Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

来自"Yahoo! News: U.S. News"的最新文章，如果您不希望再收到此邮件，请退订；如果您需要更换其它邮箱接收邮件，请点击这里！

Situation still 'fragile' in Grand Canyon village (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:16:46 +0800

AP - Crews were waiting for floodwaters to recede so they can begin restoring washed-out trails and footbridges to a remote village near the Grand Canyon hit by flooding, authorities said.

Tropical Storm Fay stays on Florida's coast (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:08:02 +0800

AP - Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path Wednesday, moving north along the Florida coa! st but not going out over the Atlantic Ocean, where many had feared it could strengthen and curve back toward the state as a hurricane.

Study: Cost often not factor when picking college (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:03:27 +0800

AP - Even if a student plans on a major where the financial rewards aren't so obvious, such as art history or philosophy, most American families don't factor in their child's expected earning power when considering the potential debt load for college.

Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:59:20 +0800

AP - Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.

DMB sax player dies at 46 from ATV wreck injuries (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:42:09 +0800

AP - L! eRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.

Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:22:39 +0800

AP - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.

Girl from polygamist group ordered into state care (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:33:01 +0800

AP - A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents' blessing at age 12 was ordered back into foster care Tuesday by a Texas judge.

States throw out costly electronic voting machines (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:23:50 +0800

AP - The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses sta! cked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers.

NJ congressman in Georgia to help trapped sisters (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:05:51 +0800

AP - A New Jersey congressman has arrived in the Republic of Georgia in an effort to ! bring home two young girls stuck overseas since the conflict with Russia began.

Flooding recedes in South Texas after foot of rain (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:02:33 +0800

AP - Flooding receded Tuesday in southern Texas and main highways reopened after a deluge of as much as 13 inches of rain, as the drenching weather shifted to the northern end of the state and Oklahoma.

FBI: Pa. student hoped to breed sex slave society (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:10:10 +0800

AP - A Pennsylvania medical student told a classmate he was trying to recruit a New Zealand woman and her 4-year-old daughter to start a society of sex slaves that would live on a farm or island, the FBI said.

Ohio says no to voting machine 'sleepovers' (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:04:34 +0800

AP - Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days! before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk, the state elections chief said Tuesday.

Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:15:43 +0800

AP - A convicted sex offender admitted Tuesday that he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student two years ago, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bi! kini top still wrapped around her neck.

Lennon's killer told parole board he's ashamed (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:15:08 +0800

AP - John Lennon's killer told parole officials during his latest unsuccessful bid for release from prison that he is ashamed and sorry f! or gunning down the former Beatle nearly three decades ago.

Funeral homes facing problem of abandoned ashes (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:09:15 +0800

AP - The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. Someone loved the people once, enough to have their bodies crem! ated then promptly forgot or decided they didn't want them.

Note by Ark. party leader's killer still a mystery (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:00:30 +0800

AP - Police said Tuesday they hadn't found any connection between slain Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney and a telephone number written with his last name on a Post-It note found in the home of the man who killed him.

Rights museum picks Gore, Nash for Freedom Awards (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:56:56 +0800

AP - Former Vice President Al Gore and civil rights activist Diane Nash were named Tuesday as recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum's annual Freedom Awards.

Widow of Confederate soldier dies at 93 (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:55:42 +0800

AP - Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93.

Washington state, Wyoming hold state primaries (AP)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:26:09 +0800

AP - Washington state voters cast ballots Tuesday in a primary that would almost certainly set up the nation's most competitive governor's race with a reprise of the 2004 cliffhanger that was decided by 133 votes.

此邮件由系统自动发送，请不要直接回复该邮件，该服务由Feedsky提供技术支持，祝您使用愉快。

0 Comments:

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]