State

• Ill. governor's trial delays action on other woes

• GOP gets to use Blagojevich playbook against him

National

• Records show plane suffered previous malfunction

  • Crew of downed plane to media: Cool it!

• 2 dead in snowy, 40-vehicle highway crash in Md.

• Accountant: Fla. money manager owed $50 million

• Hundreds gather for King Day service in Atlanta

• For military, bad economy aids recruiting

• General Mills and Kroger pull peanut butter items

International

• UN chief goes to Gaza; Hamas holds victory rallies

• Plans to close Gitmo anger 9/11 victims' families

• Hundreds of Rwandan troops enter eastern Congo

• Worldwide, people mobilize for Obama inauguration

Politics

• Obama to step into history as 1st black president

  • Crowds of 1-2 million expected at inauguration

  • Inaugural history: Girls in white greet Lincoln

• Ali salutes Obama at inaugural soiree

• Biden tries to shush wife after state-VP slip

• N.Y. governor says no decision yet on Senate seat

• Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents

• Bush leaves note for Obama in Oval Office

ODD & Extraordinary

• Icy depiction of Gore unveiled by critic in Alaska

• Man calls cops, says he stole car and crashed it

• Deputies make traffic stop, find $1 million in car

• Spokane police dog on eve of retirement corners man

• Police find student passed out with car running

• Woman arrested after child gives away hiding spot

• Man asks to be deported, then kicks police car

• Man says city of Detroit razed his fixer-upper

• Woman creates artwork from 395 days of junk mail

Science, Technology & Environment

• Web grief: Funeral webcasts gain in popularity

• Natural disasters doomed an early civilization

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Aretha Franklin warms up for inauguration

• Michelle Obama, Miley Cyrus: favorites at concert

• Winslet: I'm confusing DiCaprio with my husband

• Sting brings music, eco-message to Sundance fest

• Carrey, McGregor lock lips with 'Phillip Morris'

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