Hurricane Earl's winds and driving rains churned over the North Carolina in the dark of night, leaving residents and officials to wait for daybreak to assess the damage.
General rule of thumb: when looking to buy marijuana, don't text the sheriff. Authorities said a Helena teen sent out a text message last week in search of pot, but instead of contacting the drug dealer, he hit a wrong number and inadvertently sent the message to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton.
A 70-year-old scientist sparked a bomb scare at Miami airport Thursday evening when screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, a government official said.
PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII: Like many other vets, Don Fosburg marked the anniversary of World War II's end reflecting on a victory dearly earned and on men who helped make that happen but never came home.
BUXTON, N.C.: Hurricane Earl roared past the North Carolina Outer Banks early Friday, flooding some parts of the narrow vacation islands and knocking out electricity before driving north at the start of at least 24 hours of stormy, windy weather along the East Coast.
MIAMI: A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said.
BUXTON, N.C.: Bands of heavy rain from Hurricane Earl reached North Carolina's Outer Banks on Thursday night, marking the Category 2 storm's first stop on a potentially destructive journey up the Eastern Seaboard.
HONOLULU Human trafficking case Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history. The indictment alleges that the scheme was orchestrated by four employees of labor recruiting company Global Horizons Manpower Inc. and two Thailand-based recruiters. Once the Thai laborers arrived in the United States starting in May 2004, they were put to work and have since been sent to sites in states including Ohio, Hawaii, Washington, California, Colorado, Florida, Texas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah, according to attorneys and advocates.
WASHINGTON: Congress seems increasingly reluctant to let taxes go up, even on wealthier Americans. Worried about the fragile economy and their own upcoming elections, a growing number of Democrats are joining the rock-solid Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's plans to let some of the Bush administration's tax cuts expire.
NEW ORLEANS: An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.
SEATTLE: Searchers in the rugged North Cascades of Washington state have found a backpack belonging to the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum, but are still looking for the missing climber.
CINCINNATI: A prosecutor has determined a Cincinnati police officer won't face felony charges for driving his cruiser over a woman in a park, killing her.
Private employers added 67,000 jobs, more than forecast, but governments shed jobs in August, the Labor Department reported, as the jobless rate rose to 9.6 percent.
Private employers hired more workers than expected in August, lifting hopes for the weak U.S. economy, but the nations unemployment rate rose for the first time in four months.
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[at Reuters] - The Federal Reserve s decision to begin buying Treasuries again was a precautionary step, not the opening salvo in a new policy course, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said on Friday.
[at MarketWatch] - Growth slowed in the U.S. non-manufacturing sector in August, hitting 51.5%, compared with 54.3% in July, the Institute for Supply Management reports.
[at MarketWatch] - There has been too much alarmist discussion of recent economic indicators and the outlook is not as pessimistic as some have suggested, said Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank on Friday.
[at Reuters] - Overhauling the U.S. financial system after the worst crisis since the 1930s will not be easy, but it is critical, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said on Friday.
