• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:
• 1. JOBS REPORT LIKELY A MIXED BAG
• Experts predict that the economy added more jobs in September but that the unemployment rate ticked up, too.
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• 2. TURKISH RETALIATION INCREASES REGIONAL VOLATILITY
• The battle to oust Syria's Assad has deepened sectarian rifts in Lebanon and Iraq, raised tensions along the frontier with Israel and emboldened Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
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• 3. SEARCH IS ON FOR MENINGITIS VICTIMS
• Clinics and medical centers around the U.S. rush to contact perhaps thousands of patients who might have received tainted injections for back pain.
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• 4. HOW THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES FACTOR IN ELECTION
• Gary Johnson and Virgil Goode are blips in the presidential race. Yet in a tight race that likely will be won or lost at the margins, even blips can be a big deal.
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• 5. SAFETY OF PARASAILING COMES INTO FOCUS
• Victims' families say tougher regulation and penalties might make it safer, but operators say equipment upgrades and basic maintenance would do the trick.
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• 6. THE MYSTERY BEHIND "REBECCA"
• A planned Broadway musical of the psychological thriller based on a 1938 novel collapses amid questions of financial backing, a plot twist that prompts an FBI inquiry.
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• 7. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY GETTING LITTLE SUPPORT
• As 34 states fail to meet the law's conditions, some say it costs too much to implement and others have doubts about how it works.
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• 8. STUDY: FREE BIRTH CONTROL LOWERS ABORTIONS, TEEN BIRTHS

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