State

• Illinois community fights to save prison, jobs

• Some parents struggling with back-to-school buys

National

• Repeat visitor: Fay bedevils Florida for 5th day

• Student killed in shooting at Tenn. school

• Unsung Holocaust hero celebrates 100th

• Universities try to control students off campus

• Immigration agency scraps self-deportation program

• Study: A bad joke might endanger the teller

• Feds say fire destroyed structure next to towers

International

• US, Iraq close in on deal for pullout of US troops

• Pakistan coalition averts crisis after blasts

• Georgian official: Russian troops leaving Gori

• Report: Al-Qaida claims deadly Algeria attacks

• Warship tracks 3 ships, 57 crew seized off Somalia

• Australian officials euthanize lost baby whale

Election

• Obama may announce running mate later today

• Officials: Threat sent to McCain's Colorado office

ODD & Extraordinary

• Man uses Barbie fishing rod to make record catch

• Fame finds 4-eared feline thanks to Internet photo

• McCain beats Obama in race of hissing cockroaches

• Border agents find pot in entertainment centers

• Man arrested just 12 hours after release from jail

• Wis. woman arrested, booked over library fines

• Fla. deputies Taser Plop-Plop, the unruly emu

Science, Technology & The Environment

• Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela

• At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice

Entertainment, Entertainers, and the Arts

• Seinfeld to be pitchman for Microsoft

• Kidnap suspect 'Rockefeller' gives NBC interview

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