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1. Bush stance on cease-fire shows support for Israel
2. Obamas seek to get settled for start of school
3. Much of downtown Aspen evacuated in bomb scare
4. Israel targets Gaza mosques used by Hamas
5. UN: Gaza faces 'alarming' humanitarian situation
6. Malaysian chopper saves Indian tanker from pirates
7. Deadline for Russia gas cutoff to Ukraine passes
8. More Wires Below
9. Airstrikes rock Gaza as truce remains elusive
10. Suspected US missile strike kills 3 in Pakistan
11. Report: Toyota developing solar powered green car
12. Eggs served cold on Detroit-area freeway
13. Suspicious packages force evacuations in Aspen
14. Crew blamed for crash near Mount Everest in Nepal
15. Boston teen fatally stabbed on city bus
16. Time Warner Cable and Viacom reach deal
17. Sri Lanka: Military seizes key rebel crossroads
18. Clintons, revelers ring in 2009 in Times Square
19. Charges weighed against Montana dog breeder
20. Sri Lanka says it seizes key crossroads
21. Japan leader vows to pull Japan out of recession
22. Wis. man accused of stealing $625 in lobster, beef
23. Arabs draft UN resolution to halt Gaza attacks
24. Obituaries in the news
25. Terry Bowden to coach North Alabama
26. Runaway big rig on foggy Calif. highway injures 11
27. Canadian avalanche survivor mourns dead friends
28. VMI edges Richmond 73-70
29. Gardner-Webb defeats Anderson, S.C. 86-83
30. Suspicious driver arrested near White House
31. NKorea vows to strengthen its military
32. More Wires

1. Bush stance on cease-fire shows support for Israel
2. Obamas seek to get settled for start of school
3. Suspicious driver arrested near White House
4. Chief justice: Inflation outpacing pay for judges
5. Hezbollah-like tactic used by Hamas against Israel
6. Company has inaugural tradition dating to Truman
7. White House says cease-fire depends on Hamas
8. Obama visits gym, takes photos with baby
9. Low-key New Year's Eve planned at Bush's ranch
10. White House: Cease-fire depends on Hamas
11. Obamas to move into Washington hotel this weekend
12. Bribery trial looms as Jefferson loses delay bid
13. White House: Bush discusses Mideast with PM Olmert
14. White House: Bush talked by phone with PM Olmert
15. Democrats' struggle with filling Obama seat
16. Hawaii giddy to have Obama home on the island
17. Democrats' struggle over filling Obama seat
18. Obama team seeks public input on health care
19. Inaugural committee offers a chance at tickets
20. Not so fast: Senate has a say on Obama's successor
21. Correction: Soldier Funerals story
22. Judge awards $65m to men taken from USS Pueblo
23. Bush calls Abbas to discuss Gaza
24. Douglas Elmendorf to replace Orszag at CBO
25. Warren's inauguration prayer could draw more ire
26. Judge awards $65 million to USS Pueblo victims
27. Judge reviewing GTMO detainees OKs detention of 2
28. Obama: Blagojevich appointee shouldn't be seated
29. Seniors give Daschle health reform ideas
30. Court: Religious objection won't stop DNA sampling
31. More Politics Wires

1. Album sales plunge, digital downloads up
2. On the Net: Beyonce music videos dominate YouTube
3. Brother accused of embezzling from Dane Cook
4. Atlanta inner-city school gets $365K from Oprah
5. Cloris Leachman to be Rose Parade grand marshal
6. NFL 'Monday Night Football' leads in cable ratings
7. Dane Cook's half brother accused of embezzlement
8. Actor Matt Dillon charged with speeding in Vermont
9. Playwright Harold Pinter buried in London
10. Norway: Date set for Amy Winehouse drug appeal
11. You could party with a rock star on New Year's Eve
12. Woody Harrelson weds longtime love in Maui
13. Country Music shrine to keep historic instruments
14. Americans stay away from TV on holiday week
15. List of top 20 shows in prime-time Nielsen ratings
16. NYE minus VIP equals partying at home for many
17. Clintons to join NYC mayor for New Year's Eve
18. Rapper DMX pleads guilty to drug, theft charges
19. Gary Coleman has habit of police involvement
20. Lark Previn, daughter of Mia Farrow, dies at 35
21. Broadway lights to be dimmed for Harold Pinter
22. Webber: 'Phantom' sequel in the works
23. Children's book based on Holocaust story is pulled
24. Dick Clark, 79, is still rockin' New Year's Eve
25. Great jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dies at 70
26. 'Marley & Me' earns $36.3M box office biscuit
27. Jimmy Buffett, mogul of Margaritaville
28. 'Marley & Me' earns $50.7M box office biscuit
29. 'Valkyrie' non-flop augurs well for Cruise, UA
30. Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dead at 70
31. More Entertainment Wires

1. Deadline for Russia gas cutoff to Ukraine passes
2. Report: Toyota developing solar powered green car
3. Time Warner Cable and Viacom reach deal
4. Japan leader vows to pull Japan out of recession
5. Street looks to '09 with relief after terrible '08
6. General Motors gets first tranche of US loan
7. Madoff lists assets for SEC; agency mum on details
8. Citigroup limits top executive pay, bonuses
9. Celgene warns that anticlot drug linked to deaths
10. Mexican stocks dip as market ends dismal year
11. Commodities look to close out rough year
12. Credit markets head into uncertain 2009
13. GMAC completes debt deal to raise capital
14. Blackout looms in Time Warner Cable-Viacom fight
15. Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
16. Stores to airlines, many brands vanished in 2008
17. Bankruptcy an option for chem giant LyondellBasell
18. Crude ends extraordinarily volatile year below $45
19. Oil ends worst year in Nymex history below $44
20. Madoff lawyer says client will provide asset list
21. Gazprom: Russia to cut gas supplies to Ukraine
22. Oil rises in quiet trading to cap turbulent year
23. Treasury lays out details for auto aid
24. Summary Box: LyondellBasell says Ch. 11 an option
25. At a glance: Vicki Robin
26. Revisiting a Classic: 'Your Money or Your Life'
27. Treasury defends handling of bailout
28. Mortgage crisis spurs tougher rules for brokers
29. GMAC bondholders agree to swap $21.2B in debt
30. Brazilian airline founder faces murder accusations
31. More Business Wires

1. Microsoft's Zune players freeze on New Year's Eve
2. Chinese software pirates get prison sentences
3. FCC head drops filtering from free broadband plan
4. 'GoodQuests' tie online mazes to charity
5. Review: Ditching car OK with Net transit planners
6. Pa. hospitals go high-tech on infection tracking
7. China's 3G rollout sets off sales scramble
8. Remembering shuttle Columbia's 7 astronauts
9. Scientists eye unusual swarm of Yellowstone quakes
10. Scientists watch unusual Yellowstone quake swarm
11. Report: HP sells printers in Iran with third party
12. E-shopping site to open in China for Japan goods
13. Uproar in Australia over plan to block Web sites
14. Wal-Mart to start selling Apple's iPhone on Sunday
15. Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home
16. Some stations to reach fewer viewers with digital
17. Review: Cable, sat TV alternatives OK but a hassle
18. Notebook shipments overtake desktops in new study
19. NPR launches features to build custom podcasts
20. Harmonic to buy Scopus for $5.62 per share
21. Xinhua: Chinese court backs local cell-phone firm
22. Red Hat 3Q up 20 pct, but revenue below estimate
23. Sprint and Cogent settle Internet traffic fight
24. Commerce Dept. criticizes Internet addressing plan
25. GateHouse Media sues NY Times Co. over copyright
26. Subway fare hackers to partner with transit agency
27. InfoGroup founder: Company should consider a sale
28. Israelis unearth Byzantine gold hoard
29. Dutch company punches holes in font to save ink
30. Cloud computing looms larger on corporate horizon
31. More Technology Wires

1. Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks
2. Trying to prevent lymphedema after breast cancer
3. Hard to hear at holiday parties? Blame your brain
4. Study: Obesity surgery reverses diabetes in teens
5. Study: Family behavior key to health of gay youth
6. Hospitals ill from more bad debt, credit troubles
7. Millions of older Americans use risky drug combos
8. Too sick to work? Need health care? Take a number
9. Avoiding the painkiller-overuse rut in migraines
10. Got the flu? CDC says Tamiflu may not be much help
11. CDC: Early flu season cases are resisting Tamiflu
12. Woman gets face transplant in Cleveland
13. FDA raises the bar for new diabetes drugs
14. Woman gets near-total face transplant in Cleveland
15. Face transplant doctor waited long for this chance
16. Nation's first face transplant done in Cleveland
17. Combo treatment for prostate cancer cuts deaths
18. Pushing more doctors to ditch the prescription pad
19. Racial gap in colon cancer deaths is widening
20. New study firmly ties hormone use to breast cancer
21. FDA reconsiders consumer advice on fish
22. Study: Small breast tumors may need more treatment
23. New test aims to predict breast cancer risk better
24. Lancet: Dozens of nations inflated vaccine numbers
25. Study: Bone drug helps chemo fight breast cancer
26. FDA advisers: restrict some asthma drugs
27. Correction: Alternative medicine story
28. Kids with obesity-linked gene like fattening foods
29. Kids with obesity-linked gene pick fattening foods
30. FDA deadlocked on asthma drug risks
31. More Health Wires

1. Much of downtown Aspen evacuated in bomb scare
2. Suspicious packages force evacuations in Aspen
3. Boston teen fatally stabbed on city bus
4. Clintons, revelers ring in 2009 in Times Square
5. Charges weighed against Montana dog breeder
6. Obituaries in the news
7. Runaway big rig on foggy Calif. highway injures 11
8. Pa. police find woman's body, 60 birds in trailer
9. Teen defends Alamo in leaked video on the Internet
10. Colorado's 'Make My Day' law eyed in home shooting
11. Leaked video of Alamo ministry child on Internet
12. NM sect leader gets decade in prison, refuses food
13. 2 men, 15-year-old girl charged with NYC murders
14. Runaway big rig on foggy Calif. highway injures 10
15. Fall weather set stage for deadly avalanche season
16. Murders, shootings decline in Newark for 2nd year
17. Burris goes to court to push appointment through
18. Caution light rerouted Marine in fatal jet crash
19. Ill. Senate pick stands by criticism of governor
20. Schwarzenegger tries again to close $41.6B deficit
21. Palin: Future son-in-law is no high school dropout
22. Police: Dressed as nurse, woman tries stealing kid
23. Ill. governor's Senate appointment may be shrewd
24. Snow and wind add bitter chill to end of 2008
25. Economy puts damper on New Year's Eve celebrations
26. Convict wants retrial in plot to kill US soldiers
27. Va. priest struck and killed by falling tree
28. Schwarzenegger issues plan for Calif. budget fix
29. Reno man pleads not guilty to killing student, 19
30. Ill. Senate appointee plans to attend swearing-in
31. More U.S. Wires

1. Israel targets Gaza mosques used by Hamas
2. UN: Gaza faces 'alarming' humanitarian situation
3. Malaysian chopper saves Indian tanker from pirates
4. Airstrikes rock Gaza as truce remains elusive
5. Suspected US missile strike kills 3 in Pakistan
6. Crew blamed for crash near Mount Everest in Nepal
7. Sri Lanka: Military seizes key rebel crossroads
8. Sri Lanka says it seizes key crossroads
9. Arabs draft UN resolution to halt Gaza attacks
10. Canadian avalanche survivor mourns dead friends
11. NKorea vows to strengthen its military
12. Israelis detail combat sorties over Gaza
13. US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,221
14. Bangkok nightclub fire kills 59, injures 130
15. Dozens die in nightclub fire in Bangkok
16. NKorea vows to strengthen military in 2009
17. Gaza's tunnel economy collapses in bombing raids
18. Mexico extradites 10 drug suspects to US
19. Arabs want UN resolution ensuring Gaza cease-fire
20. Israel moves forward and sends more troops to Gaza
21. Israel sends more troops to Gaza border
22. Sarkozy announces Israel trip over Gaza violence
23. Bangkok nightclub fire kills 54, injures 100
24. Mexico extradites 10 drug cartel suspects to US
25. UK turns Iraqi suspects over to Baghdad
26. 54 die in nightclub fire in Bangkok
27. Jamaica songwriter Ford dies; penned Marley tunes
28. Mexican agents accused of migrant abuse
29. US deaths down in Iraq in 2008, up in Afghanistan
30. World bids adieu to a rocky 2008; worries over '09
31. More International Wires

1. Eggs served cold on Detroit-area freeway
2. Wis. man accused of stealing $625 in lobster, beef
3. Alleged beef, lobster thief says 'times are tough'
4. Ga. restaurant marks 2009 with chicken nugget drop
5. Man who aided bicycle theft plan has bike stolen
6. Man tries to fool cops by calling 911 during stop
7. Baby born during trans-Atlantic flight to Boston
8. Police say alleged drug dealer accepted gift cards
9. Woman gives birth on flight to Boston
10. Some women threaten no sex if men shoot fireworks
11. For some, humor of 'nutty Nutcracker' falls flat
12. Minn. man accused of breaking into his own home
13. Ex-colonel gets prison for stand-in paternity test
14. Minn. man who drove plow into river is fired
15. Ore. woman, 88, gives naked intruder the 'squeeze'
16. Car wash worker chases off robber, ends up in jail
17. Man found aboard idling Zamboni faces OUI charge
18. Anonymous donor pays Vermont man's $1,000 rent
19. Boy Scout earns all 121 merit badges
20. Woman slips out of cuffs and allegedly kicks cops
21. Ohio judge lectures man after his 109th case
22. Discarded lottery ticket resurfaces a $650K winner
23. Vt. man wins $650K after pulling ticket from trash
24. Man accused of ramming wheelchair into officer
25. Almost unheard-of: Boy Scout earns all 121 badges
26. Colorado town tries to solve mystery of no water
27. Wisconsin state Web site features wrong skyline
28. Wis. Web site image sends Capitol to Minneapolis
29. Bad recycling: Pay stub used as bank robbery note
30. Alleged bank robber writes note on own pay stub
31. More Oddities Wires

1. Terry Bowden to coach North Alabama
2. VMI edges Richmond 73-70
3. Gardner-Webb defeats Anderson, S.C. 86-83
4. Auburn holds off SE Louisiana 77-65
5. Browns owner interviews Pioli and Mangini
6. LT misses practice, plans to take it easy Thursday
7. Drexel edges city rival Saint Joseph's 64-52
8. UNC-Asheville defeats Western Carolina 81-78
9. Rested Boldin won't miss his first playoff game
10. Saban: Smith could return to 'Bama
11. Atlanta owner basks in team's turnaround
12. Is 1 more comeback in store for Elway?
13. Providence beats St. John's, 75-54
14. Clark leads Duquesne past Bowling Green 76-65
15. Georgia defeats Kennesaw State 72-52
16. La Salle stops Manhattan 89-64
17. Cubs agree with INF Miles
18. Cubs, infielder Aaron Miles agree on 2-year deal
19. No. 24 Buckeyes hang on to beat Iowa, 68-65
20. Indians acquire INF Mark DeRosa to play third
21. Niners' Singletary drops 2 more assistants
22. In need of change, owner says bye to BFF Shanahan
23. Colts' defensive turnaround quiets critics
24. With Cowher out, Jets set sights elsewhere
25. Chelios, at age 46, ready for outdoor hockey
26. Titans practice without Haynesworth, Vanden Bosch
27. Cowboys fire special teams coach Read
28. Lehigh rolls past NJ Tech 66-38
29. Mayo wins defensive rookie award but wants more
30. LSU edges Louisiana-Lafayette 81-79
31. More Sports Wires