2011年2月12日星期六

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Need quick entry into Texas Capitol? Just get a gun permit (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 12:13 PM PST

Reuters - Security is newly tightened at the Texas Capitol, but plenty of gun-toting visitors can breeze right through.

Taxi plows into San Diego crowd injuring 25 people (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 02:00 PM PST

Reuters - A Taxi cab plowed into a crowd of people on a downtown San Diego sidewalk after they left a bar early Saturday morning, injuring 25 people, seven of them critically, authorities said.

Police suspect silicone clogged lungs in injection death (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 10:52 AM PST

Reuters - Philadelphia police suspect a London woman who died after a botched buttocks enhancement may have been killed when a fumbled injection filled her lung with silicone and caused a fatal embolism.

Feds release San Francisco tiger attack documents (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 01:30 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo shows Tatiana, a female Siberian tiger, in her exhibit at the zoo. Tatiana, who was killed in a hail of police gunfire after fatally mauling a man at the zoo on Christmas Day 2007, was likely provoked into leaping and clawing out of its enclosure, a federal investigator said in documents obtained by The Associated Press in 2011. The tiger killed 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. and injured his friends, brothers Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal, leaving claw marks etched in the asphalt and nail fragments in the bushes outside its pen. (AP Photo/San Francisco Zoo, File) NO SALESAP - A female Siberian tiger killed in a hail of police gunfire after fatally mauling a man at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day 2007 likely was provoked into leaping and clawing out of its enclosure, a federal investigator said in documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Emanuel vows to tackle Chicago corruption as mayor (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 04:11 PM PST

Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel speaks to his supporters as he arrives for his campaign at Welles Park in Chicago, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Saturday that tackling Chicago's reputation for sweetheart deals and patronage head-on is first on his to-do list if he's elected to be the city's next mayor.

Conn. MBA grads start social site "shizzlr.com" (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 10:59 AM PST

AP - Nick Jaensch and Keith Bessette know that 500 million online friends and $1.5 billion raised from investors are for that other online social network.

Boston planetarium reopens after $9M renovation (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 11:30 AM PST

In this Feb. 8, 2011 photo, a variety of planets are displayed in the waiting area outside the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston. The Charles Hayden Planetarium at Boston's Museum of Science is reaching for the stars again after a yearlong, $9 million renovation. The 52-year-old planetarium reopens to the public on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 for the first time in more than a year. The new show takes viewers in a virtual spaceship to search for 'exoplanets' — worlds being discovered beyond our own solar system. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - The skyline of Boston shrinks away and before long is replaced by the blue-green orb that is planet Earth. As Earth itself moves into the rearview mirror, the moon appears, gray and foreboding, but it, too, quickly recedes into a tiny pinpoint of light.

NYPD: Man fatally stabbed 3, ran over pedestrian (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 04:35 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the New York City Police Department, Maksim Gelman is shown. Gelman, 23, is sought for the Feb. 11, 2011 stabbing deaths of his stepfather and two women, as well as injuring two additional people while making his escape. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)AP - A Ukranian-born graffiti artist armed with five knives went on a bloody 28-hour rampage across New York City, slashing to death his stepfather, ex-girlfriend and her mother, running down a pedestrian in a stolen Lexus and knifing a subway passenger before being arrested in Times Square, police said.

25 injured when taxi plows into crowd in San Diego (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 11:55 AM PST

This image provided by the San Diego Fire and Rescue Department shows the scene where according to police, a taxi cab driver plowed slowly into a crowd on a sidewalk in San Diego's busy Gaslamp District Saturday Feb. 12, 2011, injuring more than two dozen people. (AP Photo/ San Diego Fire and Rescue Department, Maurice Luque)AP - A taxi driver plowed slowly through a crowd on a sidewalk in a popular restaurant and nightclub zone early Saturday, severing the leg of one woman and injuring more than two dozen other people, police said.

AP Enterprise: Drifters find home in Katrina ruins (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 12:41 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 picture, Katy Quigly, of the abandoned buildings outreach team of Unity Of Greater New Orleans, counsels Calvin Smallwood, a homeless person, in New Orleans. More than five years after Katrina, New Orleans is struggling to deal with more than 40,000 abandoned properties, all of them in various states of neglect and collapse. And in these wastelands, an estimated 3,000 homeless find refuge every night. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The dark blue rescue van pulls up in front of a sad shell of a house, a few blocks from the police station and criminal court. It's turning into a cold January night.

Egyptians at US rallies hopeful about future (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 05:17 PM PST

Israa El Nashar, left, and Kawthaer El Seyiad, both from the Brooklyn borough of New York, take part in a demonstration near the United Nations headquarters celebrating Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 in New York. Mubarak's three decades of authoritarian rule ended Friday when he handed power to the Egyptian military following 18 days of protests calling for his ouster. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Egyptians gathered in major cities across the U.S. on Saturday for a second day of celebration after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, with many expressing hope about the future and some pledging to return to help in the Middle Eastern nation's transition.

Father charged in slaying of 2 sons near Atlanta (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 05:16 PM PST

Gwinnett County sheriff deputy, D. Brandenburg, left, shows defendant, Antonio Cardenas-Rico into the court on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 before judge, Gene Cantrell at the Magistrate Court at the Gwinnett, Ga. County Jail. Cardenas-Rico is charged with murder in an attack on a suburban Atlanta family that left two young boys dead in their home and their father and another brother injured. Police arrested Antonio Cardenas-Rico and charged him with two counts of murder, Gwinnett County police Cpl. Jake Smith said. Three-year-old Bradley Garcia and 1-year-old Edward Garcia were found stabbed to death in the home near Lawrenceville. Their father, 23-year-old Elvis Garcia, and another 3-year-old brother were hospitalized with stab wounds. The 3-year-olds are twins, Smith said. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, John Spink)AP - A man who blamed his children's fatal stabbings this week on their mother's boyfriend was charged on Saturday with killing the two boys and wounding another. Police in suburban Atlanta also dropped murder charges that had been brought against the boyfriend.

Los Angeles priest removed for affair 40 years ago (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 05:10 PM PST

AP - A Catholic priest who admitted having a sexual relationship with a high school girl more than 40 years ago was removed his position, and a high-ranking official who oversaw the background checks of priests resigned.

Marines define future role amid budget cuts (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 12:36 PM PST

AP - A faster, high-tech seafaring tank for U.S. Marines has hit countless setbacks and cost overruns during the past two decades, and now it is one of the pricier items on the Defense Department's budget-cutting list.

Palin hires chief of staff for PAC (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 11:45 AM PST

AP - Sarah Palin has hired longtime political strategist Michael Glassner as chief of staff of her political action committee.

'Granddad Bandit' duped others with heroic image (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 09:09 AM PST

FILE - This June 22, 2010 file image taken from surveillance video provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, shows a bank robbery suspect dubbed the 'Granddad Bandit' robbing a bank in Virginia. Michael Francis Mara pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday Feb. 10, 2011 to robbing two Virginia banks and acknowledged two dozen other heists from New York to Texas. Mara is so mild mannered, authorities say, that even as he was robbing a bank, one teller recalled he 'looked like he was somebody's granddaddy.' (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney’s Office, File)AP - Michael Francis Mara is so mild mannered, authorities say, that even as he was robbing a bank, the teller recalled he "looked like he was somebody's granddaddy" — and yet he has admitted to being a "monster."

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