AP: High Court Upholds Abu-Jamal Conviction; Black Militants Still Have 'Free Mumia' to Fall Back On
AJE: Israeli Army Won't Shoot Messenger, Will Shoot Medic According to Reports
CNN: South African Leader Has Corruption Charges Dropped; South African Leader Not Mandela
FG: Finally: Thunder and Lightning Give Us Tickets to the Gun Show
ESPN: Class Act: OU's Courtney Paris Decides Her Word is Still Worth $64K
AP: A Fellow By the Name of Jordan and Others Make NBA Hall of Fame
Bossip: Was Gonna Talk Chrihanna, But T-Boz Ethering People Is Way More Fun
THR: CW May Re-Format Sitcom; More Likely to Extinct It
NYT: No One Like Gov. Paterson Anymore; Mama Says "I Beg to Differ!"
WP: Blacks at Odds Over Obama Scrutiny; Weird Because We All Think Alike
NYT: Senseless Domestic Dispute Leaves Three Officers Dead
BB: Like Father, Like Treasurer: Tim-Tim May Oust Execs at Banks Needing 'Exceptional' Aid
WSJ: Obama Urges EU to Accept Turkey; Member Nations Lukewarm, Cite Fear of 'The Itis'
AP:We Continue to Lose Our Way: Dad Killed Kids Because Wife Was Leaving
BET: Sisters Buried with Brother Who Killed Them; Buzz Completely Outdone
BBC: Reburial for Rwanda Genocide Dead
AJE: Sri Lankan Gov't Prefers K.I.A., Claims to Killing 'Hundreds' of Tamil Tigers
ESPN: Louisville Women Outlast Sooners, Only 38-0 UCONN Wrecking Crew Stands in Way
HP: U.S. Media Allowed to Show the Actual Cost of War; Foreign Press: "Where Y'all Been"?
DB: Mansfiend Frazier: Confessions of a Man Who Almost Went Postal
If you're keeping score at home, that's 7 of 10 headlines that have to do with death or dying, several of those being of a ludricrous or heinous nature. 7 out of 10.