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  • Shooting in southwest Chicago leaves 4 men dead (AP)
    AP - Four men have been killed in a shooting in southwest Chicago.

  • Police question scientist in Miami airport scare (AP)

    Passengers sleep and sit on the curbside at concourse J after being evacuated from 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 - A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said.




  • Earl blows past Outer Banks on path to Northeast (AP)

    A television news reporter struggles in the surf as Hurricane Earl brings wind and rain in Nags Head, N.C., Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - A weakened Hurricane Earl howled past North Carolina's Outer Banks before daybreak Friday on its way up the East Coast, flooding parts of the narrow vacation islands and knocking out power but staying farther offshore than feared. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.




  • Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored (AP)

    Robert Arnold looks on as his wife Deanna holds a rooster on their farm, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Garrison, Iowa. The two former workers at Wright County Egg facilities said they reported problems such as leaking manure and dead chickens to USDA employees, but were ignored. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site.




  • Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill (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 - Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Most notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions don't end there.




  • 'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies (AP)

    Miguel, 3, clings to his father, Miguel, an illegal immigrant, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in San Juan, Texas. Miguel and his wife, who remain in the U.S. as illegal immigrants, have two children born in the U.S. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)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.




  • McCourt: Wife concerned about nest egg (AP)

    Jamie McCourt leaves court during a lunch break Thursday Sept. 2, 2010 in Los Angeles. Frank McCourt testified at his divorce trial, his estranged wife, Jamie McCourt, wanted no part in the risk associated with buying the Los Angeles Dodgers six years ago. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Former Dodger CEO Jamie McCourt was more concerned with protecting the couple's luxurious homes than dealing with baseball matters and didn't want to take the risk associated with buying one of baseball's most storied franchises six years ago, her estranged husband said.




  • Pearl Harbor marks 65th anniversary of WWII's end (AP)

    FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945 picture, Japanese Foreign Minister Namoru Shigemitsu, center in top hat, leads the Japanese delegation aboard the USS Missouri battleship in Tokyo Bay for the signing ceremony for Japanese surrender in World War II.   World War II veterans, their families and officials marked the 65th anniversary of the end of that war on board the same ship where Japan formally surrendered in 1945. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)AP - Like many other vets, Don Fosburg marked the anniversary of World War II's end reflecting on a victory dearly earned and on men who helped make that happen but never came home.




  • Critics: Ill. lottery contract cloaked in secrecy (AP)

    FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn shows off the Veteran's Cash scratch-off lottery ticket, the Stars & Stripes, in Springfield, Ill. Two weeks before Gov. Pat Quinn is set to award one of Illinois' most lucrative contracts ever — private management of the state's $2 billion-a-year lottery — some are criticizing the process as secretive and complaining that it was structured to favor one bidder. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - With less than two weeks before Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn awards a lucrative, first-of-its-kind contract for the private management of the state's $2 billion-a-year lottery, some are criticizing the selection process as too secretive and questioning whether it favors one powerful bidder.




  • Warrants detail stabbings at Calif. beach house (AP)

    FILE - This undated handout file photo provided by Silva and Silva Photography shows Brock and Davina Husted, who were both stabbed to death in their beach front home in Ventura, Calif., in May, 2009. Documents, obtained by the Ventura County Star reveal an armed intruder who demanded cash and jewelry when he burst into the Faria Beach home in May 2009.   (AP Photo/Silva and Silva Photography, File) ** NO SALES **AP - A 9-year-old boy ran to get cash from his mother's purse to appease an armed intruder, but when he returned the man was stabbing his parents with a kitchen knife in the bedroom, according to recently released search warrants in the triple murder case.




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