2011年3月12日星期六

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Deaths from New York tour bus crash at 15 (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 01:50 PM PST

A general view of a bus crash is seen on Interstate 95 in New York in this still image taken from video March 12, 2011. REUTERS/Courtesy of WNBC-TV/HandoutReuters - The death toll rose to 15 on Saturday after a tour bus carrying sleeping gamblers returning from a Connecticut casino flipped over in the Bronx, shearing off its roof.

Japan tsunami grazes Americas but impact light (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 04:06 PM PST

The remnants of a dock are seen after it was destroyed by swells in the Santa Cruz Harbor in Santa Cruz, California, March 11, 2011. Thousands of people fled their homes along the California coast on Friday as a tsunami triggered by the massive earthquake in Japan began hitting the U.S. West Coast after rolling through Hawaii. REUTERS/Beck DiefenbachReuters - Tsunamis triggered by Japan's devastating earthquake that prompted evacuations on the Pacific coast of North and South America caused flooding as far away as Chile Saturday, but damage was limited.

U.S. contractor sentenced to 15 years in Cuba trial (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 12:13 PM PST

U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross (C), 61, is escorted by Cuban security agents to court during his ongoing trial in Havana March 5, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the Cuban state, state-run television reported on Saturday, in the latest setback to relations between two Cold War enemies.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Scores Coup in Union Fight (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 12:15 PM PST

Time.com - In a lightning legislative attack, Wisconsin Republicans strip workers of the right to collective bargaining -- and all the people power the protesters could muster couldn't stop them

America's game faces backlash in damaging dispute (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 11:29 AM PST

Reuters - The worst fears of NFL fans were confirmed Saturday when America's most successful sports league announced a lockout which threatens the 2011 season.

Tsunami surge deals blow to struggling Calif. town (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 05:48 PM PST

** RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT STATE ** Boats and debris litter the water, Friday, March 11, 2011 at the Port of Crescent City, Calif.. A tsunami on Friday sank several boats in Brookings harbor, swept half a dozen other boats out to sea and washed into the ocean four people who were later rescued, authorities in Southern Oregon said. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Jamie Francis) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; TV OUTAP - Fishermen who had escaped to sea before the tsunami hit this struggling coastal town landed small loads of crab on Saturday, while crews surveyed damage and a family combed the beach for any sign of a man who was swept away a day ago as he photographed the waves.

Computer mess jeopardizes court's political clout (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 11:41 AM PST

In this Aug. 25, 2010 photo, Chief Justice Ron George is seen during a confirmation hearing in San Francisco. More than 11 years ago, George and top court officials conceived of an ambitious computer system that would digitally link every courthouse throughout the state. Instead, the massive information technology project is teetering on the brink of failure and threatening to undo the considerable political gains George made for the courts in Sacramento before his January retirement. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, Pool)AP - Former California Chief Justice Ron George's crowning achievement was expected to be his crusade to drag the nation's largest court system into the 21st century: a computer system linking every courthouse in the state's 58 counties.

Years of nothing, then a quick arrest in rape case (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:01 AM PST

FILE - In this March 7, 2011 file courtroom drawing, Aaron Thomas, center wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, stands with public defender Joseph Lopez, right, during arraignment in New Haven Superior Court in New Haven, Conn. Thomas is suspected in the sexual assault of at least 17 women from Virginia to Rhode Island over 12 years. Thomas' arrest offers a look at a case unusual for its size, scope and level of cooperation among authorities. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)AP - It was definitely the same man raping women and girls along the East Coast, the attacks spanning from Connecticut to Virginia and growing more horrific as year after year passed. Investigators just didn't know who it was.

After fires, Okla. residents pick through rubble (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PST

Taylor Sheets carries a shovel as he walks past a grass fire near Harrah, Okla, Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - Cass Smith's friends dug through the rubble of his fire-ravaged home Saturday and were able to salvage a few valuables, including the rings he and his wife exchanged on their wedding day and another ring that belonged to his father.

Police interviewing NYC casino bus driver; 14 dead (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 04:59 PM PST

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly speaks with emergency personnel investigating the scene of a bus crash on Interstate-95 in the Bronx borough of New York Saturday, March 12, 2011. At least thirteen people died when the bus, returning to New York from a casino in Connecticut, flipped onto its side and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - Police say witnesses have told investigators that the driver of a tour bus that crashed on the outskirts of New York City and killed 14 people was driving at a "high rate of speed."

83 rescued from Ky. eatery that floated downstream (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 04:52 PM PST

In this Friday, March 11, 2011 photo, a woman walks down a fire ladder, used as an improvised ramp, during a rescue operation in which customers were off-loaded from Jeff Ruby's Waterfront in Covington, Ky., after the floating restaurant's moorings broke loose. Covington Fire Department Capt. Chris Kiely said diners at the restaurant used cell phones to call for help Friday night as the restaurant floated about 85 to 100 yards downstream. Everyone on board, including former Cincinnati Bengals star Cris Collinsworth, was safe after the hours-long rescue, Kiely told The Associated Press. All were led off one at a time, wearing life jackets. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Carrie Cochran) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Kathy Kinane and her husband walked into the upscale Waterfront restaurant wearing snorkeling gear, a joking reference to the recent rain and rising water levels outside the eatery housed on a barge.

Pot docs face new rules in Colorado (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 11:39 AM PST

In this Jan. 11, 2010 photo, a worker shows a marijuana bud for sale at the Lotus Medical dispensary in Denver. Colorado's Board of Health is nearing a decision on rules clarifying what's a 'bona fide' doctor-patient relationship in an effort to crack down on marijuana mills, in which unscrupulous 'pot docs' recommend pot for patients they've never seen before. Colorado's proposed regulations would be among the nation's most detailed governing how well doctors recommending marijuana must know their patients, but some marijuana advocates are fighting the rules. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Colorado's dispute over which doctors can recommend medical marijuana could become more confusing this week when state health authorities consider tighter limits at the same time lawmakers debate conflicting rules.

Wis. labor protesters say next fight at the polls (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 03:55 PM PST

Thousands of pro-labor protesters rallied at the Wisconsin Capitol Saturday, March 12, 2011, in Madison, Wis., vowing to fight back after the state's Republican governor signed into law a controversial bill that eliminates most union rights for public employees.(AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - Clogging the Wisconsin Capitol grounds and screaming angry chants, tens of thousands of undaunted pro-labor protesters descended on Madison again Saturday and vowed to focus on future elections now that contentious cuts to public worker union rights have become law.

Japanese-Americans seek news of quake back home (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 03:42 PM PST

AP - Nancy Niijima switched on the TV in her room at the Keiro retirement home to see images from her native country of submerged neighborhoods, cars being carried in giant ocean tides, collapsed buildings and cracked roads.

Remember to set clocks for daylight saving time (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:33 AM PST

AP - It's the weekend to spring ahead to daylight saving time.

Troopers: 800 motorists rescued after ND blizzard (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 11:33 AM PST

AP - Rescue workers used military trucks and other heavy vehicles to pluck motorists from more than 500 vehicles abandoned along ice-slicked roads and in drifting snow throughout North Dakota and take them to churches, schools, bars and gas stations that became makeshift shelters.

Obama: Japan earthquake potentially 'catastrophic' (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 05:26 PM PST

A mother and child crouch on a street in Tokyo while an earthquake hits Friday, March 11, 2011. Japan was struck by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, triggering a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicenter.(AP Photo/Kyodo News) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - President Barack Obama said he was "heartbroken" by images of devastation in Japan following Friday's deadly earthquake and tsunami, and pledged U.S. assistance to help the country recover.

US Muslims find defending themselves exhausting (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PST

In this Thursday, March 10, 2011 picture, Mohamed Kobeissi, left, manager at Arabica Bistro, and Allen Ghamlouche, a son of the owner, are photographed in the restaurant in Dearborn, Mich. 'We're always under attack by the media,' said Kobaissi, who proudly points out that he served food to former President Bill Clinton and got to shake the leader's hand in the mid-1990s during a visit to Detroit Metropolitan Airport when he worked for a nearby hotel. 'Trust me — I'll be the first guy to defend the U.S., but at the same time I like to (say) Islam is nothing about terrorism,' Kobaissi said. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Finishing law school is a challenge for Dewnya Bakri-Bazzi, but being an American and a Muslim can be downright exhausting.

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