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  • President Obama held separate meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday. Obama said there is no shortcut to Palestinian statehood. The administration is trying to revive peace negotiations.
  • Stomper the bear is the mascot for the Lake Erie Crushers, a minor league baseball team in Ohio. Someone stole the bear's head from a storage closet. The mascot missed the Crushers' final home games.
  • As protesters argued that the Georgia man's guilt was in doubt, the victim's loved ones found some closure. Troy Davis was executed for the killing of a police officer in 1989.
  • They dropped by 9,000 from the previous week, but remain high.
  • The epinephrine inhalers, marketed as Primatene Mist, are one of the last consumer products with chloroflouorocarbons, or CFCs, to disappear from the market.
  • NASA says the falling Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite will plunge back to Earth Friday afternoon, Eastern time. Most of it will burn up, but some debris could reach ground. Scientists predict it won't reach either of the poles or North America.
  • The Florida Congressman has been labeled as a rising star within the Republican Party. He speaks with Michel Martin about Obama's jobs plan; the role of his lone conservative voice in the mostly Democratic Congressional Black Caucus; why more blacks aren't making it to elite military teams; and the end of DADT.
  • One of many samples given to governors and heads of state, it had probably been sitting in a box for 30 years. It's one of several moon rocks that have gone missing. Nine states are still looking for their pieces, according to trackers.
  • The publisher says it released the book because the WikiLeaks founder received a six-figure advance but then changed his mind and kept the money. In the memoir, Assange says he did not sexually assault two women who have accused him of rape.
  • Cantaloupe has been implicated in two multistate outbreaks of food-borne illness this year. Eight people have died in the latest outbreak; illnesses are expected to climb, CDC says, because listeria can live in the gut for up to two months before a person gets sick.
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