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Shuttle Mission to Telescope Is Moved to ’09
data: 01.10.08
The mission to service the telescope will be delayed until next year, NASA officials said.
 Products from China that contain milk will be held at the border until tests prove that they are not contaminated.
 Rain overnight prompted the lifting of an evacuation order for dozens of homes threatened by a wildfire about 10 miles northwest of Davenport.
 More than 1,000 people attended a memorial service for Edward Scott McMichael, a busker with perfect pitch and an improbable horn whom most people in Seattle knew as Tuba Man.
A popular television anchorwoman was bludgeoned almost beyond recognition in her home in Little Rock.
 A post-Katrina cash grant program known as the Road Home has had no effect on most of the houses in New Orleans, as population growth has stagnated in the last year.
A judge lifted an order that had forced Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick to stay in a three-county area because of pending assault and perjury charges.
A bus carrying approximately 45 passengers bound for a casino north of Sacramento flipped over and rolled into a ditch on Sunday.
 The Minneapolis Interstate bridge that collapsed in 2007, killing 13 people, had cracks in its welds and rust in many places, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
 A plane that was navigating through thunderstorms crashed as it was about to land at an airport in southern Minnesota this morning, federal officials said.
A federal judge in Missouri temporarily blocked parts of a new state law that requires sexual offenders to remain in their homes on Halloween.
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. accepted the nomination for vice president with criticism of Senator John McCain.
 The Republican National Convention is an irksome reminder to some St. Paul locals that the rest of the world doesn’t acknowledge their independence from Minneapolis.
A second supervisor arrested after a big immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville has pleaded guilty to immigration charges.
 The temporary memorial for the victims of United Flight 93, which crashed on Sept. 11 2001, is being moved across a road in Shanksville, Pa.
 Congressional candidates are searching for a Goldilocks approach to energy that is neither too hot nor too cold, and that voters will believe is sincere.
Polecamy:
1. On Religion: Obama’s Victory Ushers in a New Generation of Black Ministers
data: 15.11.08
The presence of an African-American president, and one from the post-civil rights era, could impart influence and prominence on his contemporaries in the black ministry.
2. National Briefing | West: California: Fire Coastal Enclave
data: 15.11.08
A brush fire destroyed an unknown number of homes in the enclave of Montecito, outside Santa Barbara, forcing residents to evacuate what has long been a hideaway for the rich.
3. National Briefing | Charities: No Change? Swipe Your Card at a Kettle
data: 15.11.08
The Salvation Army is experimenting with a plastic alternative for people who do not have cash to throw in a holiday red kettle.
4. National Briefing | Midwest: Illinois: Suits Charge Violence by Police
data: 15.11.08
A lawsuit asserts that some white Chicago police officers committed hate crimes against a black family cheering Barack Obama’s victory last week at their home.
5. National Briefing | Science: Group Set to Sue Over Clean Water Act
data: 15.11.08
The Center for Biological Diversity said it was prepared to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to use the Clean Water Act to respond to the threat of ocean acidification.
6. National Briefing | Washington: Debt, but No Layoffs, at Postal Service
data: 15.11.08
The Postal Service ended its fiscal year $2.8 billion in the red, battered by a faltering economy that cut the amount of mail being sent by 9.5 billion items.
7. National Briefing | Washington: FEMA Trailers Sold as ‘Scrap’
data: 15.11.08
The government is selling travel trailers that were banned from use as emergency housing in disasters because many had toxic levels of formaldehyde.
8. National Briefing | Washington: Bridge Collapse Is Laid to Design Flaw
data: 15.11.08
The Minneapolis Interstate bridge that collapsed in 2007, killing 13 people, had cracks in its welds and rust in many places, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
9. Henry Loomis, Who Led Voice of America, Is Dead at 89
data: 15.11.08
Mr. Loomis extended the reach and defended the independence of the Voice of America in the late 1950s and early 1960s before resigning in a clash with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
10. Space Plumbers Ready for Shuttle Launching
data: 15.11.08
If all goes as planned, a team of intrepid space plumbers and lube-job specialists will lift off on Friday for a visit to the International Space Station.
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