Rabu, 30 September 2009

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Partial government shutdown, no budget in Michigan (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 10:17 PM PDT

AP - One of the nation's most economically battered states remained without a budget and stumbled into a partial government shutdown Thursday as Michigan lawmakers failed to agree on a spending plan.

Economy sends numerous signals of rebound (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:17 PM PDT

Jobless university graduate David Rowe wears a sandwich board advertising his search for employment as he walks along Fleet Street in central London September 22, 2009. In a pinstripe suit, silk tie and with polished brogues, Rowe appears the epitome of a successful London city worker, except for one glaring difference - he's wearing a sandwich board that says AP - Consumer spending, the bulwark of economic growth, is showing signs of life as the economy transitions from recession to recovery.


Ariz. man makes surprise confessions in 2 killings (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 08:28 PM PDT

AP - An Arizona man being held on a murder charge made surprise confessions in two other killings, and told authorities he would have continued on a vigilante-style killing spree if he hadn't been caught, authorities said Wednesday.

Search on for Tenn. baby snatched by fake agent (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:03 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Nashville Police Department shows Yair Anthony Carillo of Nashville, Tenn. The baby's mother, Maria Gurrolla, said her newborn son was taken from her home Tuesday by a woman who stabbed Gurrolla multiple times when Gurrolla answered the door. Gurrolla said the woman claimed to be an immigration agent. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - A newborn snatched from a Nashville home was missing and his mother recovering from stab wounds she said she suffered in a struggle with the woman kidnapper posing as an immigration agent, authorities said Wednesday.


Revamped Carter Museum opens Thursday in Atlanta (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 10:03 PM PDT

Former President and peanut farmer Jimmy Carter waves to participants in the the Peanut Festival parade in Plains, Ga., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. . (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum reopens Thursday on the former president's 85th birthday after an overhaul that devotes more space than any other presidential library to a commander-in-chief's time spent after the White House.


FBI denies editing Oklahoma City bombing tapes (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:43 PM PDT

This frame grab taken from security video released by the FBI and provided to The Oklahoman shows damage to a nearby building shortly after the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. The tapes were obtained by an attorney and provided to The (Oklahoma City) Oklahoman, the newspaper reported Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/FBI via the Oklahoman) -- MANDATORY CREDIT TO THE OKLAHOMAN --AP - The FBI says it did not edit videotapes of the aftermath of the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building before turning them over to an attorney who is conducting an unofficial inquiry into the bombing.


Officials: NY men being watched in terrorism probe (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 06:41 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 "handful" of men in New York are possible associates of the chief suspect in a suspected plot to use homemade bombs to attack New York City commuter trains, and investigators have them under heavy surveillance, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.


Some Chicago residents hoping Olympics bid a bust (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 06:39 PM PDT

Opponents of Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics rally outside City Hall in Chicago on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. (AP photo/John Smierciak)AP - The mayor, the president and Oprah Winfrey may hope to return to Chicago from Copenhagen with the 2016 Olympic Games, but some around town hope the International Olympic Committee deems the Second City the second city. As in second to Rio de Janeiro. Or Tokyo. Or Madrid.


Key figure in Polanski documentary says he lied (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 07:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 19, 2007 file photo, French director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of the film 'No Country For Old Men,' at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France. Polanski was taken into custody, Swiss police confirmed Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 on a 1978 U.S. arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)AP - A former prosecutor said Wednesday he lied when he told a documentary film crew that he advised a judge handling Roman Polanski's sex case that he should send the director to prison.


NY judge: CIA can keep 9/11 videotape info secret (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:10 PM PDT

AP - A judge cited national security concerns in ruling Wednesday that the CIA does not have to release hundreds of documents related to the destruction of videotapes of Sept. 11 detainee interrogations that used harsh methods.

Police: Okla. mom accused of abuse has NYC record (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:02 PM PDT

In this undated police mug photo provided by the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office, Larhonda Marie McCall, 37, is shown in Oklahoma City. McCall and Steve Vern Hamilton, 38, were arrested Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 on complaints of child abuse and child neglect after a 14-year-old boy told police he escaped from McCall's home, where he said he'd been kept for years, mostly locked inside a bedroom closet. (AP Photo/Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office)AP - An Oklahoma mother accused of locking up her 14-year-old boy in a closet for 4 1/2 years was previously convicted in the death of her 2-year-old child in New York, investigators said Wednesday.


Ga. prosecutor: Boy, 6, begged his killers to stop (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:29 PM PDT

Special Assistant District Attorney John B. Johnson, right, holds up a map of the trailer park that Michael Barrios, left,  lived in when his son, Christopher Barrios, 6, was killed, during the trial of David Edenfield at the Glynn County Courthouse Wednesday, September 30, 2009 in Brunswick, Georgia. Edenfield is being tried for Christopher Barrios' murder in March 2007.  (AP Photo/Will Dickey, POOL)AP - Jurors in a Georgia courtroom Wednesday heard a horrific videotaped confession from a man who admitted he and his adult son stripped, sexually assaulted and strangled a 6-year-old boy inside a mobile home as the child pleaded with them to stop.


Pilot killed when plane crashes into Ind. field (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:14 PM PDT

In this cell phone photograph provided by David Lykins, a single engine plane is shown after crashing in Randolph County, Ind., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. U.S. military officials say a small, single-engine plane crashed near Muncie, Indiana, after operating erratically. The pilot may have had a health problem or was suffering from a lack of oxygen, they said. (AP Photo/David Lykins)AP - A single-engine plane crashed into an Indiana cornfield Wednesday after the pilot, who was seen slumped over at the controls, lost consciousness and the aircraft flew out of control, officials said.


Robbery suspect escapes from NYC courthouse (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:46 PM PDT

AP - Police are looking for a well-dressed robbery suspect who walked out of a Manhattan courthouse after an officer apparently mistook him for a lawyer.

Hopi, Navajos say environmentalists not welcome (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:31 PM PDT

AP - The leader of the country's largest Indian reservation threw his support behind the neighboring Hopi Tribe, whose lawmakers declared environmental groups unwelcome on the reservation.

NYPD: Suspect in NYC stabbing found dead in Philly (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:05 PM PDT

AP - A man suspected of killing someone he bumped into on a sidewalk outside New York City's main post office has been found dead in Philadelphia, police said Wednesday.

Calif. jail entrepreneur has checkered past (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 06:18 PM PDT

AP - Michael Hilton pitched himself to officials in Hardin, Mont. as a military veteran turned private sector entrepreneur, a California defense contractor with extensive government contracts who promised to turn the rural city's empty jail into a cash cow.

Book about Conn. home invasion sparks complaint (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:37 PM PDT

AP - A lawyer for one of two men charged with murder in a deadly home invasion in Connecticut wants the other defendant held in contempt of court for talking to an author about the case, saying it jeopardizes his client's right to a fair trial.

Killer of Fla. 9-year-old dies of natural causes (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:03 PM PDT

FILE- In a  Tuesday, July 11, 2006 file pool photo, John Evander Couey sits in court during the second day of jury selection in his trial, at the Lake County Courthouse in Tavares, Fla. Florida prison officials say John Evander Couey, 51, the man who kidnapped, raped and buried alive 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, died of natural causes Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 at a Jacksonville, Fla. hospital.  (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz, Pool, File)AP - John Evander Couey, a convicted sex offender awaiting execution for kidnapping, raping and burying 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford alive, died of natural causes Wednesday.


3 Texas commissioners looking into arson dismissed (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:00 PM PDT

AP - A report concluding a faulty investigation led to a Texas man's execution won't be reviewed by a state board as planned Friday after Gov. Rick Perry abruptly removed three people from the panel, forcing the meeting's cancellation.

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