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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 metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said.

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.

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.

Murkowski concedes Alaska primary race (AP)

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski gives her concession speech on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, at her campaign headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska. Murkowski has conceded her Senate primary race to Joe Miller. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)AP - Sen. Lisa Murkowski was booted from office in the Republican primary Tuesday by a little-known conservative lawyer in arguably the biggest political upset of the year.

Cops: Calif doctor gets stuck in chimney, dies (AP)

FILE - In this 2007 photo, shows Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac. who  involved in an 'on-again, off-again' relationship,  apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Her decomposing body was found there three days later. (AP photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Felix Adamo)  MANDATORY CREDITAP - A doctor involved in an "on-again, off-again" relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later.

AP Interview: Maine man says NY bomber was partyer (AP)

Mohammad Shafiq Rahman, left, joined by his wife, Sara, speaks during an interview Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in Portland, Maine. Rahman, 33, was one of three Pakistani men taken into custody during the investigation of the botched bombing attempt in New York's Times Square. He has not been charged in connection with the case and was released last week. (AP Photo/Joel Page)AP - A Pakistani man detained during an investigation of a botched car bombing in New York City's Times Square says he knew the plotter years ago as a partying college student — not as the radical Muslim who later said he received explosives training from the Pakistani Taliban.

US grapples with bedbugs, misuse of pesticides (AP)

In this Aug. 25, 2010 photo, Delores Stewart displays bed bugs found in her home in Columbus, Ohio. A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators. (AP Photo/Terry Gilliam)AP - A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.

NYC community board head wants interfaith center (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2010 file photo, people participate in a rally against a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero in New York. New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who represents the lower Manhattan district, joined Gov. David Paterson on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, in suggesting that Islamic leaders should move the proposed Islamic center and mosque farther from ground zero, saying the organizers should be more sensitive to opponents. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)AP - The chairwoman of the community board that voted for an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero said she believes adding an interfaith dimension would help unite people, saying a nondenominational chapel built at the Pentagon as part of a Sept. 11 memorial did just that.

NC farm produces emerald shaped into massive gem (AP)

This undated handout photo provided by gemologist C.R. 'Cap' Beesley shows the Carolina Emperor emerald mined by Terry Ledford and Renn Adams in Hiddenite, N.C., prior to any cutting. Gem experts say the emerald yielded at a North Carolina farm may be the biggest ever uncovered in North America. The 65-carat emerald nicknamed the Carolina Emperor was pulled from a farm in the rural community of Hiddenite, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Charlotte.(AP Photo/C.R. 'Cap' Beesley) ** NO SALES  **  (AP Photo/C.R. 'Cap' Beesley) NO SALESAP - An emerald so large it's being compared with the crown jewels of Russian empress Catherine the Great was pulled from a pit near corn rows at a North Carolina farm.