State

• Ill. workers in trouble for looking up Obama info

• Chicago approves $1.1 billion parking-meter lease

National

• Auto hearing: Reality TV without the laughs

• O.J. Simpson faces 6 years to life at sentencing

• Calif. trio charged with torturing, abusing teen

• President, first lady buying home in Dallas

• Government to post huge deficit under CBO estimate

• Gun club, police chief indicted in boy's Uzi death

• Deaths loom over self-defense laws

International

• US general spells out Iraq mission under new pact

• Israeli soldiers drag settlers out of Hebron house

• Top Indian official admits 'lapses' in attacks

• Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II dies

• Rice: 'Well past time' for Mugabe to leave

Politics

• Obama stimulus: Campaign hits $745 million haul

  • Obama urges donors to ease Clinton campaign debt

• Fla. rep. 'flabbergasted' Obama call wasn't prank

• National Mall will be open for Obama inauguration

• Clinton looks to loyalists for State Dept. staff

• Carmakers' bailout pleas hit Senate skepticism

ODD & Extraordinary

• N.J. woman sues Pa. sports bar for toilet seat break

• Man allegedly attacks speed camera with pickax

• Leaving on a jet plane? Texas airport has karaoke

• Robbers in drag get euro80M in Paris jewelry theft

• Woman gets probation for setting tow truck on fire

• Shoplifting suspect uses Taser on Wal-Mart worker

• Man allegedly assaults girlfriend with burger

Science, Technology & The Environment

• NASA delays Mars mission to 2011

• NASA sets May date for Hubble telescope repairs

• Proposed fee on smelly cows, hogs angers farmers

• Countries looking to US leadership on climate

Entertainment, Entertainers and the Arts

• Jennifer Hudson says she's honored by Grammy nods

• Oscar 'Knight'? Batman rises to serious contender

• 1st NFL game in 3-D fumbles, then recovers

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