Jumat, 11 September 2009

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Nation marks Sept. 11 with acts of volunteerism (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:49 PM PDT

A woman is comforted as friends and relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks gather for a commemoration ceremony at Zuccotti Park, adjacent to ground zero, on the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - The selfless spirit that helped mend a stricken nation eight years ago was renewed. Volunteers marked 9/11 Friday by tilling gardens, writing letters to soldiers, setting out flags — and, at ground zero, by joining the somber ritual of reading the names of the lost.

Prosecutors: Gunman with grudge kills 2 in Mich. (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:16 PM PDT

A Shiawassee County Deputy photographs the scene of a shooting at the intersection of North Street and Whitehaven Drive near Owasso High School in Owosso, Mich. Friday morning, Sept. 11, 2009. Michigan authorities say an anti-abortion activist was slain near Owosso High School and another man was fatally shot at a business in a neighboring community in crelated incidents. (AP Photo/The Argus-Press, Anthony Cepak)AP - A man carrying grudges against several people set off on a shooting spree Friday morning, authorities said, killing an abortion protester outside a high school because he didn't like the activist holding a sign with graphic images of a fetus in front of students.

Space shuttle lands in California after detour (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:48 PM PDT

The Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Friday, Sept.11, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in California on Friday after stormy weather prevented them from returning home to Florida for the second day in a row.

Warhol's sports superstars stolen from LA home (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:47 PM PDT

This image provided by the Los Angeles Police Department on Friday Sept. 11, 2009 shows a reward poster issued for stolen works of art by Andy Warhol in Los Angeles. Police said a multi-million-dollar collection of Andy Warhol paintings has been stolen from a private home in West Los Angeles. The LAPD said Friday that 10 paintings, each 40 inches square, were taken from the home of businessman Richard Weisman. (AP Photo/LAPD)AP - A multimillion dollar collection of Andy Warhol portraits of Muhammad Ali and other sports superstars was stolen from a Los Angeles home, police said Friday.

Yale offers 10K reward in student's disappearance (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 07:55 PM PDT

A billboard bearing a photo of missing student, Annie Le, is seen alongside Interstate 91 in New Haven, Conn., Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. Le, a Yale graduate student, was last seen Tuesday, Sept. 8 at her laboratory in the Yale Medical School complex. (AP Photo/Thomas Cain)AP - Investigators searching for a Yale graduate student who disappeared days before her wedding reviewed security-camera footage and checked the blueprints of the building where she was last seen as the university offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts.

Annie Leibovitz buys back copyright to her photos (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:11 PM PDT

FILE - American photographer Annie Leibovitz arrives at Buckingham Palace in London, in this March 27 , 2007 file photo. The deadline for the celebrity photographer to repay a $24 million loan passed Tuesday night Sept. 8, 2009 without word from either involved party. Leibovitz risked losing the lucrative copyright to her images if she didn't pay back the loan. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth/pool, File)AP - Annie Leibovitz has won an extension on a $24 million loan in a financial dispute that threatened her rights to her famous images, the two sides said in a joint statement Friday.

Hurricane season has been a dud — so far (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:01 PM PDT

Graphic shows number of hurricanes, tropical storms and depressions by yearsAP - It may be tempting the weather gods just to point this out, but this has been a dud of a hurricane season so far.

DA responds to OJ's appeal to state Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:24 PM PDT

AP - A Las Vegas prosecutor said Friday that O.J. Simpson was fairly convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping, responding to the football legend's appeal in a sports memorabilia case.

High court won't extend Calif. prison deadline (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:40 PM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court on Friday turned down California's request to delay a federal court order related to state prison overcrowding.

Arizona driver dons monkey masks to elude tickets (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 06:22 PM PDT

This photo-enforcement picture released by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, taken in July 2009, shows someone wearing a monkey mask and driving a Subaru belonging to Dave VonTesmar on a Phoenix-area freeway. VonTesmar is accused of wearing monkey and giraffe masks on Phoenix-area freeways to get out of more than 90 tickets issued to him through the state's photo-enforcement program. (AP Photo/Arizona Department of Public Safety)AP - A driver has racked up dozens of speeding tickets in photo-radar zones on Phoenix-area freeways while sporting monkey and giraffe masks, and is fighting every one by claiming the costumes make it impossible for authorities to prove he was behind the wheel.

Census Bureau severs ties with ACORN in 2010 count (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:23 PM PDT

AP - The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with ACORN, a community organization that has been hit with Republican accusations of voter-registration fraud.

Marines take risks with deadly trust-building game (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:06 PM PDT

In an undated photo provided by the family of Lance Cpl. Patrick Malone, Malone is seen. North Carolina-based Cpl. Mathew Nelson has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter after shooting Malone to death in a game intended to show the comrades trusted each other. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Malone Family)AP - Lance Cpl. Patrick Malone was relaxing on his bunk at an Iraqi combat base when a direct superior interrupted his late-night movie.

Garrison Keillor out of hospital after stroke (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 4, 2009 file photo, Andra Suchy and Garrison Keillor sing 'Side by Side' during the 35th anniversary broadcast of 'A Prairie Home Companion' in Avon, Minn. Keillor still plans to start his new season of 'A Prairie Home Companion' as scheduled in just over two weeks, despite suffering a minor stroke. Keillor had the stroke and was admitted to Saint Marys Hospital at Mayo Clinic, said Karl Oestreich, a spokesman for the Rochester, Minnesota facility. He will remain there until Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 for tests 'and upon his release will resume his schedule as previously planned,' Keillor spokesman David O'Neill said. (AP Photo/St. Cloud Times, Kimm Anderson, File)AP - Humorist Garrison Keillor has been released from Mayo Clinic's Saint Marys Hospital after suffering a minor stroke earlier in the week.

3 guilty pleas expected in Mo. in dogfighting case (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:49 PM PDT

AP - At least three eastern Missouri men arrested in a multistate federal crackdown on illegal dogfighting are expected to plead guilty next week in federal court.

Some Pa. shops close doors to Pagan festival (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 01:22 PM PDT

AP - In the rolling hills of deeply religious rural Pennsylvania sits Stoudtburg Village, a tiny hamlet modeled on a German town. On weekends, tourists come here to visit shops on the ground floors of closely set three-story houses painted bright colors on pedestrian-only streets.

Lawsuits: Philly police staged raids to rob shops (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:08 PM PDT

AP - City police officers working for an elite anti-drug unit regularly robbed and harassed bodega owners during sham raids, civil-rights lawyers charge in several federal lawsuits against the officers and the city.

Healthy Minnesota offers Obama model for nation (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 01:37 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama will be in one of the nation's healthiest states Saturday, where most people have health insurance, medical care tends to be cost-effective and providers like the Mayo Clinic have made a name far beyond the Upper Midwest.

When someone is raised female and the genes say XY (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 04:04 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Monday Aug. 17, 2009 file photo South Africa's Caster Semenya pauses after competing in a Women's 800m semifinal at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. The IAAF said Friday Sept. 11, 2009 it has received the results of gender tests on South African runner Caster Semenya but is still reviewing them and will not issue any final decision until November. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)AP - It's the birth defect people don't talk about. A baby is born not completely male or female. The old term was hermaphrodite, then intersex. Now it's called "disorders of sexual development." Sometimes the person with the problem doesn't even know it and finds out in an all too public way.
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