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6A – Daily News – Thursday, September 2, 2010 FURNITURE DEPOT MATTRESS Gunman dead, hostages free SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Police shot and killed a man upset with the Discovery Channel network’s programming who took two employees and a security officer hostage at the company’s headquarters Wednesday, officials said. All three hostages escaped safely. Police spent several hours negotiating with the MON.-THURS. 9:00-6:00 • FRI. 9:00-7:00 • SAT. 9:00-5:00 • SUN. 11:00-5:00 NORTH VALLEY MON.-FRI. 9:00-5:30 • SAT. 9:00 -5:00 • CLOSED SUNDAYS gunman, who was upset about the network’s pro- gramming, after he burst into the suburban Wash- ington building about 1 p.m. waving a handgun and with canisters strapped to his body. 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A law enforcement official speaking on con- dition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing said authori- ties had identified James J. Lee as the likely sus- pect. Earl bears down on East Coast NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the fore- cast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm’s predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populat- ed part of the country in harm’s way. Vacationers along North Carolina’s dangerously exposed Outer Banks took advantage of the typical pic- ture-perfect day just before a hurricane arrives to pack their cars and flee inland, cutting short their summer just before Labor Day weekend. 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WASHINGTON (AP) — Is the tea party the new Republican Party? The grass-roots network of fed- up conservative-libertarian displayed its power in its biggest triumph of the election year: the toppling of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s GOP primary. Political novice Joe Miller is the fifth tea party insur- gent to win a GOP Senate nominating contest, an upset that few, if any, saw coming. With the stunning out- come, the fledgling tea party coalition and voters who identify with its anti- tax, anti-spending senti- ments proved that democ- racy is alive and well — within the Republican Party. Don’t like who is representing you? Rise up, fire them and choose someone new. The tea party has taken hold in the Grand Old Party, unseating lawmak- ers, capturing nomina- tions for open seats and forcing Republicans to recalibrate both their campaign strategy and issues agenda. Out is talk of delivering federal dol- lars back home; in is talk of fiscal discipline. 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