1. Ex-inmate turned millionaire dies in accident
2. McCain takes a gamble in the debate with mortgage proposal
3. AIG fiddles as Wall Street burns
4. Elgin Baylor leaving the Clippers
5. Father kills family and himself, despondent over financial losses
6. Foes of gay-marriage ban say poll shows Prop. 8 leading
7. Biden, the master gasbag
8. L.A. County sheriff's deputy charged in sexual torture of his wife, 2nd man
9. Plunge in markets brings another kind of depression
10. Presidential debate: Obama, McCain come out swinging