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• Earl skirts across Outer Banks, floods coastal areas September 3, 2010
  A weakened Hurricane Earl brushed North Carolina's Outer Banks overnight as residents along the Eastern Seaboard braced for a stormy Friday. . […]
• Bomb scare empties Miami airport September 3, 2010
  Bomb squad investigators were at Miami International Airport on Friday after a suspicious item was spotted in a baggage screening area, authorities said. […]
• Hostage taker smuggled immigrant September 3, 2010
  The gunman who held three people hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters was once convicted of smuggling an illegal immigrant into the country from Mexico. […]
• Mistrial threatens sham marriage trial September 3, 2010
  The sham marriage trial of actress Fernanda Romero, which the judge has likened to a soap opera, appeared threatened with a mistrial Friday after a dramatic turn a day earlier. […]
• Bonnie Blue actress from 'GWTW' dies September 3, 2010
  Cammie King Conlon, who played the ill-fated Bonnie Blue Butler in "Gone With the Wind," used to joke "that I peaked at age 5." […]
• Workers rescued after oil platform fire September 3, 2010
  A fire on an oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico is out and there is no indication of an oil sheen, the Coast Guard said. There were no serious injuries. […]
• BP removes cap from ruptured well September 3, 2010
  Thad Allen, the government's point man on the oil disaster, said crews are expected to begin efforts Thursday to remove the blowout preventer on BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
• President to aides: Find economic spark September 3, 2010
  After a week mostly focused on Iraq and Mideast diplomacy, it's back to the economy for President Barack Obama, who will deliver remarks Friday on the August unemployment numbers. […]