trees, stops signs and car antennas. Posters and fliers with photos of missing 13-year-old Hailey Darlene Dunn are plastered on storefront doors and public offices.


Ex-candidate charged with making threats in Ind. (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 02:07 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Indiana State Police shows Cheryl Allen. The fifty-one-year old woman who ran for U.S. Congress last year has been charged with making threats against Indiana judges on her Facebook account. Allen, of Martinsville, was being held in the Morgan County Jail on $100,000 bond Saturday. She was arrested Thursday on eight felony counts of intimidation. (AP Photo/Indiana State Police)AP - An Indiana woman who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress last year was being held Saturday on charges she made threats against judges and other officials on her Facebook account.


Police name suspect in murder of NJ police officer (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 04:33 PM PST

This undated photo released by the Lakewood Police Department, in Lakewood, N.J., on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011, shows Jahmell W. Crockam. Crockam is charged with killing Lakewood Patrolman Christopher Matlosz on Friday. (AP Photo/Lakewood Police Department)AP - Police signed murder charges Saturday against a 19-year-old man they accuse of fatally shooting a New Jersey police officer who had driven up beside him and started to question him.


Paramedics describe hellish Ariz. shooting scene (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 04:56 PM PST

First responders from Northwest Fire District Engine 30 paramedic Tony Compagno, right, who was first on the scene to care for gunshot victim Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., talks with battalion chief Lane Spalla during a moment of reflection at a Northwest Fire District station Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz.  Giffords, who is still in critical condition, was one of 19 victims shot last Saturday, six fatally in a mass shooting. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Veteran paramedic Tony Compagno stepped off Engine 30 and into hell: Panicked people rushed his crew, trying to pull them toward the injured, while three men desperately gave chest compressions to a 9-year-old girl.


Mass. ex-chief found not guilty in boy's Uzi death (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 12:20 PM PST

AP - A former western Massachusetts police chief who organized a gun fair was found not guilty of all charges in the 2008 death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi submachine gun.

Group: Oldest living African-American dies at 113 (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 04:11 AM PST

Mississippi Winn poses for a photo for archival purposes by Robert Young of the Gerontology Research Group Monday July 19, 2010 in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Caddo Parish Coroner's Office confirms that Mississippi Winn died Friday afternoon Jan. 14, 2011 at age 113 at a nursing home in Shreveport. Winn is believed to have been the oldest living African-American in the U.S. and the seventh oldest living person. Young says Winn was one of two known people in the U.S. whose parents were almost certainly born into slavery because documents show they were born before the end of the Civil War, though her great-niece Mary C. Hollins says Winn never acknowledged that. (AP Photo/Robert Young)AP - When she turned 113, Mississippi Winn could still stand up on her own and never thought her age was a detriment to her life.


LA videos: Disabled woman says she was victimized (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 12:46 PM PST

AP - A second alleged victim has come forward in the Southern California investigation into videotaped sexual assaults of severely disabled women, authorities said.

Key backer of NYC Islamic center takes lesser role (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 12:03 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2010 file photo, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The organization planning to build an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center said Rauf, the imam who has been the public face of the project, will be playing a reduced role in the facility. The nonprofit group Park51 announced Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, that it had named a new imam to help lead religious programing so that Rauf could focus on other initiatives. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)AP - The preacher who hoped to use his unsought fame as imam of the mosque near ground zero to start a dialogue about Muslims in America said he's taking a reduced role in the project so he can travel the country building "understanding among all people of faith."


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