2011年4月12日星期二

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U.S. likely to appeal WTO ruling on Boeing subsidies (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:37 PM PDT

The first Boeing 777 Freighter take off on its inaugural test flight at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, July 14, 2008. REUTERS/Robert SorboReuters - The Obama administration is almost certain to appeal a World Trade Organization ruling that Boeing received illegal subsidies as a long-running spat moves into its next stage, lawyers and analysts said.

N.C. state senate pardons governor who stood up to Klan (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:46 PM PDT

Reuters - The long-dead governor had said he didn't want a pardon but North Carolina's state Senate said justice required one for the first U.S. governor to be impeached and removed from office.

Redistricting error keeps Arkansas legislature in session (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT

Reuters - The Arkansas House of Representatives has left two precincts unattached to their newly drawn congressional districts, a mistake that is keeping the state legislature in session for an extra day.

Federal Budget: Don't Cut Funding for Homeless Veterans (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:25 AM PDT

Time.com - A young Army veteran questions the priorities -- and stereotypes -- of U.S. policymakers as they slash funding for homeless ex-soldiers

Not Such a Bargain: Costco Sells $1 Million Diamond Ring (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Costco really does have everything -- including a 6.77-caret diamond ring

Mob boss testifies against underling in Brooklyn court (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Reuters - Former Bonanno crime family boss Joseph Massino testified in a Brooklyn courtroom on Tuesday how he secretly taped his successor discussing murder, the first time a boss has taken the witness stand against an underling, prosecutors said.

NYC airport collision shows risks of huge planes (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT

A damaged Airbus A380 belonging to Air France sits on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in New York. The world’s largest passenger aircraft clipped a much smaller Bombardier CRJ700 on a wet tarmac at JFK on Monday, April 11. No one was injured. (AP Photo/NYCAviation)AP - A frightening collision between one of the world's largest airliners and a commuter jet on a dark, wet tarmac at Kennedy Airport is underscoring worries about ground accidents as U.S. airports begin handling a new generation of giant planes.

Ky. lawmaker-teacher injured in high school fight (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:21 PM PDT

AP - A Kentucky legislator who is also a high school teacher was critically injured Tuesday trying to break up a fight between two students.

Mountain justice? NC dad accused of avenging son (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:44 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Transylvania County sheriff's office shows Toby Mathis, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Joey O'Shields, who died when he fell out of a pickup truck during an argument the two were having over a woman. Mathis was gunned down in a Dollar General store in Rosman, N.C. on April 6, 2011. Joey O'Shields' father, Charles O'Shields, has been charged with Mathis' murder. (AP Photo/Transylvania County Sheriff's Office)AP - Three months after Charles O'Shields' son was killed in an argument over a woman, the grieving father found the man charged with his death at a Dollar General store in the North Carolina mountains. Authorities say O'Shields gunned Toby Mathis down among the aisles of cheap merchandise last week and then fled in a getaway car driven by his sister.

Fort Sumter: Somber 150th anniversary of Civil War (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:16 PM PDT

William Farley, second from left, fires a mortar at Fort Johnson, near Fort Sumter, to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago in Charleston, S.C. on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)AP - Booming cannons, plaintive period music and hushed crowds ushered in the 150th anniversary of America's bloodiest war on Tuesday, a commemoration that continues to underscore a racial divide that had plagued the nation since before the Civil War.

Most people won't notice these big budget cuts (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, during an event to launch the national initiative to support and honor America's service members and their families. Retired Gen Stanley McChrystal, the former top US general in Afghanistan who was relieved of his duty last year , has been chosen to help lead the new initiative. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - It's touted as the biggest one-time rollback of domestic spending ever, but most folks will be hard-pressed to notice.

Police note 'double-initial' similarities in cases (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:01 PM PDT

This is an undated booking photo released by the Washoe County Sheriff's office showing Joseph Naso. Authorities in California and Nevada plan to release more information about Naso, the 77-year-old man accused in four homicides spanning two decades. Naso, of Reno, Nev., was booked late Monday, April 11, 2011, on suspicion of the killings in 1977, 1978, 1993 and 1994. (AP Photo/Washoe County Sheriff's office)AP - Authorities are investigating whether a man accused in four California cold-case deaths could be connected to the notorious "double-initial murders" of three girls in upstate New York in the early 1970s.

Ex-NY mob boss makes history with trial testimony (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:21 PM PDT

AP - A jailed former Mafia boss who once ordered a payback killing in the infamous "Donnie Brasco" case made gangland history Tuesday by becoming the highest-ranking member of the city's five Italian organized crime families to break their sacred vow of silence and testify against one of their own.

NASA to send shuttles to Fla., Calif., suburban DC (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:53 PM PDT

This image made available by the Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 15, 2010 shows an initial concept design for a proposed space shuttle exhibit in Cape Canaveral, Fla. After it closes out the program, shuttle Atlantis will stay in Cape Canaveral at the space center's visitor complex, just miles from the pair of launch pads used to shoot the orbiters into space. (AP Photo/Kennedy Space Center)AP - On a memorable day in space history, NASA began its goodbyes to the shuttle program Tuesday, announcing the aged spacecraft will retire to museums in Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington and sending a test-flight orbiter to New York City.

Texas lawmakers back off concealed carry on campus (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:23 PM PDT

AP - Two months ago, Texas looked ready to allow concealed handguns in college classrooms. Lawmakers lined up to sponsor a bill, pistol-packing Gov. Rick Perry supported it and gun control activists had all but conceded defeat.

iPads take a place next to crayons in kindergarten (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:35 PM PDT

Kindergartener Lucius Rice, 6, center, demonstrates to Kindergarten teachers Sue larue, left to right, Kelly McCarthy and Amy Himerl, how to uses an iPad as literacy teacher Maurie Dufour, right, looks on, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in Auburn, Maine. The teachers were given iPads to try out in preparation for next year when nearly 300 kindergartners will be given their own iPad2s. (AP Photo/Joel Page)AP - Kindergarten classes are supplementing crayons, finger paints and flashcards with iPads, a development that excites supporters but that detractors worry is wasted on pupils too young to appreciate the expense.

Body count along NY beach highway now at 10 (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:31 PM PDT

Law enforcement and emergency personnel examine an object on the side of the road, center, near Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y., Monday, April 11, 2011. Investigators searching for evidence of a serial killer are hitting the ground around New York's Jones Beach State Park. About 125 searchers, some with dogs and others on horseback, scoured the area Monday. The new search area is along Ocean Parkway in Nassau County. Officers in neighboring Suffolk County uncovered eight sets of human remains in recent months. A New Jersey woman who was the initial focus of the search is still missing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The number of possible victims of a serial killer rose to 10 on Tuesday after authorities confirmed that two sets of remains found along a New York highway a day earlier are human.

SD prison guard killed during failed escape try (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:09 PM PDT

Two police cruisers leave the South Dakota State Penitentiary where a guard was shot and killed during a failed escape attempt, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Sioux Falls, S.D. The two suspects in the case were apprehended. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers)AP - Two convicted kidnappers killed a 63-year-old guard Tuesday during a failed attempt to escape from a Sioux Falls prison where they were serving lengthy sentences, authorities said.

Jury convicts Mass. mom who withheld cancer meds (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Kristen LaBrie is handcuffed in court after she was found guilty on all four counts, including attempted murder, at Lawrence Superior Court in Lawrence, Ma., Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The Massachusetts woman was found guilty of attempted murder for failing to give chemotherapy treatments to her cancer-stricken, autistic son. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)AP - A Massachusetts woman who withheld at-home chemotherapy medications from her autistic, cancer-stricken son was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday by jurors who dismissed her claim that she thought the side effects of the treatment could kill him.

Michigan plan would tax retirees up to age 67 (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:36 PM PDT

Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, second from left, is joined by House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, left, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, and Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, R-Monroe, during a news conference Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Lansing, Mich. Snyder has announced a new plan to tax retirees' income up to age 67. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)AP - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced a new plan Tuesday to tax retirees' income up to age 67.

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