2014年4月30日星期三

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Pensacola, Fla., records single rainiest day ever

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 03:08 PM PDT

In this photo provided by Kyle Smith, floodwaters surround Smith's home in Pensacola, Fla. on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Smith had to evacuate his home with his 18-month-old son Tuesday night after severe weather hit the Florida Panhandle, causing widespread flooding. (AP Photo/Kyle Smith)Water starts to recede after nearly 2 feet of rain dumped on Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast.

'Ground stop' at California airports blamed on computer failure

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 04:43 PM PDT

Los Angeles International airport (LAX)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flights from airports in the Los Angeles area were grounded for more than an hour Wednesday due to a computer failure at an air traffic control facility in the region, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

GOP senators: Arm Ukraine, hit Russian banks

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:45 PM PDT

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., right, walks with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Sen. Corker was the only Republican to cross party lines and vote "yes" in favor of allowing debate on the Minimum Wage Fairness Act to proceed, handing a defeat to President Barack Obama on a vote that is sure to reverberate in this year's congressional contests. (AP Photo)Saying President Obama hasn't been tough enough on Russia, a high-powered group of Republican senators introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at imposing new sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.

Underground website for drug sales is back and thriving, report says

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'Ground stop' at California airports

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 03:54 PM PDT

FORMAL CHARGES FOR LAX SHOOTEROfficials say action at LAX, other sites, believed to be a result of computer problems.

Train carrying crude derails into Virginia river

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 03:19 PM PDT

Emergency personnel attend to a CSX Corp train carrying crude oil that derailed and burst into flames in downtown LynchburgHundreds evacuated from downtown Lynchburg as burning oil spills into Chesapeake system.

Irish Sinn Fein leader held over woman's 1972 murder

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 02:11 PM PDT

Gerry Adams, president of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein, attends the funeral of British veteran left-wing politician Tony Benn at St Margaret's Church in central London on March 27, 2014Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, head of the Sinn Fein political party, was on Wednesday questioned over the murder of a woman in 1972, the party said in a statement. "Last month Gerry Adams said he was available to meet the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) about the Jean McConville case," said a statement on the party's website. McConville, a 37-year-old mother of 10, was snatched from her west Belfast flat and shot by republican paramilitaries, accused of passing information to the British army. In 1999 the IRA admitted her murder and her remains were found on a beach in County Louth four years later.

Kiev: Forces "helpless" to restore order in east

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:04 PM PDT

Pro Russian masked armed militants guard barricades near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Ukraine's police and security forces are "helpless" to quell unrest in two eastern regions bordering Russia, and in some cases are cooperating with pro-Russian gunmen who have seized scores of government buildings and taken people hostage, the country's president Oleksandr Turchynov said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president conceded Wednesday that his police and security forces were "helpless" to stifle unrest in the country's east, where pro-Russia gunmen seized more buildings, walking into the police station and mayor's office in this mining hub without resistance.

Editor who catapulted Mad magazine into pop culture dies at 88

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this 1972 file photo, "Mad" magazine Editor Al Feldstein, center, sits with Art Director John Putnam, left, and a freelancer named Jack, at the magazine's New York headquarters. Feldstein, whose 28 years at the helm of Mad transformed the satirical magazine into a pop culture institution, died Tuesday, April 29, 2014. He was 88. (AP Photo/Jerry Mosey, File)BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Al Feldstein, whose 28 years at the helm of Mad magazine transformed the satirical publication into a pop culture institution, has died. He was 88.

Kidnapped Nigerian girls reportedly married off to captors

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:02 PM PDT

An unidentified mother cries out during a demonstration with others who have daughters among the kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok, Tuesday April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. Two weeks after Islamic extremists stormed a remote boarding school in northeast Nigeria, more than 200 girls and young women remain missing despite a LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday.

Experiment grows new muscle in men's injured legs

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 11:25 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center shows Dr. Stephen Badylak, a surgery professor at the university, and deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, holding a sheet of WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists implanted thin sheets of scaffolding-like material from pigs into a few young men with disabling leg injuries — and say the experimental treatment coaxed the men's own stem cells to regrow new muscle.

Who's got game? Breaking down potential Clippers bidders

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Two dead in shooting at western Canadian sawmill, suspect held

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:34 PM PDT

There are unconfirmed reports that at least three people have been shot at the Western Forest Products mill in Nanaimo, B.C. This unconfirmed Twitter image of one of the victims arriving at Vancouver General Hospital has been circulating on social media. Image via Cathy O'Connor/TwitterFour people were taken to hospital and a suspect was in custody after a shooting at a sawmill in British Columbia on Wednesday, police said.

Senate GOP blocks Dems' minimum wage bill

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 11:28 AM PDT

The vote derailed one of President Obama's top economic priorities.

Autopsy underway after botched Okla. execution

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 09:56 AM PDT

FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett. Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of Lockett Tuesday, April 29, 2014, after the delivery of a new three-drug combination failed to go as planned.. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)An Oklahoma inmate's erred execution has prompted an autopsy and fueled debate over lethal injection drugs, the death penalty.

Egypt's judges rebuff criticism of death sentences

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 04:29 PM PDT

Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazi speaks inside a defendant's cage during his trial in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Egyptian court officials say a Salafi preacher and top Muslim Brotherhood ally has been sentenced to a year in prison with labor for insulting judges during a trial at the Cairo police academy. Hegazy, who joined ranks with the Brotherhood in supporting the electoral campaign of the now-deposed Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, was sentenced Wednesday for remarks made the same day while on trial with 130 others, including Morsi, for escaping from prison during the country's 2011 uprising. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar) EGYPT OUTEgypt's Justice Minister on Wednesday rebuffed international criticism of a mass trial this week in which some 680 defendants were sentenced to death, saying the judiciary is not a tool of executive authority and that rulings can be overturned upon appeal.

Amid massive security, Iraqis vote for parliament

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 09:05 AM PDT

An Iraqi man casts his vote at a polling center in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. A key election for a new Iraqi parliament was underway on Wednesday amid a massive security operation as the country continued to slide deeper into sectarian violence more than two years after U.S. forces left the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and other violence to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections amid a massive security operation as the country slides deeper into sectarian strife.

Kurt Cobain death-scene note mocks wedding vows to Courtney Love

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 06:06 AM PDT

Kurt Cobain and Courtney LoveA note found in the rock star's wallet at the time of his death, made public by the Seattle Police Department for the first time this week, mocks wedding vows the Nirvana frontman made to Courtney Love.

Actor Bob Hoskins, lauded for British mobster roles, dies at 71

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 08:54 AM PDT

Bob Hoskins turns on the Christmas lights at St Paul's CathedralBritish actor Bob Hoskins, whose roles ranged from London gangsters to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and who starred opposite a cast of cartoon characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," has died after a bout of pneumonia, his publicist said on Wednesday.

Unique home spares Vilonia family from Arkansas tornado's direct hit

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 06:30 AM PDT

Twister passed directly over Vilonia, Ark., family's underground homeJerri Weaver's house is certainly unconventional. Some might even call it kooky. But come crunch time – when Mother Nature's fury is at her doorstep as it was Sunday night – the native Arkansan has peace of mind in her bunkerlike abode. "I have no fear," Weaver said. "I know that we're going to be OK."

Syrian airstrike on school in Aleppo kills 19

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:51 AM PDT

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a damaged school that was hit by a Syrian government air strike in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Many people were killed and wounded, including several children, activists reported. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)A Syrian government airstrike hit a school Wednesday in an opposition-held district of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 19 people, including 10 children, activists reported.

Florida, Alabama hit by record rainfall

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:52 AM PDT

Vehicles rest at the bottom of a ravine after the Scenic Highway collapsed near Pensacola, Fla., Wednesday April 30, 2014. Heavy rains and flooding have left people stranded in houses and cars in the Florida Panhandle and along the Alabama coast. According to the National Weather Service, an estimated 15-20 inches of rain has fallen in Pensacola in the past 24 hours. (AP Photo/Pensacola News Journal, Katie E. King)Flash flooding in Fla., Ala. left many stranded in cars and homes on Wednesday.

Malaysia to open new budget airport in MH370 shadow

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:40 AM PDT

Picture taken on April 12, 2014 shows a tractor passing under a skybridge at the under-construction low-cost carrier terminal at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) in Sepang outside Kuala LumpurSepang (Malaysia) (AFP) - Malaysia this week opens what it calls the world's largest airport built specifically for low-cost airlines, a project driven by budget travel's phenomenal growth but which debuts under the shadow of missing flight MH370. The $1.2 billion facility near the main Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) was originally targeted to open three years ago but has been hit by repeated delays, amid concerns over safety and subpar construction, even as costs have doubled. But the new KLIA2 budget terminal will begin operations Friday with an initial 56 flights, increasing the load as airlines move full operations over from a nearby existing facility in coming days. Its modern design features soaring ceilings, natural lighting, people-mover belts and improved connectivity with access to an existing express airport train to Kuala Lumpur 50 kilometres (31 miles) away.

China media: Blast at train station in China's Urumqi, some injured

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:24 PM PDT

China's Muslim Uighur ethnic communityAn explosion at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, on Wednesday injured some people, state media said.

Adam Silver's ban of Donald Sterling unites NBA

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From the moment Adam Silver listened to those tapes of Donald Sterling, the NBA's commissioner understood the unmistakable and unprecedented breadth of his burden.

Poll: Most young voters to sit out midterms

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 01:21 PM PDT

Obama's campaign used social media to drum up support from young voters.Significant drop in interest among voters aged 18-29 may be problematic for Democrats.

Sinn Fein leader arrested over 1972 IRA killing

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 02:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 file photo, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams speaks to the media at Stormont Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland police say they have arrested Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on suspicion of involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast widow. Adams confirmed his own arrest Wednesday in a prepared statement and described it as a voluntary, prearranged interview. Police had been expected to question the 65-year-old Adams about the 1972 killing of Jean McConville, whom the IRA executed as an alleged spy. The IRA did not admit the killing until 1998. Adams was implicated in the killing by two IRA veterans who gave taped interviews to researchers for a Boston College research project. The Northern Ireland police took legal steps to acquire the interviews, parts of which have already been published after one IRA interviewee died. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)DUBLIN (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast widow.

CCTV: 3 dead in train station attack in China

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 02:41 PM PDT

BEIJING (AP) — An explosion rocked a railway station in China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang, and the state broadcaster said three people were killed and 79 people were injured. The attack Wednesday came as President Xi Jinping wrapped up a four-day visit to the area.

Tankers carrying oil derail, catch fire in Va.

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 04:55 PM PDT

In this mobile phone photo provided Allison Hallock, people watch smoke rise from a bridge over the James river after several CSX tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, in Lynchburg, Va. Authorities evacuated numerous buildings Wednesday after the derailment. (AP Photo/Ali Hallock) MANDATORY CREDITLYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Several CSX train cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire Wednesday along the James River, with three black tankers ending up in the water and leaking some of their contents, becoming the most recent crash involving oil trains that has safety experts pushing for better oversight.

Botched execution offers new evidence to attorneys

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 03:51 PM PDT

Hossein Dabiri with Oklahoma Coalition Against the Death Penalty holds a sign protesting the death penalty at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Tuesday April 29, 2014. Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of an inmate after the delivery of a new three-drug combination on Tuesday failed to go as planned. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Steve Gooch)ST. LOUIS (AP) — A bungled execution in Oklahoma provides death penalty opponents with a fresh, startling example of how lethal injections can go wrong. But the odds of successfully challenging the nation's main form of capital punishment will probably hinge on exactly what caused the inmate's apparent agony.

Governor calls for review after botched execution

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett. Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of Lockett Tuesday, April 29, 2014, after the delivery of a new three-drug combination failed to go as planned.. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin named a member of her Cabinet on Wednesday to lead a review of how the state conducts executions after a botched procedure that the White House said fell short of the humane standards required.

Quick facts: 4 days of storms across the US

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:04 PM PDT

Faye Busby looks over her living room after a tornado ripped part of the roof off of her home in Graysville, Ala. on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. A strong line of tornado-producing storms made its way across the southeast Monday causing damage in the area. (AP Photo/AL.com, Tamika Moore)A storm system that spawned tornadoes and sparked widespread flooding across states has been socking the U.S. for four days. Here are some quick facts and anecdotes on the system:

Iraqis vote in an election without foreign troops

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 02:50 PM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and other violence to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections amid a massive security operation as the country slides deeper into sectarian strife. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq voted Wednesday in its first nationwide election since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki confident of victory and even offering an olive branch to his critics by inviting them to join him in a governing coalition.

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