November 1, 2009 in Sports Jason Stripling has played college football for five years. As a linebacker who played his high school football in Texas and college in the Pac-10, he’s accustomed to seeing big …

November 1, 2009 in Sports Dallas cruises to 38-17 victory over Seattle.

November 1, 2009 in News STA’s getting ready to sideline its green trolleys in favor of quieter hybrids

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The 10 tomatoes sitting in a Tupperware tub at the Food and Drug Administration seem to be doing nothing more than rotting, slowly. But an invisible battle is …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it … 3

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – The first lady was a leopard with fuzzy ears and a spotted orange-and-black top. The president was a middle-aged dad, with black cardigan, checkered shirt and sensible brown …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai’s challenger plans to call for a boycott of next weekend’s runoff election in an attempt to force the vote’s postponement until spring, his campaign …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 DETROIT – Hundreds of people offered hushed prayers Saturday at the funeral for a slain Detroit mosque leader, while authorities across the border in Canada made the final two arrests …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – It is a worrisome first: an American accused of going to Europe to plot a terrorist attack there. Recent arrests in Chicago underscore a growing concern among Western …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A5 CLEVELAND – A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found six decomposing bodies …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A6 WASHINGTON – Under fire from prominent members of her own party who said she wasn’t conservative enough, the Republican candidate for an open U.S. House seat in New York abruptly …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A7 BANNING, Calif. – Goldman Sachs Group got into the residential mortgage business in 1984, and for 17 years, it ran a staid operation that simply bought and sold loans. All …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A8 BEIJING – Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China’s space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98. Qian, …

November 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A8 MEXICO CITY – A flamboyant farmworker organizer who called himself a modern day Emiliano Zapata has been slain in a brazen ambush that also killed 14 members of his family …

November 1, 2009 in City on Page B1 Washington voters who have yet to turn in their ballots – and based on the latest figures, that’s most of us – have some interesting choices to make between now … 13

November 1, 2009 in City on Page B1 Wouldn’t it be great to have your own time machine and be able to prevent some of our biggest blunders from happening? For example, I’d set my Wayback Machine to … 1