2011年5月8日星期日

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Memphis-area residents await Mississippi flooding (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:16 PM PDT

Chris Mills, Macy Mills and Hannah Baxley look out at incoming water as floodwaters slowly rise near Memphis, Tennessee May 7, 2011. REUTERS/Eric ThayerReuters - Emergency officials on Sunday had issued evacuation notices to more than 1,300 Memphis area homes, warning they were at risk of dangerous flooding as the region braces for the highest Mississippi River crest since 1937.

U.S. gas prices hit $4 a gallon, but may retreat (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2011 01:20 PM PDT

A spectator shows off her Derby hat before the 137th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 7, 2011, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)Reuters - The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose 11.98 cents in the past two weeks, but last week's fall in crude oil prices may signal lower costs to come, an industry analyst said on Sunday.

Sen. Schumer proposes "no-ride list" for Amtrak trains (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2011 12:56 PM PDT

Reuters - A senator on Sunday called for a "no-ride list" for Amtrak trains after intelligence gleaned from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound pointed to potential attacks on the nation's train system.

San Diego-bound jet diverted after report of security threat (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2011 02:49 PM PDT

Reuters - A San Diego-bound flight was diverted to Albuquerque on Sunday after the FBI received a report of "a potential security threat," but no suspicious devices were found on the plane, authorities said.

In the Delta, a new flood brings back old fears (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 01:52 PM PDT

In this May 5, 2011 photo, a memorial marker on Mississippi Highway 1 in Scott, Miss., reminds tourists and residents about the 1927 flooding that affected towns along the Mississippi River. Authorities believe the current threat of flooding along the river could surpass the levels of the 1927 flood. As the crest in the Mississippi River rolls toward the heart of the Delta, the great flood of 1927 is on a lot of minds. On April 21 of that year, an engorged Mississippi River broke through a levee a few miles north of Greenville, sending a wall of water down Main Street, forever changing this area's landscape. Homes were crushed, sharecroppers' farms were carried away, thousands were trapped on rooftops for days and hundreds died. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - As the crest in the Mississippi River rolls toward the heart of the Delta, the great flood of 1927 is on a lot of minds.

Murder trial to start for Fla. mom Casey Anthony (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 01:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 3, 2011 file photo, Casey Anthony, 24, listens to testimony during the last day of hearings on a series of motions by the defense and the prosecution during her murder trial, in Orlando, Fla. The trial of Casey Anthony, accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter almost three years ago, is set to begin in Florida Monday, May 9, 2011, amid great media hype. (AP Photo/Red Huber, Pool, File)AP - The trial of Casey Anthony, the young mother accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, is drawing so much media attention that the judge is keeping the location of jury selection secret until the proceedings begin Monday.

In tornado-stricken Ala., shock yields to grief (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 10:11 AM PDT

Linda Coordes, at right, a Red Cross social worker from Kelso, Wash., speaks with Lorraine Beasley, center, and her daughter Alice Reeves at Beasley's tornado-stricken home in Pleasant Grove, Ala., May 1, 2011. Coordes was part of a Red Cross mental health team that comforted tornado victims. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)AP - The 7-year-old girl plugged her ears and shook her head as her mother told a Red Cross social worker about their brush with death. Nakarah Britt didn't want to relive the terror of a tornado bearing down on their Birmingham apartment.

Ariz. seeks online donations to build border fence (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 02:45 PM PDT

AP - Arizona lawmakers want more fence along the border with Mexico — whether the federal government thinks it's necessary or not.

Service resumes after NJ train crash hurts 34 (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Emergency personnel gather near the entrance to the PATH station in Hoboken, Sunday, May 8, 2011. A spokesman says a train pulling into the Hoboken, N.J., station struck an abutment, causing minor injuries. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Transit officials say some train service has resumed at a New Jersey station several hours after a commuter train from New York crashed into the bumpers at the end of the tracks, hurting 34 people.

La Nina brings flood risks and drought to the West (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 02:47 PM PDT

A fire burns on Monday, March 7, 2011 just north of Tyrone, N.M. New Mexico officials say winds were picking up Tuesday afternoon, renewing concerns about a wildfire that has destroyed 12 homes and several other structures and forced the evacuations of 100 people. (AP Photo/Silver City Daily Press & Independent, Cari Sue Flores)AP - The winter and early spring have been extreme across the West, with record snowpacks bringing joy to skiers and urban water managers but severe flood risks to northern Utah, Wyoming and Montana.

Bin Laden's death a tough subject for the pulpit (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 01:07 PM PDT

AP - The killing of Osama bin Laden, a man who was America's face of evil for nearly a decade, left Christians, Jews and Muslims relieved, proud or even jubilant. For their religious leaders, it was sometimes hard to know just what to say.

More evacuations in Memphis as Mississippi rises (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 04:10 PM PDT

Debris is seen in water in a neighborhood as floodwaters slowly rise in Memphis, Tennessee May 8, 2011. Emergency officials on Sunday warned another 200 homeowners in the Memphis area they are at risk of dangerous flooding as the region braces for the highest Mississippi River crest since 1937. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER)AP - The swollen Mississippi River has swamped houses in Memphis and threatens to consume many more, but its rise has been slow enough that some people were clinging to their normal lives just a bit longer. That much was clear Sunday from an unexpected smell — barbecue — in a neighborhood that already lost three houses.

Sada Thompson, 1970s TV mom, dies in Conn. at 81 (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 03:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1987 file photo, actress Sada Thompson poses in New York. Thompson, the durable matriarch of stage and screen who won a Tony Award for her portraits of three sisters and their mother in the 1971 comedy 'Twigs' and an Emmy Award for playing the eternally understanding mother in the television series 'Family,' died Wednesday, May 4, 2011. She was 81. (AP Photo/Marty Reichenthal, File)AP - Sada Thompson, the durable matriarch of stage and screen who won a Tony Award for her portraits of three sisters and their mother in the 1971 comedy "Twigs" and an Emmy Award for playing the eternally understanding mother in the television series "Family," has died at age 81.

`Thor' hammers competition with $66M opening (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 12:13 PM PDT

In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Chris Hemsworth portrays the title character in a scene from the film, 'Thor.' (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures-Marvel Studios, Zade Rosenthal)AP - "Thor" kicked off the summer movie season by smashing the competition at the box office with a $66 million opening weekend.

Doc: Woman stranded for weeks was close to dying (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Penticton British Columbia, couple Albert Chretien and wife Rita are shown in this undated Royal Canadian Mounted Police handout photo. The coupe went missing en route to Las Vegas more than a month ago. Rita Chretien has been found alive Friday May 6, 2011 in a remote part of northeastern Nevada police say. Hunters in Elko Country, Nevada, found Rita alive on Friday, RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk announced in a tweet. There is no word yet about the whereabouts of her husband. (AP Photo/Royal Canadian Mounted Police via The Canadian Press)AP - A Canadian woman stranded for seven weeks in a remote area near the Idaho-Nevada border sensed her ordeal was about to come to an end a day before she was found, her son said Sunday.

Together, Phoebe and Tyler alerted us to a crisis (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 01:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 6, 2011 file pool photo, Molly Wei, the former Rutgers student charged with Dharun Ravi with invading the privacy of Tyler Clementi, looks at the prosecutors during her appearance before Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J. Two high-profile teen suicides that prompted a national debate about bullying took major turns in court over the last week. In Massachusetts, five teens accused in the bullying of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince struck plea deals with prosecutors. In New Jersey, Wei entered an intervention program that could result in dismissal of privacy-invasion charges. Both cases helped spur changes in laws to crack down on bullying. (AP Photo/Frank H. Conlon, Pool, File)AP - Phoebe Prince was a recently arrived Irish immigrant, 15 and emotionally fragile, when high school bullying over two boys she dated apparently drove her to hang herself with a scarf in her Massachusetts home.

Delta flight cleared after 'security threat' in NM (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2011 04:13 PM PDT

In this photo provided by passenger Tim Cole, a Delta Air Lines jet en route to San Diego from Detroit sits at a remote area of Albuquerque International Sunport, Sunday, May 8, 2011, in Albuquerque, N.M., as some of the passengers standby at right, and their carry-on luggage is seen laid out on the tarmac for inspection after the flight was diverted due to a 'potential security threat.' (AP Photo/Tim Cole)AP - A Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to San Diego was diverted to Albuquerque, N.M., on Sunday because of a security scare but authorities found "no suspicious devices" on the plane, an FBI spokesman said.

Defense: Federal agent coerced teen to violence (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 11:46 PM PDT

AP - Defense lawyers for a Somali-American teen charged with trying to detonate a bomb at a holiday tree-lighting ceremony say a federal agent tried to coerce him into violence.

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