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Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:40:41 GMT
AP - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship.
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9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:27:36 GMT
AP - It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is.
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Army studies concussions' effects on bomb techs
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:20:02 GMT
AP - Motivated by the deaths of two friends in war-zone explosions, 1st Lt. Timothy Dwyer decided to become a bomb hunter.
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Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:51:07 GMT
AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."
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JetBlue: Flight attendant's big exit was for good
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:51:17 GMT
AP - Sometimes there's no going back.
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For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:17:41 GMT
AP - American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities.
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Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:41:02 GMT
AP - For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush.
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AP Interview: Author leaving home next to Palins
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:20:53 GMT
AP - Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.
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Race complicates reservation crime fight
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:47:03 GMT
AP - For more than two hours on the night of May 16, 2007, Shane Maggi terrorized a Native American couple at their home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, pistol whipping them and firing bullets above the husband's head.
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2 babies killed after semi hits vehicles in Ariz.
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:57:33 GMT AP - Two babies have been killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a gas tanker in Phoenix.
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Suspect in consulate deaths appears in Texas court
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:26:54 GMT AP - A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
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Muslims take to Minn. State Fair to repair image
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:11:32 GMT
AP - Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street.
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Earl's biggest damage in Northeast: business
(AP) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:17:10 GMT
AP - In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note.
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Farms being prosecuted for importing Thai workers
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:39:02 GMT AP - Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges — they pleaded guilty — but two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison.
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911 calls describe Discovery Channel gunman, IED
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:37:27 GMT 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."
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Body of boxing promoter's son found on Wash. peak
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:23:17 GMT AP - A five-day search for the missing son of top boxing promoter Bob Arum ended when a helicopter located John Arum's body on a rugged Washington state mountain in North Cascades National Park, authorities say.
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Calif landfill searched for possible murder victim
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:45:31 GMT
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.
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Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:11:20 GMT AP - A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up.
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Prof in '03 plague scare sets off airport shutdown
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:12:36 GMT
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.
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Head of alleged trafficking scheme arrested
(AP) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:32:52 GMT 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
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