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Google reported better than expected third-quarter sales and profits, reporting a profit of nearly $3 billion during the third quarter, up nearly 40 percent from a year earlier.

Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix briefs European leaders on the latest findings in Iraq. Blix refuses to term yesterday's discovery in Iraq of nearly a dozen empty warheads a "smoking gun" that would show Iraq to be in noncompliance with U.N. resolutions. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N. nuclear agency, and chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix arrive in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials. They are expected to warn Iraq that it must cooperate more intensely with arms inspectors. Hear NPR's Kate Seelye and Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations.

On Wednesday's Scoreboard, we recap how the Sabres' captain cost them a loss on Monday, and how the Yankees offense came to life last night to extend the World Series last night. Plus, we preview a two-part Battle of the Bridge tonight and highlight top senior seasons in high school football as the regular season comes to a close.

On Second Stage, All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton profiles the best of music's great unknowns. He chooses the best outsider artists of 2007: musicians who made remarkable recordings that were largely overlooked, led by Le Loup.

By Mark ScottBuffalo, NY – The town of Amherst continues to have the area's highest bond rating. Amherst officials learned from Moody's Investors Service…

By Andrew Polino Buffalo, NY – New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is expressing his concerns about the enacted state budget bills. DiNapoli held a…

Community members are now asking for substantial changes beyond the reopening of a place that is still the source of so much pain and trauma.

The non-profit College Board reports that the average annual cost of a four-year private college is now above $30,000. Sending a student off to a year at a public school now costs, on average, nearly $12,800.