National

• Residents return to devastated L.A. mobile home park

• Texas officials say layover mystery a homicide

• Exonerated inmates often don't have state help

  • 25 states compensate the wrongfully convicted

• Union prez: Teacher pay tied to performance works

• Obama advisers: No charges likely vs. interrogators

• In bad economy, breaking up is even harder to do

International

• Pirates who seized oil tanker anchor off Somalia

  • Saudi FM: Oil supertanker hijacking 'outrageous'

• Iraqi cleric repeats concerns on US-Iraq pact

• Taliban siege of Pakistan elders leaves 7 dead

• Congo rebels advance; army flees, abandons weapons

• More security for US-bound private planes

Politics

• Obama, McCain pledge to work together for reform

• Obama aides cite need for big stimulus program

  • Top salesmen for financial bailout face grilling

• Cold realities await Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska

ODD & Extraordinary

• Goodwill finds man who mistakenly donated $7,500

• Wis. woman pleads no contest in corpse case

• Man accused of dousing neighbor for a 'confession'

• Motorist accused of throwing wrench at vehicle

• Driver sentenced for throwing axe at motorist

• Man in wheelchair allegedly hides cash in leg

• Woman accused of forging her parents' checks again

• Skull with built-in sauna turns heads in Austria

• Maine man sheds 140 pounds to join the Marines

Science, Technology & The Environment

• Spacewalkers prepare for in-orbit cleaning job

• 'Rules of the road' set for oil shale drilling

• Rare blood transfusion attempted on tiger cub

Entertainment, Entertainers and the Arts

• Winslet, DiCaprio meet on new 'Road' to Oscars

• Fans flock to 'Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles

• Charlize Theron to aid UN helping battered women

• New generation pays tribute to Leonard Bernstein

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