2011年5月15日星期日

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Louisiana bayou towns brace for flooding impact (Reuters)

Posted: 15 May 2011 01:00 PM PDT

Workers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers await orders to open on the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, Louisiana May 14, 2011. REUTERS/Sean GardnerReuters - A day after Army engineers opened a key spillway to relieve flooding along the Mississippi River, residents of small Louisiana towns braced on Sunday for a surge of water that could leave thousands of homes and farms under as much as 20 feet of water.

Walls at Vicksburg strain as Mississippi River tops record (Reuters)

Posted: 15 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT

Reuters - The temporary walls erected at Vicksburg to hold back floodwaters were under fresh strain on Sunday as Mississippi River water levels set new records.

Greenville, Miss. bracing for river's flood crest (Reuters)

Posted: 15 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT

Reuters - Matt Eaton has lived his entire life on the Mississippi River, and it's in his blood.

What's All the Buzz About? Cicadas Back in the South After 13 Years (Time.com)

Posted: 15 May 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Time.com - Fall's defined by crunching leaves, but the crackle of cicada shells indicates that spring has sprung

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

Posted: 15 May 2011 09:45 AM PDT

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

Fire in Chicago suburb kills three adults, three children (Reuters)

Posted: 15 May 2011 11:59 AM PDT

Reuters - An early morning fire roared through a suburban Chicago apartment building on Sunday, killing six people, three of them children, and injuring 12 other people, authorities said.

Endeavour ready to go; Giffords arrives to watch (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 05:03 PM PDT

The space shuttle Endeavour sits on Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, May 15, 2011. Endeavour, and her crew of six astronauts, is scheduled to lift off Monday morning on a 16-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)AP - With wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on hand to watch, the space shuttle Endeavour is poised to give the work week a roaring and historic start Monday morning, overcoming wiring problems that grounded it last month.

Ex-head of Nathan's Famous hot dogs dies at 89 (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 02:30 PM PDT

AP - Murray Handwerker, who helped grow Nathan's Famous from his father's Coney Island hot dog stand into a national franchise, died Saturday at his home in Palm Beach Gardens. He was 89.

Black women embrace first lady's evolved role (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 03:45 PM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address to graduates of Spelman College on Sunday, May 15, 2011, at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, Ga. First lady Obama also received an honorary degree. She has delivered four commencement addresses this season, and her choices were politically strategic as the president gears up for the 2012 campaign for a second term. She was in Iowa last week and in coming weeks will speak to graduating seniors at Quantico Middle High School in Virginia, to graduates whose parents serve at the Quantico Marine Base. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)AP - First lady Michelle Obama was welcomed with thunderous cheers and told the 550 graduating from Spelman College, an historically black women's school, that no matter where they go, they need to bring the school's ideals to the world.

Libyan combat stymies moves on antiaircraft threat (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 03:31 AM PDT

AP - The fierce combat in Libya has unleashed a once-hidden arsenal of portable anti-aircraft missiles that the government fears could easily be siphoned off to terror groups, giving rise to a potential threat to commercial aviation that the U.S. is only beginning to confront, government officials and arms experts said.

As water creeps closer, residents warned: Get out (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 02:42 PM PDT

Water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., Saturday, May 14, 2011. 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. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin like a giant bathtub.

Chicago trial could reveal Pakistan-militant link (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 02:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2009 file courtroom sketch, Tahawwur Hussain Rana appears before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in Chicago. Rana, 50, is accused in the 2008 Mumbai rampage that left more than 160 people dead and planning an attack that was never carried out on a Danish newspaper. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, including material support to terrorism. Jury selection in his trial begins Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - The allegations against Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana are fairly straightforward: He helped a former boarding school friend serve as a scout for terrorists who carried out a 2008 rampage that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai.

Miami imam, 2 sons charged with supporting Taliban (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 01:13 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 - An elderly Miami imam and two of his sons have been arrested on federal charges they provided some $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban, while three others in Pakistan have been indicted on charges of handling distribution of the funds, authorities say.

Residents puzzle over man who died near Ore. town (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 01:32 PM PDT

In this undated photo released Friday, May 13, 2011 by the Linn County sheriff office shows Jerry William McDonald. The body of Jerry William McDonald, a 68-year-old Oregon man was found in his pickup truck on a mountain road along with a log he kept of his ordeal for nearly 70 days. The Linn County sheriff's office said the log kept by Jerry McDonald indicates he got stuck in the snow on Feb. 14. His first log entry was Feb. 7, the last was April 15. A U.S. Forest Service survey crew found his body Friday in a sleeping bag in the back of his truck with a canopy on a Forest Service road about four miles from Marion Forks. (AP Photo/Linn County sheriff)AP - Three miles. That was all that separated Jerry William McDonald from a cold death alone in the Oregon woods and a warm meal back at the local restaurant.

Huckabee says he won't run for president (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2011 10:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 28, 2011 file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss. The more Republicans get to know their potential presidential candidates, the less happy they are with their choices. Some 45 percent in an AP-GfK poll say they're dissatisfied with the GOP candidates who have declared or are thought to be serious about running, up from 33 percent just two months ago. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he won't seek the Republican presidential nomination, choosing to stick with a lucrative career as a television and radio personality over a race that would be both costly and caustic.

Mars landing sites narrowed down to final 4 (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 02:24 PM PDT

This image provided by NASA shows a color-enhanced image of the Gale Crater proposed landing site on Mars. The Gale Crater is one of four proposed sites for the landing of the next Mars rover. After years of poring through images from space to decide where to send the next Mars rover, it comes down to four choices. Scientists in the Mars research community will get one last chance to suggest a landing site to NASA, the ultimate decider. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - After years of poring through images from space and debating where on Mars the next NASA rover should land, it comes down to four choices.

Firefighters battle blaze near Las Vegas casino (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 04:15 AM PDT

Firefighters douse an electrical transformer station behind several Las Vegas Strip casinos early Sunday, May 15, 2011. A transformer exploded, knocking out power to parts of some hotels and touching off a smoky blaze that snarled traffic. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)AP - An electrical transformer exploded early Sunday behind a row of Las Vegas Strip casinos, knocking out power to parts of some resorts and touching off a smoky blaze that snarled freeway traffic and send flames 80 to 90 feet in the air.

Billy Graham leaves NC hospital, resting at home (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2011 01:31 PM PDT

Evangelist Billy Graham attends a book signing for former U.S. President George W. Bush's new book AP - The Rev. Billy Graham was back at his North Carolina home Sunday after being hospitalized for five days with pneumonia.

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