State

• Ill. teacher accused of giving girls alcohol, pot

• Mother found fit for trial in baby-in-toilet case

National

• Police say arrest 'soon' in Yale student killing

• Hofstra University student recants rape story

• FBI searches home of Colorado man in terror probe

• Ohio woman arrested for spanking stranger's child

• DC sniper mastermind's execution set for November

• Sculpture missing from Madoff's NY beach home

• Program asks consumers to help New England farmers

• Identified amnesia patient doesn't know who he is

• Proxy wedding means Marine's widow, baby unwelcome

• Ark. football player, 16, gets his 'last game'

• Little girl's foul toss makes dad a celebrity

International

• Attacker wounds 9 students at German school

• Car bomb in Kabul kills 6 Italians, 10 Afghans

• Afghan president defends vote, admits some bias

• Pakistan: Al-Qaida commanders killed in US strikes

• US military closes largest detention camp in Iraq

• As al-Qaida grows, Yemen battles Shiite rebels

• Gunmen kill 10 at Mexico drug treatment center

• Police: Terrorism mastermind Noordin Top dead

• Once-conjoined twins return to Dallas for checkups

Politics & Government

• White House holds off on decisions on Afghanistan

• US to adjust European missile defense plan

• Deep divisions over long-awaited health care plan

  • GOP head calls co-ops 'back door' to public option

  • New health proposal is industry's favorite so far

• House bill would kill subsidized student loans

• EPA tells court it will redo Bush-era smog rule

• Panel begins inquiry into financial meltdown

• Mass. lawmakers to debate Kennedy succession bill

ODD & Extraordinary

• Notre Dame sues ex-worker over $29,000 tip

• Cops: Woman who stole gas claimed to be gov's wife

• Australian cat strays 2,400 miles, returns home

• Foul-mouthing boss not grounds for firing in Spain

• Naked man riding motorcycle charged with DUI

• Drivers respond to 'polite' message on motorcycle

• Man accused of trading dad's car for $50 in crack

• Pittsburgh OKs ordinance on human waste in public

• Man allegedly uses shotgun to ask guests to leave

• Fake bills showing up at yard sales in Colorado

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• 'America's Got Talent' champion selected

• 'It' host Neil Patrick Harris takes on the Emmys

• List of top 20 prime-time programs in Nielsen

• Despite stroke, humorist Keillor not slowing down

• 'Laugh-In' actor Henry Gibson dies at 73

• Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72

Science, Technology & Environment

• Found: Firm place to stand outside solar system

• Rockets vie in simulated lunar landing contest

• China picks 1st female astronaut candidates

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