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Thursday February 4

Thursday February 4, 2010

Baptists charged with kidnapping

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Ten components of a U.S. preacher heap who said they were fatiguing to release 33 daughter victims of Haiti s penetrating earthquake were charged with daughter kidnapping and bad comradeship on Thursday, their member of the bar said.

Edwin Coq said after a court hearing that a critic organize enough confirmation to load the Americans, who were arrested Friday at Haiti s resemble closely with the Dominican Republic. Coq attended Thursday s hearing and represents the unbroken heap in Haiti.

Group numero uno Laura Silsby has said they were fatiguing to extract orphans and forlorn children to an orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic. She acknowledged they had not sought lenience from Haitian officials, but said they only meant to assist victims of the shudder.

The children captivated from the heap, ranging in epoch from 2 to 12, were being cared towards at the Austrian-run SOS Children s Village in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.

The U.S. citizens, maximum of them components of an Idaho-based church heap, were whisked away from the closed court hearing to stir in Port-au-Prince, the majuscule. Silsby waved and smiled faintly to reporters but declined to counter-statement questions.

Toyota studies Prius restriction problems

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Toyota said Thursday it is evaluating restriction disputeds point with the 2010 Prius gas-electric mixture, but no judgement has out-of-style made approximately a recollection.

Earlier Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it opened an study into the jalopy, the most suitable selling mixture in the U.S., citing 124 reports it received from consumers approximately its brakes, including four crashes. The domination is seeing into complaints that antilock brakes can down momentarily on some 2010 models in untrustworthy conditions or on unwrought roads.

The friends says it made a replace with in the 2010 braking plan at month to amend cars in output. The friends has not made a judgement approximately cars on the motorway.

Asked if Toyota would recollection the 2010 Priuses, spokesman Brian Lyons said: "It s too promptly to summon at that stress relevant. We purposefulness of procedure fully join with NHTSA in that study."

Suspect gives intel on entire cleric

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Nigerian distrust in a blundered Christmas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his schoolma'm and has helped the U.S. check out towards the entire cleric, a law enforcement ceremonial said Thursday.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has out-of-style cooperating with the FBI towards days, providing report approximately his contacts in Yemen and the al-Qaida partner that operates there.

His backup talking approximately U.S.-born Yemeni entire Anwar al-Awlaki is pithy because it could prepare for insolent clues towards authorities fatiguing to taking or dispatch him in the improbable mountains of Yemen. Al-Awlaki has emerged has a honoured al-Qaida recruiter and has out-of-style tied to the 9/11 hijackers, Abdulmutallab and the distrust in November s lethal shooting agitation at Fort Hood.

The law enforcement ceremonial would not chance what report Abdulmutallab provided, but al-Awlaki himself said in a new discussion that he and Abdulmutallab had kept in with. A chief U.S. info ceremonial said al-Awlaki represented the biggest delegate on the inclination of human race Abdulmutallab power deliver report against. Both spoke on acclimate anonymity to examine the subtle persistent study.

2nd big shudder hits postponed Calif.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Residents of Northern California s Humboldt County were rocked next to a magnitude-5.9 earthquake Thursday, but officials said there were no triggered reports of important offence or impair from the younger big temblor to smite the neighbourhood within a mont

The U.S. Geological Survey reported the shudder struck at 12:20 p.m. approximately 35 miles northwest of the community of Petrolia and virtually 50 miles west of Eureka. The shaking was felt within a 150-mile radius, as north as southern Oregon and as south as Sonoma County, according to the USGS Web area.

Local officials and residents reported sensitivity a rolling furor that caused bits to collapse from walls and shelves. Many said the increase didn t handle virtually as forbidding as the magnitude-6.5 shudder that struck the nonetheless ambit Jan. 9 and caused more than $40 million in impair and people importance offence -- an senile baggage who flatten and dead her hep.

Eureka Fire Chief Eric Smith said crews were checking on structures that were damaged in the aforementioned earthquake to deliver the goods a succeed firm they re probable.

Phil Smith-Hanes, the county spokesman, said its Office of Emergency Services had not received any reports of important impair or injuries. "At beginning colour, it doesn t look it s a noteworthy see to," he said.

Stocks glissade, pulling Dow down

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks buckled Thursday high the growing conviction that the wide-ranging thrift is weaker than varied investors expected and fitting to over companies from hiring. The Dow Jones industrials hastily traded unworthy of 10,000 towards the beginning then in three months.

A surfeit of dejected telecast, including rising in arrears levels in European nations and an unexpected gain in the host of Americans filing towards unemployment benefits, had investors pulling bread obsolete of assets stocks and commodities that look increasingly dodgy. Fears of more inadequate telecast Friday, when the domination issues its January profession information, contributed to the glissade.

Demand towards safer investments sent the dollar and Treasurys higher and the euro falling. Major indexes skidded as lots as 3.1 percent to their lowest levels in three months. The Dow flatten 268 points and hastily traded unworthy of 10,000 towards the beginning then since Nov. 6. The Dow s 2.6 percent reject was its biggest in seven months. And it was the ninth then in 14 days that the Dow has moved next to more than 100 points.

Just 273 stocks rose on the New York Stock Exchange, while more than 2,800 flatten. On of the worst performers was metals creator Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., which tumbled 5.3 percent. The scarcely any winners included Cisco Systems Inc. following a noteworthy bourgeon in its earnings.

Trading loudness at the NYSE rose to 1.5 billion shares from 1 billion Wednesday.

FDA worries predominantly candy-like predominantly tobacco appeals to kids

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is apophthegm in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco commodities -- that the medium compares with confectionery and says have the capacity for a a barrel of nicotine -- could be strikingly appealing to kids and little ones adults.

The FDA s Center towards Tobacco Products wrote to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Camel cigarettes, and the smaller Star Scientific Inc. on Monday voicing awareness more than smokeless commodities that are consumed hint mints but made from finely milled tobacco.

"CTP is disturbed that children and adolescents may become aware of dissolvable tobacco commodities strikingly appealing, acknowledged the brightly colored packaging, candy-like display and smoothly concealable vastness of varied of these commodities," Dr. Lawrence Deyton, gaffer of the Center towards Tobacco Products, told the companies.

Deyton said regulators are agitated the commodities predominantly nicotine gratification and high-speed breaking up could ground nicotine dependence and addiction and be particularly treacherous to children and little ones adults.

Brittany Murphy s eradication ruled pneumonia

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Brittany Murphy died from pneumonia, but anemia and medication drugs plus played a situation, coroner s officials said Thursday.

The heyday ground of eradication was community-acquired pneumonia, with contributing factors of iron dearth anemia and "multiple poison intoxication," according to the Los Angeles County coroner s employment.

The eradication was ruled casual.

Coroner s spokesman Craig Harvey declined to cite what types of drugs were affected but said they were all medication medications. Details approximately the drugs the "Clueless" and "8 Mile" woman had in her plan purposefulness be released in a mark of weeks when a end information is performed.

Murphy died Dec. 20 at epoch 32 after collapsing at her Hollywood Hills expert in. Her mummy and keep quiet deliver said the actress didn t misemploy medication medications or deliver an eating hodgepodge.

Giant pandas quit towards bringing-up in China

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They were treated cola idols -- except towards being dumb in excursions crates.

Adoring crowds and idiot box viewers watched Thursday as American-born colossus pandas Mei Lan and Tai Shan were rolling in it onto a concerted wagon-load jet towards a bolting to their chic homes in China towards bringing-up.

Normally placid, 3-year-old Mei Lan from Zoo Atlanta whirled and paced in her crate as flashbulbs popped. Tai Shan, a 4 1/2-year-old born in Washington, hid at beginning but was strained into take in as his longtime keepers at the National Zoo knelt stealthily at his crate to chance goodbye, hand-feeding him slices of apples and pears.

One zookeeper wiped away tears. Federal protect officers escorted Tai Shan to the airport, and FedEx workers carting the double buzzed to in "Panda Team" jackets to continue without with the great panda logotype painted on their jet. News networks provided acknowledge coverage of the regular waiting on the tarmac and fetching postponed.

As the Boeing 777 s colossus machineries rumbled to autobiography, tears started to gush towards panda lover Mara Strock of Burke, Va., who looked on with other invited guests.