10.1.12
USA Today—Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to host 85th Oscars
CNN.com—The Compact Disc turns 30
Fox News—Many iPhone and iPad owners avoiding iOS 6 upgrade
ABCnews.com—Thieves breaking into cars by hacking wireless security codes
NBC News—Butch Cassidy's pistol sells for $175,000 at auction
CBS News—Oracle to launch cloud service to compete with Amazon Web Services

10.2.12
Fox News—Baseball autographs go high tech
NBC News—Georgia teacher makes $1 million by selling lesson plans to other teachers
USA Today—J.K. Rowling's first adult work for fiction is the number one bestseller its first week of release
CNN.com—All images of women removed from Saudi IKEA catalog
CBS News—Alabama fan arrested for putting his genitals on the face of a passed out LSU fan
ABCnews.com—Foo Fighters announce indefinite hiatus

10.3.12
CNN.com—Miguel Cabrera becomes baseball's first triple crown winner in 45 years
Fox News—Microsoft planning to release its own smartphone
CBS News—Cornell NYC Tech graduate school becomes first in nation to appoint its own patent officer
NBC News—Sex offenders challenge Halloween ban
USA Today—Volkswagen unveils Beetle convertible
ABCnews.com—Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta reunite for Christmas album

10.8.12
BBC News—US court to decide whether digital music tracks can be resold
Fox News—Winner of roach eating contest in Florida dies shortly after his victory
ABCnews.com—Professional American poker player may be denied multimillion dollar payout from London casino
NBC News—Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman separating after 30 years of marriage
BBC News—Maine Republicans try to use political rival's playing of World of Warcraft as a basis to question her fitness for office
USA Today—Red Bull introducing three new flavors

10.9.12
CNN.com—North Korea claims to have missiles capable of reaching the US
CBS News—Auction of handwritten letter from Albert Einstein opens with $3 million bid
BBC News—Protestants no longer a majority in the US
Fox News—US Air Force declassifies plans for a flying saucer
ABCnews.com—Vegas cab driver returns over $200,000 left in his car by a passenger
NBC News—Rome fining tourists who eat on or near their historic monuments

10.10.12
Fox News—Woman forced to live with squatter until a court resolves the ownership of the disputed property
USA Today—Republican pro life congressman forced mistress (who was also his patient) to get an abortion
CNN.com—eBay unveils redesign, new logo, and same-day delivery service
CBS News—11 former teammates accuse Lance Armstrong of doping
BBC News—One of the jailed Pussy Riot defendants is freed by court
ABCnews.com—Netflix CEO to step down from Microsoft's board of directors

10.11.12
ABCnews.com—Parents sue indepedent college counselor for $2 million because their sons didn't get into Harvard
USA Today—Wendy's unveils first logo makeover since 1983. Warning: it's almost as bad as USA Today's recent redesign.
CBS News—Doctor says that modern forms of wheat, even in whole grain form, should be cut completely from our diets
BBC News—Amazon confirms that it makes no profit from selling Kindle hardware
NBC News—36 bags of heroin found on tour bus of rapper Nelly
CNN.com—Netflix agrees to caption all content by 2014 in order to settle lawsuit with a deaf customer

10.12.12
NBC News—Gay teen denied Eagle Scout rank because of his sexual orientation
CBS News—Texas mom who beat her two year old daughter and glued her hands to a wall sentenced to 99 years in prison
Fox News—Scientists discover a planet they believe may be 1/3 diamond
USA Today—Businesses sue NYC over large sugary drink ban
ABCnews.com—Secret Service officer arrested after he was found passed out drunk on a sidewalk in Miami
CNN.com—Apple set to reveal iPad mini on October 23

10.15.12
USA Today—Feds may file antitrust lawsuit against Google
CNN.com—Former senator Arlen Spector dies at 82
Fox News—Elon University student government votes to ban Chick-fil-a from campus
CBS News—Skydiver successfully jumps from edge of space and breaks the speed of sound on his descent
NBC News—Worker cooked to death at industrial seafood processing plant
ABCnews.com—Two UC Berkeley law students charged with decapitating exotic bird at Las Vegas casino

10.16.12
Fox News—Earth-sized planet found 4 light years away
CBS News—LinkedIn launches redesign
ABCnews.com—Microsoft unveils streaming music service
NBC News—Britain blocks extradition of accused hacker to US
USA Today—Nintendo drops price of Wii to $130
CNN.com—Microsoft sets $499 price for Surface, it's iPad competitor

10.17.12
ABCnews.com—Nike and Anheuser-Busch drop Lance Armstrong as spokesman
USA Today—Man arrested in plot to blow up Federal Reserve
MSNBC—Two brothers wait six years to claim $5 million lottery jackpot
CBS News—Some school districts want to ban Flamin' Hot Cheetos
CNN.com—Flavor Flav charged with assault and battery
BBC News—Pirate Bay moves to the cloud

10.18.12
USA Today—Early release of lower-than-expected earnings from Google sends shares plummeting
CBS News—Scientists discover that dolphins can stay awake for two weeks straight
CNN.com—bindersfullofwomen.com registered only 90 seconds after Mitt Romney's infamous debate comment
NBC News—Newsweek canceling its print edition and going all-digital
Fox News—AOL launches Alto, its new email system
ABCnews.com—California man sets world record for longest jet pack flight

10.19.12
NBC News—British company claims it has technique to create synthetic petrol from air and water
USA Today—Twitter pulls racist and anti-Semitic tweets
ABCnews.com—More colleges using social media posts to help evaluate applicants to their institutions
CBS News—Google to sell Samsung-built Chromebook for under $250
CNN.com—New bra could help with early detection of breast cancer
Fox News—Archaeologists plan new dig at Troy

10.22.12
BBC News—Italian scientists sentenced to six years in prison for failing to predict major earthquake
USA Today—San Diego Chargers being investigated for use of illegal substance
NBC News—Jay-Z and Beyonce will not be allowed to trademark Blue Ivy, their daughter's name
CNN.com—Lance Armstrong formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles
ABCnews.com—$1.6 million in chips stolen from Las Vegas casino
CBS News—Monster Energy Drink being sued for causing teen's death

10.23.12
Fox News—Police informant claims that NYPD paid him to bait and entrap muslims
CBS News—Ozzie Guillen fired as Marlins manager after just one season
ABCnews.com—Apple unveils iPad Mini
CNN.com—Zynga lays off 5% of its staff
NBC News—Amazon Web Services outage takes down other big sites, including Reddit and Netflix
USA Today—UNC football player may have plagiarized from blog written by 11 year olds

10.24.12
NBC News—USPS and FBI probing letters sent to Florida voters questioning their citizenship and their eligibility to vote
ABCnews.com—US sues Bank of America for $1 billion for mortgage fraud
CBS News—Texas opens highway with legal speed limit of 85
Fox News—Arizona voters will decide on whether to attempt to reclaim federal lands within the state like the Grand Canyon. Good luck with that even if the vote passes.
BBC News—PS3 master key leaked online by hackers
USA Today—Donald Trump offers to donate $5 million to the charity of Obama's choosing if he releases his college transcripts and his passport records

10.25.12
CNN.com—Federal prosecutors sue Mississippi town for civil rights violations for incarcerating students for minor infractions at school
CBS News—NYPD officer arrested in plot to kidnap and cook women
NBC News—New English class at Rice includes assignments playing Skyrim video game
USA Today—New three parent fertility technique could remove genetic defects
ABCnews.com—Chik-fil-A's sales may have improved after president made anti-gay comments
BBC News—Tom Cruise sues magazine for $50 million

10.26.12
CBS News—Recently recovered Beethoven work performed for the first time in 192 years
ABCnews.com—Anonymous Republican pays man $15,000 to get Romney's election logo tatooed on the side of his face
USA Today—Jury rules that doctor is not liable for injuries to pregnant woman who caught on fire in operating room during c-section
NBC News—Supreme Court to hear major copyright case which could have implications for both commercial resellers and charities that receive donated goods
BBC News—Scientists develop technique to change the color of gold
CNN.com—Amazon plans to hire 50,000 seasonal workers this year

10.29.12
CBS News—Giants sweep Tigers to win World Series
USA Today—SpaceX's Dragon capsule completes first commercial mission to the ISS
ABCnews.com—Wall Street shuts down ahead of Hurricane Sandy
CNN.com—Penguin and Random House to merge
Fox News—Assignment for NYU class requires students to plan a terrorist attack
NBC News—Billionaire John Paulson donates $100 million to Central Park

10.30.12
Fox News—Yacht designed by Steve Jobs before he died is unveiled
USA Today—Study shows that smoking bans decrease the number of heart attacks and strokes
NBC News—Airlines collecting more than $36 billion in add-on fees this year
CBS News—MIT student suggests paintballs as a way to ward off asteroids heading for Earth
CNN.com—Long-serving Apple vice president in charge of iOS efforts is leaving the company
ABCnews.com—More than 13,000 flights canceled due to Sandy

10.31.12
CBS News—Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4 billion and plans multiple new Star Wars movies without George Lucas writing or directing
ABCnews.com—Philips unveils $60 LED lightbulb that you can control with a smartphone app and plans to initially sell it only in Apple stores
NBC News—Study shows that three people are overdiagnosed through mammograms for every life saved
USA Today—Grand Theft Auto V to be released next spring
Fox News—9 charged in youth football gambling ring in Florida
CNN.com—East Coast Netflix viewing doubled during Sandy