State

• Daley praises Obama's decision to go to Denmark

National

• No malfunction before SC medical helicopter crash

• Attorney: Oklahoma City bomb tapes appear edited

• Singer: Slayings off limits to horrorcore rappers

• Homeless Ga. sex offenders directed to woods

• People playing the odds on health care over costs

• Baggage fees join your overseas flights

• Heating oil prices cool down as winter approaches

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International

• Iran conducts 3rd round of missile tests

• Massive flooding leaves 140 dead in Philippines

• Merkel vows quick deal on German coalition

• Gadhafi strengthens relationship with Chavez

• Honduras restricts liberties to prevent rebellion

• Pope wraps up Czech trip with Mass near Prague

• Filipino actor saves real-life damsel in distress

Politics & Government

• More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation

• Obama will go to Denmark to pitch for Olympics

• Snowe is the woman with clout on health care

• Gates: Mistake to set Afghan withdrawal timelines

• Job losses, early retirements hurt Social Security

• Federal program misses problem nursing homes

• Risky business: States tax the rich at their peril

ODD & Extraordinary

• Peanuts and a president celebrated in Plains, Ga.

• Pa. couple has 49-year marriage but no documents

• SC candidate raffles off AK-47 at campaign rally

• NH woman celebrates 92nd birthday by sky-diving

• Mexican taco cart wins NYC's street vendor award

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• 'Meatballs' sticks to movie menu top with $24.6M

• Tight security at Julia Roberts film set in India

• Scholars study Springsteen during weekend event

• Early McCartney musings discovered in Liverpool

• France, Poland want Polanski released on bail

• William Safire, speechwriter and columnist, dies

Science, Technology & Environment

• What's ugly, smells, kills dogs? Blue-green algae

• Rocket readied at Kazakh steppe for ISS mission

• Feds reviewing humpback whale endangered status

• International research team cracks potato genome

• Leaders warn time running out for climate deal

• Warmer weather threatens moose in Minnesota

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