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  • Billy had been to almost every Giants game in years. He'd become a fixture and an amulet of comfort for the team. Then on July 31, he just stopped showing up. Now the team, missing its friend and its good luck charm, is hoping for some good news.
  • President Obama will be addressing a house deeply divided when he goes before Congress on Thursday night. Many fellow Democrats hope to hear a speech filled with bold proposals to rally a dispirited nation. Republicans have their own plan, which revolves largely around legislation to knock down new and proposed labor and environmental rules.
  • The StoryCorps oral history project marks the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, with the voices of those directly affected by the attacks. Together with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, StoryCorps is collecting stories about each person who died on that day. So far, more than 1,200 interviews have been recorded.
  • The president's jobs proposal is expected to include a combination of new and extended tax cuts, new spending on public works projects, and assistance for those who've been out of work a long time. But he's dogged by the controversy that surrounds his early stimulus effort.
  • The NFL regular season kicks off Thursday night with the New Orleans Saints traveling to Green Bay to take on last year's Super Bowl champions, the Packers.
  • The Afghan city of Jalalabad is where top al-Qaida leaders were last seen as they fled Kabul after the attacks against the U.S. on Sept. 11. The city then went on to become a hot bed of insurgent activity. A decade after Sept. 11, the city is trying to stay at peace.
  • Twenty-nine Louisville restaurants at 46 locations have signed up so far for a voluntary program to list calorie and other nutritional information on…
  • In 1971, computer scientist Michael S. Hart typed the text of the Declaration of Independence and made it available on a computer network so others could read it as well. It was an electronic document, and he created what you might think of as the prototypical e-book. Before his death this week at the age of 64, Hart founded Project Gutenberg, which provides free digital literature, to spread literacy.
  • About 180 wildfires are burning across the sate. They spread from the Louisiana border into the Texas Hill Country.
  • The U.S. Postal Service is on the brink of defaulting on its employee pension obligations and is asking congressional leaders for assistance, but U.S.…
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