Regionals in Todays News

• ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: Fred Thompson did OK in yesterday's Republican debate, Bill Theobold reports in today's Jackson Sun; Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh is going to campaign for Hillary in Iowa, Maureen Groppe reports in the Indiana Star; Groppe also is reporting in the Star on the congressional race in Indiana's 9th district, which is already heating up.

• ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION: Lisa Friedman writes in the Los Angeles Daily News about today's historic vote and controversy over a flip-flopping California congresswoman; and Alicia Mundy reports in the Seattle Times on the resolution's impact on Tacoma Democrat Rep. Adam Smith.

• FEDERAL FUNDING: Josh Drobnyk reports in the Allentown Morning Call on a controversy over a $100,000 federal grant to a local non-profit; and Herb Jackson in the Bergen Record examined the Census Bureau's new consolidated federal fund reports to find that New Jersey lags in federal funding.

• HURRICANE RECOVERY: Gerard Shields reports in the Baton Rouge Advocate on HUD's decision to delay its takeover of hurricane recovery housing.

• REAL ID: Jerry Zremski reports in the Buffalo News on the impact of Gov. Eliot Spitzer to allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, which could lead to New Yorkers being forced to show a passport on domestic flights.

• JEFFERSON TRIAL: The case of Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, is running into delays over morning bathroom time. Yes, really. Bruce Alpert reports in the Times-Picayune.

• TAX PROPOSALS: Craig Gilbert in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel examines of Wisconsin Republican's plan to eliminate the alternative minimum tax.

• BOOT CAMP: Suzanne Struglinski in the Deseret News reports on federal inquiries into the deaths of five teens at a Utah-based wilderness therapy program.