Yahoo news headlines, 11.12 am eastern time
Top stories--Some dig in, others flee coast as Earl nears US (AP)
AP - Hurricane Earl blew toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as a major storm with winds of around 145 mph as forecasters tried to pinpoint exactly how close the strongest gales and heaviest surge would get to North Carolina's fragile chain of barrier islands.
--Unemployment claims drop for second straight week (AP)
--Gen. Petraeus calls relationship with Karzai sound (AP)
--Clinton opens new round of Mideast peace talks (AP)
--Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programming (AP)
--US officers take up posts at Paris airport (AP)
Buzz
--Pro-Abortion Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski Concedes to Pro-Life Joe Miller | 231 Votes
--Aircraft Vs. Wildfires [w/Pics] | 133 Votes
--The Most Blatant and Sexually Subliminal Commercials On TV | 155 Votes
--7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Red Sox Curse | 131 Votes
--Tiger Woods Buys World’s Most Expensive Shag Pad | 9 Votes
--Miranda Lambert Scoops Up A Record Nine CMA Noms | 46 Votes
Local news (Phoenix, AZ)
--Brewer, Goddard spar over immigration, state budget (The Arizona Republic)
--Sky Harbor lands new USO center (The Arizona Republic)
--Arizona State issues warning about bicyclist assaulting women on campus (KTVK 3TV Phoenix)
--Prosecutors hope video of murder will help get death penalty for cop killer (KTVK 3TV Phoenix)
--Dog Beat Dog: To Pull Off the Biggest Pit Bull Fighting Bust in U.S. History, Investigators and Their Dogs Went ... (Phoenix New Times)
--Montgomery Is Arpaio's Tool, Thomas Kisses the Mat, and More in This Primary Roundup (Phoenix New Times)
Entertainment
--Rapper T.I., wife arrested on drug charges (AP)
AP - Grammy-winning rapper T.I., who has a history of drug offenses and is on probation after spending time behind bars on gun charges, was arrested along with his wife after police smelled marijuana coming from their car, authorities said.
--Man in Letterman blackmail plot freed from NY jail (AP)
--Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programming (AP)
--PIC: Dirty Dancing Star Jennifer Grey Returns to the Dance Floor! (omg!)
--Hawking says God not needed for creation (AP)
--True stories invented: Tao Lin at work (AP)
Sports
--Big Ten splits up Michigan, Ohio State (AP)
--Roethlisberger ban likely to be reduced (AP)
--Azarenka collapses at Open, wheeled off (AP)
--Manny debuts, watches another winning HR (AP)
--Padres suffer seventh straight loss (AP)
--US easily wins first meeting with Iran (AP)
World news
--Gen. Petraeus calls relationship with Karzai sound (AP)
AP - The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the sometimes strained relationship between the US and Afghan President Hamid Karzai is solid.
--Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown (AP)
--Sudan's north-south faultline worries about war (AP)
--2 US troops, dozens of Afghan insurgents killed (AP)
--SAfrica to end amnesty for illegal Zimbabweans (AP)
--Tony Blair on Clinton, Bush and the American character (Time.com)
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