State

• Chicago students skip school in funding protest

National

• New Orleans residents to return to no power

  • Gustav evacuees grow weary in crowded shelters

• Great White offers $1M to settle fatal fire suits

• FBI taped more than 100 Sen. Stevens phone calls

• Boeing workers to vote today on new contract

• EPA: Transportation Dept. off base on fuel estimate

International

• US poised to announce $1B in aid for Georgia

• 15 reportedly killed in US-led Pakistan attack

• Rice to travel to Libya

Election

• Palin prepares to introduce herself to the nation

• Romney readies for White House run if McCain fails

ODD & Extraordinary

• Buy $169K Michigan dollhouse, get real home 'free'

• Cat survives 70-mile trip under owner's truck

• Idaho wildfire reveals new stretch of Oregon Trail

• N.D. woman, 86, labors through the holiday

• Colorado deputy clocks VW Beetle at 115 mph

• Man told to get a job accused of chair attack

Science, Technology & The Environment

•  Tropical quartet: 4 storms with more to come

Entertainment, Entertainers, and the Arts

• Letterman wants to call sunset for late-night gig

• Oprah Winfrey to host Olympians in Chicago

Today

• This day in history

• The nation's weather