Kamis, 14 Januari 2010

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US official: Officers may get hit for base rampage (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:08 PM PST

FILE - The 2007 file photo provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship. A Pentagon inquiry into the case of the alleged Fort Hood shooter could lead to punishment of up to eight Army officers, a U.S. official said late Thursday, Jan. 15, 2010.   (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, File)AP - A Pentagon inquiry into the case of the alleged Fort Hood shooter could lead to punishment of up to eight Army officers, a U.S. official said late Thursday.


NJ church group returns home after Haiti aid trip (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:41 PM PST

Two members of Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, N.J., embrace before a prayer service at the church for victims of the earthquake in Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The church has a 15 member team led by its pastor, Frank Fowler who were distributing personal care kits to hospitals, orphanages, clinics and schools when the quake hit. The are all reported safe. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - Members of a New Jersey church group who were in Haiti on a humanitarian mission when a massive earthquake struck the island nation this week have returned to the United States.


In ravaged Haiti, aid workers among the victims (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:14 PM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, and released by the Philippine Mission to the United Nations, members of the 10th Philippine Peacekeeping Contingent serving with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) help in search and rescue efforts at the collapsed U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince, where a number of staff members and peacekeepers, including three from the Philippines, remain trapped more than a day after a powerful earthquake struck the capital city. (AP Photo/United Nations, Marco Dormino)AP - Haiti's limitless poverty and hardship have long drawn aid groups and charities from across the world. Now the same people who tried to do good before the earthquake find themselves trapped in the rubble, out of touch with their loved ones and struggling to carry on their missions.


Flood of aid to Haiti looks like chaos, but normal (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST

Members of the China International Search and Rescue Team depart on a plane for Haiti during a ceremony held at the airport in Beijing Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.  The 50-member Chinese rescue team heads to quake-hit Haiti hours after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake ravaged the Caribbean country. (AP Photo)AP - Relief supplies are coming into quake-struck Haiti without people knowing. Coordination seems missing. A United Nations official is calling it "chaos." All this while victims aren't being helped.


Fla. deputy dies in shootout with killing suspect (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 09:57 PM PST

AP - A Florida sheriff says one of his deputies was killed in a shootout with a man suspected of killing two people and wounding two others.

Ill. terrorism suspects indicted in Mumbai attack (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:20 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 file courtroom artists drawing Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana, center, appears before Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago's federal court.David Coleman Headley and businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana were named in a 12-count superseding indictment that for the first time alleged Rana was in on the planning of the attacks by a team of 10 terrorists.   (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - Two Chicago men were indicted Thursday on charges they planned a violent attack on a Danish newspaper and helped lay the groundwork for the November 2008 terrorist rampage killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai.


Texas board pushes back social studies vote a day (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 09:16 PM PST

University of Texas student Roberto Flotte, left, and State Rep. Norma Chavez, D-El Paso, talk after Chavez gave testimony at a State Board of Education hearing on new social studies curriculum standards on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Chavez asked the board to require inclusion of more hispanic figures in the new curriculum.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - Christmas and Aesop's Fables are in, but Henry Cisneros won't be included in new social studies class guidelines considered Thursday by the Texas State Board of Education, which could influence curriculums nationwide.


Texas murder suspect searched 'overdose' online (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:24 PM PST

Former Baptist minister Matt Baker, accused the 2006 death of his wife Kari, waits in 19th District Courtroom during his trial in Waco, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune-Herald, Duane A. Laverty)AP - In the month before his wife died, a minister in Texas tried to buy a prescription sleeping aid online and conducted an Internet search for "overdose on sleeping pills," computer experts testified Thursday in his murder trial.


Mass. doctor accused of fraud by faking research (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:33 PM PST

AP - Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they have filed a health care fraud charge against a doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex.

Trinkets in trash after cadmium warning (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:12 PM PST

Graphic shows where cadmium harms the bodyAP - Kathy Sanders waited until her 4-year-old daughter, Emma, was distracted with a video game Thursday. Then she made her move.


Life sentence for Seattle Jewish office shooting (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:26 PM PST

AP - A man who went on a shooting rampage at a Seattle Jewish center, killing one woman and wounding five others, appealed for forgiveness and blamed his medication as a judge sentenced him Thursday to life in prison without parole.

Man who alleges police torture free after 23 years (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:39 PM PST

AP - A man who contends Chicago police tortured him into confessing to a murder he did not commit walked out of a courtroom a free man Thursday after more than 23 years behind bars.

Cocaine found at Fla. NASA hangar, workers tested (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:33 PM PST

AP - NASA is investigating how a bag of cocaine got into the hangar that houses space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Ex-NY newsman gets jail in assault attempt on wife (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:26 PM PST

AP - Former cable TV newsman Dominic Carter was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in jail for an attempted assault on his wife and was ordered to stay away from her for up to two years.

College applicants face intensifying competition (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 11:54 AM PST

In this Friday, Dec. 18, 2009 photo, Formekia Chinn poses for a portrait at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif.  Chinn is a 30-year-old single mom and was planning to transfer to San Jose State University this spring before CSU closed spring admissions at all its campuses due to budget cuts. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)AP - College applicants are facing one of the toughest years ever to gain admission to the nation's public colleges and universities as schools grapple with deep budget cuts and record numbers of applications.


Year after Hudson River jet landing, fear remains (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 08:55 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo from Jan. 15, 2009, airline passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines.  (AP Photo/Steven Day, File)AP - Months after the crash, Doreen Welsh had a panic attack when she inhaled a little water in the shower. Anastasia Sosa no longer finds swimming fun — it feels too much like survival training. And Jorge Morgado can't bring himself to get back on a plane.


Ohio pediatrician gets 13 years in sex abuse case (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:10 PM PST

AP - A pediatrician charged with sex crimes against former patients pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

SF economist says gay marriage ban costs city (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:34 PM PST

A wedding cake featuring two grooms and two brides, symbolizing gay marriage. Legalizing same-sex marriage would generate millions of dollars for San Francisco, the city's chief economist said Thursday, as a trial on California's gay wedding ban entered a fourth day.(AFP/File/Hector Mata)AP - A state ban on gay marriage is costing the city of San Francisco millions of dollars a year in lost revenue and increased services, an economist testified Thursday in a lawsuit aimed at overturning the prohibition.


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