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A US F-15 jet crashed in Libya overnight and its crew ejected, the US Africa Command said. (more)

Failure by Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts, especially locking in the 15 percent capital gains tax rate, will spark a stock market sell off starting December 15 as investors move to lock in gains at a lower rate than the 20 percent it would jump to next year, warn analysts. (more)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Air Force has identified the pilot missing after the Alaska crash of an F-22 Raptor jet as Capt. Jeffrey Haney. (more)

A STOWAWAY crocodile on a flight escaped from its carrier bag and sparked an onboard stampede that caused the flight to crash, killing 19 passengers and crew. (more)

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Actress Juliette Lewis has been injured in a hit-and-run crash in Burbank, police said. (more)

On Saturday evening, the passengers aboard Flight 4951 from Atlanta, Georgia, to White Plains, New York were notified that they were going to be experiencing an emergency landing courtesy of a faulty right landing gear. CNN’s Jeanne Moos brings us inside the final moments of a jetliner’s crash landing. (more)

Former Illinois State trooper Matt Mitchell is asking the state to compensate him for injuries from a crash in which he hit and killed two Collinsville sisters at triple-digit speeds. (more)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The motorcycle racing community mourned the death of a promising 13-year-old rider in a crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway while defending the youth circuit that allows teens to drive vehicles that can top 120 mph. (more)

LUCERNE VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — The crowd at the off-road race could almost touch the trucks as they hurtled and bounced over the desert sand. They were close enough for one mistake to end eight lives. (more)

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Federal investigators have finished much of their work at the site of the Alaska plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others, and have shifted focus to interviewing survivors and hoisting the wreckage from a steep mountainside. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In Arizona, the shooting death of a rancher blew the lid off simmering anger over border security and helped solidify support for a tough new immigration law. A similar eruption threatens in Virginia following the death of a Catholic nun in a car accident involving a man in the country illegally and accused of drunken driving. (more)

Camillus, NY — A Camillus couple had a rude awakening this morning when a pick-up truck went airborne and smashed through their bedroom. (more)

SAINTHIA, India (AP) — The 22-year-old was asleep on the overnight train, headed to his distant job at a call center, when an enormous jolt awakened him and his coach flipped. He lay with his leg broken for five hours, crushed under the dead bodies of other passengers as he waited for help. (more)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — For the first time since the World Cup began, South Africa’s beloved Nelson Mandela appeared in public Thursday. Instead of a triumphal moment in the world’s spotlight, a somber, frail Mandela attended the funeral of his 13-year-old great-granddaughter, killed in a car crash with an allegedly drunk family friend at the wheel. (more)

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities said Monday that someone stole a credit card from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in Russia, and the card was then used to withdraw cash. (more)

DARIEN, Conn. (AP) — Police said a naked man yelling that he was ‘Jesus’ was the catalyst for a five-vehicle accident on Interstate 95 North in Darien that injured three people and slowed traffic for nearly six hours. Police Sgt. Jeremiah Marron said officers responded to reports Saturday that a nude male was causing a disturbance on I-95. As police arrived, the man got into a car but police were able to pull the vehicle over. (more)

SALANG PASS, Afghanistan (AP) — Relatives of passengers aboard an Afghan plane that crashed with 44 on board joined a desperate search for the wreckage Tuesday as government and NATO search helicopters whirred overhead. (more)

Regulators examining the causes of the brief stock market free fall last Thursday are looking closely at heavy selling in the market for stock-index futures by a single trader, beginning 10 minutes before stock prices began to plummet, Edward Wyatt and Graham Bowley report in The New York Times. (more)

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A 10-year-old Dutch boy lay in a hospital bed, head bandaged, skin pale and legs shattered — the lone “miracle” survivor of a plane crash Wednesday that killed 103 people in the Libyan capital. Most victims were Dutch tourists returning from vacation in South Africa. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — A Staten Island ferry that malfunctioned and smashed into a pier tossing passengers to the deck and hurting as many as 37 has been idled, while federal and local officials try to figure out what went wrong. (more)