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By Charlie Meyerson, Daywatch columnist
OBAMA'S SAFETY. His house in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood is watched around the clock, even when he's not home. The post office sends back anything larger than a normal-sized letter. And his Secret Service nickname? "Renegade." Stacy St. Clair, John McCormick and Gary Marx report: MORE »

Media frenzy drives search through files linking Obama to '60s radical William Ayers: MORE »

Did Hillary Clinton sell Obama's nomination to her followers last night? MORE »

Republicans waging unconventional warfare in Denver: MORE »

Garrison Keillor: "The problem for McCain is that Barack explains himself so well." MORE »

'HE SAID, "THROW ME A BONE."' A one-time City of Chicago plumbing inspector has testified that he passed his supervisor in the Buildings Department a cut of the bribes he took "almost daily" from contractors. Jeff Coen reports: MORE »

John Kass in Denver: "I don't know why exactly, but every time I meet the Daley brothers, they're happy to see me." MORE »

SAD SONG GETS SADDER. That Ugandan children's choir whose van was robbed Sunday reports additional theft: MORE »

Three people wounded in separate Chicago shootings early today: MORE »

METRA'S LAST CALL. Friday is the end for what are officially known as "refreshment cars," but are commonly called bar cars. Richard Wronski cracks open the story: MORE »

Governor signs bill giving free bus and train rides to poor people with disabilities: MORE »

STARBUCKS UPGRADES.
-- High-priced and high-taste brewing system unveiled: MORE »
-- Healthier breakfast offerings in the works (usatoday.com): MORE »

Popeyes gets a new name, image: MORE »

Critics have a beef with vegetarian-backed ad slamming hot dogs: MORE »

Nuts on Clark to add two outlets at O'Hare (suntimes.com): MORE »

HOME-SALES STANDOFF. In this tough real estate market, neither buyers nor sellers seem willing to face pricing reality. Mary Ellen Podmolik reports: MORE »

Sales off 25 percent from a year ago: MORE »

SCIENTISTS: SAVE THE P***T. HAVE FEWER KIDS. A British Medical Journal urges couples to fight global warming by having no more than two children. Laurie Goering reports: MORE »

Cost of caring for Illinois babies exposed to alcohol in the womb: $741,000 a day. MORE »

Editorial: Putting the squeeze on lousy schools. MORE »

AMERICA'S BEST RESTROOM. Blair Kamin says it'll be named today: MORE »

Priest gives up on nun pageant: MORE »

MARIOTTI QUITS. After 17 years with the Sun-Times, opinionated and polarizing sports columnist Jay Mariotti tells the Tribune he's leaving the paper because sports journalism has become "entirely a Web site business": MORE »

Eric Zorn: "I'll miss the yappy one." MORE »

Sox win cozy one: MORE »

Cubs win wild one: MORE »

Derrek Lee agrees with Obama on Cubs fans: MORE »

Richard Roeper: Obama's off base (suntimes.com). MORE »

Bears near roster cut-down deadline Saturday: MORE »

WEATHER. Latest forecast, continually updated radar pictures and Tom Skilling's seven-day outlook: MORE »

Chicago in driest 22-day August stretch in 45 years: MORE »


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