Weakened Earl hits Mass. with wind, rain, surf (AP)

The Chatham Lighthouse, situated at a working U.S. Coast Guard Station, casts its beam into a foggy evening, in Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Hurricane Earl is expected to arrive at Cape Cod late Friday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - The remnants of Hurricane Earl dumped wind-driven rain on Cape Cod's gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages Friday night, but its close brush with the Northeast was less intense than feared only hours earlier.



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:15:01 GMT]
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BP: Failed blowout preventer removed from well (AP)

FILE - In this July 14, 2010 combination of two file photos made from images taken from video provided by BP PLC oil flows from two of three valves on the new 75-ton cap atop the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at 17:04 CDT, left, and the top of the cap at 14:27 CDT on  July 15, minutes after the flow of oil was choked off. Engineers plan Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 to delicately remove the cap as a prelude to raising the massive piece of equipment underneath that failed to prevent the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Plans were being made for oil collection vessels to be on standby in case of a problem. (AP Photo/BP PLC, File) NO SALESAP - BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon.



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:40:41 GMT]
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Prof in '03 plague scare sets off airport shutdown (AP)

Passengers head out of the terminal at Miami International Airport in Miami, early Friday morning, Sept. 3, 2010. A spokesman for Miami International Airport says four of its six concourses have been evacuated as a police bomb squad investigates a report of a suspicious item. Several flights were diverted to other parts of the terminal.(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - The suspicions airport security officials had when they saw the metal canister grew when they learned about the man who brought it in from the Middle East: a scientist who sparked a bioterrorism scare after he reported missing vials of plague samples seven years ago.



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:12:36 GMT]
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Body of son of boxing promoter found in Cascades (AP)
AP - Searchers spotted the body of the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum on a rugged Washington state mountainside Friday afternoon, five days after they began looking for him in North Cascades National Park, authorities said.
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:45:06 GMT]
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911 calls describe Discovery Channel gunman, IED (AP)

In this image released by the Montgomery County Police, James J. Lee is seen is a booking mugshot from 2008 on disorderly conduct. Lee, 43, a gunman with what police described as 'concerns' with the Discovery Channel networks took at least one person hostage in the company's Silver Spring, Md., headquarters Wednesday, Spet. 1, 2010. A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing said authorities have identified Lee as the likely suspect. (AP Photo/Montgomery County (Md.) Police)AP - A security guard who called 911 after a gunman entered Discovery Channel's headquarters calmly told the operator: "You're probably going to need a sniper."



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:10 GMT]
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Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings (AP)

Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer  waits for a televised Arizona gubernatorial debate to begin Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert.



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:25:47 GMT]
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Head of alleged trafficking scheme arrested (AP)
AP - The head of a labor recruiting company accused of exploiting 400 workers from Thailand and forcing them to work on U.S. farms pleaded not guilty Friday, part of what the FBI calls the largest human-trafficking case charged in U.S. history
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:32:52 GMT]
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Backer of NYC mosque gave to Hamas-linked charity (AP)

VIDEO: The proposed construction of a 100-million-dollar, 13-story mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City, has stirred raw emotions in the United States as the country prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Duration: 01:00(afp.com)AP - One of the investors in a proposed Islamic center near ground zero is a Long Island medical clinic owner whose expressions of sympathy for Palestinians included a donation to a charity later shut down for links to Hamas.



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:20:27 GMT]
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2 abortion Drs. ordered to stop after Md. injury (AP)
AP - Maryland health officials have ordered two doctors to stop performing abortions after a woman was critically injured during a procedure last month.
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:27:33 GMT]
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Commercial pilot sentenced for drug-masking powder (AP)
AP - A former US Airways Express pilot will spend nine months in prison for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was "100 percent" effective in helping drug-using truck drivers, pilots and train engineers pass federally mandated drug tests.
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:21:34 GMT]
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What now for Gulf? Fire complicates drill debate (AP)

Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - What now for the Gulf? News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling.



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:24:10 GMT]
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Authorities: Fire at Tenn. mosque site was arson (AP)

In a Saturday, Aug. 28. 2010 photo, Rutherford County Sheriff's Office and ATF investigators examine equipment damaged in a fire at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. Authorities told mosque officials that four pieces of heavy construction equipment on the site were doused with an accelerant and one set ablaze, said Camie Ayash, spokeswoman for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.  (AP Photo/The Daily News Journal, John A. Gillis)AP - Federal investigators said Friday that a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee was arson and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:37:52 GMT]
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Calif landfill searched for possible murder victim (AP)
AP - Authorities searched a Northern California landfill Friday for signs of a missing man authorities said might be a fifth murder victim linked to a suspect who was shot and killed by police after a high-speed chase.
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:55:03 GMT]
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Calif. wildfire sparked by migrants' signal blaze (AP)

With houses seen in the background, flames from the Crown Fire burn plants as it races across the desert near Lake Elizabeth Road in Palmdale, Calif., Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)AP - Authorities say a wildfire burning in rural San Diego County was sparked by two illegal immigrants who set a signal fire after they got lost.



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:52:19 GMT]
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Waning Earl still causing havoc for holiday travel (AP)

North Carolina Highway Patrol troopers Matthew Bunn, right, and Leonard Crumpler, left, stop cars from traveling onto the bridge leading to Atlantic Beach, N.C., as Hurricane Earl heads toward the eastern coast Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - Hurricane Earl played havoc with travelers' Labor Day weekend plans even as it weakened Friday on its path up the East Coast toward New England.



[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:31:30 GMT]
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Fox: Kara DioGuardi departs 'American Idol' (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, Kara DioGuardi of 'American Idol' arrives at the FOX Winter All-Star Party in Los Angeles. Fox TV says Kara DioGuardi is leaving as `American Idol' judge, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)AP - Kara DioGuardi is following Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell out the door at "American Idol."



[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:25:32 GMT]
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Deal to clean up LA-area nuclear accident site (AP)
AP - More than five decades after a partial nuclear meltdown just outside Los Angeles, state and federal officials Friday announced agreements to remove all contamination and return the atomic energy and rocket engine test site to its natural state.
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:30:37 GMT]
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'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies (AP)
AP - When Ruth Garcia's twins are born in two months, they'll have all the rights of U.S. citizens. They and their six brothers and sisters will be able to vote, apply for federal student loans and even run for president.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:53:26 GMT]
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GOP Maes stays in Colo. governor's race (AP)
AP - Republican Dan Maes, Democrat John Hickenlooper and American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo are officially on the November ballot in the race for Colorado governor.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:15:20 GMT]
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La. officials suspend abortion clinic's license (AP)
AP - Louisiana health officials suspended an abortion clinic's license Friday, the first time the state has used its new authority to shut down such a facility over health and safety concerns.
[Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:22:17 GMT]
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