2011年5月14日星期六

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Louisiana braces as flood spillway opens (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2011 02:28 PM PDT

A resident moves his possessions by boat in Butte LaRose, Louisiana May 13, 2011. REUTERS/Eric ThayerReuters - Army engineers on Saturday opened a key spillway to allow the swollen Mississippi River to flood thousands of homes and crops but spare New Orleans and Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge.

IMF head Strauss-Kahn arrested in New York: report (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn pauses at a news conference during the spring IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington April 16, 2011. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters - The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested in New York on Saturday and accused of a sexual attack on a hotel maid, The New York Times reported.

NY police confirm IMF head Strauss-Kahn in custody (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Reuters - IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody on Saturday at JFK International Airport in New York and was being questioned in regard to a sexual assault, New York Police spokesman Paul Browne told Reuters.

After bin Laden Raid, False Navy SEAL Claims on the Rise (Time.com)

Posted: 13 May 2011 09:30 PM PDT

Time.com - In the wake of the Osama bin Laden raid, fake Navy SEALs are coming out of the woodwork

Flash Mobs Turned Criminal: The Rise of Flash Robberies (Time.com)

Posted: 13 May 2011 09:30 PM PDT

Time.com - They gather in masses, organized through social media or during large events to shock and stop witnesses in their tracks. But these aren't satirical flash mobs -- they're planned heists, and they're gaining momentum in youth circles across the country

Mummified Playboy Playmate died of heart failure (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Reuters - A former Playboy Playmate whose mummified body was found in her dilapidated Beverly Hills home last month, died of heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.

NY beach community becomes dumping ground of death (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 04:45 AM PDT

FILE - Authorities aboard a Nassau County police helicopter search for possible victims of a suspected serial killer along Ocean Parkway at Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y., in this April 14, 2011 file photo. Authorities on Long Island suspect a serial killer may be responsible for the deaths of four prostitutes found in December dumped just steps from an isolated beach highway, but news this week that other killers have used the same strip of Ocean Parkway near Jones Beach as a dumping ground of death ratcheted up an already intense investigation. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea, File)AP - Killers have long chosen isolated locations to secretly dump their victims: Gary Ridgway got the Green River Killer moniker for leaving women he murdered along the waterway near Seattle, some of New York serial killer Joel Rifkin's 17 victims were found in shallow graves on eastern Long Island or in creeks in Brooklyn, and in 2008 the FBI found the body of a slain mobster buried in a Long Island industrial park.

NY House race spotlights national spending issues (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 02:20 PM PDT

Democratic candidate for the 26th District Congressional seat, Kathy Hochul speaks while holding a pair of boxing gloves during a news conference in Clarence, N.Y., Monday, May 9, 2011. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - The special election to fill a House seat in upstate New York was supposed to be an easy victory for Republicans.

Bin Laden in Pakistan, potent but past his prime (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 01:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated image taken from video released by the U.S. Department of Defense May 7, 2011, a man identified by the U.S. government as Osama bin Laden watches television. The latest intelligence from the wealth of material found at bin Laden's last hideout paints a complicated picture of the fugitive, surrounded by the din of his multiple families within walls that were both his sanctuary and prison. And he was more involved in trying to plan al-Qaida's post-911 operations than they had thought possible for a man in perpetual hiding. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, File)AP - Surrounded by the din of his multiple families within walls that were both his sanctuary and prison, Osama bin Laden pecked endlessly at a computer, issuing directives to his scattered and troubled terrorist empire. It's not clear who really listened.

Blog posts sensitive NYPD documents found in trash (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 06:12 PM PDT

AP - A blogger who said he found a set of sensitive police documents in a trash can outside a police station near Times Square posted them online Friday.

NY police question IMF head in hotel sex assault (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 22, 2010 photo, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, speaks during a news briefing at the 2010 WB/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington. Strauss-Kahn has been taken into custody by New York City police and is being questioned in connection with a sexual assault of a hotel maid on Saturday, May 14, 2011. NYPD top spokesman Paul Browne says Dominique Strauss-Kahn was pulled off an Air France flight to Paris on Saturday afternoon at John F. Kennedy International Airport after he left the Manhattan hotel. Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the IMF, has not been charged. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris and was being questioned Saturday by police in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel maid, police said.

La. floodgate opens, diverting Mississippi River (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 04:39 PM PDT

A man watches water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., Saturday, May 14, 2011. A steel, 10-ton floodgate was slowly raised Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the Mississippi River, away from heavily populated areas downstream. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land under water up to 25 feet deep.

NASA clears space shuttle for Monday launch (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 03:01 PM PDT

A U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols near the space shuttle Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, May 14, 2011. Endeavour, and her crew of six astronauts, is scheduled to lift off Monday morning on an 16-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)AP - NASA unanimously approved a Monday morning launch attempt for the space shuttle Endeavour, after reviewing all the repairs for an electrical problem that grounded the next-to-last shuttle flight two weeks ago.

Money gone, paralyzed athlete fights to survive (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 07:02 AM PDT

In this photo taken April 5, 2011, Annette Clark places glasses on her paralyzed son, Rocky Clark, in the bedroom at their home in Robbins, Ill. Rocky, a former Eisenhower High School football player in Blue Island, Ill., became a quadriplegic 11 years ago after his neck was broken during a game. He received top-notch medical care, including home nursing, until his $5 million catastrophic insurance policy ran out last year. His mother now cares for him full-time and is scrambling to make ends meet to get him the supplies and medicine he needs to survive. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Rocky Clark sometimes dreams he's running track, racing around the oval as he once did, his heart pumping fast and his long legs a blur as he crossed the finish line.

Emanuel brings hip new vibe to Chicago City Hall (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 11:26 AM PDT

In this photo taken May 6, 2011, Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, left, and actress Jennifer Beals walk out of a restaurant in Chicago on their way to a Neil Young concert at the nearby Chicago Theater.  When the former White House chief of staff takes over Monday, May 16, a new vibe will emanate from City Hall. Whereas Daley preferred a low-key social life and tended toward the trench coat look, Emanuel is frequently spotted in jeans in the city’s vibrant arts and cultural scene, presenting what promises to be a hipper image for the city. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - The mayor-elect strolled into the historic Chicago Theatre for a Neil Young concert wearing grayish-green sneakers, jeans and a soft sweater over a blue T-shirt. At his side was actress Jennifer Beals, the star of "Flashdance," and her husband.

Fla. imam, 2 sons charged with supporting Taliban (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 04:28 PM PDT

Hafiz Khan, the imam at this Miami Mosque, also known as the Flagler Mosque in Miami was arrested Saturday, May 14, 22011 and charged with providing about $45,000 in financial support to the Pakistani Taliban. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan)AP - A Miami imam and two of his sons were arrested Saturday on federal charges they provided some $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban, designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization, officials said.

Jury convicts Ohio mom in baby's microwave death (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 06:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, China Arnold enters the Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom in Dayton, Ohio. Arnold, 31, was convicted Friday, May 13, 2011 of aggravated murder in the death of her daughter, 28-day-old Paris Talley, in August 2005. Arnold could receive the death penalty. (AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Jim Witmer) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDITAP - Jurors in an Ohio woman's third trial found her guilty Friday of killing her baby daughter by cooking her in a microwave oven.

Boozy SF footrace attempts dry run for centennial (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 02:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 17, 2009 file photo, participants have water sprayed on them as they ascend the Hayes Street hill during the 98th running of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco. Over the past 100 years, San Francisco's Bay to Breakers footrace has evolved from a wholesome, modest-size athletic event into a rowdy spectacle featuring tens of thousands of runners and spectators -- some costumed, others nude and many rip-roaring drunk. As the event prepares to celebrate its centennial Sunday, May 15, 2011, organizers are hoping a new zero-tolerance alcohol policy will help usher in a more responsible, sponsor-friendly era. (AP Photo/Darryl Bush, File)AP - Over the past 100 years, San Francisco's Bay to Breakers footrace has evolved from a wholesome, modest-size athletic event into a rowdy spectacle featuring tens of thousands of runners and spectators — some costumed, others nude and many rip-roaring drunk.

Calendar marks last months of stranded Oregon man (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 12:47 PM PDT

Bike commuters travel down along a street Thursday, May 12, 2011, in Portland, Ore. With a gallon of gas topping $4 in many parts of the country, there are signs that Americans are cutting back on driving. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - When the body of Jerry William McDonald was discovered deep in the Oregon woods on a one-lane dirt road pockmarked with holes, the first hint of what led to his death was the Feb. 14 entry on his calendar: "Snowed in."

Climbers rescued after Mount McKinley death (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 08:28 PM PDT

AP - The National Park Service said two more injured climbers were rescued Friday on Alaska's Mount McKinley, following the death of another climber on North America's tallest mountain.

发贴者：iwvck2 时间 17:50 0 条评论

bnzv