Friday, September 10, 2010

Islam controversies cast shadow over 9/11 events (AP)

Islam controversies cast shadow over 9/11 events (AP)

Islam controversies cast shadow over 9/11 events (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, construction continues at the World Trade Center site in New York. On Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, the nation will observe the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - They will read the names, of course, the names of every victim who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. The bells will ring. And then that moment of unity will give way to division as activists hoist signs and march, some for and some against a planned mosque two blocks from ground zero.

Crews search ash-covered homes after blast kills 4 (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 07:08 PM PDT

A massive fire roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - All that was left of some houses Friday were chimneys, rising from still smoldering ruins. Burned-out cars sat along ash-covered streets. And a rescue worker with a dog searched door to door for missing people.

Woman, child feared dead in massive Calif. blast (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 04:01 PM PDT

Aerial view of damage caused by a massive fire in a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Fire crews tried to douse the remnants of an enormous blaze and account for the residents of dozens of homes Friday after a gas line ruptured and an explosion ripped through in a neighborhood near San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - A 44-year-old woman and her young daughter are among those feared dead after a massive explosion ripped through a Northern California neighborhood.

Police: Feuds led Pa. woman to shoot colleagues (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 04:23 PM PDT

Police gather at the scene of a workplace shooting at the Kraft Foods Inc. facility in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - A Kraft Foods plant worker who had been suspended for feuding with colleagues, then escorted from the building, returned minutes later with a handgun, found her foes in a break room and executed two of them with a single bullet each and critically wounded a third, police said Friday.

Muslims throng mosques to celebrate end of Ramadan (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:25 PM PDT

People pray at King Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca during the Eid prayer, which ends the fasting month of Ramadan, Friday Sept. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar).AP - Far from the din and controversy roiling interfaith relations in the West, Muslims worldwide thronged mosques, cafes and parks Friday in a solemn and joyful end to the fasting month of Ramadan.

New federal probe targets scandal-ridden LA suburb (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 07:23 PM PDT

AP - The blue-collar suburb of Bell, already under investigation for possible misuse of funds and voter fraud, is also facing a federal probe into whether it violated the civil rights of Hispanics by deliberately targeting their cars for towing, officials said Friday.

First Medal of Honor for a living Afghan war vet (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:40 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the Defense Department shows Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta. President Barack Obama will award the first Medal of Honor to a living service, Giunta, member who fought in the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Richard Bumgardner, Defense Department)AP - A 25-year-old soldier from Iowa who exposed himself to enemy gunfire to try to save two fellow soldiers will become the first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday.

Officer involved in deadly shooting being sued (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:31 PM PDT

A fireman prepares to put out a bin fire lit by rioters in Los Angeles on September 7. LA riot police arrested 22 protestors and fired rubber bullets in a second night of clashes after a Guatemalan immigrant was shot dead in a confrontation with officers.(AFP/Mark Ralston)AP - The police officer who shot and killed a Guatemalan immigrant who authorities said was threatening people with a knife is being sued by a man claiming he was unlawfully shot by the officer in 2008.

Conductor's arm amputated after Calif. derailment (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 11:15 AM PDT

AP - A surgical team amputated the arm of a conductor Friday to free him from the wreckage of a locomotive that struck a slow-moving freight train on tracks 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

Wis. agrees to extend deadline for some voters (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:59 PM PDT

AP - Wisconsin residents in the military or living overseas will have until Nov. 19 to return ballots they cast in the Nov. 2 election under an agreement the state reached Friday with the federal government.

Ga. Rep. Bishop awarded scholarships to family (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:42 PM PDT

AP - A Georgia congressman awarded his stepdaughter, a niece and an aide's future wife college scholarships through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, making him the second House Democrat known to use the group to steer money to relatives and associates.

Ind. man accused of posing as vet to scam money (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:47 PM PDT

This booking photo provided by the Johnson County Sheriff's Department on Sept. 10, 2010 shows James Peter Schuder. Schuder faces 14 misdemeanor charges for posing as a down-on-his-luck war veteran needing a handout from strangers. Schuder, who never served in the military, practiced the scam across central Indiana and eastern Tennessee. (AP Photo/Johnson County Sheriff's Department)AP - A man masquerading as a down-on-his-luck soldier needing travel funds scammed good Samaritans out of nearly $500 before police caught up with him, a prosecutor said Friday.

Family questions why Wash. execution took 17 years (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:09 PM PDT

Karen Washa holds a photo of her sister Holly, as she talks to reporters at the Washington State Penitentiary, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010, in Walla Walla, Wash., shortly after Cal Coburn Brown was executed about an hour past midnight for the 1991 murder of Holly Washa. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Nearly two decades after Holly Washa was raped, tortured and murdered by an Oregon convict who had skipped out on his parole, her family is satisfied that the killer has been put to death, but they question why it took so long.

NTSB: Duck boat calls unanswered before collision (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 9, 2010 file photo, an amphibious craft is salvaged from the Delaware River in Philadelphia. A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board released Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 said an idled tour boat and nearby vessels made repeated calls to the tugboat guiding the massive barge that hit and sunk the craft, killing two Hungarian students. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP - An idled tour boat and other vessels made repeated, unanswered calls to the tugboat guiding the massive barge that struck the smaller craft in the Delaware River, killing two Hungarian students, according to a federal report released Friday.

Pa. mosque opens peacefully near synagogue, church (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Mohammed Howlader performs performs the call to the midday prayers at the Islamic Society of Greater Valley Forge mosque in Berwyn, Pa., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Amid a tense national climate for U.S. Muslims, leaders of the Islamic Society of Greater Valley Forge only seek continued harmony with their neighbors: a Jewish synagogue next door and Baptist Church across the street. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A new mosque recently opened in this well-to-do suburb of Philadelphia, but not many people noticed.

Revolutionary museum swap: Valley Forge for Philly (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:01 PM PDT

A National Park Service building, the planned site for a Revolutionary War Museum, is shown in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. The spot for a Revolutionary War museum has finally been chosen after 11 years of planning and bureaucratic squabbling. A timetable has not been set for razing the current building and starting work on the museum, according to American Revolution Center president Bruce Cole. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A land swap that will bring a Revolutionary War museum to Philadelphia and preserve 78 acres of land at nearby Valley Forge was heralded as a victory by those on both sides of what had been a contentious battle over the historic battlefield.

Report: US must deal with homegrown terror problem (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 09:49 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report compiled by the former heads of the Sept. 11 Commission.

Iran postpones American woman's release (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file photo, American hikers Shane Bauer, left, Sarah Shourd, center, and Josh Fattal, sit at the Esteghlal Hotel in Tehran, Iran. Iran announced Thursday that one of the three Americans jailed for more than a year will be released Saturday to mark the end of Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Press TV, File)AP - Iran on Friday postponed the planned release of an American woman jailed along with two friends for more than a year, state media reported, dealing a blow to the hopes of three U.S. mothers who have pleaded for the trio's release.
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