2011年3月8日星期二

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Rajaratnam trial heads to opening statements (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:14 PM PST

Reuters - The biggest U.S. insider trading case in decades was expected to head into opening statements on Wednesday in a court showdown between prosecutors and lawyers for Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam.

Millions of dead sardines swamp L.A. (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 01:54 PM PST

People look at fish lying dead in the harbor area of Redondo Beach, south of Los Angeles, California March 8, 2011. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonReuters - Millions of dead sardines were found floating on Tuesday in a harbor marina just south of Los Angeles, creating a bizarre scene that experts blamed on a case of oxygen deprivation.

New Mexico wildfire uncontained, threatens homes (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:30 PM PST

Reuters - A wildfire burning in southwestern New Mexico remains 80 percent out of control, threatening 500 structures and keeping 100 people evacuated from their homes, state forestry officials said on Tuesday.

Health Care Law's Legal War: Personal, Partisan Battles (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PST

Time.com - More than 20 challenges to the health care law are making their way through federal courtrooms across the country, and several are getting more attention than others

Not Checking that Bag? It's Going to Cost Everyone (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PST

Time.com - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that the increase in the number of people carrying their luggage on flights is costing taxpayers

Dutch man seeking reduced sentence in Peru: lawyer (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 11:50 AM PST

Reuters - Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man who has confessed to killing a young woman in Peru and been linked to the mysterious disappearance of a young American woman in Aruba, hopes to win a reduced sentence of just several years in prison, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Suspect killed in St. Louis wanted on drug charge (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST

St. Louis police search for a gunman Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in St. Louis. St. Louis police say two federal marshals and a police officer have been shot during a gunfight that left another man wounded at a home. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Gooden) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUTAP - A federal marshal was shot in the head and two other law enforcement agents were wounded Tuesday after a suspect they were trying to arrest on assault and drug charges opened fire. Authorities fired back, killing the man.

Flooding threatens parts of mid-Atlantic region (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:26 PM PST

Guy Steffy, 24, rows his boat on his way to pick up a friend as flood waters from the Passaic River cover Riverside Drive, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in Wayne, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)AP - The mid-Atlantic region braced Tuesday for heavy rains that forecasters said could push rivers and streams over their banks and into neighborhoods over the next few days.

Kilauea's new vent spewing loads of lava, fumes (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PST

In this photo taken March 6, 2011 and provided by the US Geological Survey, Lava spatters above the fissure just west of the base of Pu'u O'o crater near Volcano Hawaii. Scientists are monitoring a new vent that has opened at the Kilauea volcano, sending lava shooting up to 65 feet high. (AP Photo/US Geological Survey)AP - The latest eruption at Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has a new working name.

Rowdy Mardi Gras gives maskers a chance to mock BP (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:57 PM PST

Crowds throng Bourbon Street in the French Quarter on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Mardi Gras revelers drank and danced the rowdy Carnival season to its peak on Tuesday, defying drizzle to snag beads from the last parades and jamming the French Quarter with colorful, sweaty costumes.

Jury selection starts in NY insider trading trial (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:31 PM PST

Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam enters Manhattan federal court on the first day of jury selection, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in New York. The once-powerful hedge fund boss is accused of making more than $50 million by trading secret information in the stock market. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of a hedge fund boss who was one of the richest Americans before he was charged in what prosecutors say was the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in history.

Wis. gov. proposes union compromise in e-mails (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:28 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2011 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis. What's wrong with this picture? While half a dozen current and former Republican governors weigh bids to challenge President Barack Obama, the party's lightning and thunder are raining down from a different handful of governors, who threaten to overshadow those potential candidates. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)AP - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has offered to keep certain collective bargaining rights in place for state workers in a proposed compromise aimed at ending a nearly three-week standoff with absent Senate Democrats, according to e-mails released Tuesday by his office.

Angry residents of CA city vote on council recall (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST

Former Bell City Administrator Robert Rizzo smiles as the preliminary hearing continues at Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, March 4, 2011 in Los Angeles. The hearing is to determine if Rizzo and others will have to stand trial on charges that they misappropriated public funds. (AP Photo/Irfan Khan, Pool)AP - Voters went to the polls Tuesday with a chance to elect a group of reformers in a blue-collar Southern California community that became the face of municipal corruption in the country when officials were accused of paying themselves six-figure salaries while the city was going broke.

Wis. governor's budget goes far beyond just unions (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker addresses the media regarding a letter received from Sen. Mark Miller, D- Monona, on Monday, March 7, 2011 in Madison, Wis. Walker rejected a request from Democrats that he meet with them to talk about possible changes in his plan to eliminate union rights for most public workers. (AP-Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)AP - The showdown over collective bargaining rights for public employees is just the first step in a contentious debate over how to solve Wisconsin's budget woes, with newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker also seeking to dismantle an array of social policies enacted under his Democratic predecessor.

'Bigfoot' suit: NH is stomping on civil liberties (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:31 PM PST

AP - First there was a Bigfoot sighting. Now, there's a Bigfoot suing.

APNewsBreak: Wis. girl admits to milk slaying (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:45 PM PST

AP - A Milwaukee girl accused of stabbing and killing her step-grandfather at age 13 for pouring her milk down the drain admitted to the charge Tuesday, offering the juvenile equivalent of a guilty plea and receiving a sentence of at least one year of detention.

NPR exec blasts tea party in hidden-camera video (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:43 PM PST

FILE - In a Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, file photo, James O'Keefe attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. A National Public Radio executive blasts the tea party movement as 'racist' and 'xenophobic' and says NPR would be better off without federal funding in a hidden-camera video released Tuesday, March 8, 2011, by O'Keefe.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP - A National Public Radio executive was captured on hidden camera calling the tea party movement racist and xenophobic and said NPR would be better off without federal funding, in an embarrassment likely to fuel the latest round of conservative attacks on public broadcasting.

Young Mexican police chief seeking asylum in US (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST

Marisol Valles Garcia talks to the media during a news conference in Praxedis G. Guerrero in this file photo from October 20, 2010. The 20-year-old female student who became the police chief in one of Mexico's most dangerous drug war towns was fired by the mayor on March 7, 2011 for not showing up to work after Mexican media reported she received death threats. Marisol Valles, a criminology student in Mexico's violent city of Ciudad Juarez, took charge of the police force in the neighboring municipality of Praxedis G. Guerrero near El Paso, Texas in October, sparking intense media attention after few candidates dared to apply for the dangerous job. Picture taken October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Gael Gonzalez/Files (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT SOCIETY)AP - A young woman who received death threats after recently becoming police chief of a violence-plagued Mexican town is in the U.S and seeking asylum, Mexican and U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Colo. woman admits aiding foreign terrorist cell (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 01:43 PM PST

AP - A Colorado woman has admitted she conspired to help a terrorist cell that sought to train with al-Qaida-linked group and incite an Islamic holy war.

21 Pa. priests named in sex report are suspended (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:11 PM PST

FILE - In this April 8, 2008 file photo, Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, leads a celebration for the bicentennial of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia archdiocese suspended 21 Roman Catholic priests Tuesday March 8, 2011, who were named as child molestation suspects in a scathing grand jury report released in February. The priests have been removed from ministry while their cases are reviewed, Rigali said. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP - The Philadelphia archdiocese suspended 21 Roman Catholic priests Tuesday who were named as child molestation suspects in a scathing grand jury report last month, a move that comes more than eight years after U.S. bishops pledged swift action to keep potential abusers away from young people.

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