Jumat, 02 April 2010

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5 dead, 2 hurt in blast, fire at Wash. refinery (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:43 PM PDT

A Tesoro Corp. refinery, including a gas flare flame that is part normal plant operations, is shown Friday, April 2, 2010, in Anacortes, Wash. An overnight fire and explosion at the refinery killed at least three people working at the plant. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - A Washington state oil refinery hit by a deadly blast and fire early Friday was recently fined for safety violations amid what federal watchdogs call a troubling trend of serious accidents at refineries.

AP: Vatican waited years to defrock Arizona priest (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 11:01 PM PDT

AP - The future Pope Benedict XVI took over the abuse case of an Arizona priest, then let it languish at the Vatican for years despite repeated pleas from the bishop for the man to be removed from the priesthood, according to church correspondence.

Lawyer: ESPN's Erin Andrews getting death threats (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:50 PM PDT

ESPN reporter Erin Andrews gives a news conference on the sentence of her stalker outside the U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, March 15, 2010. Michael Barrett, who secretly made nude videos of the ESPN reporter was sentenced Monday, March 15, 2010 to 2 1/2 years in prison before giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Erin Andrews has been getting death threats in a stream of e-mails to a media outlet, an attorney for the ESPN reporter and "Dancing with the Stars" contestant said Friday.

3 adults, 3 children dead in Minneapolis fire (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:05 PM PDT

An unidentified friend comforts Rosie Bell, right, an employee of McMahon's Pub, as firefighters put out a fire on the second floor of a building that houses McMahon's Pub in south Minneapolis, Minn on Friday morning April 2, 2010. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott)AP - A fire swept through a two-story Minneapolis building that housed several apartments and an Irish pub Friday, killing six people — including three children — who friends and family feared were a bartender and several of his girlfriend's relatives.

2nd American woman charged in 'Jihad Jane' case (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:26 PM PDT

In this June 26, 1997 photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown a 1997 booking mug of Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose, the self-described 'Jihad Jane' who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden, is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say. The new reality that there is a threat from violent Islamic extremism from within the U.S. It is difficult to say whether the uptick in cases is because law enforcement has gotten better at catching suspects or if there are simply more to catch. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)AP - Federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges Friday against a pregnant American woman in the so-called Jihad Jane case. The two American women are accused of plotting online to attend a terror training camp.

SF crime lab scandal strains justice system (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 03:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office shows Deborah Madden, a former San Francisco police crime lab technician suspected of stealing drug evidence. Suspicions of a crime at the San Francisco crime lab started cropping up in December. Madden's sister reportedly found a vial of cocaine from the lab at her home and alerted officials she feared her sibling might be stealing drugs used as evidence. Later, an internal audit revealed small amounts of cocaine were missing from the lab. Then, other technicians also acknowledged they suspected someone was stealing evidence and noticed tampering. (AP Photo/San Mateo County Sheriff's Office via the San Francisco chronicle, file)AP - SAN FRANCISCO — The first hint of scandal at the San Francisco crime lab came in December when officials received a tip that a technician might be stealing cocaine used as evidence.

Feds: Homes with Chinese drywall must be gutted (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, a large chunk of Chinese drywall from the Alfonso Sanchez home in Davie, Fla. leans against the wall. New federal guidelines released Friday, April 2, 2010, say thousands of U.S. homes tainted by Chinese drywall won't be safe unless they are completely gutted.(AP Photo/J Pat Carter, file)AP - Thousands of U.S. homes tainted by Chinese drywall should be gutted, according to new guidelines released Friday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:06 PM PDT

Retired soldier Orin Higgins poses for a photo at his home in Mountain Grove, Mo., Monday, March 29, 2010. Higgins was initially discharged from the Army with no medical benefits after injuring his back, but successfully appealed to the Physical Disability Board of Review for higher disability rating. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)AP - Only a fraction of wounded veterans who could get better benefits have applied in the two years since Congress, acting on concerns the military was cutting costs by downplaying injuries, ordered the Pentagon to review disputed claims.

US Jewish leaders denounce Catholic sermon (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 02:58 PM PDT

AP - American Jewish leaders on Friday denounced a Vatican official's likening of anti-Catholicism during the church's escalating abuse crisis to "collective violence" against Jews, but predicted it would not deal a severe blow to the two faiths' often-strained relationship.

Napolitano tours flooded RI, deemed disaster area (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:58 PM PDT

Rain clouds move into the New York City skyline as a background to the Trump World Tower (C) and columns made of black-diabase mined from Swedish bedrock, built as a tribute to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg, who was working as a diplomat in Nazi-occupied Budapest when he managed to rescue tens of thousands of Jews destined for death camps, went missing in 1945.(AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)AP - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano took a helicopter tour over still-flooded Rhode Island on Friday, witnessing waterlogged shopping malls and homes with people's possessions laid out to dry in their yards, as residents and officials in the already economically troubled state pleaded for her to secure more federal aid.

'Dynasty' oil tycoon John Forsythe dead at 92 (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - In a Saturday, Jan. 30, 1983 photo, actor John Forsythe celebrates after accepting the Golden Globe Award for best actor in a dramatic television series, 'Dyanasty,' in Hollywood, Calif. Forsythe, the actor who made his fortune as TV's affable 'Bachelor Father' and the scheming oil tycoon in 'Dynasty,' died late Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Santa Ynez, Calif. said publicist Harlan Boll. He was 92. (AP Photo/McClendon, File)AP - John Forsythe, the handsome, smooth-voiced actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in TV's "Dynasty" and the voice of the leader of "Charlie's Angels," has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 92.

Fla. chef has 9 reasons his octopus tastes better (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:40 PM PDT

This photo, taken April 2, 2010, in Tarpon Springs, Fla., shows the 9-legged octopus found in a seafood shipment by Hellas Bakery and Restaurant head chef Emmanuel Psomas. He says it's the first 9-legged octopus he's seen in his 40 years as a chef. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)AP - Nineopus. Novopus. Freak of nature. Whatever you want to call it, the nine-legged octopus probably had a leg up on all the other creatures in the Gulf of Mexico — until it was caught and found its way to Hellas Bakery and Restaurant in Florida.

FBI probes Alabama lawmakers on bingo casino bill (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT

AP - The FBI is investigating possible public corruption involving Alabama lawmakers' handling of a bill that could legalize electronic bingo casinos.

NYC study: 50 native plants disappearing (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 02:17 PM PDT

This undated photo of Celastrus Scandens, commonly known as American Bittersweet, was released by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Friday, April 2, 2010 in New York. A 20-year-long study by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, has identified the plant as one of species native to New York City that has been in a slow decline. Once common across the eastern two thirds of the U.S., the native version of the plant is still around, but it has vanished from many areas now dominated by its hardier, faster-breeding Asian cousin, the Oriental Bittersweet. (AP Photo/Brooklyn Botanic Garden) **NO SALES**AP - Oriental Bittersweet was an exotic foreigner still found mostly in East Asia when the New York Botanical Garden planted its first specimen in 1897.

Spacewoman power: 4 women in orbit at same time (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Three female astronauts that will fly aboard space shuttle Discovery, from left, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, mission specialists Stephanie Wilson and Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger arrive at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, April 1, 2010. Discovery is scheduled to launch April 5 on a mission to the International Space Station.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Space is about to have a female population explosion.

FBI warns letters to governors could stir violence (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010 file photo, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm delivers her State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature, in Lansing, Mich. The FBI is warning police across the country that Guardians of the free Republics ,an anti-government group's call to remove governors from office could provoke violence by others. Governors whose offices reported receiving the letters included Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Chet Culver of Iowa and Jim Gibbons of Nevada. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)AP - The FBI is warning police across the country that an anti-government group's call to remove governors from office could provoke violence. The group called the Guardians of the free Republics wants to "restore America" by peacefully dismantling parts of the government, according to its Web site. It sent letters to governors demanding they leave office or be removed.

Florida doctor's sign warns away Obama supporters (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 01:51 PM PDT

In this March 31, 2010 photo. a sign is seen posted on the office door of Dr. Jack Cassell, a Mount Dora, Fla. urologist. The notice on Dr. Jack Cassell's Mount Dora practice says, 'If you voted for Obama, seek urologic care elsewhere.' Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years. Cassell told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday he wasn't questioning patients or refusing care, because that would be unethical. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Deirdre Lewis) NO SALESAP - A central Florida urologist has posted a sign on his office door warning supporters of President Barack Obama to find a different doctor.

Authorities release 911 call in Disney bus crash (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:03 PM PDT

AP - Emergency officials have released a recording of a 911 call made moments after a 9-year-old boy was killed by a Walt Disney World bus in Florida.
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Job creation expected in March as recovery builds (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010 file photo, technicians work in the cockpit of the first Boeing 787 with the interior installed at the production plant in Everett, Wash. Orders to U.S. factories posted the biggest increase in four months in January, led by a surge in demand for commercial aircraft. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)AP - The economy is likely to have added jobs last month for only the second time since the recession began 27 months ago.

Official says new checks set for travelers to US (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:50 PM PDT

A woman tries to control her umbrella against strong winds as she crosses an intersection in central Tokyo on Friday, April 2, 2010. More than 80 domestic flights to and from Tokyo's Haneda airport were canceled and bullet train services were temporarily suspended by the gusty southerly winds that swept through the metropolitan and surrounding areas. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Travelers from 14 countries that have been home to terrorists will no longer automatically face extra screening before they fly to the U.S.

Obama no closer on nuclear test ban ratification (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:54 AM PDT

President Barack Obama salutes as he steps off of Marine One at the Portland Jetport in Portland, Maine, on Thursday, April 1, 2010. ( AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - President Barack Obama is expected to claim a major foreign policy success when he signs a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev next week — but it comes at a cost.

Aircraft maker pushing exports of spy drones (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:55 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, March 24, 2010 file photo, a mockup of Northrop Grumman's Unmanned Aerial Reconnaissance System plane RQ-4 Global Hawk is on display during a press briefing of the plane at a public exhibition hall in Tokyo. The U.S.-made RQ-4 Global Hawk spy plane looks like an upside-down double-decker bus with wings, flies slowly, offers zero leg room - and is one of the most coveted pieces of military technology in the world. Impressed by its successes in combat for the U.S. Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan, countries around the globe are lining up to buy the unmanned 'drone' aircraft to bolster their own intelligence abilities, despite concerns that exports might send sensitive technology into the wrong hands. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, File)AP - The U.S.-made RQ-4 Global Hawk spy plane looks like an upside-down double-decker bus with wings, flies slowly, offers zero leg room — and is one of the most coveted pieces of military technology in the world.

Obama heads to North Carolina to talk jobs (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:50 AM PDT

President Barack Obama steps off Air Force One as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama is pushing his administration's plans to create jobs, a crucial campaign issue for Democrats as they look toward November's midterm elections.

Rocket blasts off with 2 Russians, 1 American (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 01:20 AM PDT

The Russian Soyuz TMA-18 space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station is ready to blast off from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Friday, April 2, 2010. A NASA astronaut and two Russian colleagues received the thumbs-up Thursday for a mission that will boost the population of the International Space Station to six. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - The International Space Station is set for some heavy traffic over the coming days in a tightly packed schedule that kicked off Friday when a Russian rocket transporting three astronauts blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan.

Flooding disaster is latest blow for hard-luck RI (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 01:01 AM PDT

Dan Kenyon of South Kingstown, R.I., boiler room manager at Bradford Printing and Finishing in the Bradford section of Westerly, R.I. talks about the flooding and the chances of the flooded mill building behind him reopening on Thursday, April 1, 2010. Bradford Printing and Finishing employs about 40 workers dyeing, printing and finishing fabrics including camouflage material for the military was flooded when the Pawcatuck River rose on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)AP - For 20 years, he parked his car there. Now, the parking lot outside Bradford Printing and Finishing was a lake, and 60-year-old Kenneth Guilmette stood on its shore. What he saw turned his stomach.

Israeli unveils tank-defense system of the future (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 01:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2008 file photo, an Israeli Merkava tank drives from the Gaza Strip into Israel near the Sufa Crossing. Israel has begun to equip Merkava tanks with the new 'Trophy' defense system: a miniature anti-missile system that detects incoming projectiles and shoots them down before they reach the armored vehicles. If successful, the 'Trophy' system could radically alter the balance of power if the country goes to war again against Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon. Its performance could also have much wider implications as American troops and their Western allies battle insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)AP - On a dusty, wind-swept field overlooking the Mediterranean, a small team of researchers is putting the final touches on what Israel says is a major game changer in tank defense: a miniature anti-missile system that detects incoming projectiles and shoots them down before they reach the armored vehicles.

Source: Charlie Sheen wants to bow out of sitcom (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:01 AM PDT

AP - Charlie Sheen is looking at a future without "Two and a Half Men."

Dayton wins NIT, beats North Carolina 79-68 (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:08 PM PDT

The Dayton team poses for photographs after defeating North Carolina 79-68 in a college basketball game for the NIT title Thursday, April 1, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - Dayton players danced at midcourt and then lingered on ladders as they cut down the nets at Madison Square Garden.

U.S. to impose new airline security measures (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:36 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States will implement new airline security measures this month to replace mandatory screening of air travelers from 14 countries, a step that had angered some allies when it was imposed after a failed bombing on Christmas Day.

Obama urges China's Hu to get behind Iran push (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 11:23 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao after making statements at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 17, 2009. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama urged his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao to work together on pressing Iran over its nuclear activities, but Hu did not openly commit to new sanctions on Tehran, according to official reports on Friday.

Census hiring to lift March payrolls (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 01:03 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. non-farm payrolls, a key measure of the economy's health, probably rose in March for only the second time since recession struck in late 2007 as hiring for the 2010 U.S. Census added jobs.

Obama previews rhetoric for mid-term elections (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 01:04 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee fund raiser in Boston, April 1, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - President Barack Obama, in a preview of the election campaign Democrats will roll out later this year, recalled on Thursday the economic mess he inherited from the Republicans while saying the change he had promised upon winning the White House is being delivered.

Israeli planes and helicopters mount Gaza attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 04:34 PM PDT

A wounded Palestinian boy is carried into Al-Shifa hospital following Israeli air strikes in Gaza April 2, 2010. REUTERS/Ismail ZaydahReuters - Israeli planes and helicopters mounted at least seven missile attacks on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday, destroying what a military spokesman described as Palestinian munitions sites.

Obama touts healthcare reform benefit to business (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 02:56 PM PDT

The crowd applauds as President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform at the Portland Expo Center, in Portland, Maine, Thursday, April 1, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday touted the immediate benefits small businesses will receive from his healthcare reforms, in his second speech this week promoting the sweeping plan to a skeptical public.

Pakistan tables long-awaited constitutional reforms (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:04 AM PDT

Reuters - The Pakistani government introduced a constitutional bill in parliament Friday, transferring President Asif Ali Zardari's sweeping powers to the prime minister and possibly ending months of political wrangling.

Cheap and deadly, homemade bombs plague Afghan roads (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 11:13 PM PDT

Reuters - The signature weapon of the Iraq war has established itself as the Taliban's weapon of choice in Afghanistan as well, where roadside bombs have proven to be rudimentary and cheap -- but deadly as ever.

Obama calls on Hu to support action on Iran (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 11:27 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama called on Chinese President Hu Jintao to work together on the Iranian nuclear standoff, the White House said.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - US President Barack Obama urged Chinese President Hu Jintao for cooperation on the Iranian nuclear standoff, the White House said, as Hu appealed for "healthy and stable" relations between the two nations.

Israel warns of new Gaza assault after air strikes (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:51 AM PDT

Palestinians inspect the site of a destroyed factory after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Israel on Friday threatened a widescale military operation against the Gaza Strip after a string of air strikes which injured three Palestinian children following rocket attacks from the enclave(AFP/Mahmud Hams)AFP - Israel on Friday threatened a widescale military operation against the Gaza Strip after a string of air strikes which injured three Palestinian children following rocket attacks from the enclave.
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