Jumat, 04 Desember 2009

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Va. Tech report: Staff warned their families first (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 10:54 PM PST

FILE - In this undated photo released by the Virginia State Police, Seung-Hui Cho is shown. Seung-Hui, 23, is identified by police as the gunman suspected in the massacre that left 33 people dead at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 16, 2007. An updated report released Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 says that some Virginia Tech officials warned their own families and the president's office was locked down well before a campus-wide alert was issued in the 2007 slayings of 32 people, according to a revised state report that details new fumbles in the response to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.  (AP Photo/Virginia State Police, File)AP - At least two Virginia Tech administrators told family members about a double shooting in a dorm — the prelude to the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history — well before the rest of the campus was notified a gunman was on the loose.


Ind. parents grieve slain son, as teen son charged (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 04:55 PM PST

Andrew Conley, 17, is led from an Ohio County courtroom after his hearing, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 in Rising Sun, Ind. The teenager, accused of strangling his 10-year-old brother and dumping his body in a park, has pleaded not guilty to murder. Prosecutors say Conley confessed to police that he intentionally strangled his brother while they were wrestling at the family home on Sunday. They say Conley told investigators he had dreamed of killing someone since he was in eighth grade. (AP Photo/David Kohl)AP - In front of a few friends but with his mother and father conspicuously absent, an Indiana teenager pleaded not guilty Friday to murdering his 10-year-old brother. A few blocks away, the grieving couple greeted well-wishers who had come to pay respects to their slain younger son.


LA Episcopal diocese elects first woman bishop (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 06:23 PM PST

AP - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the first female bishop in its 114-year history Friday but ended voting for the day with one of two openly gay candidates still vying for the second bishop's position.

Wis. man linked to 4 slayings charged in 2 deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 08:32 PM PST

This undated photo provided Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 by the Dane County, Wis. Sheriff's Department via the Wisconsin State Journal shows Tyrone Adair. Police believe the fatal shootings of a mother and her young daughter in Madison were connected to the slayings of another woman and young girl in a nearby suburb, and authorities were searching Friday for Adair as a 'person of interest' in all four deaths. (AP Photo/ Dane County Sheriff's Department)AP - A Wisconsin man police say is linked to the deaths of his two young daughters and their mothers remained at large Friday. He was charged in two of the slayings.


Brooke Astor's son: I'm too sick to be imprisoned (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 09:57 PM PST

FILE - In this  Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 file photo, Anthony Marshall and wife Charlene exit the courtroom following the verdict at Manhattan State Supreme Court, in New York.  Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son said in court papers filed Friday that he's too sick and doesn't deserve to go to prison for plundering his philanthropist mother's fortune, enlisting such famous friends as Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker in a bid to stay free.   (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file)AP - Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son said in court papers filed Friday that he's too sick and doesn't deserve to go to prison for plundering his philanthropist mother's fortune, enlisting such famous friends as Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker in a bid to stay free.


Obama's stylish aide is under withering scrutiny (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 08:19 PM PST

White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers arrives for a State Dinner hosted by President Barack Obama for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House in Washington, in this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. The White House says Rogers will not testify at a congressional hearing into the security lapse that mistakenly allowed a couple into last week's state dinner. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - She arrived in Washington with more of a splash than any White House social secretary before her, and no wonder: Desiree Rogers had obvious style, wealth, a Harvard MBA, years of corporate experience, and friends at the top, most importantly Barack and Michelle Obama.


Pawlenty, other aspirants travel for foreign cred (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 02:52 PM PST

AP - Gov. Tim Pawlenty can't see Russia from his house.

Man reported car problems just before 4-dead crash (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 07:22 PM PST

AP - A customer complained of gas-pedal problems with a dealership's loaner Lexus three days before the same car accelerated out of control and killed a California Highway Patrol officer and three family members, a report obtained Friday said.

Mom pleads no contest in quadriplegic girl's death (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 03:30 PM PST

AP - A Flint woman accused of starving her adopted quadriplegic daughter to death and stashing the body in a storage unit pleaded no contest Friday to involuntary manslaughter.

Woman using man's ski pass claims sex change (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 07:53 PM PST

AP - Sheriff's officials say a woman caught trying to use a man's ski pass at Keystone Resort in Colorado claimed she was in the middle of a sex change.

Unexpected drop in jobless rate sparks optimism (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 10:55 PM PST

Tony Thomas of West Palm Beach fills out paperwork at a job fair at Workforce Alliance in West Palm Beach, Florida in this November 6, 2009 file photo. U.S. employers cut only 11,000 jobs last month, the best showing in nearly two years, and the jobless rate edged down to 10 percent, a strong suggestion the jobs market was edging towards health, according to a U.S. Labor Department report issued on December 4, 2009. Picture taken November 6, 2009.    REUTERS/Joe Skipper/Files        (UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS)AP - Two years of steep job cuts all but ended last month, unexpectedly pulling down the unemployment rate and raising hopes for a lasting economic recovery.


Yang takes a 2-shot lead at Tiger's event (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 04:26 PM PST

Y.E. Tang, of South Korea, drives on the second tee in the second round of the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Friday, Dec. 4, 2009.  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Y.E. Yang managed to play good golf while coping with a big headache Friday, and his 7-under 65 gave him a two-shot lead going into the weekend at the Chevron World Challenge.


Palin arrives to cheering crowd at Fort Hood (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 04:46 PM PST

Sarah Palin signs her book 'Going Rogue' in Fort Hood, Texas on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - A cheering crowd has greeted former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at Fort Hood in Texas.


The undefeated Saints lift spirits in New Orleans (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 12:46 PM PST

This photo made Nov. 30, 2009, shows New Orleans Saints fans before the the NFL football game between the New England Patriots and New Orleans Saints, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - They ain't the Ain'ts anymore. And ain't that grand for New Orleans.


Soldier charged in 2 NY murders had dead man's car (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 02:05 PM PST

This undated photo released by the Scioto County Sheriff's Office shows Joshua Hunter, 20, of Watertown, N.Y., a Fort Drum, N.Y., soldier. Hunter was arrested at a hotel in southern Ohio, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, on a warrant charging him in Tuesday's stabbing deaths of two fellow servicemen, Waide James, 20, and Diego Valbuena, 23, in northern New York. (AP Photo/Scioto County Sheriff's Office)AP - A Fort Drum military policeman accused of stabbing to death two Army buddies at their apartment fled to Ohio in a car belonging to one victim and admitted to an investigator that he killed them, authorities said Friday.


Govt: Some $600M to go to energy plants (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 12:48 PM PST

AP - The federal government is speeding up plans to produce more renewable fuels, announcing Friday it will spend nearly $600 million to help build plants that turn wood chips, cornstalks and algae into fuel.

CDC: Swine flu less widespread; only in 25 states (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 02:29 PM PST

People are seen wearing masks while riding on the Beijing subway, on December 2. China's official swine flu death toll has hit 200 with almost all of the deaths recorded in November, according to the health ministry.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AP - Swine flu infections continue to wane, just as vaccine is becoming plentiful enough that some communities are allowing everyone to get it, not just those in priority groups.


Catholic sisters challenge Vatican investigation (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 02:29 PM PST

AP - Leaders of a significant number of the nation's Roman Catholic sisters are challenging aspects of a Vatican investigation of their communities, declining to answer questions they say are ambiguous, inappropriate and out of step with the probe's stated purpose.

Woman gives birth on flight diverted to Denver (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 01:41 PM PST

AP - A woman gave birth to a baby boy on a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago that had to be diverted to Denver International Airport.

Jury gets case of blogger accused of judge threats (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 12:01 PM PST

Blogger Hal Turner, who is facing criminal charges for threatening to assault or kill a judge after calling three federal judges in Illinois 'cunning, ruthless, deceitful scum' and declaring that they 'must die', arrives at Federal Court Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.  Closing arguments at Turner's trial are scheduled to begin Friday.  (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - A New Jersey blogger crossed the line protecting free speech by writing that three federal judges in Chicago "must die" for a decision supporting gun control, a prosecutor said Friday, as the defense countered in closing arguments that giving a passionate opinion is not a crime.


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