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BP: Crews lifting device from Gulf face delay
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:41:22 GMT
 AP - A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago.
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Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:40:14 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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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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Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:15:30 GMT
 AP - Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating.
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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)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:01:20 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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Backer of NYC mosque gave to Hamas-linked charity
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:20:27 GMT
 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.
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Fox: Kara DioGuardi departs 'American Idol'
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:23:41 GMT
 AP - Kara DioGuardi is following Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell out the door at "American Idol."
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2 abortion Drs. ordered to stop after Md. injury
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:27:33 GMT
AP - Maryland health officials have ordered two doctors to stop performing abortions after a woman was critically injured during a procedure last month.
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Commercial pilot sentenced for drug-masking powder
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:21:34 GMT
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.
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What now for Gulf? Fire complicates drill debate
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:24:10 GMT
 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.
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