Kamis, 26 November 2009

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Americans give thanks, see parades, feast in space (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:47 PM PST

The Kermit the Frog balloon floats through Times Square during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)AP - Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti brought smiles to hundreds of thousands of revelers eager to catch a glimpse of a parade as steeped in Thanksgiving Day tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie.

Man who died in Utah mishap was experienced caver (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:49 PM PST

This undated family photo provided Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009, shows John Jones, left, and his wife, Emily Dawn Jones. John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park, died Thursday after he became stuck upside-down in Nutty Putty Cave, a popular spelunking site about 80 miles south of Salt Lake City. His funeral is planned for Saturday in Stansbury Park. (AP Photo/Jones Family) NO SALES.AP - A medical student who died Thursday after a daylong effort to rescue him 150 feet underground was an outdoors lover and experienced caver who was expecting the birth of his second child next year, officials and family members said.

Mass. cops: Dad doing errand locked kids in trunk (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 08:05 PM PST

AP - Massachusetts police say a man locked his two young sons in the trunk of his car while he ran an errand.

Seniors suffer in troubled California subdivision (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 09:40 AM PST

AP - John and Donna Pringle were newly widowed when they fell in love and decided to slip into retirement together at a sprawling community being built for the 55-and-up crowd a few miles from their homes in this sun-bleached Southern California town.

'Ghost' traps, long lost, keep catching lobsters (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 11:39 AM PST

In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 photo, a lost lobster trap sits on the ocean floor off Biddeford, Maine. Marine biologists say 'ghost traps' lost by lobstermen continue to catch lobsters as they sit untended in the cold ocean waters off Maine's coast. This winter lobstermen will grapple up gear from selected spots in the first large-scale study of ghost traps. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Beneath the cold ocean waters off the coast of Maine, the nation's lobster breadbasket, lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of old wire lobster "ghost traps." Lost over the years to storms, boats — even the knives of fishermen who've cut them from their buoys to settle scores — many of the traps continue catching lobsters.

Astronauts surprised by holiday turkey dinners (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 08:56 AM PST

This image from NASA TV shows the Space Shuttle Atlantis doing it's fly around passing behind the Russian segment of the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the International Space Station early Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. The Poisk can be seen at right. The shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday morning. The (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts thought they were going to give thanks with pantry leftovers Thursday as their mission drew to a close, but found turkey dinners awaiting them.

Immigration reform activists diversifying ranks (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 03:44 PM PST

AP - Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement.

Shaquille O'Neal pays for funeral of slain N.C. toddler (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 08:30 AM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers' Shaquille O'Neal sits on the bench in the second quarter in an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz,, in Cleveland. O'Neal has paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl whose kidnapping and slaying garnered national news coverage. The Fayetteville Observer newspaper in North Carolina reported Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009, that the Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the case of Shaniya Davis. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)AP - Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed.

Bizarre calf mutilations found on Colorado ranch (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:55 AM PST

AP - A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.

Project promotes talking, not shopping, on Friday (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 08:43 AM PST

AP - A national oral history project is trying to start a new tradition for Black Friday. Instead of hunting for bargains, StoryCorps suggests families sit down together and talk about their lives on a National Day of Listening.

Calif. driver faints, crashes into parked planes (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:45 AM PST

A truck rests again one of the small plane it hit at an airport in El Cajon, Calif. Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. The driver of the truck passed out behind the wheel of his truck, sending the vehicle crashing through a fence and into a row of parked planes. (AP Photo/William Thorn)AP - Police say a California man passed out behind the wheel of his truck, sending the vehicle crashing through a fence and into a row of parked planes at an airport in El Cajon.
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