Earl weakens to Category 1, heads for Northeast (AP)
Utilities workers try to support power lines that were blown sideways from winds produced by Hurricane Earl in Nags Head, N.C., Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Hurricane Earl sideswiped North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday, flooding the vacation i...

Police question scientist in Miami airport scare (AP)
Passengers sleep and sit on the curbside at concourse J after being evacuated from the terminal at Miami International Airport in Miami, early Friday morning, Sept. 3, 2010. A spokesman for Miami International Airport says four of its six concourses have been evacuated as a police bomb squad investigates a report of a suspicious item. Several flights were diverted to other parts of the terminal.(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a m...

'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies (AP)
Miguel, 3, clings to his father, Miguel, an illegal immigrant, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in San Juan, Texas. Miguel and his wife, who remain in the U.S. as illegal immigrants, have two children born in the U.S. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - When Ruth Garcia's twins are born in two months, they'll have all the rights of U.S. citizen...

Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill (AP)
Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf ...

Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored (AP)
Robert Arnold looks on as his wife Deanna holds a rooster on their farm, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Garrison, Iowa. The two former workers at Wright County Egg facilities said they reported problems such as leaking manure and dead chickens to USDA employees, but were ignored. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center o...

Comfort Inn a hurricane hostel in NC (AP)
Lee Taylor, of Harlow, N.C., buys ice for his family to ride out the storm as Hurricane Earl heads toward the eastern coast in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - A two-story Comfort Inn has become a makeshift hurricane hostel on North Carolina's Outer Ba...

Pearl Harbor marks 65th anniversary of WWII's end (AP)
FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945 picture, Japanese Foreign Minister Namoru Shigemitsu, center in top hat, leads the Japanese delegation aboard the USS Missouri battleship in Tokyo Bay for the signing ceremony for Japanese surrender in World War II. World War II veterans, their families and officials marked the 65th anniversary of the end of that war on board the same ship where Japan formally surrendered in 1945. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)AP - Like many other vets, Don Fosburg marked the anniversary of World War II's end reflecting on...

McCourt: Wife concerned about nest egg (AP)
Jamie McCourt leaves court during a lunch break Thursday Sept. 2, 2010 in Los Angeles. Frank McCourt testified at his divorce trial, his estranged wife, Jamie McCourt, wanted no part in the risk associated with buying the Los Angeles Dodgers six years ago. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Former Dodger CEO Jamie McCourt was more concerned with protecting the couple's luxurious ho...

Warrants detail stabbings at Calif. beach house (AP)
FILE - This undated handout file photo provided by Silva and Silva Photography shows Brock and Davina Husted, who were both stabbed to death in their beach front home in Ventura, Calif., in May, 2009. Documents, obtained by the Ventura County Star reveal an armed intruder who demanded cash and jewelry when he burst into the Faria Beach home in May 2009. (AP Photo/Silva and Silva Photography, File) ** NO SALES **AP - A 9-year-old boy ran to get cash from his mother's purse to appease an armed intruder, but w...

Critics: Ill. lottery contract cloaked in secrecy (AP)
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn shows off the Veteran's Cash scratch-off lottery ticket, the Stars & Stripes, in Springfield, Ill. Two weeks before Gov. Pat Quinn is set to award one of Illinois' most lucrative contracts ever — private management of the state's $2 billion-a-year lottery — some are criticizing the process as secretive and complaining that it was structured to favor one bidder. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - With less than two weeks before Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn awards a lucrative, first-of-its-kin...

Police: Discovery Channel hostages planned escape (AP)
In this image released by the Montgomery County Police, James J. Lee is seen is a booking mugshot from 2008 on disorderly conduct. Lee, 43, a gunman with what police described as 'concerns' with the Discovery Channel networks took at least one person hostage in the company's Silver Spring, Md., headquarters Wednesday, Spet. 1, 2010. A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing said authorities have identified Lee as the likely suspect. (AP Photo/Montgomery County (Md.) Police)AP - Police had been negotiating with James Jae Lee for several hours and intended to keep him ta...

3 dead in plane crash off San Francisco Bay (AP)
Map locates the site of a small twin-engine plane crash in San Fransisco BayAP - A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing ...

LA police ID owner of trunk containing baby bodies (AP)
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, left, stands with Captain Fabian Lizarraga during a news conference to discuss the mummified infants case in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept 2, 2010. Los Angeles police identified the owner of a trunk, belonging to Janet M. Barrie, in which the mummified remains of a baby and a fetus were found. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Investigators have identified the owner of a trunk in which the mummified remains of two bab...

Arizona governor stumbles during debate (AP)
From left; Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Barry Hess, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Republican, moderator Ted Simons, democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard and Green Party candidate Larry Gist and go over rules prior to a televised Arizona gubernatorial debate Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory.

FBI: 6 accused in forced labor of 400 Thai workers (AP)
AP - Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United Stat...