State

• Chu: FutureGen price tag may be $2.3 billion

• Ill. governor cites jobs in keeping prison open

• Ex-Chicago cop accused of mob ties gets 12 years

• Chicago's Sears Tower to get new tenant, new name

National

• Troubling portrait of Alabama gunman emerges

• Madoff's wife may have trouble protecting assets

• Clergy abuse claims rose last year

• Michelle Obama begins advocacy as first lady

• Phelps talks about S.C. marijuana pipe photo

• Late Cambodian monk's poems detail homeland terror

• Foster kids find college help after 'aging out'

International

• Japan protests N. Korea's rocket launch plan

• China's premier defends policies on Tibet

• Oil-soaked Australian beaches named disaster zones

• Iraqi PM says nation is united against terrorism

Politics & Government

• Obama to get report on stimulus plan from Volcker

  • S.C. Gov. Sanford set to reject stimulus millions

• Officials: Obama close to stating new Afghan goals

• Pelosi dodges chance to end automatic pay raises

ODD & Extraordinary

• Man calls police to report moose on roof

• Thieves use relish ruse to rob elderly Fla. woman

• Woman buys used couch and finds cat living inside

• 12-year-old boy accused of helping to rob bar

• Foie Gras Week protester sitting out this year

• Mystery repairman fixes broken W.Va. traffic light

• Flag on the play: Man arrested in bleachers crash

• Atheists' group, church battling with bus signs

• Lola the stolen Chihuahua returned to Brianna

• Stolen bulldozer buried at Texas golf course

• Coney Island freak show may get a competitor

Science, Technology & Environment

• Space station's close call with junk; more to come

• Some fear Navy sonar may harm Fla.'s right whales

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• George Clooney's Dr. Ross returns to 'ER'

• Stewart hammers Cramer on 'The Daily Show'

• Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, doctors charged

• Placido Domingo puts musical spin on pope's poems

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