State

• New Ill. gov. works to show he's anti-Blagojevich

  • Ill. removes Blagojevich stain, but more to do

• Cop suspected in wife's vanishing loses new love

National

• Ice-battered Kentucky pleads for help from storm

• Bus crashes in Arizona, killing 7 Chinese tourists

• 6 die in W.Va. plane crash; pilot radioed low fuel

• Former girlfriend: Ind. financier was suicidal

• Ex-priest gets 3 years in prison for molesting boy

• Wis. man freed 23 years after wrongful conviction

• Gov't. launches criminal probe in peanut recall

• Lots of early filers mistakenly try tax credit

• Birds cause emergency landings, aborted takeoffs

International

• Brown: First real financial crisis of global era

• Voting under way in Iraq amid tight security

  • Iraq sculpture honoring Bush shoe-thrower removed

• Somalia's new moderate Islamist president sworn in

• Gaza militants fire rocket into Israel

• Analysis: N. Korea angling for Obama's attention

Politics

• Stimulus plan mixes short, long-term job goals

• Obama facing dilemma over protectionism in bill

• Obama unlikely to widen Afghan war

• 2nd Cabinet nominee runs into tax troubles

• Alaska lawmakers question Sarah Palin's focus

• Geithner, Bernanke work on $700B bailout overhaul

ODD & Extraordinary

• Rescue a mixed blessing for lost hunter

• Police arrest man driving boom lift at 3 a.m.

• Police: Sister beats up bride at wedding reception

Science, Technology & Environment

• Obama urged not to backburner climate change

• Stranded whale euthanized on remote NC beach

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Obama to sign bill on analog shutdown delay

• Attorney wants Zellweger's diary, depo

• Springsteen calls Wal-Mart deal a mistake

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