(New York Post) Obama will aim for Mount Olympus when he accepts his party's nomination atop an enormous, Greek-columned stage - built by the same cheesy set team that put together Britney Spears' last tour ...

(Politico) Senior Democratic officials are expressing serious concerns the venue for Obama's speech gives Republicans a chance to drive home their message that he is a narcissistic celebrity candidate ...

(KGO-TV, San Francisco) On the eve of his sentencing on child porn charges, former KGO Radio host Bernie Ward's close friend told why he turned him in to the FBI ...

(Ruth Marcus, Washington Post) Excuse me for not joining in the Billfest, but ... 20 minutes of good behavior don't make up for weeks of churlishness ...

(San Francisco Chronicle) As Bill Clinton and Joe Biden dominated center stage Wednesday night, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was presiding over "Unconventional '08," a street party ...

(Associated Press) A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death for the kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old boy after jurors who watched video of the brutality deliberated just three hours ...

(ABC News) A cigar-smoking police sergeant, accompanied by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on the reporter's neck, then twisted his arm behind him to put on handcuffs ...

(Fox News) Newly released documents shed light on Obama's relationship with a founding member of the radical group the Weather Underground ...

(MichaelSavage.com) None of the political plankton have been given a plank at this convention. Yet they reveal the true character of the Democrats ...

(San Francisco Chronicle) Kaiser Permanente is contacting 960 mothers whose babies may have been exposed to a health care worker in San Francisco who has an active case of tuberculosis ...

(CNSNews.com) - Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago has received more than $1.5 million in federal tax money since 2003 ...

(Associated Press) Jose Luis Nazario Jr. was acquitted today by a civilian jury of voluntary manslaughter in the killings of unarmed Iraqi detainees.

(Washington Times) Obama will portray himself tonight as an agent of change for mainstream America, but his eight-year voting record in the Illinois Senate put him to the left of his own party ...

(Los Angeles Times) Marines in western Iraq's Anbar province no longer face a serious threat from insurgents and would be better used in increasingly violent regions of southern Afghanistan ...

(Washington Post) How did the delegate feel when Edwards confessed: "I was . . . words really don't . . . terrible. Terrible. Aghast" ...

(KBCI-TV, Boise) "Every night I look at the stars and watch it rain over and over again. So this is it. Not much to it," she says ...