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A supporter of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) stands in the rain as Obama speaks during a rally at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, October 28, 2008. Obama is campaigning in Pennsylvania and Virginia on Tuesday before the November 4 election

Police in Maine say they caught a burglar who had just broken into a home, because the thief couldn't get his car out of the burgled home's driveway. Tarr told them he pulled into the driveway to turn around, and got stuck on the ice. The homeowner agreed to try to help him get the car moving, but when she saw her laptop in the car's backseat, she took it, and went in the house. That left Tarr outside, frantically trying to move the car. He was still there when police arrived. They discovered that Tarr had three active warrants,...

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Not everyone is enchanted with NASA's plan to send a 77 year- old astronaut-turned-politician into space this fall. In fact, the news conference last January at which NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced that U.S. Sen. John Glenn was returning to space had barely gotten into the question-and-answer phase when the sniping began. "There's been some suggestion that this assignment is a political payoff of some sort," an aviation reporter said to Glenn. "That your performance at the Senate hearings on campaign finance reform impressed the White House and that this is a reward for that performance,...

several callers to Neal Boortz said they heard the Husseins' death murder on air after reporting on Pres. Bush's speech.