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The protesters are as adamant as ever to get their point across seven weeks after their campaign began. Hundreds will take to the streets of Manhattan on Monday for an 11-mile-long demonstration that ends in Zuccotti Park. Wall Street insider Mike Mayo, author of Exile on Wall Street: One Analyst's Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves, offers his insight.

TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline would cut through the Ogallala aquifer, a major water source that supplies about 80 percent of Nebraska's water for drinking and irrigation. Legislators have introduced bills preventing pipelines in environmentally sensitive areas.

After 726 formal complaints, a union lockout, protests and lawsuits and settlements totaling about $20 million, residents in Ponca City no longer have daily struggles with carbon black.

A former assistant football coach faces 40 counts of sexual abuse involving young boys. He says he's innocent. Two officials are charged with perjury and failure to report child abuse. They deny wrongdoing. Paterno says he never knew the specifics.

The day's top news: Former Penn State coach charged with sexually abusing young boys; Iran said to be on "threshold of nuclear capability;" Greece prepares to form a new government.

In the U.S., the older population's net worth has gone up sharply in the past quarter century, while younger adults' wealth has declined. That news will add to the sense among many that times are tough for the nation's younger adults.

Attorney Gloria Allred says her client will be at a news conference this afternoon in New York City to speak about what the woman says was sexual harassment by the Republican presidential contender. Cain has said he never harassed anyone.

As an alternative to vaccinations, a Tennessee woman offered lollipops smeared with chickenpox virus. Health officials said that the chickenpox vaccine is much safer, and that mailing pathogens is both illegal and dangerous.

From Los Angeles, another story in the "Robbers In The Wrong Place, At The Wrong Time" category.

International observers say the process has been "opaque" and with many "traps." But with 39 percent of the votes counted, Ortega seems poised for a landslide.