10.3.11
USA Today—Hank Williams Jr. dropped from ESPN Monday Night Football opening after making controversial comments about Obama
CNN.com—Amanda Knox's murder conviction overturned in Italy
Fox News—Hospital banning smoke breaks for employees on duty and will also not let people report for work if their clothes smell like smoke
MSNBC—King of Infomercials found dead in his jail cell of apparent suicide
CBS News—Arrested Development coming back with a feature film and a new season of the television series
BBC News—China launches first module of what will eventually become their space station

10.4.11
CNN.com—Apple reveals fifth generation of its popular smartphone, the iPhone 4S
Fox News—TSA launches fast track pre-screening program for frequent fliers
MSNBC—Fox says it can no longer afford to produce The Simpsons unless the cast members agree to a 45% pay cut
USA Today—NBA season in jeopardy after labor talks break down
ABCnews.com—Sprint commits to buying 30 million iPhones over the next three years in order to get the popular smartphone on its network
BBC News—Even janitorial and security staff will have a mandate to report athletes doping at next year's summer Olympics

10.5.11
CNN.com—Steve Jobs, Apple cofounder, dies at 56
USA Today—Sarah Palin officially declares that she will not run for president in 2012. Something that everyone outside her circle of insanely devoted followers has known for months now.
CBS News—GOP presidential candidate Cain tells Occupy Wall Street protesters that if they are not rich and are unemployed, they have no one but themselves to blame. I don't think he understands what they're protesting about.
Fox News—Anonymous threatens to attack NYSE
MSNBC—Scientists create human clones in the lab for the purpose of harvesting embryonic stem cells
BBC News—Samsung plans to ask european courts to block the release of the iPhone 4S in an ongoing patent dispute with Apple

10.6.11
USA Today—Federal government orders all medical marijuana dispenseries in California to shut down within 45 days
CNN.com—Man arrested on child pornography charges after men who robbed his house report him to police
ABCnews.com—Occupy Wall Street protesters occupy Bank of America building in Los Angeles
MSNBC—Medical panel to recommend against regular use of PSA blood test for prostate cancer screening
Fox News—Kansas man sues Facebook for violating federal wiretapping laws
CBS News—Former All-Star third baseman Robin Ventura hired as new White Sox manager

10.7.11
Fox News—US military drones infected by computer virus
CNN.com—After DC comics gives exclusive digital rights to some comics to Amazon, Barnes & Noble removes all physical copies of those comics from its stores
CBS News—Samsung and Google delay launch of new smartphone out of respect for Steve Jobs
MSNBC—AT&T takes sells through 200,000 preorders for iPhone 4S in less than 12 hours
ABCnews.com—California bans cell phone use by train drivers
USA Today—Microsoft to offer streaming television content on Xbox 360s

10.10.11
Fox News—Netflix drops Qwikster name, plans to keep DVD rental service under the Netflix brand
CBS News—Former Weezer bassist dies of overdose after dreaming of his death two weeks earlier on Twitter
MSNBC—Ben & Jerry's board voices support for Occupy Wall Street protesters
ABCnews.com—Former Miss Iceland claims $2 million reward for helping FBI locate fugitive mobster Whitey Bulger
USA Today—Facebook finally releases iPad app
CNN.com—Bjork's new album will be first record released as a smartphone app that includes games, musical scores, and visualizations of the song

10.11.11
ABCnews.com—Female CDC official accused of child molestation and bestiality
CNN.com—3 Amish men arrested for forcibly cutting the beards and hair of other Amish
Fox News—British marathoner admits that he rode a bus part of the way to his third place finish
CBS News—Blackberry network experiences outages for the second straight day
BBC News—Napster founders team up for new video chat startup
USA Today—Discover card users can now use their cash back rewards to purchase items on Amazon

10.12.11
Fox News—Siberians claim they have indisputable proof of yetis in their region
ABCnews.com—New government rule aims to cut massive bonuses and reduce high risk behavior among financial firms
BBC News—Einstein letter warning of the Nazi danger sells at auction for $14,000
USA Today—Ohio judge upholds decision to fire science teacher who taught creationism in his class
CNN.com—Microsoft study concludes that PC viruses are mostly the result of user behavior
CBS News—Congress approves three new free trade agreements

10.13.11
BBC News—Creator of Unix and C dies
USA Today—Google says that Google+ has passed the 40 million users mark
Fox News—Cave in South Africa holds jars of pigment that could have been used for painting that are 100,000 years old
ABCnews.com—MapQuest adds realtime user-generated rankings to its mapping service
CBS News—City council of capital of Pennsylvania files for bankruptcy
MSNBC—Amateur astronomers discover near-Earth asteroid

10.14.11
USA Today—Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak first in line at local Apple store for new iPhone 4S
CNN.com—Google shuts down Buzz as it focuses on Google+
CBS News—Judge says that al Qaeda owes $9.3 billion on damages for 9.11
Fox News—NASA buys time on Virgin Galactic's commercial space flights
MSNBC—Family calls 911 after getting lost in corn maze
ABCnews.com—Javier Bardem to star as next James Bond villain

10.17.11
Fox News—1,000 year old manuscript containing previously lost writings by Archimedes on display in Baltimore
USA Today—Two-time Indy 500 winner killed in crash during Las Vegas race
CNN.com—Apple sells 4 million iPhone 4S units in the first weekend of sales, more than doubling their previous record
CBS News—Amazon launches its own e-book imprint
MSNBC—New poll shows that majority of Americans think marijuana should be legalized
ABCnews.com—New theory thinks that Van Gogh was murdered and that he did not commit suicide as previously thought

10.18.11
CBS News—Actress suing IMDB for revealing her true age
CNN.com—Price of stamps going up again in January
Fox News—Woman racks up $200,000 cell phone bill in one month
USA Today—More airlines putting ads on overhead bins, tray tables, and any other available space in aircraft cabins
BBC News—Stone Roses reunite for tour
ABCnews.com—iPhone app reveals wife's cheating

10.19.11
MSNBC—Russia could utilize caves and volcanic tunnels to set up a colony on the moon
USA Today—New cameras allow  you to set the focus of your shot after you take the picture
ABCnews.com—Thieves use crane to steal car from dealer lot
CNN.com—Senators urging MLB to ban tobacco use by players during World Series
Fox News—FCC rolls out new regulations that require cell phone companies to alert users when they are approaching their monthly limits on minutes and data
CBS News—GOP candidate Perry calls for a flat tax to replace the current income tax system

10.20.11
CNN.com—Qaddafi shot to death by rebels
Fox News—NPR host fired after participating in Occupy movement
CBS News—Man apprehended at Swiss airport with 261 tarantulas in his luggage
USA Today—Small regional wireless carrier in the southeast to get iPhone
ABCnews.com—New radar technology can see through walls
MSNBC—European Space Agency to launch first satellite for navigation system that will compete with GPS

10.21.11
CNN.com—Obama says all US troops will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011
Fox News—Giant amoebas discovered at bottom of Mariana Trench
BBC News—Steve Jobs vowed to destroy Google's Android OS
MSNBC—Groupon IPO expected to raise over half a billion dollars
USA Today—Hulu's premium service coming to Nintendo devices
CBS News—Michelle Bachman's New Hampshire staff quits

10.24.11
CBS News—Pi calculated to the 10 trillionth digit
USA Today—Blizzard reveals next expansion pack for World of Warcraft
MSNBC—Survivor contestant Rupert Boneham to run for governor of Indiana
CNN.com—Loretta Lynn hospitalized
Fox News—Largest study to date finds no link between cell phone use and cancer
ABCnews.com—Rick Perry flirts with the Birthers as he expresses doubt about Obama's birth certificate

10.25.11
MSNBC—Federal judge blocks North Carolina law that requires a woman to view an ultrasound image of the fetus before undergoing an abortion
CNN.com—Perry's simple tax plan is not so simple. And of course, it highly favors the wealthy.
USA Today—Netflix shares continue to fall, taking a 35% hit in one day this week
CBS News—Obama plans to revamp student loan repayment rules
Fox News—CDC panel recommends that preteen boys receive vaccine for HPV along with girls
BBC News—Creator of the iPod unveils intelligent thermostat

10.26.11
Fox News—Couple who named their son after Hitler will lose custody of all three of their children
CBS News—Maryland college to use cruise ship as dorm
CNN.com—Inquest reveals that Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning
MSNBC—Inmate who killed guard during escape attempt requests the death penalty and says he'll kill again
BBC News—Apple granted patent for touchscreen unlock gesture
USA Today—UK scientists claim to have created new type of broccoli that can reduce cholesterol

10.27.11
USA Today—New York man pleads guilty to illegal organ trafficking
BBC News—More than half of all children under 8 use mobile devices
ABCnews.com—Study finds that aspirin cuts risk of colon cancer
CNN.com—Netflix uses nearly a third of the bandwidth on the internet
Fox News—Facebook to build new data center near arctic circle in Sweden
CBS News—Porn star says sports agent used her to help sign new clients

10.28.11
CBS News—School district taken to court for filtering out sites with information on gay and transgender issues
CNN.com—Measles on the rise in the US
USA Today—Woman banned from 8 McDonald's after anti-bacterial crusade
MSNBC—Shoes with built-in GPS sensors can help keep track of seniors with Alzheimer's
BBC News—Nurse fired after posting a picture of a patient on Facebook
Fox News—Class action suit filed against Blackberry maker after three day outage

10.31.11
USA Today—World population hits 7 billion
Fox News—Miami police officer accused of speeding at 120 mph because he was late for his second job
CNN.com—Millions in the northeast without power after freak October snowstorm
BBC News—Google's Street View service exploring the addition of interior photos
MSNBC—Metallica fans in India trash stage after the band cancels a concert due to safety concerns
CBS News—Global warming skeptic is now convinced that the phenomenon is real