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Weakened Earl hits Mass. with wind, rain, surf (AP)
September 4, 2010
AP - The remnants of Hurricane Earl dumped wind-driven rain on Cape Cod's gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages Friday night, but its close brush with the Northeast was less intense than feared only hours earlier.
BP: Failed blowout preventer removed from well (AP)
September 4, 2010
AP - BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon.
Prof in '03 plague scare sets off airport shutdown (AP)
September 4, 2010
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.
Body of son of boxing promoter found in Cascades (AP)
September 4, 2010AP - Searchers spotted the body of the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum on a rugged Washington state mountainside Friday afternoon, five days after they began looking for him in North Cascades National Park, authorities said.
911 calls describe Discovery Channel gunman, IED (AP)
September 4, 2010
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."
Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings (AP)
September 4, 2010
AP - Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert.
Head of alleged trafficking scheme arrested (AP)
September 4, 2010AP - 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
Backer of NYC mosque gave to Hamas-linked charity (AP)
September 4, 2010
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.
2 abortion Drs. ordered to stop after Md. injury (AP)
September 4, 2010AP - Maryland health officials have ordered two doctors to stop performing abortions after a woman was critically injured during a procedure last month.
Commercial pilot sentenced for drug-masking powder (AP)
September 4, 2010AP - 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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