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    Pakistan Quake Victims Scuffle for Aid (AP)

AP - Earthquake victims scuffled over badly needed food that arrived
 Tuesday in the first aid convoys to reach this devastated city. An army
 official said the government estimated that more than 35,000 people
 died, a stark assessment that almost doubled the official death toll.

    Bush Sees Locals Leading Gulf Rebuilding (AP)

AP - President Bush pledged Tuesday that the federal government will not
 seek to dictate terms for rebuilding the hurricane-devastated Gulf
 Coast but would allow state and local officials to make key decisions.
 He rejoiced in what he said is a spirit of revival there.

    Insurgents Kill More Than 40 Iraqis (AP)

AP - Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq's constitutional referendum
 killed more than 40 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks
 Tuesday, including a suicide car bomb that ripped apart a crowded
 market in a town near the Syrian border, police said.

    Subject of Taped Beating Says He Was Sober (AP)

AP - A retired elementary teacher who was repeatedly punched in the head
 by police in an incident caught on videotape said Monday he was not
 drunk, put up no resistance and was baffled by what happened.

    Police smash huge European people-smuggling ring (Reuters)

Reuters - British police arrested seven people suspected of leading one
 of Europe's largest human smuggling rackets in a series of dawn raids
 on Tuesday.

    Stocks Set to Open Higher on Alcoa (AP)

AP - U.S. markets were poised for a recovery Tuesday, helped by
 better-than-forecast earnings from Dow industrials component Alcoa as
 well as key biotech Genentech, though minutes from the last Federal
 Open Market Committee meeting will be scrutinized for clues on just how
 hawkish the U.S. interest-rate setting committee is.

    Yahoo Adds Blogs to Its News Section (AP)

AP - Yahoo Inc.'s online news search tool on Monday added Internet
 journal entries as a supplement to professional media offerings -- an
 experiment that figures to test the public's appetite for information
 from alternative sources.

    Veteran Comic Louis Nye Dies at 92 (AP)

AP - Comedian Louis Nye, who created a national catchphrase belting out
 "Hi, ho, Steverino!" as one of the players on Steve Allen's
 groundbreaking 1950s TV show, has died. He was 92.

    Prize Pumpkins Weigh in at Over 1,200 Lbs (AP)

AP - A Rhode Island welder won a contest for the biggest pumpkin Monday
 with an entry weighing 1,443 pounds, while a retired Washington
 firefighter won a similar contest in California with an entry weighing
 1,229 pounds.

    Angels Knock Out Yankees 5-3, Reach ALCS (AP)

AP - Ervin Santana pitched 5 1-3 gutsy innings in his postseason debut
 for the Angels, Adam Kennedy hit a go-ahead triple that sent Yankees
 outfielders crashing to the ground, and Los Angeles beat New York 5-3
 Monday night in the decisive Game 5 of their AL playoff series.

    Blocked roads hamper Pakistan relief (Reuters)

Reuters - Three days after the deadly Kashmir earthquake, relief efforts
 remained chaotic on Tuesday and U.N. officials said scores more
 helicopters were needed to get food, medicine and shelter to millions
 of survivors.

    Pre-vote bombers strike Iraq (Reuters)

Reuters - Suicide car bombers killed more than two dozen Iraqis in two
 separate attacks on Tuesday, four days before a referendum on a
 constitution that has divided the nation along sectarian lines.

    Bush expects violence in Iraq but also votes (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he expected
 violence in Iraq before the country' constitutional balloting this
 weekend but also expects Iraqis to turn out to vote.

    Guatemala abandons search for victims (Reuters)

Reuters - Rescuers searching for up to 1,400 people buried when a
 landslide swept away a Maya Indian village finally gave up on Monday,
 leaving the victims to lie forever encased in a tomb of thick mud.

    World trade pact negotiations face crunch time (Reuters)

Reuters - Leading developing countries on Tuesday weighed a response to
 offers by the United States and the European Union of freer farm
 markets as pressure mounted for a breakthrough in troubled world trade
 talks.

    Angels Top the Yankees -- Again (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - They have won 26 World Series championships and 39
 American League pennants, but for all their storied tradition, for all
 their pinstriped lore, for all their October dominance, the New York
 Yankees still have not found a way to beat the Angels in a postseason
 series.

    Straight From Video (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - On a recent foray to scout movie locations, Noah
 Eichen found a cozy log cabin nestled in a lush grove and surrounded by
 gentle hills.

    Lawyers Go Behind Bars as Guardians of Prisoner Rights (Los Angeles
     Times)

Los Angeles Times - SAN FRANCISCO -- They exposed the state's locking up
 of juvenile offenders for 23 hours at a stretch in cells smeared with
 blood and feces.

    Rescue Teams Reach Areas Devastated by Earthquake (Los Angeles
     Times)

Los Angeles Times - MANSEHRA, Pakistan -- Relief workers struggled today
 to help massive numbers of earthquake victims amid shattered buildings
 and a lack of medical supplies, water and food in the devastated towns
 of Pakistan's mountainous north.

    Airmen Fill the Gaps in Wartime (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- Straining to find ground troops to
 maintain its force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has
 begun deploying thousands of Air Force personnel to combat zones in new
 jobs as interrogators, prison sentries and gunners on supply trucks.

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