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• Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats. […]
• 1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well — even, quite possibly, on Craigslist. […]
• Attorney: JetBlue attendant in NYC flap resigned (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - A flight attendant who captured America's attention when he told off a plane full of passengers and then slid down an emergency chute resigned from his job last week and wasn't fired, his lawyer said Sunday. […]
• Greenest state behind the waste-to-energy race (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - Government officials from around the world used to come to this port city to catch a glimpse of the future: Two-story piles of trash would disappear into a furnace and eventually be transformed into electricity to power thousands of homes. […]
• Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship. […]
• Racial violence changes student — and school (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - Duong Nghe Ly can't wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well. […]
• Endangered or not, wolf killings set to expand (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota. […]
• 9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is. […]
• Army studies concussions' effects on bomb techs (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - Motivated by the deaths of two friends in war-zone explosions, 1st Lt. Timothy Dwyer decided to become a bomb hunter. […]
• Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 (AP) September 5, 2010
  AP - For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush. […]