National

• Many missed chances to catch kidnapping suspect

  • Kidnapping suspect once admitted to sex fantasies

• Foster parents arrested in disappearance of boy

• Billboards help FBI name suspect in brazen robbery

• Family of NY wrong-way driver may seek new tests

• Calif. firefighters wage fierce wildfire battles

International

• Pakistan suicide bomber training camp destroyed

• Truck bombs kill 16 people in Iraq

• Lawyer: Iraqi shoe thrower to be released early

• Attack on American patrol kills 2 Afghans

  • US faces smaller, smarter enemy in Afghanistan

• Ethiopia troops chase Somali Islamists out of town

• Japan's ruling party cast as election underdog

• World's youngest round-the-world sailor back in UK

Politics & Government

• Obama vows not to forget lessons of Katrina

• Obama to honor Sen. Kennedy at funeral Mass

• Hope fades for compromise on health bill

• More post offices may face cuts

ODD & Extraordinary

• Not a baa-d price: Record fee for Scottish ram

• Police: Pa. man smashed Yankees affiliate's trophy

• Utahns can now practice DUI jail call

• Police: Detroit man stole woman's car on 1st date

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Big screen evolves to compete with small

• Coroner: Jackson death homicide, sleep aids caused

• DJ AM, who battled drug habit, found dead in NYC

Science, Technology & Environment

• Space shuttle blasts off, finally flying on try 3

• Horse dies, France faces reality of toxic beaches

• Feds to reconsider protecting mountain plovers

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