National

• Storms prevent shuttle from landing in Fla.

• Obama: Honor veterans this Memorial Day

• Prosecutors: Peterson offered $25K for hit on wife

• Wash. state woman 1st death under new suicide law

• California faces its day of fiscal reckoning

• Pest control company charged with animal cruelty

• Ga. father gets 100 years for poisoning kids' soup

• NM mom charged in son's death faces life in prison

• Liberty U. pulls plug on campus Democratic club

International

• Pakistan: Troops battle Taliban in main Swat town

• Embattled SKorean ex-president jumps to his death

• UN chief visits Sri Lankan war refugees

• Taliban driven from road but still in hills

• Books, letter to be used in case against Suu Kyi

• Horst Koehler re-elected as German president

• 2 Americans die separately in Baghdad Green Zone

• Troops make large drug seizures in Afghan fighting

Politics & Government

• What Pelosi knew about waterboarding, and when

• Pelosi may put Republican on economic crisis panel

• Rep. Stark recovering, to return to work in June

• Georgia lawmaker: 2010 should be year of the Bible

• Lawmakers want Obama to slow down on GM, Chrysler

• Bush criticized by former 9/11 commission member

ODD & Extraordinary

• Man saves dog by sucking snake venom from his nose

• NY police say drag racing dads took kids along

• Dead chickens, rotting fish left in man's room

• Man gets over 10 years for city hall 'music' crash

• Neb. thwarts pranksters' license plate hijacking

• Letourneau hosts 'Hot for Teacher' night at bar

• Hunt for New Zealand pair may lead to Hong Kong

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Taylor tweets from her hospital bed

• Heath Ledger's final performance has been presented at the Cannes Film Festival.

• Search for homes for 'Slumdog' children picks up

• Man pleads not guilty to murdering Dolla

• 'King of Swing' Benny Goodman would be 100

• Kix Brooks to honor fallen soldier on Memorial Day

• Trout Fishing music duo pens children's book

• Northern Ireland's 'troubles' on display in Dallas

Science, Technology & Environment

• 'Keyboard Cat' phenomenon spreads on Web, TV

• Move to online public notices looms over papers

• 'The Sims' return with more personality quirks

• Pope 2.0: Vatican launches Facebook application

• EBay wins court fight against L'Oreal in UK

• Toddler buys earthmover in online auction

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