State

• Ex-Chicago official found guilty of hiring fraud

National

• Parolee in Oakland police shootings linked to rape

• Firefighter charged in Pa. town's latest arsons

• Blizzard shuts down parts of Wyoming, South Dakota

• Magnitude-4.7 quake shakes near Salton Sea

• Icing, overload may have caused Mont. plane crash

• Octuplets' mom fires free nanny training service

• Fate of Titanic, its treasures in US judge's hands

International

• Report: N. Korea suspects US journalists were spying

• N. Korea reasserts right to satellite launch

• China calls for new global currency

• Israel's Labor voting on joining Netanyahu gov't.

• Pakistani chief justice: End judicial corruption

• Stranded whales returned to sea off SW Australia

• Japanese man certified as double A-bomb victim

Politics & Government

• Obama tries to temper furor over AIG bonuses

• Fed and Treasury chief to get grilled on AIG

• Analysis: US leaders say Afghan war stalemated

ODD & Extraordinary

• Parrot awarded for yelling about choking baby

• Neb. town abuzz over tourism idea: electric chair

• Pastor, man cited for shooting arrow in church

• Fla. man sets neighbor's skateboard ramp on fire

• Alleged robber grabs money, then hands it back

• Police say man tossed fake grenade during chase

• Man allegedly assaults cabbie, asks to go to jail

• Man tries to rob Chinese restaurant as cops dine

• Man ignores friends, wins $26M on Friday the 13th

• Fla. student suspended from bus for passing gas

• Suspected drunk driver rams home, exposes pot farm

• Cleveland restaurant offers a 1-cent breakfast

• Suspected burglar discovered trapped in oven vent

Science, Technology & Environment

• Alaska volcano Mount Redoubt erupts 5 times

• Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old bronze statue

• AP source: EPA closer to global warming warning

• Oops: Colbert wins NASA space station name contest

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Robin Williams recovering in Ohio after heart surgery

• Sutherland says he's on for 8th '24' season

• David Letterman marries longtime girlfriend

• Poet Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide in Alaska

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