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In this photo released by Paris Hilton on Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010, Los Angeles police detain a man, left, at the home of Paris Hilton in Los Angeles. The police say the man was arrested for allegedly trying to break into Paris Hilton's home. (AP Photo/Paris Hilton)
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents patrol on a speedboat near the California-Mexico border off the coast of San Diego in late July. The California-Mexico coastline has become a new frontier for illegal immigrants entering the United States. (Associated Press)
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An American Airlines Boeing 757 jet takes off from Miami International Airport in Miami on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Federal officials have hit the airline with a record penalty of $24.2 million over maintenance lapses that caused thousands of canceled flights in 2008. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Fishermen arrive on shore in the fishing village of Popotla, Mexico, some 15 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, on July 14, 2010. Gambling their lives, illegal immigrants increasingly are looking to the ocean, as they consider crossing overland even more arduous and more likely to end in getting caught. U.S. agents have arrested 753 suspected illegal immigrants on Southern California shores and seas since October. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigators remove evidence boxes from a home in London, Ontario, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. A resident of the house was taken into custody earlier this morning. Police have charged three suspects in what police and court documents say was a terrorism plot that ranged from Canada to Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai and Pakistan. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Dave Chidley)
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The owners have created a private double patio in the backyard. One section is covered with a trellis and foliage.
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This undated photograph provided by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance shows taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif in a hospital in New York. A drunken passenger riding in a New York City taxi cab attacked the driver after asking him if he was Muslim, police said. Mr. Sharif was treated for cuts to the throat, upper lip, forearm and thumb. (AP Photo/New York Taxi Workers Alliance)
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Michael Enright, right, confers with his attorney Jason Martin, during his arraignment in a New York City courtroom on charges that include attempted murder as a hate crime, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Mr. Enright is accused of slashing taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif with a hand tool on Tuesday, Aug. 24, after the driver said he was Muslim. (AP Photo/Steven Hirsch, Pool)
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An Iraqi girl wears bandages after being injured in a bombing in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, on Wednesday. The car bomb near a police station wounded 28 people. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Sarah Black collects eggs at Springfield Farm in Sparks, Md. The farm in northern Baltimore County gets about 1,400 eggs each day from its 2,000 laying chickens.
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Pakistani flood victims fight over relief supplies taken from a truck carrying goods for distribution in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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John David Thiry, a homeless man, has been arrested and is facing charges related to a wildfire that destroyed 11 houses in Ashland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jackson County [Ore.] Sheriff's Department)
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Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay speaks to media during a break at his pre-trial hearing at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Mr. DeLay will get his long-awaited trial on a money laundering indictment ahead of two co-defendants, who now face lesser charges, a judge said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Ricardo B. Brazziell)
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Ecuadorean soldiers patrol the town of Puerto Nuevo in Ecuador, made up primarily of Colombian refugees. Officials say the town is a haven for guerrillas fighting across the border in Colombia's civil war. (Kelly Hearn)
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TAKING THE FIFTH? Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, leaves the polling station Tuesday in Phoenix after casting his vote in the Arizona primary election in his bid for a fifth term.
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TAKING THE FIFTH? Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, leaves the polling station Tuesday in Phoenix after casting his vote in the Arizona primary election in his bid for a fifth term.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington Mystics' Crystal Langhorne (1) goes to the basket against Connecticut Sun's Asjha Jones, right, during the first half of an WNBA basketball game, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, in Washington. The Mystics won 84-74.
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A May 2010 police booking photo released by the Westchester County District Attorney's Office in White Plains, N.Y. shows Mary Richardson Kennedy. When she was arrested on Saturday, May 15, 2010 ,for drunken driving. Mrs. Kennedy has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs after being stopped for speeding Saturday Aug. 21, 2010, one month after her license was suspended. (AP Photo/Westchester County District Attorney's Office)
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FILE-This Sept. 18, 2006 file photo shows former Ohio State football star Maurice Clarett smiling after pleading guilty in Columbus, Ohio to aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon in a deal that will send him to prison for at least 3 1/2 years to end two criminal cases against him. Clarett is asking a judge to allow him to travel to try out with the Omaha Nighthawks football team of the United Football League. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato,File)
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In this July 30, 2010 photo, attorney Denise LaRue, right, and her client Brenda Chaney pose in her law office in Indianapolis. Chaney worked in a Plainfield, Ind., nursing home that issued her an assignment sheet including a daily reminder that one woman in her unit "Prefers No Black CNAs." Nursing home residents have the right to choose who's going to take care of them, except when those choices are based on color, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Chaney's case in July. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
