2011年4月19日星期二

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Plane carrying Michelle Obama aborts landing near Washington (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 04:18 PM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama applauds as she takes the stage to play host for a dinner celebrating Women's History Month at the White House in Washington, March 30, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - A jet carrying first lady Michelle Obama abandoned a landing approach outside Washington to avoid another plane in an apparent mistake by air traffic controllers, U.S. aviation officials said on Tuesday.

Severe storms seen in some tornado-hit states (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 03:44 PM PDT

Half of a home completely destroyed on Medlar Lane in Raleigh, North Carolina, April 18, 2011. REUTERS/Jon GardinerReuters - Severe storms with thunder, hail, snow and possibly tornadoes were expected to strike the Midwest and South on Tuesday, including towns still staggering from last week's deadly weather, forecasters said.

Risks to crews slow effort to rescue trapped Idaho miner (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Unstable rock and a fear of further cave-ins slowed efforts on Tuesday to reach a silver miner trapped in the sweltering darkness of a collapsed tunnel more than a mile underground in northern Idaho.

Sign of the Times: Drivers Flock to Mexico for Cheaper Gas (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Braving extensive wait times and potential violence, Americans are casting aside all fear for the black gold on the other side

Boston Marathon's Oldest Runner: After Cancer and Two Wars, a Race Is Nothing (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Eighty-one-year-0ld Clarence Hartley is the oldest runner in today's Boston Marathon

Some New York City cab drivers to wear bulletproof vests (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 02:39 PM PDT

Reuters - New York City livery cab drivers, often called to crime-ridden neighborhoods that yellow taxis tend to ignore, are being armed with bulletproof vests, an advocacy group said on Tuesday.

Pa. wants to end gas-drilling wastewater discharge (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 05:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2010 file photo, Jim Riggio, the plant manager for the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, shows the filtering rig that the treatment plant used to develop improvements in the treatment of the water at the intake facility in Beaver Falls, Pa. Citing potentially unsafe drinking water, on Tuesday April 19, 2011, Pennsylvania state called on companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation to stop taking wastewater to 15 treatment plants by May 19, 2011. The announcement was a major change in the state's regulation of gas drilling and came the same day that an industry group said it now believes drilling wastewater is partly at fault for rising levels of bromide being found in Pittsburgh-area rivers. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)AP - Amid criticism from environmentalists and growing concern from scientists, Pennsylvania on Tuesday asked the state's booming natural gas industry to halt disposing of millions of gallons of contaminated drilling wastewater through treatment plants that discharge into rivers and streams.

Calif. woman shows off newly transplanted hand (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 01:23 PM PDT

Emily Fennelll, 26, of Yuba City, Calif., who lost her right hand in an auto accident in 2006, talks about her experience as the recipient of a hand transplant , at a news conference at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - For the first time in five years, Emily Fennell has two hands.

US aims at its deadliest drug problem: painkillers (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 04:03 PM PDT

AP - The White House drug czar wants doctors, states and law enforcement working harder to stop America's deadliest drug-abuse problem: highly addictive prescription painkillers. They are killing more people than heroin and cocaine combined as they foster a slew of illegal "pill mill" clinics centered in Florida.

Obama administration eases pain of Medicare cuts (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 03:11 PM PDT

FILE - In his Feb. 9, 2011 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gestures while speaking in Seattle. Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare are getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial cuts in President Barack Obama's health care law. In a policy shift that critics see as pure politics, the administration is providing $6.7 billion to Medicare Advantage plans to head off service cuts that could have hurt Democrats in next year's elections. (AP Photo, File)AP - Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial cuts in President Barack Obama's health care law.

A year after spill, Gulf Coast is healing, hurting (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 04:33 PM PDT

In this two picture combo, nesting pelicans are seen on May 22, 2010, left, as oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washes ashore on Cat Island, home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills, in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana. The second photo, taken at the same spot on April 8, 2011, shows the shoreline heavily eroded, and the lush marsh grass and mangrove trees mostly dead or dying. Biologists from the Louisiana Department of Fish and Wildlife say this is largely because the island was completely overwashed by the oil, and poorly maintained oil booms contributed to the damage as well. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)AP - It was the catastrophe that seemed to crush a way of life, an oil rig exploding in the darkness and plunging the Gulf Coast and its people into months of chaos.

Obama, advocates discuss immigration law overhaul (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, left, Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles city council member, second left, Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey, second right, and Bill Bratton, former Los Angeles and New York City police chief, emerge after meeting with President Obama about immigration reform at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Under pressure from advocates and the 2012 re-election calendar, President Barack Obama on Tuesday enlisted a diverse group of elected officials and religious, business, labor and civil rights leaders to help build support for a long-stalled overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

Natural toxin killing SoCal dolphins, sea lions (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 8, 2011 file photo, Annette Burch gathers up dead fish in the King Harbor area of Redondo Beach, south of Los Angeles. Cleaning crews on Sunday, March 13 finished removing millions of fish found floating dead in a Southern California marina, five days after the slimy, stinking mass of sardines was discovered. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Brad Graverson, File)AP - Dolphins and sea lions that have died along the Southern California coast in recent weeks may be victims of a deadly neurotoxin produced by a seasonal algae bloom, experts said Tuesday.

Official: Fire unlikely to reach Fort Worth, Texas (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Debris and burned trees are shown on Monday, April 18, 2011, a day after a massive wildfire ravaged the Austin, Texas, wildfire. The fire damaged at least 21 homes. (AP Photo/April Castro)AP - A growing wildfire racing through parched fields and woods west of Fort Worth isn't likely to make it far enough to threaten the heavily populated metropolitan area, a state forestry official said Tuesday.

NASA: April 29 for next-to-last shuttle launch (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 03:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 file picture, the space shuttle Endeavour is transported from the Orbital Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building where the orbiter will be connected to the external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Spaceflight managers gathered Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at the Kennedy Space Center and set April 29, 2011 as the launch date for Endeavour's final voyage. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight is set to begin late next week, and special preparations are under way in case the commander's wife, wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, is able to attend.

APNewsBreak: Inquiry into 'Three Cups' charity (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 05:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 15, 2009 file photo released by Department of Defense, “Three Cups of Tea” co-author Greg Mortenson shows the locations of future village schools to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the opening of Pushghar Village Girls School 60 miles north of Kabul in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. Montana’s attorney general on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 told The Associated Press that he has launched an inquiry into the charity run by Mortenson, following investigations by “60 Minutes” and author Jon Krakauer into inaccuracies in the book. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley)AP - Montana's attorney general launched an inquiry Tuesday into the charity run by "Three Cups of Tea" co-author Greg Mortenson after reports questioned whether Mortenson benefited from money donated to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Jury being picked in Ariz 'Baseline Killer' case (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated Arizona Department of Corrections file photo, Mark Goudeau is shown. Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday, April 19, 2011, in the case against Goudeau, a former construction worker accused of terrorizing Phoenix with a rash of killings, kidnappings and sexual attacks. Jury selection should take two weeks, and his trial is expected to last around nine months. (AP Photo/Arizona Department of Corrections, File)AP - Carmen Miranda was vacuuming her car and talking on her cell phone when a man dubbed the Baseline Killer shot her in the head, shoved her body in the back seat and lodged her legs over her head with her pants pulled down.

Kindergartner brings gun to Texas school, 3 hurt (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 04:25 PM PDT

Evette Davis hugs her daughter Heaven, 5, and son Julian, 9, after a shooting at Ross Elementary school Tuesday, April 19, 2011, in Houston. A kindergartener who brought a loaded gun to his Houston elementary school Tuesday was among three students injured by fragments when it fired after falling from his pocket as he sat down for lunch, officials said. One bullet was fired about 11 a.m. in the Ross Elementary School cafeteria, spraying fragments at the students, said Houston Independent School District Assistant Police Chief Robert Mock. Two 6-year-old boys, including the one who had the gun, were wounded in the foot, said district spokesman Jason Spencer. A 5-year-old girl also suffered a foot injury. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, James Nielsen)AP - A kindergartner who brought a loaded gun Tuesday to his Houston elementary school was among three students injured by fragments when it fired after falling from his pocket as he sat down for lunch, officials said.

Victims' families observe OKC bombing anniversary (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:03 PM PDT

Regina Bonny, a retired Midwest City, Okla., police officer from Moore, Okla., kneels at the chair of DEA agent Kenneth Glenn McCullough in the field of chairs at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April 19, 2011, on the 16th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - Antonio Cooper Sr. walked across a field of empty chairs that represent the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, occasionally stopping to read names inscribed in glass panes as he searched for the one dedicated to his 6-month-old son, Antonio Cooper Jr.

Police: Baby cut out of pregnant Kentucky woman (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Kathy Coy of Morgantown, Ky., listens to charges against her during a preliminary hearing in Warren District Court at the Warren County Justice Center, along with Diana Werkman, an assistant attorney from the Department of Public Advocacy, on Tuesday April 19, 2011, in Bowling Green, Ky. Coy is charged with the murder of a pregnant Jamie Stice and kidnapping of her newborn son. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Miranda Pederson)AP - A woman used a stun gun to subdue an expectant mother before killing her and cutting the baby boy from her body, a Kentucky State Police investigator testified Tuesday.

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