State

• Ill. derailment revives hazardous cargo debate

National

• Police: Va. dad lured son home, then shot him

• Day of reckoning comes for Bernard Madoff

• Air Force test-fires missile from Calif. coast

• Abu Ghraib scandal haunts W.Va. reservist

• Study finds widening generation gap in US

• Recall information

International

• Iran recount seen as bid to placate opposition

• Ousted president, replacement duel for Honduras

• Argentine power couple loses congressional vote

• June photo of NKorea's Kim may be recycled: report

• Karzai: Afghan guards employed by US killed police

• More than 20 die in Pakistan's northwest

• Saudi anti-smoking campaign targets young grooms

• Russia holds major war games in Caucasus

Politics & Government

• Obama adviser not ready to back a 2nd stimulus

• Analysis: Obama scores major victory on climate

• Obama officials: talks with Iran still possible

• SC governor resolves to stay put despite scandal

  • Woman in Sanford affair confirms relationship

• Supreme Court bidding goodbye to Souter

ODD & Extraordinary

• Under-bite helps Pabst become World's Ugliest Dog

• Former mayor in Georgia arrested for nudity

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• 'Transformers': Worst-reviewed $400 million hit?

• Janet Jackson makes emotional appearance at BETs

  • Jackson's parents declare authority over affairs

  • Lawyer: Jackson's doc didn't give excessive drugs

  • Court fight over Jackson's children looms

• Autopsy planned for TV pitchman Billy Mays

Science, Technology & Environment

• Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadow

• Litter of lynx kittens heartens Colo. biologists

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