State

• Spotlight focuses on 'squeaky clean' new Ill. gov

  • Fed indictment alleges new heights of corruption

• Obama makes pitch to IOC for Chicago's Olympic bid

National

• Fight over urinating dog got police to Pa. ambush

• Police: Dad killed 5 kids because wife was leaving

• Questions remain in aftermath of N.Y. shootings

• Fargo students back to books after flood break

• Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels

  • Seat belt use in the United States

• Bailed-out firms save face by skipping the Masters

• Recall information

International

• At least 50 die in earthquake in central Italy

• Analysts say N. Korean rocket not a total failure

• String of bombings in Baghdad kill 21, wound 64

• AP INVESTIGATION: Terrorist eludes US in Iraq

• Indonesian military plane crashes; 24 killed

• Russian TV accuses US of spying on Russia, China

• Diplomats: Somali pirates hijack 2 ships

Politics & Government

• Obama touts growing friendship with Turkey

• US wants jailed journalists in N. Korea freed soon

• Treasury chief puts bailed-out bank CEOs on notice

• Pentagon lets media see return of US war dead

ODD & Extraordinary

• Featherweights: Detroit police halt pillow fight

• Customs says art was framed with marijuana

• April Fools: NYU accepts grad students by mistake

Science, Technology & Environment

• Alaska's Mount Redoubt has another large eruption

• Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science

• Volunteers help salamanders avoid roadway massacre

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• 'Fast & Furious' accelerates to $72.5M opening

• Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite on stage

• Underwood, Swift, Hough: Women rule the ACMs

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