Teen fatally shot on CTA bus
A woman who held her dying cousin's hand after she was shot on a South Side CTA bus says a gunman fired into the bus after getting into a minor argument with another passenger. Kiyanna Salter, 17, was on her way home with her 18-year-old cousin after visiting an aunt when she was gunned down at about 10 p.m. Sunday on the No. 71 bus at 7100 S. Woodlawn, relatives said.

N. California bus crash leaves 10 dead
A casino-bound charter bus flipped over about 10 miles from its destination, ejecting passengers and crushing others as it rolled into a ditch. Ten people died and dozens of others were injured.

Headmistress vs. Oprah: Chat-show queen sued
The ex-headmistress of Oprah Winfrey’s school for girls in South Africa sued the talk show host for defamation, claiming Winfrey falsely suggested she tried to cover up abuse at the school. In widely reported remarks last year, Winfrey suggested that Nomvuyo Mzamane, 39, of Philadelphia, knew about alleged abuse by a dorm matron and tried to cover it up, Mzamane says in the lawsuit. Her lawsuit seeks more than $250,000 on five defamation counts.
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McCain calls Obama a liar

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Behind in the polls, Republican John McCain on Monday called Democratic rival Barack Obama a liar as he leveled his harshest criticism yet, and said the campaign boils down to one basic question: Who is Obama really?

Palin said Obama 'pals around with terrorists.' Is she being fair?

Chef says Peraica ad half-baked

Over the summer, 13-year-old Diamon McKelvin estimates he spent five to 10 hours a day on MySpace. Like Diamon, an eighth-grader at the Woodson Middle Campus of the University of Chicago Charter School, nearly three-quarters of Chicago Public Schools students have their own Web pages on a social-network site.