State

• Blagojevich's own words to haunt him at trial

  • Illinois governor undertakes surreal media tour

• Reputed mobster gets 20 years in Chicago case

National

• 93-year-old froze to death, owed big utility bill

• Accident kills promoter at Wis. monster truck show

• Suspect's note doesn't explain Portland shootings

• Dad's confession baffles cops in missing-boy case

• 5 pardoned after wrongful conviction in Neb. crime

• Jury to visit Spector's home in 2nd murder trial

• R.I. prosecutors: No charges over detainee death

• After Katrina, New Orleans is going green

  • New Orleans to scale back French Quarter cleanups

International

• Obama chooses Arab network for 1st TV interview

• NATO: 3,000 US troops deploy near Afghan capital

• Insurgents seize seat of Somalia's parliament

• Russian Orthodox Church electing new head

Politics

• Obama seeks GOP help on economy; McConnell hopeful

• Obama considers regulating greenhouse gases

• Gates faces Congress that is eager for Obama's war plans

• Senate panel to question regulators on Madoff case

  • Many fruitless probes into Madoff

• Geithner to issue new lobbying rules

• Senate OKs 4-month delay to digital TV changeover

ODD & Extraordinary

• Art found at Tennessee charity sells for $8,000

• Presumed mammoth tusk is actually a whale jawbone

Science, Technology & Environment

• Airports testing radar that could spot birds

• Report: Some climate damage already irreversible

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Oscar 3453 is 'born' in Chicago factory

• George Clooney joins his dad to talk journalism

• Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' planned for the stage

• Gene Roddenberry, wife to spend eternity in space

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