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• Island evacuations start as Earl nears East Coast (AP)
• Police kill gunman who held 3 at Discovery Channel (AP)
• Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict (AP)
• NY Muslim groups decry hostile atmosphere (AP)
• 6 Ore. men settle Boy Scout sex abuse cases (AP)
• Police: SD teen wanted to be 'infamous sociopath' (AP)
• New Mexico National Guard deployed to border (AP)
• Some states haven't changed coke-crack disparity (AP)
• Blasts rock Pa. welding firm; 5 civilians injured (AP)
• French railway faces criticism in US for WWII role (AP)
• US forces still in fight at end of combat mission (AP)
• New York imam: Mosque fight about Muslim role (AP)
• NYC man plunges 39 stories, lands on car, survives (AP)
• Troops, families glad to hear end to Iraq combat (AP)
• Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Feds fail to use land for solar power (AP)
• Calif. rejects ban on plastic shopping bags (AP)
• Dead suspect may be linked to 4 slayings in Calif. (AP)
• Lawmakers urge governor to appeal Prop 8 ruling (AP)
• Colo. woman held by escapee talks about experience (AP)

Island evacuations start as Earl nears East Coast (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 06:12 PM PDT AP - Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm's predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm's way.

Police kill gunman who held 3 at Discovery Channel (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 06:41 PM PDT AP - A man who railed against the Discovery Channel's environmental programming for years burst into the company's headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.

Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 06:12 PM PDT AP - Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.

NY Muslim groups decry hostile atmosphere (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 06:51 PM PDT AP - It is "unethical, insensitive and inhumane" to oppose the planned mosque near ground zero, more than 50 leading Muslim organizations said Wednesday as they cast the intense debate as a symptom of religious intolerance in America.

6 Ore. men settle Boy Scout sex abuse cases (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 02:16 PM PDT AP - Six men who were sexually abused three decades ago by a leader of their Boy Scouts troop have settled lawsuits against the national organization dedicated to building character among youngsters.

Police: SD teen wanted to be 'infamous sociopath' (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - An 18-year-old high school student stockpiled bomb-making materials in his bedroom and wrote about wanting to blow up his school, target individuals he hated, rape women and "become the world's most infamous sociopath," authorities said.

New Mexico National Guard deployed to border (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 01:42 PM PDT AP - The New Mexico National Guard has deployed 82 troops along the border with Mexico to increase surveillance.

Some states haven't changed coke-crack disparity (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 12:05 PM PDT AP - Police found such a small amount of crack cocaine in James V. Taylor's car that investigators described it as unweighable. It was enough for a 15-year prison sentence in Missouri, where the courts make an enormous distinction between crack and powder cocaine.

Blasts rock Pa. welding firm; 5 civilians injured (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 07:29 PM PDT AP - A series of explosions at a welding supply company on Wednesday injured 5 people, forced evacuations and sent thick black smoke billowing over the area.

French railway faces criticism in US for WWII role (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - The French national railway's hope to bid on the first high-speed tracks in the United States is running into resistance from Holocaust survivors because of the company's role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps.

US forces still in fight at end of combat mission (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents.

New York imam: Mosque fight about Muslim role (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 08:10 AM PDT AP - The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York said the fight is over more than "a piece of real estate" and could shape the future of Muslim relations in America.

NYC man plunges 39 stories, lands on car, survives (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 09:51 AM PDT AP - A New York City man who plunged 39 stories from the roof of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.

Troops, families glad to hear end to Iraq combat (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 12:30 AM PDT AP - As President Obama spoke, Violeta Sifuentes snuggled with her 6-year-old twins on the suede sofa — Samuel beside her, Selena sprawled across her legs. When the 29-year-old Army captain explained what the president meant by combat operations in Iraq being over, "Nina" let out a loud, "Woo-hoo!" then asked, "Can we go play now?"

Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 02:15 PM PDT AP - Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug.

AP IMPACT: Feds fail to use land for solar power (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 07:51 AM PDT AP - Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.

Calif. rejects ban on plastic shopping bags (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 03:22 AM PDT AP - California lawmakers have rejected a bill seeking to ban plastic shopping bags after a contentious debate over whether the state was going too far in trying to regulate personal choice.

Dead suspect may be linked to 4 slayings in Calif. (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 07:17 PM PDT AP - A murder suspect who led officers on a high-speed chase with his dead girlfriend in the passenger seat is a central figure in the investigation of at least four killings, authorities said Wednesday.

Lawmakers urge governor to appeal Prop 8 ruling (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 07:08 PM PDT AP - A group of Republican lawmakers is urging California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to appeal a federal ruling that struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban.

Colo. woman held by escapee talks about experience (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 07:06 PM PDT AP - Liz Reynolds says life is getting back to normal a week after an escaped prisoner held her hostage in her home on Colorado's eastern plains.

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