Jumat, 25 September 2009

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Prosecutor: Terror plot focus was 9/11 anniversary (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:39 PM PDT

This courtroom drawing shows U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer presiding over a hearing in federal court in Denver, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, for Najibullah Zazi, left, and his father Mohammad Zazi, center. Defense Attorney Author Folsom, right, talks to Zazi. (AP Photo/Jeff Kandby)AP - An Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the Sept. 11 anniversary but was scared off after drawing suspicion from police, prosecutors said Friday as they provided new details about how far along the plot was.

Ohio woman implanted with wrong embryo gives birth (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2009 file photo, Carolyn Savage, 40, is seen at her home, in Sylvania, Ohio. Savage who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic has given birth to a boy on Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley, file)AP - A woman who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic has given birth to a boy, her family said Friday.

Witness: Census worker's hanging body naked, bound (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:09 PM PDT

Graves dot a hillside at the Hoskins Cemetery in rural Clay County near Manchester, Ky., Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. It was near this cemetery census worker Bill Sparkman was found dead earlier this month. (AP Photo/\Ed Reinke)AP - A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body two weeks ago.

Thousands opposed to G-20 march through Pittsburgh (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:35 PM PDT

Masked protesters shout slogans during a march through Pittsburgh, Friday Sept. 25, 2009. World leaders are in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A vociferous but peaceful group of several thousand people marched for miles through the downtown area on Friday, united by opposition to the Group of 20 summit but expressing a diversity of mostly liberal causes as an army of stone-faced riot police watched their every move.

Scrutiny rises over NJ kids singing Obama song (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:02 PM PDT

B. Bernice Young Elementary School is seen Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, in Burlington Township, N.J. New Jersey's education commissioner has ordered a review after a YouTube video shows more than a dozen children learning a song celebrating President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A school for kindergartners through second-graders in a comfortable Philadelphia suburb has become the latest target of accusations by conservatives that schoolchildren are being indoctrinated to idolize President Barack Obama.

Backers begin push to get pot measure on ballot (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:51 PM PDT

AP - Pot advocates started their push Friday to get a marijuana legalization measure on California's 2010 ballot with backing from a prominent state politician.

Army to allow Iraq war objector to resign (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:18 PM PDT

AP - The Army is allowing the first commissioned officer to be court-martialed for refusing to go to Iraq to resign from the service, his attorney said late Friday.

Gadhafi meets with Lockerbie family members in NYC (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:25 PM PDT

AP - A woman whose brother died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, says she and another victim's relative met in New York City with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, whose country has been blamed for the attack.

4 bodies found in Maryland home; no suspect sought (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:29 PM PDT

State Police stand in front of a house in Mt. Airy, Md. where a 911 call was made Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Four people were found dead in a home Friday in Mount Airy and troopers on the scene said it appeared to be a murder scene. (AP Photo/Baltimore Sun, Gene Sweeney Jr.) WASHINGTON EXAMINER OUT, MANDATORY CREDITAP - Authorities said they found four members of a family slain Friday in a home in central Maryland, but they said they were not searching for any suspects.

Biden visits Ga. storm victims; more rain expected (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 08:42 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden consoles Evelyn Brummage, of Austell, Ga.,who lost everything recent flash flooding, while touring a Red Cross disaster relief center set up in Marietta for victims of the flood, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Vice President Joe Biden on Friday pledged the federal government would help Georgia recover from the severe weather that swept through the Southeast, even as rain and the threat of more flooding was forecast for the weekend.

In 2 bomb cases, FBI let sting operation play out (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 03:53 PM PDT

At left: an undated photo released Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows Michael C. Finton. At right: an undated photo released by the Dallas County Sheriff shows Hosam Maher Husein Smadi. Two men unconnected to each other or to the investigation that has spawned recent national terrorism warnings are in federal custody after attempting to detonate what they thought were bombs outside an Illinois courthouse and a Texas skyscraper, authorities said. (AP Photo)AP - As Hosam Maher Husein Smadi prepared to remotely detonate what he believed was a powerful bomb underneath a Dallas skyscraper, his comrade-in-arms, who was actually an undercover FBI agent, offered him earplugs, authorities say.

Southern California wildfire 85 percent contained (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:08 PM PDT

This photo taken Thursday Sept. 17,2009 shows a trailhead sign about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles that was damaged from a wildfire that burned through more than 250 square miles of the Angeles National Forest since Aug. 26,2009. Vast areas have been left utterly barren or transformed into stick-figure worlds in which remnants of shrubs look like charcoal drawings and once-vibrant green pines have been baked into shades of khaki and dun. (AP Photo/John Antczak)AP - A 27-square-mile Southern California wildfire was 85 percent contained Friday as the withering Santa Ana winds that had fanned it faded away.

Jailed Texas billionaire hospitalized after fight (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 07:12 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford is being treated at a hospital after being injured during a fight with another inmate.

Man convicted in death of father left to rot (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 06:01 PM PDT

AP - Jurors in Louisiana have convicted a retired Army Reserve officer of manslaughter in the death of his 81-year-old father whose rotted body was found in a bedroom in their home.

Retired AF officer convicted in China spying case (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 04:21 PM PDT

AP - A jury has convicted a retired Air Force officer on charges of selling classified information on U.S.-China military relations to a Chinese agent and lying to the FBI about it.

Bomb plot suspect transferred from Denver to NYC (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 03:35 PM PDT

File - Terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning in this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo. Zazi plotted for more than a year to detonate homemade bombs in the United States, an indictment charged Thursday Sept. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - A Denver airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bomb attack in New York City on Sept. 11 is in custody in New York.

Police: TV contestant killed actress girlfriend (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT

AP - A self-proclaimed preacher who was on the TV beauty pageant "The Sexiest Bachelor in America" will be arraigned next week for allegedly torturing and murdering his girlfriend, an ex-adult movie actress.

Obama: G20 brought economy back from brink (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 05:48 PM PDT

President Barack Obama answers questions during a press briefing at the conclusion of the G-20 summit, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - World leaders on Friday issued sweeping promises to fix a malfunctioning global economic system in hopes of heading off future financial meltdowns. President Barack Obama said actions taken so far "brought the global economy back from the brink."

Civil liberties groups: Police overreacted at G-20 (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 02:30 PM PDT

People watch riot police confront protesters at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh during the G20 Summit, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/ Philip Scott Andrews)AP - Police used all the nonlethal tools at their disposal to thwart protesters at the Group of 20 summit this week, firing bean bags, hurling canisters of smoke and pepper spray, using flash-bang grenades and batons and deploying a high-tech sound-blasting device meant to push back crowds.

Man pleads guilty in Vt. in border child porn case (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT

AP - A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago.
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