State

• Storm bringing wintry misery to Midwest, Northeast

• Gov. Blagojevich to make statement

  • Legal fight planned over Ill. governor wiretaps

  • With scandal, Ill. goes from glory to ridicule

• Chicago Archdiocese to pay $1.4M in sex-abuse case

National

• Case closed? Questions linger in Adam Walsh probe

• Mark Felt, Watergate's 'Deep Throat,' dies at 95

• Arkansas family welcomes 18th child, a girl

International

• Iraqi judge says shoe-tossing reporter was beaten

• Youths attack French Institute in Athens

• Mugabe says no African country will topple him

• Israel urges Russia not to sell missiles to Iran

Politics

• Bush says he can't let auto companies collapse

  • Text of Bush's statement on auto industry rescue

ODD & Extraordinary

• Shooting victim goes to work with bullet in head

• Student 'twas to blame for stolen Rudolph shame

• Man calls in threats to free girlfriend from class

• Hot gold puts Mich. postal worker in hot water

• Appeals court rejects D.C. missing pants case

• 69 rabbits discovered in 1-bedroom apartment

• Officers: Pierced 'gothic kittens' marketed on Web

• Soccer kick kills pigeon during Argentina game

• If you'd like to smell like Burger King...

Science, Technology & Environment

• Wildlife experts ponder gender of Santa's reindeer

• Mars find suggests area may have been hospitable

• New ban imposed on regulating global warming gases

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Chiklis is creating a drama about investor fraud

• Book 'em: Two Madoff books in the works

• New album from U2 is on the horizon

• Majel Roddenberry, widow of 'Trek' creator, dies

• Police: Suicide try hospitalizes Mindy McCready

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