Senin, 14 September 2009

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Clues point to inside job in Yale killing (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 08:40 PM PDT

Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler, right, consoles student Natalie Powers while University President Richard C. Levin, left, looks on during a moment of silence at the candlelight vigil in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Sept 14, 2009. Powers is the roommate of Annie Le, whose body was found Sunday stuffed inside a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked. (AP Photo/Thomas Cain)AP - Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.


Family of Mich. shooting suspect cites depression (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 09:47 PM PDT

This undated booking photo released by the Shiawassee County Sheriff's Office via the Argus-Press shows Harlan Drake. A Michigan prosecutor says Drake has been charged in the shooting deaths of an anti-abortion activist and a business owner and that he planned to kill a third man. (AP Photo/Shiawassee County Sheriff's Office)AP - Relatives of a Michigan man charged with fatally shooting two people, including a well-known local abortion protester, said in a statement Monday that he had battled depression and was experiencing problems with his medications.


Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57 (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 08:36 PM PDT

FILE -  In this Nov. 28, 2005 file photo, actor Patrick Swayze poses for the photographers, prior to the premiere of his new film 'Keeping Mum' at a Leicester Square cinema in central London. Swayze's publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old 'Dirty Dancing' actor died Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)AP - Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into moviegoers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.


Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:30 PM PDT

Graphic shows a timeline of how doctors believe the swine flu progresses during its contagious phaseAP - When the coughing stops is probably a better sign of when a swine flu patient is no longer contagious, experts said after seeing new research that suggests the virus can still spread many days after a fever goes away.


NJ teens sue over 'God Bless America' ejection (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:32 PM PDT

AP - Three teenagers who say they were tossed from a New Jersey ballpark over their refusal to stand during the song "God Bless America" are suing the minor league Newark Bears.

$30M bail set for Calif. kidnap suspect (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 06:06 PM PDT

Phillip Garrido, center, talks with his attorney Susan Gellman as he is taken from the courtroom following a bail hearing at the El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Garrido, who faces 29 charges related to the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard, was given a $30 million bail but will continue to be kept in custody on a parole hold. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - A judge on Monday set bail at $30 million for a Northern California man accused of kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years.


3 New York residences raided in terrorism probe (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 06:19 PM PDT

A new door, left, now adorns an apartment at 144-67 41 Ave. in the Queens borough of New York Monday, Sept. 14, 2009 after an earlier raid on the apartment. This apartment and other buildings nearby were entered by the Joint Terrorism Task Force after the FBI executed search warrants in connection with an ongoing investigation. According to neighbors, the door had been replaced sometime today after the raid. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - FBI agents and police raided three apartments in New York City before dawn Monday during an investigation of a man suspected of being an al-Qaida associate. The searches came after the man, who was under surveillance for possible links to the terror network, visited New York City over the weekend and left the area, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said after receiving a briefing on the operation from federal law enforcement officials Monday.


Police question woman in Blago fundraiser's death (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 22, 2009 file photo, Christopher Kelly, the former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, leaves the federal building in Chicago. Kelly, who was a key figure in the federal corruption case against ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, died Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, according to a Stroger Hospital spokesman. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - Police investigating the death of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief fundraiser questioned his girlfriend for more than an hour Monday, saying afterward she had cooperated but refusing to say in detail what was discussed.


Mo. woman sentenced for kidnapping of Kansas girl (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:10 PM PDT

AP - A 43-year-old Missouri woman who already has been sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences for a 2006 crime spree has been given another one.

1st trial over FEMA trailer fumes opens in La. (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:44 PM PDT

AP - For the first time since Hurricane Katrina left tens of thousands of families living in FEMA trailers, a federal jury heard allegations Monday that the government-issued shelters exposed Gulf Coast storm victims to hazardous formaldehyde fumes.

Calif. community mourns loss of Yale grad student (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 05:21 PM PDT

Students run past the main office of Union Mine High School in El Dorado, Calif., where Yale student Annie Le graduated in 2003,  Monday, Sept. 14, 2009.  Le's body was found stuffed inside a wall in medical lab building on the Yale campus Sunday. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - When those who knew her talk about Annie Le, they do so in superlatives — best student they ever had, most dedicated volunteer, smartest teenager they've ever known.


Judge: King children must meet to discuss estate (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:30 PM PDT

AP - A judge has ordered the surviving children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King to hold a shareholders' meeting to discuss their father's estate.

NFL players promise brains to concussion research (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 05:28 PM PDT

FILE -- From left are 2009 file photos showing NFL players Matt Birk, of the Baltimore Ravens, Lofa Tatupu, of the Seattle Seahawks, and Sean Morey, of the Arizona Cardinals. Three active NFL players are joining former players in agreeing to donate their brains after death to a Boston University medical school program that studies sports brain injuries. The donations by Birk, Tatupu and Morey were announced Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/File)AP - Three NFL players announced Monday they will donate their brains and spinal cord tissue to a Boston University medical school program that studies sports brain injuries.


Fla. police: No credible threat to runaway convert (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:16 PM PDT

AP - An investigation by Florida authorities has found that there were no credible threats to a teenager who ran away from her Ohio home because she says she feared for her life after converting to Christianity from Islam.

Pregnant NC teen fatally shot at school bus stop (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 02:14 PM PDT

AP - A pregnant 15-year-old was shot in the head and killed Monday as she waited at a North Carolina school bus stop, and her baby was in critical condition.

Military high court to hear Abu Ghraib appeals (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:54 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. military's highest court has scheduled oral arguments next month on two appeals stemming from the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Some govs say Medicaid growth could hammer budgets (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:41 PM PDT

Any public policy discussions about Medicaid financing has real-world implications for some of the customers of Waymon Tigrett's family's store, Brandon Discount Drugs, in Brandon, Miss. photographed on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Tigrett, a pharmacist for over 40 years, said as Mississippi lawmakers have finished the state budget the past several years, unfounded rumors have spread that hospitals were turning away Medicaid patients, or that pharmacies were reducing the number of prescriptions they'd fill for people on the program. Rumors that cause much stress among the elderly and poor, he says. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - States with high levels of poverty and unemployment have been struggling with growing Medicaid budgets during the recession, and some governors worry their financial burdens could get worse as Congress works on a comprehensive health care bill.


Male bass in many US rivers feminized, study finds (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 02:54 PM PDT

AP - Government scientists figure that one out of five male black bass in American river basins have egg cells growing inside their sexual organs, a sign of how widespread fish feminizing has become.

Prosecutor to pursue death penalty in Ga. slayings (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:43 PM PDT

Tyler Heinze, 16, the brother of Guy Heinze, Jr., who is charged with killing eight people in a Brunswick, Ga. mobile home park, walks away from the media after the funeral of his father, Guy Heinze Sr. and six other victims Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 in Townsend, Ga. Family members prepared Saturday to bury seven people killed in a mobile home park massacre in southeast Georgia, while also grappling with the shocking news that one of their own relatives had been charged in the slayings. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man charged with killing his father and seven others inside the family's mobile home in coastal Georgia.


Contractor shot in Iraq worked with family on base (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:21 PM PDT

AP - Lucas "Trent" Vinson was due home from Iraq for a break in October. Instead, the 27-year-old civilian contractor's father will accompany his body on a flight back to the United States.

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