State

• Airline industry woes threaten O'Hare expansion

National

• Bus accident in Texas kills 15 on a pilgrimage

• DA: Mo. city council gunman would've killed more

• Edwards admits to affair he denied as candidate

• Pilots complain airlines restrict fuel to cut cost

  • Pilots' reports on low fuel

• Fair food: Bacon makes everything better - even chocolate?

International

• Georgia reports new air attacks at military bases

  • US tells Russia to halt attacks in South Ossetia

  • US has political, economic stake in far-flung spat

• Relative of US Olympic coach killed in Beijing

• Bush soaks up Olympic spirit

  • US first lady Bush tours Beijing's Forbidden City

• Afghan official says 20 militants killed in west

• Shiite militia to become religious, cultural body

Election

• Obama's game plan rules as platform takes shape

  • Clinton tells cheering Nev. crowd to support Obama

• McCain looks forward to down time, Olympics

  • Cheney to speak at GOP convention on opening night

ODD & Extraordinary

• Babies born 8/8/08 at 8:08; 8 pounds, 8 ounces

• Trail of Cheetohs leads to snack thieves in Minn.

• Chicken crosses the road, then abandoned by thief

• R.I. man finds cocaine in used police cruiser

• Tenn. constable wins election by 1 vote - her own

• 44-pound cat adopted; gets good vet's report

Science, Technology & The Environment

• Researchers study mercury in the Great Salt Lake

• 2.5 million-year-old mastodon unearthed in Romania

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