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Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programming (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 - A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.


Man in Letterman blackmail plot freed from NY jail (AP)

FILE-In a Nov.10, 2009 file photo, Robert 'Joe' Halderman, who tried to blackmail David Letterman over the comedian's office affairs, listens as his attorney Gerald Shargel speaks to the media outside Manhattan criminal court following his court appearance in New York. Halderman was released from a New York City jail Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. He served four months of his six-month sentence and got time off for good behavior. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano,File)AP - The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman over the comedian's office affairs was freed from jail Thursday, city Correction Department records show.


Risks remain with Gulf well cap coming off (AP)

FILE - In this July 14, 2010 combination of two file photos made from images taken from video provided by BP PLC oil flows from two of three valves on the new 75-ton cap atop the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at 17:04 CDT, left, and the top of the cap at 14:27 CDT on  July 15, minutes after the flow of oil was choked off. Engineers plan Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 to delicately remove the cap as a prelude to raising the massive piece of equipment underneath that failed to prevent the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Plans were being made for oil collection vessels to be on standby in case of a problem. (AP Photo/BP PLC, File) NO SALESAP - The cap that ended BP's three-month oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was set to come off Thursday as a prelude to raising a massive, failed piece of equipment and preparing for a final seal on the broken seafloor well.


Chicago police chief criticized for 'gang summit' (AP)

FILE - In this July 22, 2010 file photo, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis speaks at a news conference at FBI offices in Chicago. Weis has come under fire recently for attending a meeting between reputed gang leaders, top police officials and federal prosecutors, to deliver an ultimatum to end killings in the nation's third largest city. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - The idea seemed simple though bold: Call reputed gang leaders to a meeting with top police and federal prosecutors and deliver an ultimatum to end killings in the nation's third-largest city.


Mass. coast gets hurricane warning ahead of Earl (AP)

Almon Telling looks at the surf as he walks along the beach as Hurricane Earl heads toward the eastern coast in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - A hurricane warning is out for part of the Massachusetts coast including Nantucket as Earl bears down on the Eastern Seaboard.


Senate upset erases Alaska seniority (AP)

** FILE ** In this March 5, 2009 file photo, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is interviewed in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington.  The defeat of Murkowski by an upstart fiscal conservative in Alaska's GOP primary could mark a significant shift for a state.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - The defeat of Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski by an upstart fiscal conservative in Alaska's GOP primary could mark a significant shift for a state that has so long relied on federal pork to survive. The outcome was also an unexpected blow to the seniority Alaska has enjoyed in the Senate.


McCourt's memory fuzzy at divorce trial (AP)

Los Angeles Dodger owner, Frank McCourt arrives for court Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010 in Los Angeles. When McCourt retakes the stand Wednesday, it will be the first time he has spoken at length publicly about the breakup of his marriage and what his intentions were when he and his wife signed a postnuptial agreement in 2004.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Frank McCourt had trouble recalling some details involving his purchase of a professional baseball team, but he was certain of one thing: he's the sole owner.


Dead suspect may be linked to 4 slayings in Calif. (AP)

In this undated photo provided by the Hercules Police Department,  Efren Valdemoro is shown. Valdemoro, 38, was shot and killed by California Highway Patrol officers Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, after refusing to drop a large knife when the chase ended in a strip mall, police said. He was wanted in the death of a 73-year-old man last weekend. In the passenger seat of the car, officers found the body of his girlfriend, whose identity has not been released. She had suffered 'pretty serious head and neck injuries,' said CHP spokesman Sgt. Trent Cross.  (AP photo/Hercules Police Department via the San Francisco Chronicle)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.


Fired aide to ex-Mo. gov runs for gov's dad's seat (AP)

Scott Eckersley, right, Democratic candidate for the U.S. House, talks with Juli Matthews, left, and her husband Shawn Matthews, as he canvasses local businesses while on the campaign trail in Springfield, Mo., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Eckersley, a former state legal adviser who won a $500,000 settlement after being fired for pointing out the improper deletion of emails by state officials, is running for the seat held by retiring U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)AP - It's been three years since Scott Eckersley was fired after pointing out that his then-boss, former Gov. Matt Blunt, and others in Blunt's administration should not be deleting certain e-mails because they belonged to the public record.


Judge punishes Michigan juror for Facebook post (AP)

A couple sits in the departure lounge at Changi airport in Singapore. Singapore Airlines has banned its flight attendants from discussing work-related matters on social networking websites, after some cabin crew were found to have disclosed confidential job issues on Facebook, company officials said.(AFP/File/Laurent Fievet)AP - A Detroit-area woman who was removed from a jury for commenting about the ongoing case on Facebook has a longer writing task ahead: a five-page essay about the constitutional right to a fair trial.


Son of boxing promoter Arum missing in Cascades (AP)

Boxing promoter Bob Arum, pictured in 2009. A search and rescue team is combing the mountainous terrain around Seattle on foot and in helicopters to look for the missing son of Bob Arum.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AP - Nearly two dozen mountaineers and park rangers are searching for the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum, who's been missing since a weekend camping trip in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state.


Arrest made after manhunt shuts down Wash. freeway (AP)
AP - A sheriff's spokeswoman in Washington state says tips from the public helped authorities make an arrest following a search for an armed suspect Wednesday that shut down a busy freeway and disrupted commuter traffic.
Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation (AP)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010, regarding a major settlement with a pharmaceutical company for False Claims Act and off-label marketing violations. Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a years long federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)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.


Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict (AP)

Gladys Rubio answers phone calls, at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 as powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labor Day weekend.(AP Photo/J Pat Carter)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)

Demonstrators hold up signs during a news conference on the step of New York's City Hall,  Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. More than 50 leaders of Muslim organizations in New York City are defending plans by developers to build an Islamic community center near ground zero. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)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)

Attorney Paul Mones makes remarks during a news conference Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Six men who alleged they were sexually abused by an Oregon Boy Scouts leader in the 1980s have settled their lawsuits against the group's national organization for undisclosed amounts, the plaintiffs' attorney said Wednesday. The settlements include the case of one man, Kerry Lewis, who was awarded nearly $20 million in damages from Boys Scouts of America in a trial that ended in April. It was believed to be the largest such award against the national organization. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)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.


Island evacuations start as Earl nears East Coast (AP)

Cars leaving Ocracoke on a ferry Island arrive in Hatteras, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. An evacuation of Ocracoke is underway as Hurricane Earl approaches the North Carolina Outer Banks. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard early Thursday 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.


Co-owner of painting missing in NY ID'd as a thief (AP)
AP - First it was a curious tale of a $1.3 million painting a middleman said he drunkenly lost while trying to help a friend sell it.
Police: SD teen wanted to be 'infamous sociopath' (AP)

This Aug. 31, 2010, photo provided by KSFY television shows Joseph Thomas Hansen being transported at the Roberts County Sheriff's office in Sisseton, SD. Authorities said in court documents filed Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, the 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 Hansen was arrested Aug. 23 after someone tipped off a police school resource officer that Hansen had talked about an attack. He has pleaded not guilty to selling, transporting or possessing an explosive device and possessing substances with the intent to make a destructive device and remains jailed in lieu of $500,000 bond. (AP Photo/courtesy KSFY-TV) NO SALESAP - 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)
AP - The New Mexico National Guard has deployed 82 troops along the border with Mexico to increase surveillance.

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