Senin, 21 September 2009

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Terror arrest sparks gov't warning on mass transit (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 07:29 PM PDT

Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. Zazi, identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida, was questioned by agents for hours on Wednesday and returned Thursday afternoon for further questioning. The FBI searched Zazi's apartment and the home of his aunt and uncle, both in the east Denver suburb of Aurora. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Counterterrorism officials are warning mass transit systems around the nation to step up patrols because of fears an Afghanistan-born immigrant under arrest in Colorado may have been plotting with others to detonate backpack bombs aboard New York City trains.

Toddler among 6 killed as storms pound Southeast (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 09:01 PM PDT

A female motorist abandons her flooded vehicle on I-85 South near Lilburn, Ga., as part of the highway becomes covered with water during rush hour on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Curtis Compton)AP - Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stranded motorists scrambled to the tops of their car as waters rose on one of the city's busiest highways. To the north, crews worked furiously to shore up a levee holding a surging river back from an isolated town.

Suspect in 4 Va. killings had run-ins with police (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 09:19 PM PDT

A man with the Virginia State Police prepares a camera in front of 505 First Avenue in Farmville, Va. Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009, during a quadruple homicide investigation. A 20-year-old man suspected of killing four people in the central Virginia college town was arrested at an airport Saturday, where he apparently tried to catch a flight to his home state of California, authorities said. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Alexa Welch Edlund)AP - An aspiring California rapper who is suspected of killing a Virginia pastor and three other people had two run-ins with police in the days before his arrest, but authorities said they didn't notice anything unusual.

The president and the potato (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 09:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama is pictured with host David Letterman during a break at a taping of CBS The Late Show with David Letterman, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Add this one to the presidential collection: the heart-shaped potato.

'Junior' Gotti portrayed as maniacal killer (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 09:47 PM PDT

Accused mob boss John AP - The fourth racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti began Monday with the government portraying the mob heir as a maniacal killer and chronic criminal who has dodged prison by intimidating witnesses and obstructing justice.

Fla. mom slain with her 5 children endured abuse (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 08:10 PM PDT

Mesac Damas is escorted by police after his arrest in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Damas, who was detained for the Florida slaying of his wife and their five children, said Monday that he returned to his native Caribbean nation 'to say goodbye to my family.' (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A Florida woman slain along with her five children endured regular abuse from her husband but seemed overwhelmed by trying to raise the kids herself and wanted him around as a father figure, Department of Children and Families records show.

Yale: Lab tech had building access until arrest (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:22 PM PDT

This undated photo released by New Haven Police Dept., shows Yale graduate student Annie Le who disappeared on Sept. 8, 2009. Raymond Clark III, 24, a Yale lab technician was arrested Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 and charged with murdering the graduate student in the research building where they both worked. (AP Photo/New Haven Police Dept.)AP - Even after police suspected lab technician Raymond Clark was the man who killed a Yale University graduate student and stuffed her body behind a wall, he had unfettered access to the Ivy League campus — but was under constant surveillance, officials confirmed Monday.

Documents: Anna Nicole Smith's doctors were warned (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 08:44 PM PDT

AP - A Los Angeles pharmacist told Anna Nicole Smith's internist that the drugs the internist prescribed to the model after her son died were "pharmaceutical suicide," according to unsealed documents written by state officials.

MacArthur Foundation awards 24 'Genius Grants' (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 09:12 PM PDT

Clarion-Ledger newspaper investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell stands outside the James O. Eastland Federal Courthouse in downtown Jackson, Miss. on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, where some of Mitchell's subjects have spent their last days of freedom, trying to 'beat the rap' for decades-old civil rights crimes that escaped justice. The newspaper reporter who refuses to forget decades-old murders is among 24 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation 'genius grants.' (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - A newspaper reporter who refuses to forget decades-old murders and a law professor trying to get people to forget the way they think about severe mental illness are among 24 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."

Carter says Israel must stop building settlements (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 07:23 PM PDT

AP - Israel must stop building settlements in the Palestinian territories if peace is ever to be achieved in the Middle East, former President Jimmy Carter said Monday night as he received an award at a Virginia university for his humanitarian efforts.

Charges filed in Oklahoma wreck that killed 10 (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:27 PM PDT

AP - A prosecutor has filed 10 counts of negligent homicide against a trucker who slammed into a line of stopped cars in northeastern Oklahoma. Ten people died in the June 26 wreck.

'Family' ties at issue in Merlino casino work bid (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:35 PM PDT

AP - Joseph N. Merlino's construction company has done work at sensitive sites, including two nuclear power plants and a New Jersey State Police building — but so far has been barred from working in the casino industry.

Kennedy successor bill nearing debate in Senate (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:29 PM PDT

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass., announces his intention to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the August 2009 death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, at a news conference in Boston Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Massachusetts could have a new U.S. senator by the end of the week.

NY man fights IBM firing over chat room visit (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 12:43 PM PDT

AP - A former IBM employee who was fired for visiting an adult chat room while at work is appealing a court decision against him.

Obama flies into epicenter of NY political flap (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:06 PM PDT

President Barack Obama is greeted by New York Gov. David Paterson after arriving at Albany International Airport in Colonie, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, prior to heading to Troy, N.Y. to tour a technology classroom and give a speech on the economy at Hudson Valley Community College. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)AP - President Barack Obama called Gov. David Paterson "a wonderful man" Monday, a day after apparently throwing him into a fight for his political career — then praised Paterson's chief rival for the job: state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

SC man confesses to slayings of 4 family members (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:53 PM PDT

AP - A South Carolina man confessed Monday to methodically stalking and murdering four family members in their home, reloading his shotgun five times before firing the final shot into his father as the man said "I love you."

Remains of missing Oregon woman found (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:05 PM PDT

AP - Five years after college student Brooke Wilberger disappeared, a man pleaded guilty Monday to her murder and led police to her body.

Ga. deputy accused in 2 slayings caught in Belize (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:31 PM PDT

AP - A former DeKalb County sheriff's deputy who fled after he was charged with killing his wife and a day laborer has been caught in Central America.

Study tries to detect flu before the first sneeze (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:06 PM PDT

Registered nurse Sara Hoffman, left, draws a blood sample from Ariel Snowden-Wright, from Chicago, as fellow student Cherry Tran comforts her at Duke University in Durham, N.C. , Thursday, Sept. 10,2009. The students are participating in a swine flu genome testing study at Duke funded by the Defense Department. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Coughed on by somebody with the flu? Duke University researchers are developing a test to determine — with a mere drop of blood — who will get sick before the sniffling and fever set in. And they're turning to hundreds of dorm-dwelling freshmen this fall to see if it works.

Govt: 1 swine flu shot enough for older kids (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:53 PM PDT

Street dwellers stand next to graffiti about H1N1 influenza on a street side wall in Mumbai September 9, 2009. REUTERS/Arko DattaAP - Studies of the new swine flu vaccine show children 10 and older will need just one shot for protection — but younger kids almost certainly will need two.
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