2011年2月13日星期日

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Fire guts 20 homes on Washington Indian reservation (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:47 PM PST

Reuters - Firefighters on Sunday were putting out hot spots from a fierce, wind-whipped blaze that gutted 20 homes and forced 300 residents from their dwellings on the Yakama Indian Reservation southeast of Seattle.

Man jailed after filming himself driving 140 mph (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 10:13 PM PST

Reuters - A man who filmed the speedometer of his car while driving more than 140 miles per hour so he could post it on YouTube, ended up in jail on Saturday and the video confiscated, police said.

Grammys kick off with Aretha Franklin tribute (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:25 PM PST

AP - A recovering Aretha Franklin made her first televised appearance before a national audience as the Grammys began with a multi-genre tribute to the Queen of Soul, who is recovering from surgery.

Sandler, Aniston barely beat Bieber at box office (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 01:56 PM PST

Actors Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston attend the premiere of 'Just Go With It' at The Ziegfeld Theater, in New York on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)AP - Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are America's box-office sweethearts, but Justin Bieber is the valentine for teens.


Police: Hostage-taker at NC bank was unarmed (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 02:13 PM PST

AP - A man who told hostages and police he had a gun was actually unarmed during a three-hour standoff that ended with officers shooting and killing him outside a North Carolina bank, police said Sunday.

Couple gets married on a real love train in Philly (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:10 PM PST

AP - When people ask Krisy Plourde and Tom Golden where they got married, their answer will be a rough estimate: somewhere around 46th Street.

Fire on Washington reservation destroys 18 homes (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 05:10 PM PST

AP - Dozens of firefighters battled a blaze fueled by strong winds on Washington's Yakama Indian Reservation that destroyed 18 homes, officials said.

NYC stabbing spree suspect: I'm victim of a setup (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:51 PM PST

AP - A man accused of going on a 28-hour stabbing rampage through New York City shouted that he was the victim of a "setup" as he was led from a police station Sunday.

Liz Taylor remains hospitalized for heart failure (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 04:58 PM PST

AP - Elizabeth Taylor is likely to spend another few days in a Los Angeles hospital while being treated for congestive heart failure, a spokeswoman for the Oscar-winning actress said Sunday.

A look inside America's poorest county (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:48 PM PST

AP - In the barren grasslands of Ziebach County, there's almost nothing harder to find in winter than a job. This is America's poorest county, where more than 60 percent of people live at or below the poverty line.

Mob arrests raise issues of crime, port security (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:28 AM PST

AP - Law enforcement officials have called the stretch between Port Newark and Newark Liberty International Airport the most dangerous two miles in America.

Laughing gas returning as option for laboring moms (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:24 AM PST

AP - Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet.

Short on men, retirement home hires dance partners (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 10:00 AM PST

AP - Hewitt Bruce extends his hand to a waiting lady pining for a dance — and someone with whom to share it. He twirls and waltzes and makes exacting steps; she has become the woman to envy. And as one song fades to another, he is off again, never far from making his next sweetheart a little less lonely.

Pipe 'imperfection' found after fatal blast in Pa. (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 08:14 AM PST

** CORRECTS DATE TO FEB. 9 ** In this Feb. 9, 2011 photo, emergency crews respond to a massive explosion in a residential neighborhood of downtown Allentown, Pa. The natural gas explosion in Allentown killed at least one person, leveled two houses, spawned fires that burned for more than seven hours and prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people. At least five others were unaccounted for Thursday. (AP Photo/Express-Times, Chris Post) NO SALESAP - Investigators looking into the cause of a gas explosion that killed five people in Allentown, Pa., last week are focusing on an "imperfection" in a pipe near the blast site.


NASA craft set for Valentine rendezvous with comet (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 11:05 AM PST

AP - After a long-distance courtship, a NASA spacecraft is set to meet up with its celestial sweetheart — a comet half the size of Manhattan that had an encounter with another spacecraft not long ago.

Foes seek to de-fund, discredit Planned Parenthood (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 09:06 AM PST

Chart shows Planned Parenthood services provided and sources of revenueAP - From its defiant origins in 1916, Planned Parenthood has not shied away from controversy — fighting to legalize birth control, offering candid sex education to adolescents, evolving into America's largest provider of abortion.


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