State

• Singer's 7-year-old nephew found dead in SUV

• A year later, still no answers in Peterson case

• Democrats, Republicans agree on something: anxiety

National

• Skinhead plot news sweeps suspect's Tenn. hometown

• Rules limiting sex offenders on Halloween blocked

• Boy, 8, fatally shoots self with Uzi at gun show

• Iowa boy found dead, mother and brother hurt

• FBI: Child-prostitution roundup snares over 600

• The charges and verdicts in the Ted Stevens trial

  • Stevens faces no automatic Senate punishment

  • Some quotes from Stevens trial

• FBI: Hate crime down in 2007 but anti-gay crime up

• Internet companies embrace human rights guidelines

International

• Mexican immigration official arrested for drugs

• Britain's Brown calls for bigger IMF bailout fund

• China says hostages died during failed rescue

• Soldiers, UN retreat as rebels advance in Congo

• Afghan, Pakistani meeting agrees to Taliban talks

• Dalai Lama calls special meeting of Tibetan exiles

• Iceland's prime minister says recovery cost is $6B

Election

• McCain, Palin to campaign in Pennsylvania today

  • McCain getting hammered on late-night TV

• Obama to campaign in Pennsylvania, Virginia today

• Today on the presidential campaign trail

ODD & Extraordinary

• Runaway poodle delays flights at Boston airport

• Man drives off in car being towed by repo worker

• Restaurant closed after dead deer found in kitchen

• Mummified remains of Ky. woman found in car trunk

• Spicy pork sausage found in 'soiled diapers'

• Man pleads guilty in fork, frozen chicken attacks

Science, Technology & The Environment

• New deal to rescue Borneo orangutans in Malaysia

• Mine from time of King Solomon found

• Study: Smog chops 2 months off Mexicans' lives

Entertainment, Entertainers and the Arts

• Triple tragedy leaves Hudson career at crossroads

• Hollywood's A-list turns out for Newman charity

• Donny, Marie extend Las Vegas Strip show to 2010

• Civil trial of Keanu Reeves begins in L.A.

• CBS yanks low-rated 'The Ex List' from schedule

• LL Cool J quits as opening act for Jackson's tour

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