SPB News for Wednesday

Sparkman's Son: 'He Didn't Do This To Himself'

Obama To Push For Longer School Days, Shorter Summer Breaks

Roll Call: Almost All Senators Worth More Than The Average American

FDIC: Bank Failures Will Cost About $100B

Ex-Bush officials sued over terror policies

Senators back bill to let public sue telecoms over wiretaps

Banks must prepay deposit insur. fees

Feingold To Hold Hearings On Obama's 'Czars'

S.D. ghostwriter mum on Sarah Palin memoir — One San Diegan knows all the details of Sarah Palin's soon-to-be released memoir, but don't ask her about it. She can't tell. — Lynn Vincent, Palin's ghostwriter, has signed a non-disclosure agreement. She has been hard at work on the book …

Election 2010: Arkansas Senate Race — Another Democratic senator may be at-risk in 2010. Arkansas' Blanche Lambert Lincoln trails all four of her leading Republican challengers in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey in the state. — Lincoln fails to get 50% of the vote

Democratic Donor Gets 24-Year Term — NEW YORK — A federal judge Tuesday sentenced Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu to more than 24 years in prison for illegally funneling money to U.S. political candidates and for defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

US to send home 4,000 more troops from Iraq The top general in Iraq is sending home 4,000 more U.S. troops by the end of October as the American military 'winds down' the six-year war. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said in remarks prepared for a congressional hearing Wednesday that the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq will total about 120,000 over the next month.

Watchdog group wants investigation of Vitter A Washington-based public watchdog group said Tuesday it has asked a Louisiana state agency that reviews lawyer conduct to investigate allegations that U.S. Sen. David Vitter solicited prostitutes. The bar complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington arises from the Republican's admission of a "serious sin" in 2007 after his phone number appeared in records of a Washington prostitution ring.

Big banks may face steep fees

Bank of America, three others, may owe over $10 billion to replenish FDIC.

TX Gov's speech gets hacked

Rick Perry's official reelection kick off hit by hack attack.