2014年12月28日星期日

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Search resumes for missing AirAsia jet

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 04:33 PM PST

Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla monitors progress in search for AirAsia Flight QZ8501 during a visit to the National Search and Rescue Agency in JakartaThe plane carrying 162 people disappeared over stormy waters en route to Singapore.


NYPD chief says rift between police and mayor 'will go on for a while'

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 08:58 AM PST

New York Mayor de Blasio his wife Chirlane and New York Police Commissioner Bratton speak before before NYPD officer Ramos' funeral at Christ Tabernacle Church to it's final resting place in the Queens borough of New YorkNew York City Police Commissioner William Bratton says the rift between the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio will continue for the foreseeable future.


Ferguson officer placed on unpaid leave after calling Brown memorial 'trash'

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:48 AM PST

Michael Brown memorial vandalizedThe spokesman for the Ferguson, Mo., police department has been placed on unpaid leave after calling the makeshift memorial to slain teenager Michael Brown a "pile of trash in the middle of the street."


Woman plans guilty plea in triple Texas murders: prosecutor

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 04:13 PM PST

Kaufman County Sheriff's Office booking photo of Kim WilliamsBy Kevin Murphy (Reuters) - A woman charged with helping her husband kill a Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant district attorney has reached a tentative agreement to plead guilty to murder, the special prosecutor in the case said on Sunday. Kim Williams is charged with three counts of capital murder in the 2013 shooting deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, Cynthia McLelland, and Mark Hasse, an assistant district attorney. A jury earlier this month convicted her husband, Eric Williams, of killing Cynthia McLelland and sentenced him to death. ...


Ferguson police spokesman suspended after 'pile of trash' remark

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 02:51 PM PST

(Reuters) - The spokesman for the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, has been suspended without pay after admitting he referred to a roadside memorial to an unarmed teenager killed by police as a "pile of trash," the city announced over the weekend. After insisting he had been misquoted, Officer Timothy Zoll later admitted he made the remark to a Washington Post reporter who called him on Friday about reports that a motorist had driven over the flowers and signs left in tribute to 18-year-old Michael Brown. ...

U.S. commander lauds progress as NATO ends its Afghan war

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 03:09 AM PST

Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Gen. John Campbell, left, and Command Sgt. Maj. Delbert Byers open the "Resolute Support" flag during a ceremony at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. The United States and NATO formally ended their war in Afghanistan on Sunday with the ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion that unseated the Taliban regime following the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)Gen. John Campbell hailed the achievements of 13 years of fighting against the Taliban.


1 dead, hundreds stranded in Greek ferry disaster

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 12:35 PM PST

Greece ferry fireAn Italian Coast Guard official says one person died while attempting to escape from a blazing ferry stranded in the Adriatic Sea, and another was injured.


Photos: AirAsia Flight QZ8501 disappears

Posted: 27 Dec 2014 10:35 PM PST

Photos: AirAsia Flight QZ8501 disappearsAn Indonesia Search and Rescue officer inspects the operational air navigation map during the investigation of missing Air Asia QZ8501 at the crisis centre of Juanda International Airport Surabaya on December 28, 2014 in Surabaya, Indonesia. (Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)

Police boss: Less rhetoric, more dialogue needed

Posted: 28 Dec 2014 03:39 PM PST

Police officers turn their backs as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the funeral of New York City police officer Rafael Ramos in the Glendale section of Queens, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014, in New York. Ramos and his partner, officer Wenjian Liu, were killed Dec. 20 as they sat in their patrol car on a Brooklyn street. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, later killed himself. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK (AP) — A day after the funeral of one of two police officers gunned down in their patrol car, the city's police commissioner called Sunday for a "lot less rhetoric and a lot more dialogue" to defuse the tension between police officers and the population they protect.


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