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Shawn Hornbeck, 15, smiles as his mother, Pam Akers, who speaks to reporters during a news conference in Richwoods, Mo. Shawn, who was missing since Oct. 2002, was recovered Friday with another missing boy, Ben Ownby. (Photo by Tom Gannam / AP)

Parents of boys found in Missouri hail 'miracle'

CNN

Citrus growers' all-night vigil for crops

Plunging temperatures this weekend in California could cause serious damage to the state's agriculture, farm experts warn.

San Francisco Chronicle

Secret Santa who gave away $1.3M dies

Larry Stewart, a millionaire who anonymously handed money to people each December, has died. He was 58.

MSNBC

Pentagon viewing Americans' bank records

Yahoo! News

Brazil opens heart of Amazon to logging

A Brazilian government plan set to go into effect this year will bring large-scale logging deep into the heart of the Amazon rain forest for the first time.

International Herald Tribune

Iraq's president to visit Syria

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is travelling to Syria for the highest-level Iraqi visit in many years. Diplomatic relations were restored last November after a break of more than 20 years.

BBC

Venezuela, Iran presidents to finance opposition to U.S.

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said they would help finance investment projects in other countries, seeking to thwart U.S. domination.

CNN

NATION

Abbas: No ‘temporary’ Palestinian state

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he opposes the establishment of a provisional Palestinian state in temporary borders.

MSNBC

Row over Iranians strains U.S.-Iraqi relations

Reuters

Italian court convicts SS men for wartime massacres

An Italian military tribunal has given life sentences in absentia to 10 German former SS men for massacring about 800 Italian villagers in 1944 as the Germans retreated before Allied troops.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Delta pushes ahead on standalone plan

Delta Air Lines Inc. pushed ahead with its effort to emerge from bankruptcy as a standalone company by formally asking the court to approve the disclosure statement to its reorganization plan.

KFMB

Attorneys are focus of Apple probe

Federal authorities are attempting to zero in on who was responsible for creating false documents that inflated the value of stock options granted to Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs in 2001.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

New farm bill divides Bush and lawmakers

Lawmakers begin work on a new multibillion-dollar farm bill at odds with President Bush over whether big changes really are needed.

Yahoo! News

Democrats pledge to extend minimum wage

Fending off charges of favoritism, House Democrats say a just-passed minimum wage bill will be changed to cover all U.S. territories - including American Samoa - before it reaches President Bush 's desk.

AOL News

Senate wants no pension for convicted lawmakers

With disgraced ex-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham eligible to collect a pension from behind bars, the Senate voted to deny taxpayer-funded retirement benefits to lawmakers convicted in the future.

Los Angeles Times

SPORTS

Saints go marching in to NFC title game

Deuce McAllister and rookie sensation Reggie Bush carried the New Orleans Saints where they've never been before -- one game from the Super Bowl.

Sporting News

Fujikawa youngest in 50 years to make PGA cut

Tadd Fujikawa tried to block out the cameras, the faces packed behind the ropes and the loudest ovation he had ever heard as he closed in on history over the final hour at the Sony Open.

Sports Illustrated

EDUCATION

House Dems want to cut rates on student loans

Following up on an election-year promise, House Democrats said they plan quick action to lower interest rates for student loans.

Chicago Sun-Times

Congress to weigh 'No Child Left Behind'

The No Child Left Behind law was supposed to level the playing field, promising students an equal education no matter where they live or their background.

Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Church friendship leads to critical organ donation

David Dean didn't know that when he met Gary Boatman, they would one day share something precious, something few friends have ever shared.

Dallas Morning News

King holiday tributes to honor his wife

When Jeffrey and Liza Dunn brought their daughter to the Martin Luther King Jr. center, the family took a moment to sit by the crypt of his wife, Coretta.

Lexington Dispatch

NATION

Seven deaths blamed on icy Midwest storm

A crippling winter storm lashed the central part of the nation, causing widespread power outages and tying up highways.

Yahoo! News

Police inspect suspicious church fires

Police and sheriff's deputies rushed to check on churches after fires broke out at two Baptist churches and a break-in was discovered at a third.

CNN

Two miners killed in West Virginia roof collapse

Two miners were killed in West Virginia when a roof collapsed in a coal mine owned by Alpha Natural Resources Inc., authorities said.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Depp to make film about poisoned ex-spy

Johnny Depp is planning a film about a former Russian security agent whose poisoning in London touched off an international mystery.

Salon

'Departed,' Scorsese win Critics' Choice awards

"The Departed" won best picture and Martin Scorsese won best director for his work on the gangster film at the 12th annual Critics' Choice Awards.

Los Angeles Times

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Two Indonesian women die from bird flu

Two Indonesian women died from bird flu, a health official said, the latest in a flurry of recent cases in the country worst hit by the virus.

Sydney Morning Herald

Prostate surgery is viable option for older men.

Emerging research shows that surgery for prostate cancer can be safe and worthwhile for older men above the traditional cutoff age of 70.

HealthDay

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Bush set for climate change U-turn

Belated U.S. recognition of global warming could lead to a post-Kyoto agreement on curbing emissions

Guardian

Congress to reconsider caps on carbon

Potential presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama are joining with newly independent Sen. Joe Lieberman on a plan they say would reduce annual global-warming gases.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Will the Petri dish put Daisy out to grass?

Growing meat in the lab seems the stuff of science fiction, but rival research teams are racing to produce meat using cell-culture technology.

The Times

Mystery of world's yuckiest flower solved

Scientists have used genetic analysis to discover the lineage of the rafflesia flower, known for its stench of rotting flesh.

Scientific American

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

In China, Christianity rises again

Some 140 years ago, a Methodist missionary with a flowing beard stepped aboard a sampan in coastal China and held on firmly as he went up the Min River.

Miami Herald

Archbishop of Warsaw resigns, Weigel warns of future 'blackmail'

Recently appointed Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus announced his resignation in the wake of revelations about his collaboration with Communist-era security forces.

National Catholic Reporter

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