State

• Flood victims say FEMA is doing a heckuva job

National

• Residents keep fighting rising Mississippi River

• Lightning sparks 800-plus fires in California

• Trial delayed in Texas sex club involving children

• Senate plans vote today on anti-foreclosure plan

• Rice urges focus on Israeli-Palestinian peace

• Dunwoody to become first female 4-star general

International

• Only bodies under toppled ferry in Philippines

• West links drug war aid to Iranian nuclear impasse

• Mortar fired from Gaza, violating truce

• Explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City district kills 10

• UN says fair vote in Zimbabwe is impossible

Election

• Gas at $4 brings promises, pandering

• James Dobson accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible

ODD & Extraordinary

• Inmate falls through ceiling into Texas police office

• Identical N.Y. twins marry in double ceremony

• Marines getting a few good triplets from Cadillac

Entertainers, Entertainment & the Arts

• Appreciation: Carlin, from straight comic to icon

• Vidal Sassoon works on Habitat project in New Orleans

• Don Imus says he was making a 'sarcastic point'

Science & The Environment

• NASA warming scientist: 'This is the last chance'

• Scholars set date for Odysseus' bloody homecoming

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