State

• Possible Hudson relative dead; child missing

• Chicago police head outlines anti-gang plan

• Prominent former priest convicted of abusing boy

• Young train fans can pose dangerous distraction

National

• Female robber hits 3 Ohio banks in 1 week

• Another dragging death in Texas raises tensions

• NYC officials defend financing for Yankee Stadium

• Pension agency loses almost $5 billion on stocks

• Sick Wis. teen plays first, only football game

International

• Army: Pakistan troops capture militant stronghold

• Lawyer says Iran should release arrested American

• Premier says China to ensure safe food

• Asia, Europe reach consensus on financial crisis

• Guantanamo guards struggle with hunger striker

• Afghan police: 2 foreigners shot to death in Kabul

• US training Pakistani forces to fight Taliban

• 2 Koreas to hold military talks Monday

Election

• Obama, McCain target the West's toss-up states

  • After Joe the Plumber, Joe the Hothead?

  • Biden's effort predicted - even the unpredictable

  • McCain sows doubts on Obama in campaign end game

  • Obama's victory plan: economic focus, TV ad finale

  • After sad visit, Obama returns to campaign trail

  • Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story

• Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama

• Democrats headed toward big gains in House, Senate

• Battles in Lake Co. may decide Indiana race

ODD & Extraordinary

• Lightning strikes only once - but kills 52 cows

• Texas bank robbery suspect flees in black limo

• Hogzilla? 200-lb. wild boar struck by car in Mass.

• Ohio woman gives birth to triplet granddaughters

• No rest for dead at foreclosed Mich. funeral home

• Calif. woman allegedly abducts dog over barking

• Men nabbed after playing 'chicken' with police car

Science, Technology & The Environment

• Researchers: 7 orcas missing from Puget Sound

• Coal vs. wind: Energy fight rages in W.Va.

• Depressed astronauts might get computerized solace

• 2 greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists

Entertainment, Entertainers and the Arts

• Collecting with the stars: celeb trading cards

• Tom Cruise returns the favor to Lauer

• Hollywood feeling pinch amid economic worries

• Harlem's Apollo theater to create oral history

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