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09/08/2010 05:00 AM
Fla. minister: Sept. 11 Quran burn still planned (AP)

Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Jones plans to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.




09/08/2010 04:45 AM
BP: Multiple companies, teams contributed to spill (AP)

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. Before the key piece of evidence has even been analyzed, oil giant BP PLC on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, planned to release the conclusions of its internal investigation into the rig explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Oil giant BP PLC said in an internal report released Wednesday before a key piece of evidence has been analyzed that multiple companies and work teams contributed to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months.




09/08/2010 01:40 AM
Colo. wildfire's toll of destroyed homes rises (AP)

In this photo provided by Eric Peter Abramson, a line of buses are destroyed after a wild fire passed through Gold Hill, Colo. on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gov. Bill Ritter declared a state of emergency Tuesday as officials nearly doubled the fire's estimated size to more than 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles. At one point the plume from the fire could be seen in Wyoming, 90 miles to the north. (AP Photo/Eric Peter Abramson) NO SALES MANDATORY CREDITAP - Will Esposito describes an otherworldly scene after a wildfire tore through a canyon in the Colorado foothills: Some houses in his neighborhood burning while others stood intact, a propane tank shooting flames into the sky, and an eerie quiet interrupted only by firefighting helicopters and airplanes.




09/08/2010 12:57 AM
FBI: Aircraft searched, no credible threat found (AP)

A KTLA-TV grab shows passengers leaving a Thai Airways Airbus A-300 following a bomb scare at Los Angeles International Airport.(AFP/KTLA-TV)AP - Investigators found no explosives aboard a Los Angeles-bound Thai Airways flight in which a bomb threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror, the FBI said Wednesday.




09/08/2010 01:07 AM
LAPD brass plead for calm; protesters egg station (AP)

Los Angeles police officers respond by firing nonlethal foam projectiles toward apartment buildings rooftops, as protesters climbed atop and threw objects at officers below, after they had protested the death of a Guatemalan immigrant by Los Angeles Police officers on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Police Chief Charlie Beck pleaded for calm and vowed his department would conduct an exhaustive investigation into a bicycle officer's fatal shooting of a drunken day laborer with a knife.




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09/08/2010 04:39 AM
BP Report Blames Multiple Companies For Gulf Spill
The oil giant's 193-page report says a sequence of failures led to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months. The company's findings are far from the final word on possible causes of the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon drill rig.

09/08/2010 03:53 AM
Hermine Lashes Texas As Storm Heads North
Downgraded to a tropical depression, Hermine brought downpours and winds gusting to about 70 mph across a swath of Texas and could spread as far north as Oklahoma and Kansas in the coming days.

09/08/2010 01:00 AM
Colo. Wildfire Keeps Families From Their Homes
An out of control wildfire continues to rage in the foothills west of Boulder, Colo. Dozens of homes have been destroyed and thousands evacuated in the hills and canyons above the city. This has been one of the most destructive wildfires to hit the region in years.

09/08/2010 01:00 AM
Chicago Mayor Daley Won't Run For Re-Election
Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday he will not seek a seventh term in office. Daley is credited with building the city's skyline and beautifying its stunning lakefront. But he leaves office with the city's budget in crisis, violent crime soaring in some neighborhoods and the feds probing corruption in City Hall. Daley's departure also leads to speculation over just who may be Chicago's next mayor.

09/08/2010 01:00 AM
HP Sues Ex-CEO Hurd Over Oracle's Job Offer
Mark Hurd recently was fired from his job as CEO of Hewlett-Packard after a scandal involving an extra-martial relationship. One of HP's main tech rivals -- Oracle -- wants to make Hurd its co-president. That's prompted HP to sue, claiming Hurd can't possibly perform the new job without tapping into HP's trade secrets.

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03/16/2010 01:13 AM
Mom, Son Missing After Van Found on Wash. Beach
A woman heading to her stepfather's house was "beyond lost" when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and onto a private Puget Sound beach, authorities said Monday.

03/16/2010 08:37 AM
Plane Hits, Kills Man on South Carolina Beach
A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.

03/16/2010 08:31 AM
Police Pursuit of Pickup Truck Full of People Ends
A lengthy pursuit ended Tuesday morning in the Tolleson area west of Phoenix as a pickup truck driver carrying a load of human cargo tried to evade police.

03/16/2010 07:11 AM
Magnitude-4.4 Earthquake Hits Southern California
An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert but causing no damage, injuries or power outages.

03/16/2010 02:08 AM
Sandbags Delivered Ahead of Fargo Flood Fight
Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods Monday as the cities of Fargo in eastern North Dakota and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., went into flood-fighting mode.