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World leaders to meet on economy in Washington
WASHINGTON – World leaders will meet Nov. 15 in Washington to address the global financial crisis — the first in a series of summits to mitigate what economists predict could be a long and deep downturn.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_go_pr_wh/meltdown_bush;_ylt=ArXWy51yyveoLvaH4K7Kotxv24cA

Analysts: Powell endorsement more a rejection of GOP, McCain
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Colin Powell's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama was as much a rejection of the Republican Party and Sen. John McCain's campaign as an embrace of the Democratic presidential nominee, political analysts said Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/20/powell.endorsement/index.html

Obama opens double-digit lead over McCain: poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has opened up a 10-point lead over Republican opponent John McCain two weeks before the November 4 U.S. election, according to Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released on Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081021/ts_nm/us_usa_politics_poll_nbc;_ylt=Amxy5j2HRl7FZF4r25EswisZ.3QA

Bush says economic 'panic' easing
President Bush on a "more relaxed" attitude
The US president has suggested that Americans are starting to feel more positive about their economic future.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7681259.stm

Dow drops 250 in early trading on earnings woes
NEW YORK – Wall Street tumbled again Wednesday as investors shifted their focus from improving credit markets to worrisome corporate profit forecasts that are raising fears of a deep economic slowdown. The major indexes fell more than 1 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost 250 points.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street

THE ECONOMY IN TURMOIL
The Great Depression - how close are we?Similar forces driving today's crisis, but Main Street fallout is less dire, and the past's lessons - and its safety nets – help

Americans binge on credit in a mania of speculation and consumption until the debt-fueled bubble bursts. Wall Street has a meltdown, the mania turns to hysteria, and the economy goes haywire.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/MNPV13H2HM.DTL

Wachovia reports $23.9B loss for 3Q
NEW YORK – Wachovia Corp. on Wednesday reported a staggering $24 billion loss as it took a goodwill impairment charge of nearly $19 billion ahead of its acquisition by Wells Fargo & Co.
Http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_wachovia;_ylt=AogUk8d5aOlf4AjBtJAfJdlv24cA

Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday
http://sacbee.com/830/story/1302596.html

Powder-laced letters sent to banks in 9 cities
WASHINGTON – More than 30 letters containing a suspicious powder were mailed to Chase bank branches and federal banking regulators' offices in nine cities, authorities said Tuesday in what was being investigated as a first, if extreme, public backlash over the nation's financial crisis.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bank_threats_fbi

Next president will shape Supreme Court
Monday, October 20, 2008
One of the most momentous and least-discussed topics in the presidential campaign is the likely departure in the next four years of as many as three of the more liberal justices on a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/19/MNES13IOES.DTL&tsp=1

Palin breaks with McCain on gay marriage amendment
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says she supports a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a break with John McCain who has said he believes states should be left to define what marriage is.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/20/politics/p134009D09.DTL

McCain reminds Biden he's been tested in crisis
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Republican John McCain told voters in this key electoral state Tuesday he was personally tested by the same kind of crisis that Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden warned Barack Obama will almost certainly face if elected president.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_el_pr/mccain

Palin tells kids the vice president 'runs' Senate
WASHINGTON – Asked by a third-grader what a vice president does, Republican candidate Sarah Palin responded that the vice president is the president's "team mate" but also "runs the Senate" and "can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_el_pr/palin_vice_president_s_job;_ylt=AoOIwzXz.cJZqA8iAbX5LwRv24cA

Mother's Cookies abruptly shut down
Mother's Cookies, an Oakland institution for 92 years, has been shuttered, its owner seeking bankruptcy protection for the company.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/BU6413DQQO.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

Mervyns going out of business
Sacramento's reeling retail sector took another punch in the gut Friday when Mervyns Holdings LLC announced it is going out of business.
http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/1323967.html

Neb. lawmakers agree on safe-haven age limit
LINCOLN, Neb. – Stung by the abandonment of children as old as 17 at Nebraska hospitals, the governor and lawmakers struck a deal Monday to rewrite the state's safe haven law so it applies only to infants up to three days old.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_re_us/safe_haven;_ylt=Amz1_WHCA7HjHA7bK8SBYt1vzwcF

Magnet device aims to treat depression patients
WASHINGTON – The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression — a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull. If it sounds like science-fiction, well, those woodpecker-like pulses trigger small electrical charges that spark brain cells to fire. Yet it doesn't cause the risks of surgically implanted electrodes or the treatment of last resort, shock therapy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_he_me/med_healthbeat_depression_magnet;_ylt=AmVgL_VYTtcstE91G7iv56vVJRIF


AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids' travel
Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_re_us/palin_family_travel

Voters split in many ways on gay marriage ban
Nearly 100 people gathered in a deserted parking lot under a gray Central Valley sky, ready to knock on doors and tell perfect strangers why they should vote to ban same-sex marriage in California.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/22/MNDF13L3P1.DTL&type=politics

Ex-Officer Is Arrested in Inquiry Into Brutality
CHICAGO — The authorities arrested a former Chicago police commander at his Florida home on Tuesday and charged him in a police brutality scandal that contributed to the emptying of Illinois’ death row and that continues to resonate as one of the most racially charged chapters in the city’s history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/22chicago.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1224647999-ozGtT1VaRV429twd9bhsow)

Former UCLA exec pleads guilty to body trafficking
LOS ANGELES – The former chief of UCLA's cadaver program pleaded guilty Friday for his role in selling donated body parts to medical, drug and research companies in a scheme that netted up to $1 million, prosecutors said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_re_us/body_parts_trafficking;_ylt=Ai_wD_GZntceaU.nJfCIQblvzwcF

Mom pleads not guilty in Fla. missing toddler case
ORLANDO, Fla. – The mother of a missing 3-year-old Florida girl has pleaded not guilty to charges that she killed her daughter, whose body hasn't been found despite four months of searching.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_re_us/missing_florida_girl;_ylt=Aqd11lUyWjOnv9fh2U1UgAVvzwcF

Abducted Las Vegas boy found safe by bus driver
LAS VEGAS – A 6-year-old boy abducted from his home at gunpoint is safely back in his father's care. Now, police want to know what the boy's grandfather may know about the case.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_re_us/nevada_boy_abducted;_ylt=ArIFqflajSf56_vloQikxTqs0NUE

Drunk United pilot arrested at Heathrow
44-year-old first officer failed breath test, removed from service
LONDON - United Airlines says one of its pilots has been arrested by police for being over the legal alcohol limit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27321768/

Huge Field of Dinosaur Tracks Found
More than 1,000 dinosaur footprints along with tail-drag marks have been discovered along the Arizona-Utah border. The incredibly rare concentration of beastly tracks likely belonged to at least four different species of dinosaurs, ranging from youngsters to adults. http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081020/sc_livescience/hugefieldofdinosaurtracksfound;_ylt=AhjtOtZucYsNGKoJmDrXmTYPLBIF

U.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO
LONDON (Reuters) – Two U.S. fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081020/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_ufo

Probationary police officer arrested in fatal crash
A 27-year-old Stockton Police Department probationary officer has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and felony drunken driving
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081021/A_NEWS02/81021006

ARC student leaders targeted for recall over Prop. 8 support
This week, American River College students will be asked to recall nine student leaders who endorsed a state ballot measure making same-sex marriage illegal, sending the suburban Sacramento campus
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/1327118.html

2 UC Berkeley students arrested in robbery
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Two University of California, Berkeley, students, including a football player, have been identified as suspects in an armed robbery at a dorm.
http://www.sacbee.com/114/story/1332506.html

'Band-Aid Bandit' robs for 14th time
TRACY - The "Band-Aid Bandit" struck again Monday, robbing a Subway sandwich shop in the same complex as a Walgreens Drug Store he robbed Oct. 10. It was his 14th robbery since June, the Tracy Police Department said in a report.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081021/A_NEWS02/81020014

Update: Sex offender's arrival alarms Roseville police
Roseville police are taking unprecedented steps to notify residents about the presence of convicted murderer and sex offender Michael Charles Etchison, who moved into the city last week.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/crime/archives/016301/.html

San Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution
By EVELYN NIEVES
SAN FRANCISCO – In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_re_us/san_francisco_prostitution

Obama Takes Time for a Woman Dear to Him
In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Barack Obama spoke of how his grandmother started as a secretary without a college degree and worked her way up to be a vice president of a bank.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/politics/22grandmother.html

49ers introduce Singletary ... and Jed York
The 49ers introduced their new head coach today and in so doing introduced their new owner.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/49ers/archives/016311.html

Vick to plead guilty in state dogfighting case
Michael Vick plans to plead guilty to state dog fighting charges, a step that could allow him to qualify for an early release from federal prison and into a halfway house, court papers show.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8703624?MSNHPHMA

Police: Arkansas TV anchorwoman attacked in home
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – An intruder beat and stabbed a popular TV anchorwoman in her home during a possible robbery, and left her with life-threatening injuries, police said Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_re_us/tv_anchor_attacked;_ylt=Al8x9m6Z76xvxS_Oy8bZO_tvzwcF

Former Mr. Gay U.K. Eats Boyfriend
BY PHILIP VICTOR, ABC News London
In a world of bizarre stories, here’s one chilling case of a gruesome murder and an act of cannibalism.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/worldview/2008/10/former-mr-gay-u.html

Tina Fey glues ears down to look like Sarah Palin
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Tina Fey says she glues her ears down for her popular television impressions of Sarah Palin, but it took her a while to accept that she was almost a perfect double for the Republican vice presidential candidate.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081021/en_nm/us_usa_politics_fey

Hulk Hogan's son out of Fla. jail after crash term
The 18-year-old son of celebrity wrestler Hulk Hogan has been released from jail in Florida after serving five months for causing a serious traffic crash.
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx/?news=335553>1=28103

Men sue Lindsay Lohan over wild ride
A wild ride that led to Lindsay Lohan's arrest has sparked another lawsuit. Court records show that three men who claim they were in a sport utility vehicle that Lohan commandeered in July 2007 sued the "Mean Girls" star last week.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/21/entertainment/e163538D15.DTL&tsp=1

Snake spoils woman's fashion contest fun Top of Form
Mon Oct 20, 9:52 am ET
CANBERRA (Reuters) – A woman voted best-dressed at an Australian fashion contest was unable to collect her prize after she was bitten by a deadly snake, local media said on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081020/od_nm/us_snake;_ylt=AoibC6IJbWh_UaP85wYkLf7tiBIF