2014年2月5日星期三

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CDC seeks to allay W.Va. tap water fears

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:49 PM PST

Emma Del Torto of Charleston, W.Va. holds a sign during a demonstration at the state Capitol on Saturday, Jan.18, 2014. More than 100 people gathered to question their tap water's quality following a chemical spill that tainted the local water supply. (AP Photo/John Raby)Facing ongoing skepticism since chemical spill, gov't health official insists water is OK.


Storm-battered states watch salt piles shrink

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:26 PM PST

A snow plow works to clear the roadway along HWY 416 near Niagara, Ky Wednesday morning, Feb. 5, 2014. The plow was also spreading salt as he drove which hopefully will help break up the layer of ice as the day progresses. High winds and a wintry mix blew through Kentucky, knocking down tree branches and leaving thousands across the state without power as temperatures dipped below freezing and took aim at single digits Wednesday night. (AP Photo/The Gleaner, Darrin Phegley)By Scott Malone and Victoria Cavaliere BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The latest in a series of winter storms hit the United States on Wednesday, dropping wet, heavy snow in the Northeast states that disrupted travel and threatened supplies of salt needed to keep roads clear. Officials in New York and New Jersey warned they were starting to run short of the rock salt used by road crews to keep ice from building up on highways and local roads, the result of the season's repeated storms. "We have a salt shortage for some parts of the state, primarily New York City and the Long Island area, because there have been so many storms this season already," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters on a conference call. "The state does have a significant amount of salt on hand, we'll be shipping that salt around the state." Cuomo declared a state of emergency for New York.


Olympic flights get toothpaste bomb warning

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U.S. tells airlines to watch for tubes which could potentially hold bomb ingredients.


Crowds at Seahawks victory parade exceed city's population

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:35 PM PST

Seattle Seahawks fans cheer along the route of the Super Bowl champions parade on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Seattle. The Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos 43-8 in NFL football's Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Seahawks coaches, players and staff say they wouldn't have been able to win the Super Bowl without the help of their fans — the 12th Man.


Doctors still warning patients on water, W.Va. official says

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:09 PM PST

In this Jan. 13, 2014, photo, workers, left, inspect an area outside a retaining wall around storage tanks where a chemical leaked into the Elk River at Freedom Industries storage facility in Charleston, W.Va. The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is just the latest and most high-profile case of coal polluting the nation's waters. An Associated Press analysis of federal environmental data found chemicals and waste from the coal industry have tainted hundreds of waterways and groundwater supplies for decades, spoiling private wells, shutting down fishing and rendering streams virtually lifeless. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A county health official in West Virginia said doctors are advising some patients not to drink tap water weeks after it was deemed safe from a chemical contamination, though a federal health official on Wednesday said it could be used for any purpose.


Fire breaks out at underground nuclear repository in N.M.

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 02:29 PM PST

Waste Isolation Pilot PlantCARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Emergency crews battled a fire Wednesday at the southeastern New Mexico site where the federal government seals away its low-grade nuclear waste, including plutonium-contaminated clothing and tools.


3 arrested in stun-gun theft of 300-year-old Stradivarius

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 12:04 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is the 300-year-old Stradivarius violin that was stolen from MSO concertmaster Frank Almond. Police said Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 three people have been arrested in connection with the theft of the multi-million-dollar instrument that was on loan to Almond. Authorities say a robber used a stun gun on Almond and took the instrument from him in a parking lot. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three people were arrested in connection with the theft of a multi-million dollar Stradivarius violin stolen last week from the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, a prosecutor said Wednesday.


Hacked in Sochi in minutes: Russian cyberspace full of risks

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:28 AM PST

Previews - Winter Olympics Day -4Privacy in all forms is a very rare commodity at the Sochi Olympics, according to a report from NBC News.


Nearly 1 million without power in Northeast

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 12:13 PM PST

A woman clears snow near a downed tree limb after a winter storm Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Philadelphia. Icy conditions have knocked out power to more than 200,000 electric customers in southeastern Pennsylvania and prompted school and legislative delays as well as speed reductions on major roadways. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Pennsylvania is hardest-hit following severe snow and ice storms overnight.


Lucky photographer captures mysterious beauty amid UK storms

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 10:22 AM PST

Wave faceIn the photo, taken by Simon Emmett in stormy southern England, the spray from a 30-foot wave takes the shape of a bearded man's face, with nose, lips and chin clearly visible.


S. African gov't condemns demonstrators

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 10:34 AM PST

South African policemen clear a road blocked by protesters during clashes in the village of Relela on January 30, 2014Says kids are being used as 'human shields' in protests over basic state services.


Philip Seymour Hoffman autopsy inconclusive, further tests needed

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 02:28 PM PST

A makeshift memorial sits outside the home of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in New York. Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday in his apartment of a suspected drug overdose. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)NEW YORK (AP) — Four people were taken into custody on drug charges after police investigating Philip Seymour Hoffman's death executed search warrants, two people with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday, and the medical examiner's office said more tests are needed to determine what killed him.


Billie Jean King won’t attend opening of the Sochi Games

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 09:17 AM PST

FILE - In this June 4, 2007, file photo, tennis champion Billie Jean King is introduced during a town hall conversation hosted by the group Women for Hillary in New York. King will not attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in Russia because her mother is ill. King, chosen in December to help lead the U.S. delegation to the Sochi Games, has been outspoken in her opposition to Russia's anti-gay law and had planned to attend ice hockey and figure skating events and meet U.S. athletes during her three-day visit to the games. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)Openly gay former tennis superstar Billie Jean King won't be delivering a symbolic message to Russian President Vladimir Putin in person at the opening of the Sochi Olympic Games. Her mother is seriously ill.


Jay's favorite target?

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:02 AM PST

President Barack Obama talks in between segments of an interview at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, in Burbank, Calif. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Leno cracks plenty of Obama jokes, but numbers show he has it in for another president.


Pot is less dangerous than alcohol, deputy drug czar says

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:05 AM PST

A fully budded marijuana plant ready for trimming is seen at the Botanacare marijuana store ahead of their grand opening on New Year's day in Northglenn, ColoradoOn the heels of President Barack Obama's comments that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, his deputy drug czar has reluctantly agreed.


'American Idol' Clay Aiken to run for Congress

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 09:20 AM PST

File photo of Clay Aiken arriving at the 2005 Primetime Emmy Awards in Los AngelesBy Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former "American Idol" singer Clay Aiken said on Wednesday he will run for U.S. Congress as a Democrat in his home state of North Carolina, where he once worked as a special education teacher. Aiken, 35, is likely to face a tough battle in his efforts to unseat Representative Renee Ellmers, a Tea Party Republican favorite, in the state's conservative 2nd congressional district. He filmed the video in a small North Carolina home where he said he and his mother slept for months on a mattress in a friend's living room when he was young. He noted his work teaching children with autism and his international travels with aid organization UNICEF, bookends to his runner-up finish in 2003 on the "American Idol" television talent show that thrust him into the national spotlight.


Enough already! Another winter storm hits

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 01:47 PM PST

A woman walks against blowing snow Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Chicago. Heavy, blowing snow is moving across much of Illinois as the state gets pelted by the latest round of winter weather. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)The latest blast threatens to dump a foot of snow, snarl travel and eat into salt supplies.


House conservatives rule out immigration this year

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 11:15 AM PST

FILE - This Feb. 1, 2012 file photo shows Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. More people than previously estimated will reduce their hours or leave the workforce because of incentives built into President Barack Obama's health care law, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Republicans on Wednesday ruled out any immigration legislation in the House this year, insisting that the GOP should wait until next year when the party might also control the Senate.


Experiment adds sense of touch to artificial hand

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 11:44 AM PST

This March 2013 handout photo provided by Science Translational Medicine shows amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen, right, wearing sensory feedback enabled prosthesis in Rome. To feel what you touch _ that's the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that let an amputee feel differences between a bottle, a baseball and a mandarin orange. (AP Photo/Patrizia Tocci, Science Translational Medicine)WASHINGTON (AP) — To feel what you touch — that's the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that let an amputee feel differences between a bottle, a baseball and a mandarin orange.


Police: disparate factors led to fugitive's arrest

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:38 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections is Judy Lynn Hayman who authorities say escaped from a Michigan prison nearly 37 years ago while serving time for attempted larceny. Hayman, now 60, has been found living under an alias in San Diego where she is now in jail awaiting extradition to Michigan, police said Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Michigan Department of Corrections)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police say Judy Lynn Hayman's luck ran out after 37 years on the run not because of an intense manhunt but rather two disparate factors: bad weather that kept an investigator at his desk and her distinctive eyes that had never changed since her mug shot was taken.


Mysterious noises traced to rare 'frost quakes'

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 01:12 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2014 photo Dennis Olsen measures a fissure which he said was about an inch wide and at least eight to ten inches deep, in his rural driveway following a frost quake in Waupun, Wis. Known technically as cryoseism, frost quakes are a rare natural phenomena that happen when the temperature drops suddenly, causing moisture in the ground to freeze and expand. They can cause an earthquake-like rumble sometimes with loud, booming noises. (AP Photo/The Reporter, Aileen Andrews, File)ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chuck Herron heard the loud thud, then another and another. It sounded like someone was dropping big snowballs on the roof of his home.


Officials: NY suspect had Hoffman's cell number

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:59 PM PST

The building at 320 Mott St. is seen in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Four people are in custody on drug charges after police executed search warrants at three apartments in the building. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — At least one of four people taken into custody on drug charges during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor's cellphone number, two law enforcement officials said Wednesday.


CVS Caremark plans to stop tobacco products sales

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:09 PM PST

CVS Caremark's decision to pull cigarettes and other tobacco products from its stores could ripple beyond the nation's second-largest drugstore chain.

Curt Schilling announces he has cancer

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:44 PM PST

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former star pitcher turned television analyst Curt Schilling announced Wednesday that he is battling cancer.

Shaun White nixes Olympic slopestyle

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 12:28 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2010, file photo, Shaun White of the United States celebrates his gold medal in the men's snowboard halfpipe at Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver, Brtish Columbia, at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. White said Wednesday, Feb. 5, that he is pulling out of the Olympic slopestyle contest to focus solely on winning a third straight gold medal on the halfpipe. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick, File)KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Shaun White jammed his wrist on one jump and watched the world's best snowboarders join him in tumbling down the supersized, super-scary Olympic slopestyle course.


Police: Fingerprint search led to 1977 escapee

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 01:25 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections is Judy Lynn Hayman who authorities say escaped from a Michigan prison nearly 37 years ago while serving time for attempted larceny. Hayman, now 60, has been found living under an alias in San Diego where she is now in jail awaiting extradition to Michigan, police said Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Michigan Department of Corrections)SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Michigan officer's decision to look through old files on fugitives led investigators to a woman who escaped from a Michigan prison 37 years ago and was living in San Diego, authorities said Wednesday.


FACT CHECK: Anti-Obamacare chorus is off key

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 01:18 PM PST

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, greets Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, prior to Elmendorf testifying before the committee's hearing on the CBO budget and economic outlook. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — New estimates that President Barack Obama's health care law will encourage millions of Americans to leave the workforce or reduce their work hours have touched off an I-told-you-so chorus from Republicans, who've claimed all along that the law will kill jobs. But some aren't telling it straight.


Lights out for 1M as winter storm slams Northeast

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:58 PM PST

An ice covered tree limb that took out a utility line blocks the path of a firetruck after a winter storm Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Philadelphia. Icy conditions have knocked out power to more than 200,000 electric customers in southeastern Pennsylvania and prompted school and legislative delays as well as speed reductions on major roadways. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)More than a million homes and businesses were left in darkness and cold Wednesday after snow, sleet and freezing rain moved into the Northeast. The region's second winter storm of the week canceled classes, closed government and business offices and sent cars and trucks sliding on slippery roads and highways. Around a foot of snow fell in some states. Moving in overnight from the Midwest, where it wreaked similar havoc, the storm tested the region already battered by a series of heavy snows and below-freezing temperatures this winter.


Woman set to be executed in Texas for 1998 killing

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:38 PM PST

This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows capital murder defendant Suzanne Basso. On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2014 Basso, 59, is scheduled to die for for the torture slaying of Louis HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A woman convicted of torturing and killing a mentally impaired man she lured to Texas with the promise of marriage headed for execution Wednesday in a rare case of a female death-row inmate.


Deja vu: Jamaican bobsledders must rely on opponents' goodwill

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 06:59 AM PST

Winston Watts, the driver for JAM-1 of Jamaica, speaks on the phone after arriving at the sliding center during a training session for the men's two-man bobsled at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Watts and his team were unable to practice because the Jamaican team equipment and luggage did not arrive in Sochi. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Jamaica's beloved bobsled team had to raise money just to get to Russia.


Kronies! Latest Koch-backed project is a viral cartoon even the left can love

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 02:49 AM PST

KroniesThese videos that rail against crony capitalism will make you nostalgic for childhood — and angry at the government.


U.N. recommends Vatican change church law, put children first

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 07:11 AM PST

Kirsten Sandberg, center, chairperson of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks to committee members Maria Herczog, right, and Benyam Mezmur during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. A U.N. human rights committee denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on the pedophiles and the churchmen who concealed their crimes. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child published a report Wednesday on the Holy See's compliance with a 1989 U.N. accord on child rights. The report focused heavily on the worldwide allegations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests and the Vatican's handling of the cases.


New Obamacare push features mom jeans, 'MOM' tattoo

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 02:46 AM PST

Obamacare mom tattooDoes Obamacare's success depend on these mom jeans?


U.N. demands Vatican take immediate action sex abuse cases

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 10:39 AM PST

A cardinal's cap lies on a chair during a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica presided over by Pope Joh..The organization wants the church to turnover evidence to police authorities.


Hope for some at Gitmo as Afghan war ends

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:25 AM PST

Inside the Gitmo Media TourThe U.S. must release the detainees once the "hot war" concludes, lawyers say.


Report: Four arrested in Hoffman case

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:43 PM PST

U.S. actor Hoffman poses on the red carpet during a screening for the movie "The master" at the 69th Venice Film Festival in VeniceFour held in connection with drugs found at late actor's NYC home, a newspaper reports.


Snow heads back to Northeast after Midwest slammed

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 11:07 AM PST

Winter-weary residents of the Northeast are getting another dose of snow, sleet and freezing rain. The second winter storm of the week is canceling classes, closing government and business offices, and causing hundreds of thousands of power outages across the region after wreaking similar havoc in the Midwest on Tuesday. Anywhere from a few inches to a foot or more of snow was expected to fall Wednesday on East Coast states, while some were getting freezing rain and sleet that made driving treacherous. It's their second go-round since a good coating of snow fell on Monday.

Analysts say health care law means fewer on job

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 06:44 PM PST

FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama reaches for a pen to sign the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Several million American workers will cut back their hours on the job or leave the nation's workforce entirely because of Obama's health care overhaul, congressional analysts said Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, adding fresh fuel to the political fight over "Obamacare." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)Several million American workers will cut back their hours on the job or leave the nation's workforce entirely because of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, congressional analysts said Tuesday, adding fresh fuel to the political fight over "Obamacare."


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