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• Sept. 5: Britain's Andy Murray trains at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Murray will play Rafael Nadal, of Spain, in the men's semi-finals.
• Sept. 5: Members of the media surround the car containing Casey Anthony after she was released on bail at the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Fla. She is charged with child abuse and making false statements to investigators.
• Sept. 5: Casey Anthony, mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony, is escorted out of the Orange County Jail by attorney Jose Baez after posting $5,000,000 bail for a second time in Orlando, Fla. She is charged with child abuse and making false statements to investigators.
• Sept. 5: Workers tie steel reinforcing bars in place prior to pouring a concrete floor at the Freedom Tower construction site at the World Trade Center site in New York. Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 will mark the seventh anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
• Sept. 5: Jenny, a Western Lowland Gorilla and the world's oldest captive gorilla, died at her home in the Dallas Zoo at 55 years old.
• Sept. 5: This surfer pays the price after he took advantage of Tropical Storm Hanna's waves this in Myrtle Beach, SC.
• Sept. 5: U.S. Olympic track and field medal winners Walter Dix, LaShawn Merritt, and Angelo Taylor listen to a Nike representative before the Olympians rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Selling swept across Wall Street for a second straight session on news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in August and at a faster-than-expected pace.
• Sept. 4: Members of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., stand outside the U.S. District Court in Washington following the sentencing of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Abramoff, the once powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption scandal, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday by a judge who said the case had shattered the public's confidence in government. The Saginaw Chippewa tribe was an Abramoff client.
• Sept. 4: Members of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., stand outside the U.S. District Court in Washington following the sentencing of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Abramoff, the once powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption scandal, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday by a judge who said the case had shattered the public's confidence in government. The Saginaw Chippewa tribe was an Abramoff client.
• Sept. 4: Vanderbilt players celebrate a 24-17 win over South Carolina Vanderbilt in an NCAA college football game in Nashville, Tenn.
• Sept.4: This Jan. 2008 file photo shows former Olympic champion Marion Jones leaving federal court in White Plains, N.Y., following her sentencing. Jones has been released from federal prison after completing her sentence for lying about her steroid use. She was released from a halfway house in San Antonio on Friday morning.
• Sept.4: In this photo released by the Chattanooga Fire Department, firefighter Kelly Liles administers oxygen to a cat suffering from smoke inhalation in Chattanooga, Tenn., after firefighters responding to a house fire Thursday morning found several cats inside. Investigators said the cause of the fire is believed to be accidental and probably caused by one of the cats knocking over an unattended candle in the kitchen. While most of the cats were successfully revived, one was not expected to survive.
• Sept. 4: People react to the CNN telecast of Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain on Times Square in New York. In a town hall-style speech, McCain accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination saying it was a privilege given few Americans.