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- Police question scientist in Miami airport scare
- Police question scientist in Miami airport scare
- Police question scientist in Miami airport scare
- Jobless rate rose to 9.6 percent in Aug.
- Unemployment rate rises to 9.6 as 54,000 jobs are lost
- Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored
- Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored
- Some flooding on N.C. Outer Banks as Earl passes
- Some flooding on N.C. Outer Banks as Earl passes
- Some flooding on N.C. Outer Banks as Earl passes
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- Hurricane Earl Makes Quiet Pass by Virginia
- Unemployment Rate Jumps to 9.6 Percent in August
- Acid Attack Victim: I Could Hear My Skin Burning
- Video: Miami Airport Scare
- Miami Airport Reopened After Security Closure
- Pearl Harbor Marks 65th Anniv. of WWII's End
- Hurricane's Path Unfamiliar to U.S. Northeast
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- Police question scientist in Miami airport scare
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">JENNIFER KAY </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T15:07:28Z">2010-09-03T15:07:28Z</span> <div class="entry-content">MIAMI (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....</div> </div> - 'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">BOB CHRISTIE and PAUL J. WEBER </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T14:14:35Z">2010-09-03T14:14:35Z</span> <div class="entry-content">SAN JUAN, Texas (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....</div> </div> - Earl weakens to a Category 1, winds near 85 mph
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T15:14:42Z">2010-09-03T15:14:42Z</span> <div class="entry-content">MIAMI (AP) -- Hurricane Earl has weakened to a Category 1 storm as it heads for the Northeast and some watches and warnings have been reduced or dropped from Long Island to Maine....</div> </div> - Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ALAN SAYRE </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T14:44:16Z">2010-09-03T14:44:16Z</span> <div class="entry-content">NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico killed no one and sent no crude gushing into the water....</div> </div> - Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">MICHAEL J. CRUMB </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T12:34:42Z">2010-09-03T12:34:42Z</span> <div class="entry-content">DES MOINES, Iowa (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....</div> </div> - Comfort Inn a hurricane hostel in NC
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">MIKE BAKER </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T05:30:49Z">2010-09-03T05:30:49Z</span> <div class="entry-content">BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- A two-story Comfort Inn has become a makeshift hurricane hostel on North Carolina's Outer Banks for those who want to stay close to their homes but know they need better shelter from the onslaught of Earl....</div> </div> - Pearl Harbor marks 65th anniversary of WWII's end
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">AUDREY McAVOY </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T08:42:59Z">2010-09-03T08:42:59Z</span> <div class="entry-content">PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (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....</div> </div> - McCourt: Wife concerned about nest egg
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">GREG RISLING </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T09:34:26Z">2010-09-03T09:34:26Z</span> <div class="entry-content">LOS ANGELES (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....</div> </div> - Warrants detail stabbings at Calif. beach house
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T07:11:34Z">2010-09-03T07:11:34Z</span> <div class="entry-content">VENTURA, Calif. (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....</div> </div> - Critics: Ill. lottery contract cloaked in secrecy
<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">TAMMY WEBBER </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T07:30:50Z">2010-09-03T07:30:50Z</span> <div class="entry-content">CHICAGO (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....</div> </div>
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- Weakening Hurricane Earl takes aim on New England
- Egg plant owners back Iowa governor re-election
- Ariz. immigration law's legal costs could top $1 million
- Police question scientist in Miami airport scare
- For families of Muslim 9/11 victims, a new pain
- Food safety groups slam USDA egg graders at farms in recall
- Study: Friends help college females avoid risky sex after drinking
- Gulf platform explodes in flames, 13 rescued
- Labor Day holiday travel should be up from last year
- Corporate alliances help keep state parks afloat
