2013年7月8日星期一

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Firemen cut power to runaway train's brakes

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:57 PM PDT

First responders fight burning trains after a train derailment and explosion in Lac-Megantic, QuebecTwo people died and 40 others are missing and feared dead after the Quebec accident.


Judge allows pot evidence in Zimmerman trial

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:21 PM PDT

George Zimmerman arrives for his trial in Seminole circuit court in SanfordA Florida judge ruled that defense lawyers can introduce evidence in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman that Trayvon Martin had the active ingredient of marijuana in his system when he was shot dead.


Asiana passenger describes crash, calm amidst chaos

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 12:41 PM PDT

This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board Sunday, July 7, 2013, shows NTSB workers near the Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 aircraft. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/NTSB)Wendell Hom trained at a Yongmudo martial art camp in Seoul, went diving and surfing in Bali and took muay thai boxing classes in Bangkok. "It's been a month," he posted from Thailand on his Facebook account. "The adventure ends and it's time to go home." Not quite. Hom, a senior software engineer at a [...]


Clashes by Egypt army, protesters kill at least 54

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:19 PM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt was rocked Monday by the deadliest day since its Islamist president was toppled by the military, with more than 50 of his supporters killed by security forces as the country's top Muslim cleric raised the specter of civil war.

Crash investigators turn to cockpit decisions

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:56 PM PDT

In this Saturday, July 6, 2013 aerial photo, the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 lies on the ground after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport, in San Francisco. The pilot at the controls of airliner had just 43 hours of flight time in the Boeing 777 and was landing one for the first time at San Francisco International. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Investigators trying to understand why Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landed focused Monday on the actions of an experienced pilot learning his way around a new aircraft, fellow pilots who were supposed to be monitoring him and why no one noticed that the plane was coming in too slow.


Perry reshaped Texas, but foundered nationally

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 01:35 PM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry leaves Holt Cat, Monday, July 8, 2013, in San Antonio after announcing he will not seek reelection. A staunch Christian conservative, proven job-creator and fierce defender of states' rights, Perry has been in office nearly 13 years, making him the nation's longest-sitting current governor. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry was a champion of fiercely conservative social activism long before the tea party was born. He oversaw the "Texas Miracle" job-creation boom and became the state's most powerful governor since Reconstruction.


Dad says he didn't deny it was Trayvon's voice

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:02 PM PDT

The parents of Trayvon Martin, Tracy Martin, right, and Sybrina Fulton, listen to the testimony of Sanford police officer Chris Serino during the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Trayvon Martin's father testified Monday that he never denied it was his son's voice screaming for help on a 911 call, contradicting police officers' earlier testimony at George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial.


Canada train derailment death toll rises to 13

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:23 PM PDT

Searchers dig through the rubble for victims of the inferno in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Monday, July 8, 2013, as firefighter continue to hose down tanker cars to prevent explosions. A runaway train derailed igniting tanker cars carrying crude oil early Saturday. (AP Photo/ THE CANADIAN PRESS,Ryan Remiorz)LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — Traumatized survivors of an oil train derailment that wiped out the heart of a small town braced for more bad news as inspectors were finally cleared to enter the charred site and look for remains late Monday, more than two days after the disaster that killed at least 13 people. A total of 50 were missing and the death toll was sure to rise.


Report assails Pakistani officials over bin Laden

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo, a Pakistani soldier stands near a compound where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence at practically all levels of the Pakistani government, according to an official government report published by the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera satellite channel on Monday, July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence at practically all levels of the Pakistani government, according to an official government report published by a TV channel on Monday.


Girl who got new lungs in Pa. has pneumonia

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 01:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2013 file photo provided by the Murnaghan family, Sarah Murnaghan, left, lies in her hospital bed next to her sister Ella on the 100th day of her stay in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Murnaghan, who got adult lungs after her parents sued to change national transplant rules, is scheduled to have more surgery to repair her diaphragm at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 2, 2013. That's according to a post on the Facebook page of her mother, Janet Murnaghan. (AP Photo/Murnaghan family, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who had a pair of adult-lung transplants after her parents sued to change national rules regarding organ donations has developed pneumonia in her right lung, which her mother described on Monday as "a large setback."


Study: Air pollution cut northern China lifespans

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:12 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 photo, visitors to Tiananmen Gate wear masks during a day of heavy pollution in Beijing. Air pollution significantly shortens people's life expectancy, according to a study published Tuesday that says bad air shortened the lives of 500 million people in north China by an average of more than five years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)BEIJING (AP) — A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5½ years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.


Randy Travis in critical in Texas hospital

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 03:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 7, 2013 file photo, Randy Travis performs on day 2 of the 2013 CMA Music festival at the LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. Travis has been hospitalized in Texas with viral cardiomyopathy. A news release from the singer's publicist says Travis was admitted to the hospital Sunday, July 7, 2013, in Dallas. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP, File)NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music star Randy Travis was in critical condition Monday in a Texas hospital, a day after he was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy.


Spitzer, Weiner make NYC political comeback city

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:45 PM PDT

Eliot Spitzer wipes sweat from his face as he is surrounded by media while trying to collect signatures for his run for New York City Comptroller in New York, Monday, July 8, 2013. Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who stepped down in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, says he is planning a political comeback with a run for New York City comptroller.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — First, Anthony Weiner vaulted back from an embarrassing sexting scandal to become a top mayoral contender. Now, Eliot Spitzer has sprinted onto the comeback campaign trail in New York City, where this fall's races are turning into a mini-Olympics of political redemption.


NTSB: Plane parts found in San Francisco Bay

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT

This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board Sunday, July 7, 2013, shows NTSB workers near the Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 aircraft. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/NTSB)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Asiana jet that crashed at San Francisco International Airport left lower sections of its tail on a rocky seawall and in the bay, then scattered debris several hundred feet down the runway, the NTSB reported Monday in describing the plane's deadly path.


Pa. father, son get prison in NY prostitution case

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 12:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of June 6, 2013, Vincent George Jr., left, and Vincent George Sr., listen to closing arguments in a courtroom in New York. The father and son who acknowledged they were pimps were sentenced on Monday July 8, 2013, to three to nine years in prison for promoting prostitution and money laundering. They were acquitted earlier of sex trafficking charges after several prostitutes testified they were treated well. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A case that became a tabloid spectacle when high-priced prostitutes testified in support of father-and-son pimps from Pennsylvania ended Monday with the pair being sentenced to three to nine years in prison.


Judge: Martin's use of pot may be presented

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:18 PM PDT

The parents of Trayvon Martin, Tracy Martin, right, and Sybrina Fulton, listen to the testimony of Sanford police officer Chris Serino during the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has ruled that jurors at George Zimmerman's trial may be told that Trayvon Martin had small amounts of marijuana in his body when he died.


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