Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:11:45 GMT
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RUSSELL CONTRERAS and BOB SALSBERG
2010-09-04T09:11:45Z
CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) -- The remnants of Hurricane Earl took aim at Nova Scotia early Saturday after a brush with the Northeast that was far less intense than feared, dumping heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages accustomed to nor'easters....
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:04:18 GMT
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HARRY R. WEBER
2010-09-04T08:04:18Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP PLC was on Saturday slowly raising the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, careful not to damage or drop a key piece of evidence in the spill investigation....
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:55:46 GMT
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PATRICK CONDON
2010-09-04T07:55:46Z
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (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....
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:37:34 GMT
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SARAH BRUMFIELD
2010-09-04T06:37:34Z
BALTIMORE (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.'...
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:13:27 GMT
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GEORGE TIBBITS
2010-09-04T08:13:27Z
SEATTLE (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....
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:45:35 GMT
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SUDHIN THANAWALA and TERRY COLLINS
2010-09-04T06:45:35Z
PITTSBURG, Calif. (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....
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:11:33 GMT
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PAUL DAVENPORT and AMANDA LEE MYERS
2010-09-04T08:11:33Z
PHOENIX (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....
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:12:45 GMT
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JENNIFER KAY and CURT ANDERSON
2010-09-04T00:12:45Z
MIAMI (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....
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:32:57 GMT
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MARK NIESSE
2010-09-04T04:32:57Z
HONOLULU (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...
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:20:34 GMT
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DAVID B. CARUSO
2010-09-04T03:20:34Z
NEW YORK (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....