State

• 2nd baby beluga born at Chicago aquarium in a week

National

• 2 sheriff's officers badly hurt in Wash. shooting

• Boat driver: Coast Guard vessel sped before crash

• Police arrest adult in NJ child shooting death

• Investigators: Balloon boy parents acted alone

• 3 friends sentenced in NH Walmart worker slaying

• After snow, a race to get gifts -- or just get home

• Despite recession, crime keeps falling

• Calif. county considers toxic waste dump expansion

• Oral Roberts remembered as charismatic leader

International

• Suicide bomber kills 3 near NW Pakistan press club

• Panel: Lithuanian security approved CIA prisons

• Israel gives response to Hamas prisoner swap offer

• Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuke deal

• Brazil's chief justice delays ruling on boy's fate

• Young sailor Dekker flies back to the Netherlands

• Eurostar resumes service between Paris and London

• 8 Russian circus tigers, lioness die during travel

Politics & Government

• White House picks new cyber coordinator

• Obama has powerful tool to pressure Myanmar

• Senate gears for 2nd critical health vote

  • Abortion deal may be hard to keep in health bill

  • Americans' views of health care steady this year

  • GOP senator: Democratic health care deals 'sleazy'

• Gov't imposes 3-hour limit on tarmac strandings

ODD & Extraordinary

• Man commandeers NYC garage, collects parking fees

• Fake 911 call suspect was volunteer firefighter

• Boston mom calls 911 over son's video game habit

• Irate woman destroys perfume display at Ga. store

• Proving the existence of Santa in a Brooklyn bar

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Family: Brittany Murphy was ill days before death

• Diane Sawyer begins at ABC's 'World News'

• Stern's threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk

• Polanski dismissal rejected; misconduct alleged

• Father: Utah man who inspired 'Rain Man' dies

• 'Sesame Street' star Alaina Reed-Amini dead at 63

Science, Technology & Environment

• 1st Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth

• Most of 47,000 Filipinos safe from raging volcano

Today

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