An 18-year-old from Chicago was arrested during an undercover operation in which agents pretending to be extremists provided him with a phony car bomb that he intended to detonate outside a downtown bar, the U.S. District Attorney's office in Chicago said Saturday.

Adel Daoud of Chicago's Hillside suburb was arrested Friday night.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release Saturday the device was inert and the public was never at risk.

Daoud was charged in court Saturday with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to damage and destroy a building with an explosive.

Federal prosecutors say the FBI began monitoring him after he posted material online about "violent jihad" and the killing of Americans.

"About 7:15 p.m. yesterday, Daoud met the undercover agent in Villa Park and they drove to downtown Chicago," the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. "During the drive, Daoud led the undercover agent in a prayer that Daoud and the agent succeed in their attack, kill many people, and cause destruction. They entered a parking lot where a Jeep containing the purported explosive device was parked. Daoud then drove the Jeep out of the parking lot and parked the vehicle in front of a bar in downtown Chicago, which was the target that he had previously selected. According to the affidavit, Daoud exited the vehicle and walked to an alley approximately a block away, and in the presence of the undercover agent,attempted to detonate the device by pressing the triggering mechanism. He was then arrested."

A preliminary court hearing was set for Monday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Offshore wind turbines are seen in Germany's North Sea, along with a service platform that doubles as a transformer sending electricity to the mainland. Germany and Denmark are leaders in the offshore wind industry.

Placing wind turbines off the East Coast could meet the entire demand for electricity from Florida to Maine, according to engineering experts at Stanford University.

It would require 144,000 offshore turbines standing 270 feet tall — not one of which exists since proposals have stalled due to controversy and costs. But the analysis shows it's doable and where the best locations are, says study co-author Mark Jacobson, a Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering.

The team is not advocating for an "all wind" approach, saying it'd be foolish to put all of one's energy eggs in a single basket, but they do think it could reach up to 50 percent. Today the U.S. gets about 4 percent of its electricity from wind, but only via turbines on land.

The first large-scale offshore wind farm was proposed in 2001 off Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. But vocal opposition, including from political heavyweights like the Kennedy family, are seeking to block the $2.6 billion Cape Wind project, arguing the 130 massive turbines would mar views and endanger boat and air traffic.

"The question that I would first ask" critics, Jacobson told NBC News, "is would they rather have a coal or natural power gas plant in their neighborhood, which affects their health and that of their children as well as their quality of life and property values, or an innocuous turbine that they could barely see during those times when they were actually looking offshore."

For the analysis published in the journal Wind Energy, Jacobson's team created a computer model with 144,000 wind turbines that produce 5 megawatts of electricity each, similar to the turbines installed off Denmark and Germany. They then plugged in historical wind speed data to come up with estimates.

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Map shows site of proposed wind farm near Cape Cod.

They also favored places with lower hurricane risk, essentially excluding any area south of Virginia.

The best locations are "way out of sight" from coastlines, Jacobson said, and the worst-case scenarios would be distant views of turbines about the size of one's extended thumb.

"The only place with significant opposition to offshore wind that I am aware of has been in Nantucket," he added. "There are dozens of other proposals in the U.S. that have not faced nearly the same extent of opposition."

Cape Wind does have federal approval, as well as support from major national environmental groups, and hopes to begin building turbines next year. But opposition groups like Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound are still battling the project in court and before federal agencies.

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Cape Wind created this simulated photo to show what it says would be the view of its wind farm from Nantucket Island. The distance out to the turbines, seen as white dots on the horizon, is 13 miles.

A further limitation is cost. Cape Wind, for one, is still working on financing, and cheaper natural gas has taken some of the shine off wind, at least in investors' eyes. Moreover, installation offshore currently costs two to three times more than land-based turbines.

Jacobson's team says the new study will help locate the most economically feasible sites, particularly around New York and Boston when peak demand for electricity can send prices soaring.

"Connecting the power to the grid would be technically as easy as laying a cable in the sand and hooking it directly into the grid without the need to build often controversial transmission lines on the land," said Mike Dvorak, the principle author of the study.

He also noted that offshore wind has an advantage over land-based wind turbines.

"People mistakenly think that wind energy is not useful because output from most land-based turbines peaks in the late evening/early morning, when electricity demand is low," Dvorak said. "The real value of offshore wind energy is that it often peaks when we need the most electricity — during the middle of the day."

Besides reducing pollution and increasing domestic energy resources, wind has a key advantage over natural gas or coal, Jacobson notes. That's price stability.

"There's zero fuel costs once they're in the water," he said. "Coal and gas are depletable resources, so their cost will inevitably go up over time. The cost of wind energy will remain stable, and the wind resource is infinite."

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Connecticut’s governor has called for a disaster declaration for fishermen who catch groundfish such as cod and haddock, but some in the industry dismissed the chance of “free money” and complained about government-imposed quotas, NBCConnecticut.com reported.

The state says stocks of cod, haddock, and flounder have shrunk, and those that rely on those cold water fish for survival are in jeopardy.

Mike Gambardella, who distributes fish throughout the Northeast from a pier in Stonington,  said the fishermen were upset because the government puts quotas on how many fish they can catch.

“We're not interested in free money.  We want to work and earn our own money,” Gambardella said.

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But Dave Simpson, of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, said there just weren’t enough groundfish left in the water.

“In some cases, that may be related to climate change; global warming for winter flounder in particular,” Simpson said.

Governor Daniel Malloy has joined other New England governors in asking the Federal Commerce Secretary for a groundfish disaster declaration.

And, if Congress approves it, tens of millions of dollars could be sent to the region, some of it coming to Connecticut.

“Our small state has taken actually a disproportionately large cut probably because there is a greater effect of climate change,” said Simpson.

But it's not just those that catch groundfish that are affected.  As fisheries go after more abundant fish like sea bass and summer flounder, stocks of those fish will be depleted as well.

“There's concern among those in those fisheries that it's going to make their lives more difficult and be splitting the same dollars among a greater number of fishermen,” warned Simpson.

Gambardella said the government could hold onto its money, if it lifted regulations and allowed him to keep what he catches.

“There's plenty of fish out there.  We're throwing them overboard… We don't need free money.  We need the quota to be up to make us go catch fish,” said Gambardella.

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A tip from an auto body shop helped police locate and charge an 83-year-old woman with a hit-and-run crash that killed a 6-year-old boy in Illinois last weekend, NBCChicago.com reported.

Veramae C. Phillip, 83, of Woodstock, turned herself in on Thursday after authorities issued a warrant for her arrest and charged her with felony counts of leaving the scene of a fatal traffic crash and failure to report a fatal traffic crash.

She was released after paying $5,000 bail on a $50,000 bond, according to a statement from the McHenry County Sheriff's Office.

The boy was struck just after 9 p.m. Saturday in Seneca Township, between Woodstock and Marengo.

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The vehicle, allegedly driven by Phillip, did not stop.

Following a tip from a body shop, the sheriff’s department determined the boy was struck by a silver 2001 Chevrolet Malibu.

Alcohol or drugs are not suspected to have played a role in the crash, which remains under investigation by the Traffic Crash Investigation Unit and the McHenry County Coroner’s office.

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Updated at 3:20 p.m. ET: President Barack Obama on Saturday rejected any denigration of Islam, but insisted there was no excuse for attacks on U.S. embassies as angry protests over an obscure, anti-Muslim film spread to Australia.

"I have made it clear that the United States has a profound respect for people of all faiths," Obama said in his weekly radio address.

"Yet there is never any justification for violence .... There is no excuse for attacks on our embassies and consulates,” he added.

Anti-American protests have swept the Muslim world in response to the film, which insults the Prophet Muhammad.

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The death toll as a result of violence during protests in the Middle East and North Africa Friday rose from seven to nine with Tunisian officials saying four people -- rather than two as stated earlier -- died there. Three were killed by gunfire and the other died after being hit by two police cars, a senior hospital official told Reuters.

An attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others this week.

A day after Obama led a somber ceremony marking the return of the bodies of the Americans killed in Libya, Obama acknowledged that a surge of anti-American violence in the Middle East is disturbing.

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The Pentagon had said it was sending Marines to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan, following similar reinforcements to Libya and Yemen. But on Saturday, Sudan rejected the U.S. request to send a platoon the embassy in Khartoum.

"Sudan is able to protect the diplomatic missions in Khartoum and the state is committed to protecting its guests in the diplomatic corps," Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti told SUNA, the state news agency.

Protesters on Friday entered the embassy grounds.

The Libyan attack and theU.S.-directed outrage have raised questions about Obama's handling of the so-called Arab Spring, a series of revolutions that have unseated entrenched authoritarian governments.

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The turbulence in the Middle East has had ripples in a tight U.S. presidential election, with Obama's Republican challenger Mitt Romney saying Obama has weakened U.S. authority around the world.

However, Obama repeated a vow to bring the attackers of the U.S. Consulate in Libya to justice. "We will not waver in their pursuit," he said.

The president also said the turmoil should not deter U.S. efforts to support democracy in the region or elsewhere.

"Let us never forget that for every angry mob, there are millions who yearn for the freedom, and dignity, and hope that our flag represents," he said.

The protests over the anti-Islam film, "Innocence of Muslims," continued Saturday, spreading to Australia where authorities seemed taken by surprise as more than 400 demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Consulate in Sydney.

Some of the chanting protesters carried placards reading "Behead all those who insult the Prophet."

Several streets, usually thronging with weekend shoppers, were blocked off by police as the protest grew. Police, many wearing anti-riot equipment and some on horseback, used dogs and chemical sprays as they tried to control the protest.

Reuters Television pictures showed one policeman with a head injury being led away by colleagues. Police later said six officers had been injured and eight protesters arrested. A spokesman for paramedics said there were no serious injuries. 

A Muslim leader addressed the protesters in a park, calling for calm.

In Egypt, the interior minister said he would restore calm after a 35-year-old protester was killed and dozens of people were injured in clashes overnight.

The authorities closed the street leading to the U.S. Embassy where the demonstrators had spent four days throwing rocks and petrol bombs at police.

A Reuters reporter saw police push several young men into trucks. Two of the men looked bruised and one was stripped down to his underwear.

Police formed cordons on roads into Tahrir Square near the U.S. mission and plain-clothes officers wielding sticks frisked passers-by. The square, the focus of last year's popular uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak, was strewn with garbage and a torched vehicle was towed away.

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An injured protester is detained by a policeman in Sydney's Hyde Park, Saturday.

"Our presence here is to clear the square of people who are breaking the law," Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal el-Din said as he inspected the area. "We must preserve the square as a symbol of the revolution. That is the aim of our operation."

He said measures would be taken to ensure "those breaking the law" do not return.

The protesters said they wanted to expel the U.S. ambassador to punish Washington over the low-budget film. It portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer and religious fake. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called the film "disgusting and reprehensible."

Egypt's state news agency said 27 people were injured on Friday, which suggests more than 250 people have been hurt in the clashes since Tuesday, when protesters climbed the embassy's walls and tore down an American flag.

President Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist and Egypt's first freely elected leader, has to strike a delicate balance, fulfilling a pledge to protect the embassy of a major aid donor while delivering a robust line against the film to satisfy his Islamist backers.

In Sinai, militants attacked an international observer base close to the borders of Israel and Gaza, a witness and a security source said. Two Colombian soldiers were wounded, an official from the observer force said.

Many Muslims regard any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous. The film has provoked outrage across the Middle East and led to the storming of several U.S. missions in the region.

In Libya, authorities said they had made four arrests in the investigation into the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Morsi has condemned the film, rejected violence and promised to protect diplomatic missions. His cabinet said Washington was not to blame for the film but urged the United States to take legal action against those insulting religion.

The United States has a large embassy in Cairo, partly because of a vast aid program that began after Egypt signed a peace deal with Israel in 1979. Washington gives $1.3 billion in aid a year to Egypt's army plus additional funds for government.

In Yemen, al Qaida urged Muslims on Saturday to step up protests and kill U.S. diplomats in Muslim countries and called the film denigrating Muhammad another chapter in the "crusader wars" against Islam.

"Whoever comes across America's ambassadors or emissaries should follow the example of Omar al-Mukhtar's descendants (Libyans), who killed the American ambassador," Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said.

"Let the step of kicking out the embassies be a step towards liberating Muslim countries from the American hegemony," it said in a statement posted on a website.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Updated at 10 a.m. ET: A man purported to be a filmmaker involved with the anti-Islam video sparking violent unrest in the Middle East and North Africa was escorted by deputies from his Cerritos, Calif., home shortly after midnight Saturday morning, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.

Media and law enforcement had been staking out the home at the end of a cul de sac in the Southern California city for about 48 hours when Nakoula Besseley Nakoula emerged wearing a coat, hat, scarf and glasses.

L.A. County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore confirmed to NBCLA that Nakoula, 55, was taken to the Cerritos sheriff’s station for interviewing by federal probation officers aimed at determining whether he violated the terms of his 5-year probation by uploading a video to the Internet.

"We are in an assist mode," he said.

Whitmore added that Nakoula, who has denied involvement in the film in a phone call to his Coptic Christian bishop, agreed to the interview prior to the deputies arriving at his home, that the move was "entirely voluntary" and the man was "very cooperative."

Deputies pulled up to the home around midnight, according to witnesses. The group left the home through the side gate because the front door was not working, Whitmore said. NBCLA went to the home earlier this week and saw the front door was missing a knob.

International protesters have cited the 15-minute video posted on the Internet called "The Innocence of Muslims" as a catalyst for their demonstrations in countries such as Libya, Tunisia and Egypt.

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They say the piece is insulting to their religion as it depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a child molester and a thug. In Islam, all images of Muhammad are prohibited, let alone negative ones.

Nakoula has told the Associated Press he was not the director on the film, but rather a logistics manager. The film's mystery producer has been said to go by the pseudonym Sam Bacile.

A telephone number said to belong to Bacile, given to Reuters by U.S.-based Coptic Christian activist Morris Sadek who said he had promoted the film, was later traced back to a person who shares the Nakoula residence. 

Nakoula reportedly requested deputies step up patrols around his home Wednesday after media descended on the area. At the time, Whitmore told reporters there had been no disturbance or crime.

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Early reports suggested the film prompted the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that killed 14 people, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, two former Navy SEALS who were providing security for Stevens, and information management officer Sean Smith.

But U.S. officials are also probing the possibility that Wednesday’s attack was planned and timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

A federal grand jury indictment in February 2009 charged Nakoula in an alleged bank fraud conspiracy. The indictment accused him and others of fraudulently obtaining the identities and Social Security numbers of bank customers at Wells Fargo and withdrawing $860 from bank branches in Cerritos, Artesia and Norwalk.

Nakoula pleaded no contest in 2010 and was ordered to pay more than $790,000 in restitution. He was also sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, but was released early. The terms of his parole included being barred from assuming aliases and using computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation officer. 

Many records in the case remain sealed, but prosecutors sought a longer prison term and noted that he misused some of his own relatives' identities to open 600 fraudulent credit accounts.

Los Angeles County District Attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons confirmed that Nakoula also served a year in jail after pleading guilty to possession of meth with the intent to manufacture in 1997.

U.S. officials have said authorities were not investigating the film project itself, and that even if it was inflammatory or led to violence, simply producing it cannot be considered a crime in the United States, which has strong free speech laws. 

It could be difficult to establish a probation violation case against Nakoula. In the federal court system, the conditions of supervised release are geared toward the offense for which a defendant was found guilty and imprisoned.

In Nakoula's case, the offense was bank fraud. His no contest plea was to charges of setting up fraudulent bank accounts using stolen identities and Social Security numbers, depositing checks from those accounts into other phony accounts and then withdrawing the illicit funds from ATM machines.

While it was unclear what might have provoked authorities' interest, the filmmaker's use of a false identity and his access to the Internet through computers could be at issue, according to experts in cyber law and the federal probation system. Nakoula, who told the AP that he was logistics manager for the film, was under requirements to provide authorities with records of all his bank and business accounts. 

There are indications that "Innocence of Muslims" may have already been under way as a film project when Nakoula was arrested. A casting call for actors and crew for a film called "Desert Warrior" ran in Backstage magazine, based in Los Angeles and New York, in May and June 2009. The casting call described the film project as a "historical Arabian Desert adventure" and listed a "Sam Bassiel" as producer.

One notice identified "Pharaoh Voice Inc."as the film's production company. California state records show Pharaoh Voice was incorporated in September 2007 by a "Youssef M. Basseley." The principal address for Pharaoh Voice in Hawaiian Gardens, a southern California community, is the same location where Nakoula lived until 2008, according to state records.

During an interview with AP, Nakoula denied that he was Sam Bacile, but acknowledged knowing him. 

Stan Goldman, a Loyola Law School professor, said whether Nakoula is sent back to jail over potential probation violations linked to the film, such as accessing the Internet, was a subjective decision up to an individual judge.

"Federal judges are gods in their own courtrooms, it varies so much in who they are," he said, noting such a move would be based on his conduct not on the content of the film. 

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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For nearly five years, Lillian Cuevas and her mother Margarita Goedeke have been handing out fliers, looking for answers, NBCMiami.com reported. "We're never going to stop until we get justice for him," Lillian Cuevas said.

They keep her brother and Margarita's son Franco Cuevas close to their heart after he was murdered in Florida in November 2007. First, it was a missing persons case. A year later, parts of his body were found in Palm Beach Gardens in a metal box.

"Half of me died with him and it's been like that every single day,” his mother Margarita Goedeke said. “Just awful to think of what happened to him, what they did to him."

Detectives and his family believe Cuevas was killed at a kitchen supply business he owned, Pyro Industries, in Pompano Beach.

"He was a good boss. He was a good man,” Lillian Cuevas said. “He had a lot of workers he went above and beyond for."

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Now, that side of the building sits empty and unused.

"For us to know his phone was last pinged here and for us to know the history and the problems he was having … we know that the people who worked here know something, and we want them to be brave enough and kind enough to call in Crime Stoppers," Cuevas said.

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Detectives executed a search warrant at Pyro Industries after his body was identified. A week later, his business partner left and hasn't been heard from since.

The Cuevas family isn't giving up hope. They make the drive often to Broward from Collier County where they live to find justice for their son, brother, and a father of four.

In addition to the $1,000 reward offered by Crime Stoppers, the Cuevas family is offering $19,000 for information that leads to an arrest. If you know anything, call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.

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The widow of the pilot of United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, died of heart failure caused by accidental alcohol and drug overdose, according to an autopsy released Friday.

Sandy Dahl, the wife of Captain Jason Dahl, died in May, at the age of 52 near Denver. The autopsy report from the Jefferson County Coroner's office in Colorado said alcohol, painkillers, anti-depression drugs and anti-anxiety drugs were found in her system, The Denver Post reported. The coroner's office found that Dahl's death was "consistent with the combined impact of alcohol and multiple drug toxicity," according to the Post.

The report also listed an abnormal heart condition as a possible contributor to her death, Denver's NBC-affiliate KUSA reported.

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Dahl, a former United flight attendant, founded the Captain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund to provide scholarships for students wanting to attend commercial flight training school. Dahl also became a public face for 9/11 families.

On Sept. 11, 2001, United Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field after being taken over by terrorists. Evidence suggests that crewmembers and passengers on Flight 93 fought back, which was believed to be headed for the U.S. Capitol.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. –  Police used a robot and a bomb-sniffing dog to search a man’s car for possible explosives after he walked into a Kansas City federal building on Friday afternoon and told authorities he was a terrorist, the Kansas City Star reported.

The suspect was in police custody, according to KSHB-TV, an NBC News affiliate.

The suspect created a disturbance inside the Fletcher Daniels State Office Building by yelling: “Why am I on the terrorist watch list?” the Star reported.

Police ordered members of the bomb and arson squad to investigate the man’s vehicle, located in the building's parking lot, KSHB-TV reported.

A bomb and arson robot opened the trunk of the vehicle and removed a green tarp and spare tire. Around 3 p.m. ET, the robot started working on opening the driver's side door. Police found a gun in the car, and the man told authorities he had fertilizer in the trunk of his vehicle, the Star reported.

Authorities evacuated the federal building, dismissed workers for the day, and closed down nearby roads, according to KSHB-TV.

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"While the individual was detained and is being questioned, there is no public safety concern and we determined no personnel inside the federal building were in harm's way," said Bridget Patton, public affairs specialist for the FBI in Kansas City, in a statement.

The Richard Bolling Federal Building was also closed for the day for precautionary reasons, according to authorities. Earlier, children in the day care center at the federal building were evacuated to a preapproved off-site location.

Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration issued a temporary flight restriction for downtown Kansas City.

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Surveillance photos provided by the FBI's St. Louis office show a serial bank robber dubbed the Bucket List Bandit on, from left, June 21, June 27 and July 6. Michael Eugene Brewster, 54, was arrested Thursday night after a traffic stop in Roland, Okla., the FBI said.

A suspect in a series of bank robberies that earned the perpetrator the nickname "Bucket List Bandit" is under arrest after a routine traffic stop by Roland, Okla., police, the FBI announced Friday.

Michael Eugene Brewster, 54, of Pensacola, Fla., was arrested Thursday, police said. Brewster is wanted in at least 10 bank robberies from Flagstaff, Ariz., to Erie, Pa., where a teller picked out his photo from a lineup after a Monday heist, the FBI said.

The suspect earned the nickname "Bucket List Bandit" after he allegedly passed a Roy, Utah, bankteller a note on July 6 saying he had only four months to live, the FBI said.

Roland Assistant Police Chief David Goode told NBC News he arrested Brewster after he ran a stop sign Thursday night in the town of about 3,000 just west of Fort Smith, Ark.

“Subsequent to the stop, red flags were raised,” Goode said.

He said he could not go into too many specifics.

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“I placed him under arrest unrelated to the bank robbery,” Goode said.

Brewster was driving a car reported stolen from Pensacola, Goode said. “That was just another charge,” he said.

After Brewster was taken into custody, police learned Brewster “could have been possibly involved in more serious crimes,” Goode said.

The FBI told The Associated Press that besides Flagstaff, Roy and Erie, Brewster was wanted in connection with robberies in Pocatello, Idaho; Winston-Salem, N.C.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Bloomington, Ill.; Columbia and O'Fallon, Mo., and Arvada, Colo., the Denver suburb where his alleged crime spree began.

The agency had issued a nationwide appeal for the public’s help in finding the serial bank robbery suspect.

After the Erie robbery, a confidential informant called to give agents Brewster's name and birth date after recognizing his picture in media accounts, the FBI told the AP. A federal warrant doesn't say how the person knew that information.

Investigators haven't said whether they've confirmed if Brewster is terminally ill.

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The federal warrant doesn't identify Brewster’s hometown, but indicates he's wanted for borrowing a black Chevy Captiva from a woman in Pensacola on June 11 and not returning it. The vehicle was similar to one described by witnesses at several of the robberies.

No one has been hurt in any of the robberies and officials aren't saying how much money was taken, except for $4,080 from the Erie bank, which was disclosed in the FBI arrest warrant.

This article includes reporting by NBC's Jim Gold and The Associated Press.

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A 12-year-old northeast Kansas boy is being held on rape charges in Brown County, authorities say.

Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill said Friday the Hiawatha boy was charged in county District Court last week on two counts of rape and two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy. Hiawatha is the county seat of Brown County, which has a population of about 10,000.

Hill told NBC News the crimes occurred in the last 60 days. He said the victim is a 5-year-old girl.

"At this time I have no further comment on the case," Hill told NBC News. He would not say where the boy was being held until his Oct. 9 hearing.

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The bodies of four Americans killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, earlier in the week were returned to the United States and honored in a somber ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Friday.

President Barack Obama arrived shortly before the transfer ceremony honoring the victims — U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and security personnel Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

Marines carried flag-draped coffins bearing the remains of the four across the tarmac and placed them before a gathering of family, friends, White House officials and high-level State Department personnel. In total, 800 to 1,000 were in attendance, an Air Force official said.

After a moment of silence and a prayer, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton eulogized each of the victims.

"We owe it to those four men to continue the long, hard work of diplomacy," Clinton said.

"May God bless them, and grant their families peace and solace, and may God continue to bless the United States of America," Clinton said, before making way for comments by Obama.

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The president said the men embodied and lived "the American ideal," embracing what he called "the fundamental American belief that we can leave this world a little better than before."

In honoring the fallen Americans, he also made a case for continued diplomatic and aid commitments to allies in the Middle East.

"Even as voices of suspicion and mistrust seek to divide countries and cultures from one another, the United States of America will never retreat from the world. We will never stop working for the dignity and freedom that every person deserves. ... That's the spirit that sets us apart from other nations. That was their work in Benghazi and this is the work we will carry on."

After the national anthem and a prayer, "America the Beautiful" was played as the caskets were loaded into waiting hearses, which then departed.

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A Washington state jailer whose wife discovered through Facebook that he had married a second woman has pleaded guilty to attempted bigamy.

Alan O'Neill, 42, of Graham, was charged in March after his first wife learned of his second wife through a Facebook "people you may know" notification and alerted authorities.

The second woman's profile photo showed her with O'Neill, dressed up and standing near a wedding cake, The Tacoma News Tribune reported Friday.

O'Neill, who was accompanied to court Thursday by the second woman, told Superior Court Judge Beverly Grant he never meant to commit a crime.

"I've never done anything intentionally wrong in my life," he said.

O'Neill was spared jail time but will be on probation for a year. The charge is a gross misdemeanor.

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He has annulled his second marriage and is divorcing his first wife.

O’Neill married his first wife in 2001, when he was known as Alan Fulk, The News Tribune reported in March. The couple split up eight years later, but the pair never divorced, the newspaper reported. Last December, he reportedly petitioned to have his name changed to O’Neill before marrying his second wife.

O'Neill's first wife seems to have forgiven him. She wrote a letter of support, saying that the media coverage has been enough punishment.

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"He just made a bad decision that hurt a few people's feelings and (brought) embarrassment to himself," she wrote.

O'Neill's lawyer, Philip Thornton, told the judge his client tried to get a divorce from his first wife before he married the second one. O'Neill trusted a neighbor to process his divorce through Lincoln County, but the neighbor didn't file the paperwork, Thornton said.

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"Mr. O'Neill failed to follow through on that," Thornton said. "He is extremely embarrassed and remorseful."

O'Neill's future as a Pierce County corrections officer remains in question.

He is on unpaid leave. Sheriff Paul Pastor, who oversees the jail, will evaluate the results of an internal affairs investigation before deciding whether to allow O'Neill, on the job for five years, to come back to work, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.

This article includes reporting by The Associated Press.

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In this file photo, a portion of the 405 freeway is vacant of cars in Los Angeles, Calif., during a weekend closure dubbed "Carmageddon," on July 16, 2011.

As officials in Los Angeles get ready for another weekend closure of a section of the famously-crowded 405 freeway in late September, they're doing things a little differently this time around.

Los Angeles residents were bombarded with urgent warnings last summer, when a heavily-traveled part of Interstate 405 was closed down for weekend construction. "The 405" is the nation's busiest freeway. Southern Californians largely heeded the recommendations to stay off the 10-mile stretch for the 53-hour closure, and "Carmageddon" never lived up to its name.

Later this month, Los Angeles is bracing for another closure of the 405, between Interstate 10 and U.S. 101, on the weekend of Sept. 29. It's already being dubbed "Carmageddon II," but officials are not depending on scare tactics alone this time, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"We realized that you couldn't do what we did the first time the second time quite the same way," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said, according to the Times. "(Researchers) said this time around you can't scare people away from the area, it's better to encourage them to stay home ... That's why we're encouraging you to stay local, shop, eat, walk in your neighborhood."

While  things went relatively smoothly in last summer's closure, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority worries about complacency and says risk factors are exactly the same this time, spokesman Dave Sotero told NBC News. "Our concern is that the public will think that this will be a cakewalk," he said.

That's why officials are still getting the word out via advertising campaigns and news conferences to encourage "Angelenos" to enjoy a car-free weekend.

If drivers ignore the warnings and still hit the road, a worst-case scenario would result in extreme congestion and multi-hour delays, Sotero said. On a typical weekend, half a million drivers use the 10-mile portion of I-405. The goal, according to Sotero, is to get at least two-thirds of the traffic off roads for the closure.

"Now we did this last year and Angelenos heeded our call to stay out of their cars. In fact they did such a great job that afterward we called it Carmaheaven," Villaraigosa said at a news conference Tuesday, according to the LA Times.

Businesses across the city are offering incentives and discounts for people to stay close to home.

"You don’t have to kill the economy on Carmageddon weekend, but you can explore your neighborhood by foot , or ride a bike or use public transit," Sotero said.

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Closures will begin on the evening of Friday, Sept. 28 and the freeway closure is expected to continue until the morning of Monday, Oct. 1.

The closure is part of a $1 billion construction project, where contractors will complete demolition work of the Mulholland Bridge in order to widen the 405 freeway in LA. Sections of northbound 405 will be closed this weekend for 10 hours as crews prepare for the final demolition phase, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.

NBCLosAngeles.com's Jonathan Lloyd and John Cadiz Klemack, as well as The Associated Press, contributed to this story.

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Thousands of volunteers were taking to West Coast beaches on Saturday for the 27th annual "Coastal Cleanup", and this year they have new instructions: keep an eye out for any Japanese tsunami debris.

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This flyer is being handed out Saturday along West Coast beaches.

"DO NOT touch or attempt to remove any potentially hazardous materials or large debris items," states a field guide prepared by Ocean Conservancy, which organizes the annual, and international, beach event. 

Instead, volunteers are urged to call 911 if it's an immediate danger, or the federal tsunami removal program by e-mailing information to disasterdebris@noaa.gov. 

The group also hopes to total up any tsunami debris found, marking those "in the 'Items of Local Concern' section — so we can compare data collected this year to historical numbers," Katie Cline, a spokeswoman for Ocean Conservancy, told NBC News. "Will we see a difference in the type of debris found? This is a question we hope to determine using the data."

Already this year, several large items from Japan's 2011 tsunami have landed on West Coast beaches — among them a boat found on Canada's Spring Island, northwest of Vancouver Island, in August; a 66-foot-long floating dock that washed onto an Oregon beach in June; and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle found on Canada's Graham Island in April. 

Japan estimates 5 million tons of debris was swept out to sea by the tsunami, and about 1.5 million tons of that is likely still in the Pacific Ocean.

Even without tsunami debris, cleanup volunteers are likely to be busy on Saturday.

Last year, nearly 600,000 people picked up more than 9 million pounds of trash during the cleanup held on 20,000 miles of beaches around the world, Ocean Conservancy said.

"We need more volunteers than ever," David Pittenger, who runs the group's trash program, said in a statement announcing this year's effort. "Last year, volunteers found enough food packaging to get takeout for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day for the next 858 years."

Other items disposed of last year included 267,000 articles of clothing and more than 24,000 light bulbs, the conservation group noted.

One community that already knows what it will be cleaning up Saturday is Encinitas, Calif., where decades-old vehicle parts and other junk were recently found in the water of a protected lagoon, NBCSanDiego.com reported.

To see where cleanups are being held Saturday around the world, check out the interactive map created by Ocean Conservancy at signuptocleanup.org. 

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The trial of the former Washington state police officer in Dekalb County, Ill., is believed to be one of the oldest cold case murder prosecutions in U.S. history.

McCullough now faces life in prison when he is sentenced later this year.

His half-sister, Janet Tessier, said she was elated he was found guilty.

“He’s an evil son of a bitch, and he’s right where he’s supposed to be,” Tessier told the Chicago Sun-Times, who testified that McCullough’s guilt-ridden mother admitted on her deathbed that she knew her son was involved.

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Jack McCullough, of Seattle, is seen in a mug shot taken July 28, 2011.

In 1957, the case unsettled parents across the nation, and even then-President Dwight Eisenhower asked to be kept up to date.

Prosecutors said McCullough kidnapped Ridulph while she played with a friend, Kathy Chapman, near their homes in Sycamore, Ill., about 60 miles west of Chicago.

When the incident happened, Chapman told police that she and Ridulph were approached by a man in his early 20s wearing a multi-colored sweater who identified himself as “Johnny,” according to court documents. Later, Chapman said she went inside her home to get mittens and when she returned, Ridulph and “Johnny” were gone.

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McCullough was 17 at the time of the killing and lived a few blocks away from the Ridulph family. He denied any involvement in the case.

A massive search to find Ridulph was launched by the FBI and in April 1958, investigators found the girl’s skeletal remains in a forest some 120 miles away from her home.  

McCullough, who then went by John Tessier, was on an early list of suspects in 1957, but he claimed that on the day Ridulph was kidnapped, he had traveled to Chicago to get a medical exam before enlisting in the Air Force.

The FBI said the case went cold after McCullough joined the military and legally changed his name to Jack Daniel McCullough.

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Investigators reopened the case a few years ago after McCullough’s former girlfriend told them she found his unused train ticket from Rockford to Chicago on the day Ridulph vanished. He was arrested on July 1, 2011 at a his home in Washington state where he worked as a security guard. A judge set his bail at $3 million and police kept him in custody until he would return to Illinois to be prosecuted.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A postal employee was arrested in Orlando, Fla., on charges he was delivering cocaine while on his mail route, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Robert Hunt Jr., 24, was arrested Thursday following an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service that began last week.

According to the Sentinel, inspectors at an Orlando processing and distribution center found four parcels suspected of containing drugs.

Three of the parcels did not have a specific apartment number, only street addresses. A narcotics K-9 alerted investigators the packages contained drugs, the newspaper reported, adding that the cocaine had been shipped from Puerto Rico to Orlando.

On Sept. 7, authorities watched Hunt as he drove on his carrier route to an apartment complex in Orlando, where he began delivering mail to the boxes.

A car pulled up, and Hunt took the four packages to the men inside, Hector Roman-Diaz and Ernesto Rodriguez-Jimenez. According to the newspaper, he was then handed $800 by Rodriguez-Jimenez.

All three men were arrested and remain jailed.

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This satellite-based image shows Super Typhoon Sanba in the Philippine Sea on Thursday.

A storm packing 145 mph winds was bearing down on the southern end of Japan's Okinawa Island, where locals and U.S. military personnel were quickly stocking up and battening down. 

Typhoon Sanba had winds equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane. (Named storms west of the international dateline in the Northwest Pacific Ocean are called typhoons, not hurricanes.)

Earlier Friday, Sanba's winds had reached 178 mph, making it a "super typhoon" in the jargon of meteorologists. That was the equivalent of a top-rated Category 5 hurricane.

After swiping southern Okinawa this weekend, Sanba is projected to make landfall in South Korea with winds still around 100 mph.

"The center will pass close to Okinawa this weekend and then Sanba, in a less-intense but still potent state, is expected to reach South Korea Sunday night or Monday," weather.com reported.

On Okinawa, the Stars and Stripes news website for U.S. military personnel was reporting that military commissaries were packed with people buying food and emergency supplies.

"We’re already seeing/feeling Super Typhoon Sanba’s most outer bands," the report stated. "If it’s sitting outside the garage, put it inside. If the garage door is still open, shut it. If the trampoline is still up, take it down."

Kadena Air Base, with 18,000 servicemen, is the U.S. facility closest to Sanba and should see winds around 60 mph.

Up to a foot of rain was forecast for the area and satellite data shows that some of Sanba's bands were dumping 3 inches of rain an hour, NASA said in a statement.

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Some 80,000 U.S. citizens are on Okinawa, nearly 30,000 of them U.S. military personnel. Okinawa's total population is some 1.3 million people. 

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The family of a 77-year-old woman dragged from her car during a traffic stop by police in Texas says a formal apology and anger-management training for the officer is needed to make things right, NBCDFW.com reported.

Lynn Bedford's videotaped arrest has gone viral, sparking opinions across the country. The video shows Sgt. Gene Geheb pulling Bedford, of Cleburne, from her sports utility vehicle after she did not hand over her license and refused to get out of the vehicle.

Her granddaughter, Aubrey McQue, sought the video from Keene police and made it public.

"There was 19 seconds from when he first initially asked her for her driver's license to when he laid his hands on her -- 19 seconds," she said.

The video shows that the officer requested Bedford's license four times before telling her that he would take her to jail if she did not give it to him.

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After Bedford told him, "Well, go ahead," he opened her car door, grabbed her arm and asked her to step out of the vehicle 10 times. He pulled her from the vehicle after she said, "I will not."

McQue said the officer's use of force was excessive.

"The video does speak for itself," she said. "Not once did she refuse to give her driver's license to him. She said, 'I'll give it to you in a minute,' and no patience was afforded to her. He controlled the entire situation, and he made it go in the direction it did. He let it escalate; he controlled that."

The officer said he stopped Bedford after he clocked her going 66 mph in a 50-mph zone. The family is not disputing the speeding citation but is fighting the charge of failure to present a driver's license.

McQue said her grandmother was speeding because she had a bladder infection and needed to get to a bathroom. The road her grandmother was on did not have a public bathroom in sight, she said.

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McQue said manners and common sense on the part of the officer would have resulted in a different outcome.

"I know from experience from senior citizens and elderly people that they don't have to move faster," she said. "They take a more leisurely pace to do things, and that's the respect afforded them because they've lived so long."

Keene city administrator Bill Guinn, who has known the family for 30 years, said he called after hearing about the incident and offered to arrange a sit-down meeting with the police department.

The Bedfords have declined. The family retained an attorney but said they don't plan a lawsuit at this time.

"I feel badly for what happened, but that's the way it happened," Guinn said. "It's not the way we want anyone to feel about Keene or to see Keene. Keene is a great town, but there are these things that happen."

Sleepless and tearful
Bedford's family said this has never happened to her before. Since the video became public, her home phone constantly rings, and she hasn't slept. The family said Bedford is embarrassed, feeling like her life has been reduced to a video and Internet opinion polls about her as a person.

McQue said she was speaking on Bedford's behalf because her grandmother can't talk about the incident without crying.

"An apology would be nice, because she really is embarrassed by this -- that people think that she's a criminal. She's not a criminal," she said.

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Keene residents said they have noticed that Bedford's arrest is getting national attention.

"I have people call me from Chicago, one from Michigan, so I'm getting phone calls from people wanting to know what's going on in Keene," Dan Roberts said.

He said that everyone in town has their own opinion.

"I watched the video, and I think she was wrong," Roberts said. "She should've handed over her driver's license and ID, and it would've been all over."

But Rachel Jessup disagreed.

"More are siding with her because she's a 77-year-old lady," she said. "People feel bad for her."

"He's a cop," she said. "You expect police officers to be rational and handle situations in a more mature way."

NBC 5's Amanda Guerra contributed to this report.

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Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, are installing cameras...to watch their cameras.

Six speed cameras in Maryland have been vandalized since April, WTOP reported.

The cameras cost $30,000 to $100,000 to replace, so police have started installing surveillance cameras designed to catch vandals in the act.

A dozen of the new cameras will be in place by the end of the month, WTOP reported.

Police call it a matter of public safety, not an attempt to generate profit.

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People stand in front of the closed Pathmark supermarket Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in Old Bridge, N.J., where employees, Cristina LoBrutto, 18, and Bryan Breen, 24, were shot and killed during the overnight shift Friday by co-worker Terence Tyler who committed suicide at the store.

Employees at a New Jersey supermarket hid in storage spaces, snuck out through back exits and ran through parking lots as they begged 911 dispatchers to hurry and send help when a co-worker started shooting at them.

"I don't want to die, please," a woman hiding in a back room softly told a 911 dispatcher.

The calls from the Aug. 31 shooting at the Pathmark in Old Bridge were released Thursday. They paint a scene of chaos and fear — a woman whispering and breathing heavily, others in the store afraid the gunman might sneak up on them.

"Guy with a shotgun," one man, apparently winded from running into a nearby parking lot, told a dispatcher. "He's blowing the place apart."

Authorities say employee Terence Tyler, a former Marine, shot two co-workers and then killed himself. Cristina LoBrutto, 18, and Bryan Breen, 24, each died of a single gunshot wound. Both were Old Bridge residents.

Investigators determined that Tyler shot Breen and LoBrutto with an assault rifle then turned a handgun on himself. Family members said Tyler, 23, who also lived in Old Bridge, was discharged from the Marines after suffering from depression and had never gotten over his mother's death.

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People on the calls identified the shooter as an ex-Marine named Terence who started working at the store two weeks earlier. No one knew his last name.

One caller said Tyler was wearing "riot gear" and started shooting as he approached the store from the parking lot. The shooting started around 4 a.m.

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Middlesex County prosecutor Bruce Kaplan inspects the scene of a shooting at a Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, N.J., Friday, Aug. 31.

'He seemed very angry tonight'
One co-worker said Tyler seemed angry while working the overnight shift.

"He seemed very angry tonight. He didn't say anything to me. He walked right past me," an employee told a dispatcher.

The employee said he did not know if Tyler had gotten in an argument with someone that night. The man said Tyler walked out of the store.

"Where did Terence go?" the man said he asked his friend. "We just thought he quit. Like he walked out. All of a sudden we started hearing shots."

Some callers didn't see Tyler but hid when they heard gunshots or ran when another employee yelled for them to run.

One man said he ran outside but came back in the store and hid in a back room. He exited the store while on the phone with a dispatcher and held his hands up as he walked around the store.

A woman said she heard about 20 shots fired while hiding in a storage room at the end of aisle four. She heard more on the phone.

"He just shot again," she told a dispatcher. "He just had two more shots."

Another woman hiding in the store worried that the gunman would discover she was there.

"He can find me," she said. "He can find me."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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