2011年4月13日星期三

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New York Governor gets one labor accord, but truce unlikely (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:39 PM PDT

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo presents his 2011-12 budget proposal in Albany, New York February 1, 2011. REUTERS/Hans PenninkReuters - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced a new contract with a law enforcement union and urged much larger public employee unions to accept the same terms or risk nearly 10,000 layoffs.

Blagojevich says prosecutors thwarting his corruption defense (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich steps into his car after leaving the Dirksen federal building after his arraignment hearing in Chicago, Illinois April 14, 2009. REUTERS/Frank PolichReuters - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich criticized prosecutors on Wednesday for trying to bar his lawyers from telling jurors that wiretaps admitted as evidence against him represent only a fraction of secret recordings made on the eve of his 2008 arrest.

Montana governor vetoes medical marijuana repeal (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:06 PM PDT

A marijuana plant is seen in Oakland, California July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have repealed the state's seven-year-old, voter-approved law legalizing marijuana for medical purposes.

Will Budget Cuts Kill the Economic Recovery? (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Time.com - Most people seemed to agree that the narrowly avoided government shutdown would have hurt the economy. But the question is...

The Men Behind the 'Draft Donald Trump' Movement (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 08:10 AM PDT

Time.com - As there is no Trump campaign at the moment, Trump supporters have two main ways of supporting the Trump effort

Parents of tipsy toddler sue Applebee's over drink mixup (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:49 PM PDT

Reuters - The parents of the Michigan toddler accidentally served alcohol at an Applebee's restaurant last week have filed suit against the chain's parent company, saying its employees have made similar mistakes with other children.

Mom drives van into Hudson, killing self, 3 kids (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:12 PM PDT

A boat ramp where a woman drove her minivan into the Hudson River on Tuesday night is seen in Newburgh, N.Y., Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Police say a 10-year-old boy escaped through the window of the minivan as his mother drove herself and three children into New York's Hudson River. The mother and three children died. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - A woman upset with the father of her children packed her four youngsters into her minivan and drove into the frigid Hudson River, killing everyone except her 10-year-old son, who managed to roll down a window of the sinking vehicle and swim to shore.

Video of TSA frisking 6-year-old sparks anger (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:31 PM PDT

Selena Drexel, of Bowling Green, Ky., sits in front of her home computer Wednesday, April 13, 2011, with a video showing her 6-year-old daughter Anna getting frisked at the New Orleans airport earlier this month by the TSA officials. (AP Photo/Joe Imel)AP - A Kentucky mother said Wednesday that federal airport screeners wouldn't tell her why they were frisking her 6-year-old daughter, whose treatment was captured on a YouTube video that has sparked outrage.

SD inmates accused of killing guard for uniform (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:40 PM PDT

Rodney Berget, 48 is escorted into Minnehaha County Court to face first degree murder charges in the death of South Dakota State Penitentiary Correctional Officer Ronald Johnson, Wednesday, April 13, 2011 in Sioux Falls. (AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Elisha Page) THE DAILY REPUBLIC OUTAP - Two South Dakota inmates attacked a 63-year-old prison guard, wrapped his head in plastic shrink wrap and left him to die before using his uniform to sneak past security in an unsuccessful escape attempt, investigators said in court documents released Wednesday.

FBI to aid NY cops probing possible serial killer (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:58 PM PDT

A sign notifies drivers of the search for human remains in an ongoing investigation of a possible serial killer, near Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y., Tuesday, April 12, 2011. A search by officers on foot was declared over and an aerial search was to be the final sweep of the area. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The FBI will supply high-tech surveillance aircraft to authorities investigating a possible serial killer on New York's Long Island later this week, a police official said Wednesday, after the discovery of 10 sets of human remains in recent months near a highway leading to the popular Jones Beach State Park.

Budget pact barely touches current-year deficit (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:18 PM PDT

Republican Congressional leaders return to Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House in advance of his speech on the deficit and his plan for future spending. From left are: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - A new budget estimate released Wednesday shows that the spending bill negotiated between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner would produce less than 1 percent of the $38 billion in promised savings by the end of this budget year.

Obama: Cut spending, raise taxes on the wealthy (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:11 PM PDT

President Barack Obama outlines his fiscal policy during an address at George Washington University in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama coupled a call for $4 trillion in long-term deficit reductions with a blistering attack on Republican plans for taxes, Medicare and Medicaid on Wednesday, laying down markers for a roiling debate in Congress and the 2012 presidential campaign to come.

US doing limited airstrikes for NATO in Libya (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:20 PM PDT

A Libyan man walks past graffiti on a wall reading 'Yes for Free Libya' in Benghazi, Libya Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Libya's rebels urged the U.S. military Wednesday to reassert a stronger role in the NATO-led air campaign and Qatar's crown prince told international envoys it was time to help the uprising tip the scales against Moammar Gadhafi's regime. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Amid complaints from allies that the U.S. military should be doing more in the Libya operation, Pentagon officials disclosed Wednesday that American fighter jets have continued airstrikes inside the country even after the United States turned the mission over to NATO last week.

FAA suspends sleeping controllers, adds more staff (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:19 PM PDT

Krys T. Bart, President/CEO for the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority, talks to the media Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at the airport about reports that the only air traffic controller at the airport fell asleep about 2 a.m. Wednesday morning while a medical aircraft was attempting to land. The plane landed safely without assistance from the tower, which is administered to by the Federal Aviation Administration and not the airport. (AP Photo/The Gazette-Journal , Tim Dunn)AP - A napping air traffic controller who forced a medical flight to land unaided in Nevada brought swift reaction from the Federal Aviation Administration, which on Wednesday added a second overnight controller at 26 airports and a radar facility. The move came after several other recent incidents of controllers sleeping during their shifts.

Man charged with 4 cold-case killings in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:38 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 - A strange coincidence? Or a glimpse into the twisted mind of a serial killer?

Witnesses: Slain Arkansas officer saved sergeant (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:41 PM PDT

This frame grab from video courtesy of KAIT8-TV shows Trumann officer Jonathan Schmidt in June 2010, in Trumann, Ark. Trumann Police Chief Tony Rusher said the 30-year-old officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop Tuesday, April 12, 2011, and that they've arrested the shooter. (AP Photo/courtesy KAIT8-TV) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Wounded in the neck and scrambling away from a gunman, a young Arkansas police officer managed to shove his sergeant out of harm's way before dying in a shootout while pleading for his life, witnesses at the scene told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Yale student killed when lab machine snags hair (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:39 PM PDT

AP - A Yale University student nearing graduation was killed inside a school chemistry lab when her hair was pulled into a piece of machine-shop equipment, school officials said Wednesday.

Who fired first Civil War shot? A dispute in Fla. (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 07:20 AM PDT

Tourists cross a bridge to enter Fort Barrancas at Gulf Islands National Seashore near Pensacola Beach on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Some people claim that the first shot fired in the Civil War occurred at the fort, about three months before the battle at Fort Sumter> (AP Photo/Melissa Nelson)AP - A raid 150 years ago by Confederate sympathizers on a Union fort at what is now Pensacola Naval Air Station was likely little more than an ill-planned and drunken misadventure, perhaps ended by one soldier's warning shot — and a blank one, at that.

Mexican man convicted in Border Patrol agent death (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 12:37 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo released by the U.S. Border Patrol on Jan. 24, 2008 shows agent Luis Aguilar. Aguilar, 32, was placing spike strips in the path of two vehicles believed to have illegally entered the United States from Mexico when one of the vehicles struck and killed him on Jan. 19, 2008. Closing arguments were expected in the murder trial of Jesus Navarro, accused of killing Aguilar by running him over in a drug-laden Hummer in California's Imperial Sand Dunes. Navarro claims he wasn't the driver who killed Agent Luis Aguilar in January 2008. (AP Photo/U.S. Border Patrol, File)AP - Jesus Navarro eluded U.S. authorities even before he became the prime suspect in the 2008 killing of a Border Patrol agent.

Synagogue blast suspect will return to Calif. (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 01:27 PM PDT

This undated photo released Tuesday, April 12, 2011 by the Cleveland Heights Police Department shows Ron Hirsch. Hirsch is believed to be a suspect in the explosion outside a Santa Monica, Ca. synagogue last week. Hirsch, 60, was taken into custody in Cleveland Heights, Ohio late Monday. (AP Photo/Cleveland Heights Police Department)AP - The suspect in an explosion at a Santa Monica, Calif., synagogue agreed Wednesday to return from Ohio to face charges.

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