4.1.09
CNN.com—West Virginia legislator wants random drug tests to be part of eligibility test to receive unemployment benefits
Fox News—Justice Department to drop case against Senator Ted Stevens
MSNBC—New Wolverine movie, not due in theaters until next month, already leaked online
ABCnews.com—Guiding Light will air its final episode later this year after 72 year run
USA Today—Federal tax on cigarettes goes from $.39 a pack to $1.01
New Scientist—Study finds that lattitude makes a diffence in gender of babies

4.2.09
CBS News—Mom drugs 13 year old daughter so mother's 40 year old boyfriend could have sex with the teen
Fox News—Blagojevich indicted on 19 counts of corruption
USA Today—Domino's gives away 11,000 free pizzas thanks to mistake on web site
CNN.com—Michael Vick says he will work in construction upon release from prison, but hopes to return to the NFL in the fall
MSNBC—Netflix delivers 2 billionth movie
ABCnews.com—Jupiter's giant red spot is shrinking

4.3.09
USA Today—Some studies predict that all Arctic ice could melt within three decades
Fox News—FCC to crack down on bloggers and Facebook users who make false statements while endorsing products that they have been given for free as part of viral marketing campaigns
BBC News—Wikia Search calls it quits
CNN.com—UK villagers prevent Google car from taking pictures of their homes for the street view feature
ABCnews.com—Microsoft to discontinue online encyclopedia Encarta
MSNBC—Tech blog says Google in negotiations to buy Twitter

4.6.09
USA Today—Some cash-strapped communities printing their own money
CNN.com—Biodegradable gum promises end to expensive cleanup costs for regular gum
Fox News—Federal court rules that hospital can be sued for releasing man who killed his wife 10 days later
CBS News—Sony in talks with YouTube to release feature films on the popular video site
Fox News—Fox News columnist fired after reviewing bootleg copy of new Wolverine movie
MSNBC—Detroit police break up organized pillow fight

4.7.09
Sports Illustrated—UNC wins NCAA tournament with another crushing double digit victory
ABCnews.com—Some Washington state residents crossing borders to buy detergent after new law bans non-eco-friendly brands
USA Today—New online service lets you will your digital assets to others after you die
MSNBC—Digitally remastered Beatles catalog to go on sale in September
BBC News—PS3 outsells the Wii in Japan for the first time in the last year and a half
New Scientist—Recycled plastics present new challenges to CSI teams

4.8.09
USA Today—Apple moves to variable pricing structure on iTunes at the behest of the major record labels
MSNBC—GM and Segway teaming to produce two-wheeled electric vehicle designed for city dwellers
Fox News—Vermont lawmakers legalize gay marriage in the state after overriding the governor's veto of the bill
New Scientist—European Space Agency to launch space telescope that will see the universe in more detail than the Hubble
CNN.com—Actor from television show House joins Obama's PR staff
CBS News—Gates proposes major changes to defense budget

4.9.09
MSNBC—Bloomberg says NYC must lay off thousands of city workers
CBS News—Iran charges US journalist with espionage
USA Today—Kosher Coke, made especially for Passover, popular with non-Jews because it is made with real sugar instead of corn syrup
CNN.com—Google releases improved version of Gmail for mobile devices
Fox News—Brown University faculty vote to rename Columbus Day in response to student complaints about the explorer
New Scientist—US teen with severe learning disabilities allowed to sue sperm bank that provided genetic material to her mother under product liability laws

4.10.09
Fox News—Posthumous collection of Vonnegut stories to be released later this year
MSNBC—Woman's custom license plate professing her love for tofu rejected because of alternate reading of phrase
CBS News—Facebook hits 200 million users
CNN.com—Dungeons & Dragons co-creator dies
BBC News—Microsoft confirms that users who buy computers with Windows 7 preinstalled will be able to downgrade to XP or Vista
USA Today—Apple counting down to 1 billionth download for iPhone app store

4.13.09
USA Today—Studios think theater owners should pay for disposable 3D glasses required for many upcoming releases
CNN.com—Saudi judge won't annul marriage between 8 year old girl and 47 year old man
Fox News—Man who fathered 14 children owes over half a million dollars in child support
BBC News—Leonard Nimoy introduces new Star Trek film at surprise screening in Austin
ABCnews.com—Chicago doctor may have unwittingly exposed hundreds of patients to TB
CBS News—Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping and murdering her neighbor's 8 year old daughter; officials believe the killing took place in the church

4.14.09
CNN.com—Phil Spector found guilty of murder
CBS News—Mel Gibson's wife of 28 years files for divorce
USA Today—Galaga for the iPhone! O...M...G.
Fox News—Obama eases travel and money transfer rules to Cuba for Cuban Americans with family in Cuba
BBC News—Egg collected by Darwin during his voyage on the HMS Beagle rediscovered at Cambridge
ABCnews.com—Stem cells could be used to treat infertililty

4.15.09
MSNBC—13 year old boy accused of robbing bank with a handgun
USA Today—Goldman Sachs to return $10 billion in bailout money
Fox News—California company plans to beam down solar power from space as soon as 2016
ABCnews.com—NASA will name treadmill on ISS after Stephen Colbert
CNN.com—AT&T pushing to be exclusive vendor for the iPhone in the US until at least 2011
CBS News—Disgraced former governor of Illinois Blagojevich to star in NBC reality show

4.16.09
MSNBC—Book stolen by Union soldier 145 years ago finally returned to Washington and Lee University library
Fox News—Man who was ejected from Yankee Stadium because he left his seat to use the bathroom during God Bless America is suing the team for political and religious discrimination
ABCnews.com—Obama calls for simplification of tax code
CNN.com—Pigeons being used to smuggle goods into Colombian prison
CBS News—Yahoo employees brace for another round of layoffs
USA Today—eBay plans to spin off Skype with an IPO

4.17.09
CNN.com—Obama wants to invest in several new high speed rail corridors
MSNBC—English village may leave potholes unfilled to slow speeders
ABCnews.com—Celebs race CNN to claim first Twitter account with one million followers
Fox News—John Madden retires from football announcing
CBS News—Bedbug infestations on the rise in the US
USA Today—Mother turns in graffiti-spraying son for reward money

4.20.09
ABCnews.com—Man talking on cell phone while driving veers car into water-filled ditch and drowns his five child passengers
BBC News—West Africa may face another megadrought in the near future
CNN.com—Man wanted in connection with two robberies and one killing is using Craigslist to find his victims
CBS News—Obama says he will crack down on banks that gouge customers with rate hikes and new fees
MSNBC—Exxon tops Fortune 500 list for 2008
USA Today—Biden wants higher education to be more affordable

4.21.09
CNN.com—Stephen Hawking hospitalized
ABCnews.com—Bank of America beats Wall Street estimates and posts profit, but warns of worsening problems with borrowers defaulting on loans
USA Today—TiVo to sell anonymous, aggregate viewer data to advertisers, producers, and television stations
CBS News—Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion
MSNBC—Adobe releasing versions of Flash for televisions, DVRs, and Blu-ray players
Fox News—Pepsi wants to buy its two largest bottlers for $6 billion

4.22.09
CNN.com—Freddie Mac CFO dead in apparent suicide
CBS News—Two friends send 217,000 text messages in a month to set a new world record
New Scientist—Scientists find links between anorexia and autism
Fox News—NYC wants to reduce the amount of salt used in restaurant food
ABCnews.com—MySpace founder stepping down as CEO
BBC News—Some of world's most important rivers drying up

4.23.09
Sports Illustrated—Stephen Curry to forgo senior year at Davidson to head to the NBA
CNN.com—Apple sells 1 billionth iPhone app
ABCnews.com—Year over year quarterly sales for Microsoft fall for the fist time in the company's history since going public
Fox News—Two fifth graders charged with selling pot at their elementary school
USA Today—Jay Leno checks into hospital with undisclosed illness
CBS News—Project Runway to return this summer

4.24.09
ABCnews.com—California man forces his 7 year old son to get a gang tattoo
USA Today—Obama wants to overhaul student loan system
Fox News—Asian Americans upset at new University of California admissions policy, claiming that it will significantly reduce the number of Asian students who are admitted
CBS News—Bronx Zoo closing multiple exhibits due to budget shortfalls
BBC News—Massive black hole in another galaxy is ejecting water vapor
CNN.com—Schwarzenegger may have cameo in fourth Terminator movie

4.27.09
CNN.com—US bracing for swine flu outbreak
ABCnews.com—University professor on the run after killing his wife and two others
USA Today—GM kills Pontiac brand
Fox News—Man dies after being hit by lightening while riding motorcycle
CBS News—Many doctors now question need for annual prostate screening for men over 50
BBC News—New optical disc from GE can store 500 gigs of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs

4.28.09
New Scientist—Astronomers spot most distant object to date
MSNBC—Amazon buys maker of popular e-book iPhone app
BBC News—IBM to pit computer against human on game show Jeopardy
USA Today—Iowa issues first same sex marriage license
ABCnews.com—ATM fraud may be more common than previously thought
CNN.com—Bea Arthur dead at 86

4.29.09
CNN.com—Arlen Spector leaves the Republican party and becomes a Democrat
USA Today—GM to close over a thousand dealerships and will phase out or sell the Saturn brand by the end of the year
CBS News—Mattel wins $100 million and control over the Bratz brand after a lengthy legal battle
New Scientist—Gene variant found to be present in 65% of people diagnosed with autism
BBC News—Swiss woman fired after she logged on to Facebook when she told her employer she was too ill to use a computer
Fox News—Congress may overturn ban on internet gambling

4.30.09
CBS News—WHO says swine flu pandemic imminent as it grows in strength in the US and Europe
CNN.com—Officials believe they have identified patient zero in swine flu epidemic
USA Today—Yahoo founder gets only $1 in compensation for his final year in the CEO position
Fox News—Microsoft working on iPhone challenger that it hopes to release in 2010
ABCnews.com—Airports using heat scanners to detect people with swine flu
New Scientist—Korean scientists say they have cloned dogs which glow red under ultraviolet light