State

• Royko's son gets 30 months for failed bank robbery

• 2 sue United in Seattle over Chicago runway skid

• Pastor's accused killer deemed unfit for trial

• Jury gives man life in 7 restaurant killings

• U of Ill. chancellor quits amid admissions scandal

National

• Investigators baffled by Fla. girl's disappearance

• FAA investigating Colo. balloon flight

• Howard came to UConn to give family a better life

• Man wanted in Europe found working at Neb. prison

• Murder, arson charged in 2003 California wildfire

• AP poll: Pet owners willing to go mouth-to-muzzle

• Captain in Somali pirate drama mulls career change

International

• Tropical Storm threatens Mexico with flooding

• Diplomats: Iran agrees to draft deal on uranium

• Veiled Iranian women suspected of drug smuggling

• Afghan president's rival accepts Nov. 7 runoff

• Pakistan battles in Taliban leader's hometown

• 21 die as a train rams another in northern India

• German court rejects Demjanjuk's trial appeals

• World pirate attacks surge in 2009 due to Somalia

Politics & Government

• Obama cites higher hope for Afghanistan democracy

• Dems eye insurance industry's antitrust protection

• Congress pressed to act to curb child-abuse deaths

• Gates says US won't accept nuclear North Korea

• Admiral: US, China military relations thawing

• Safety board issues wake-up call on sleep disorder

• CDC concedes vaccine production behind schedule

ODD & Extraordinary

• Cleveland museum's Earhart 'hair' just thread

• Dancer's gyrations on Kentucky bridge create stir

• 9 lives per gallon? Cat stuck in SUV engine is OK

• Man on police ride-along stomps opossum to death

• Gunman prays with clerk, then finishes robbery

• Cops: Man grabs football, bites neighbor on mouth

• Fla. burglar caught sleeping in pub's freezer

• Ohio football mom blasts school with sign in yard

• Cops: Man claims bag of stolen goods just sex toys

• Man charged with printing phony $50s to pay dancer

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Coughlin eliminated from 'Dancing with the Stars'

• Swiss defend Polanski tipoff to US

• Jury set to decide Travolta extortion case

• Wiseman, who played villain in 1962 'Dr. No,' dies

• University of Texas getting Cronkite's papers

Science, Technology & Environment

• NASA puts new rocket on launch pad for test flight

• Scientists ID fossil bones of smallest dinosaur

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