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Front Page Tally: February 8
Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 8 February 2010 9:13 AM
| Saints win the Super Bowl | 30 |
| Obama calls for health summit | 19 |
| Power plant blast in Connecticut kills five | 14 |
| Iran stockpiling more uranium | 13 |
| East Coast snow storm | 12 |
Unsurprisingly, every newspaper in the top 30 put photos and coverage of the Saints’ Super Bowl win on its front page, making it the biggest story of the day. President Obama’s call for a televised ‘health summit’ attended by both parties was front-page news in 19 papers, while a blast at a Connecticut power plant in which five people died and a dozen more were injured appeared in 14. News that Iran is stockpiling more uranium was reported in 13 publications. And finally, the 12-35 inches of snow that fell over parts of the East Coast got coverage in 12 newspapers.
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