Local:

Mahnomen County sheriff's deputy shot
http://www.startribune.com/local/39843087.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr
Coleman's request rejected
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_11735544?nclick_check=1

National:

Protests alter Facebook terms of use
http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_11729820
$275 billion plan to rectify housing crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/business/19housing.html?_r=1&ref=us

International

U.S.-China talks
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/washington/19pacific.html?ref=world
Nuclear subs collide
http://www.twincities.com/ci_11718811?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com

*Evaluation of Nuclear subs collide:

Recently we have been discussing what makes a news story and how to properly write leads. This story is unusual, not often do you hear about submarines colliding. The last similar incident I found was from 1994. The unusual nature of the story makes it very news worthy. However the story does not have much human interest, helpfullness, or impact. The lead of this story begins with "Two submarines carrying nuclear weapons,..." This is a powerful introduction not often are submarines talked about let alone ones carrying nuclear weapons. So the reader continues to find out that the submarines "collided while submerged on patrols in the Atlantic this month,..." What are the odds of that? Not very good. In the lead, in one sentence (with a few commas) who, what, where, and when are answered. The rest of the article is mostly filler, since the lead pretty well sums up what happened. There was limited damage and both subs made it home safely. An interesting aspect of this article is that the collision occured February 3rd and did not make it into the news for a few weeks. I assume both the French and British wanted to make sure nothing seriouse went wrong (such as leaking nuclear materials into the ocean) before they went public with the information.