State

• Struggling E. St. Louis sees renewal from park

National

• SD lottery winner 'will not squander' $232M prize

• Teen robbery suspect killed in SC police shooting

• Injected with HIV by dad as baby, teen inspires

• Witness to challenge flight attendant's story

• Calif. man gets death sentence in 5 arson murders

• Hundreds to attend funeral for slain Kan. doctor

• Cuban-born Watergate burglar dies in Florida at 92

• Ike's vision now key to US military thinking

• Botox and a resume: Job seekers get wrinkles out

International

• 29 children killed in fire at day care in Mexico

• Report: 26 people killed in China landslide

• Probe: Airline did not replace instruments on 447

• US mil: insurgents using teens in attacks in Iraq

• Ambush kills aides to pro-Taliban Pakistani cleric

• Berlusconi grabs spotlight in Italy's EU vote

• Britain's Brown refuses to quit as prime minister

Politics & Government

• Obama: North Korea must engage in diplomacy

• France, US stand united on Iran, Mideast peace

• Obama, Sarkozy disagree Turkey's entry to EU

• Report: US weighs guilty pleas in some 9/11 cases

• Obama lacks key leaders in drug cartel crackdown

• GOP says objectivity is key question for Sotomayor

• Officials: Husband-wife spies lured by stranger

• Kennedy bill would make employers provide care

• Treasury, key lawmaker differ on risk overseer

ODD & Extraordinary

• Ohio widow's donation of WWII shell spurs shutdown

• Robbery suspect pulls a Houdini but lands in jail

• NH thief has great gall: Humpty Dumpty get-up gone

• Beer run on a lawn mower leads to OUI charge

• NY man arrested buying drugs with slaughtered pig

• Remorse or fear? Taped shoplifter returns loot

• Ky. Man pleads guilty to mummified sister's death

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Patti Blagojevich plays mom to D-list celebs on TV

• Colbert to broadcast 4 shows from Baghdad

• 'Slumdog' child star, 9, to publish life story

• Carradine's family wants FBI to investigate death

• New exhibit traces arc of Norman Rockwell's career

Science, Technology & Environment

• Delayed spacewalk ends successfully

• EPA sued over claims of air pollution in West

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