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  1. D.C. official accused in $20M scheme AP - Fri Dec 14, 7:40 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.7

    McLEAN, Va. - The courthouse files look like the Christmas list of a high-society fashion maven with a purse fetish: mink coats, jewelry, Faberge eggs, a Mercedes Benz and more than 100 handbags and wallets with designer names like Chanel, Hermes and Louis Vuitton.

  2. Lakshmi, 2, left, sits in her father's lap as her brother, right, looks on before she was discharged from the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007. Lakshmi, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs was discharged from the hospital after a successful operation where doctors removed her extra limbs. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
    Girl born with 8 limbs leaves hospital AP - Sat Dec 15, 9:41 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.7

    BANGALORE, India - A 2-year-old girl who was born with four arms and four legs left a hospital in southern India on Saturday, little more than a month after surgeons successfully removed her extra limbs.

  3. "Price Is Right" winner claims new car a wreck Reuters - Fri Dec 14, 8:40 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The price was all wrong for one contestant on "The Price Is Right," who claims the TV game show and its authorized auto dealership tried to pass off a rehabilitated wreck as a new car she won.

  4. Christmas card arrives 93 years late AP - Fri Dec 14, 10:35 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    OBERLIN, Kan. - A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.

  5. Traveler Steve Hilly, a striking writer with the television show 'American Dad,' buys an airline e-ticket at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif. Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. The Labor Department said its closely watched Consumer Price Index rose 0.8 percent last month, the biggest one-month increase since a 1.2 percent surge in September 2005, when the country was hit by rising energy costs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Consumer inflation surged by the largest amount in more than two years in November, led by gasoline prices. The cost of clothing, airline tickets and prescription drugs also jumped.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
    Gas prices spur consumer inflation AP - Sat Dec 15, 3:10 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    WASHINGTON - Led by higher gasoline prices, consumer inflation shot up in November by the largest amount in more than two years.

  6. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, December 12, 2007. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
    Wall Street indexes fall as inflation worries weigh Reuters - Sat Dec 15, 8:12 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks swooned on Friday on concerns that surging inflation may prevent the Federal Reserve from lowering interest rates enough to pull the economy out of the grip of a housing and credit crisis.

  7. Two-year-old Indian girl Laxmi with her father after a press conference at a hospital in Bangalore. Lakshmi, who was born with four arms and four legs, left hospital Saturday, more than a month after a marathon operation to remove her extra limbs.(AFP)
    Indian girl born with eight limbs leaves hospital after surgery AFP - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    BANGALORE, India (AFP) - A two-year-old Indian girl born with four arms and four legs left hospital Saturday, more than a month after a marathon operation to remove her extra limbs, doctors said.

  8. Ex-convicts admit planning terror attack AP - Sat Dec 15, 4:33 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    SANTA ANA, Calif. - Levar Haley Washington was finally free on parole after years in prison for robbery — but unbeknownst to authorities, the Muslim convert was already plotting more serious crimes.

  9. Snail caviar is displayed, 07 December 2007 in the village of Soissons, France. Caviar and champagne are a byword for the festive season in France, while a dozen "escargots" -- or snails -- cooked in garlic and parsley butter and served in or out of their grey-brown spiralled shells, are a much-loved staple.(AFP/File/Francois Nascimbeni )
    Snail caviar! The new gourmet frontier AFP - 2 hours, 49 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    SOISSONS, France (AFP) - Snail's egg caviar anyone? It may sound like a challenge to the taste buds, but the salty, pink-white delicacy could be gracing hundreds of French tables this Christmas.

  10. Appalachian State coach Jerry Moore holds up the championship trophy after his team defeated Delaware 49-21 in the FCS championship football game Friday, Dec. 14, 2007 in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
    Appalachian St. 1st I-AA team to 3-peat AP - Sat Dec 15, 6:59 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Appalachian State kicked off this crazy football season with the stunning upset of Michigan. Now the Mountaineers have the perfect bookend: History as Division I-AA's first three-peat national champions.

  11. Suspect tried to help stricken deputy AP - Sat Dec 15, 12:58 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    COLUMBIA, S.C. - A passenger handcuffed after a car chase with police early Friday tried to save a sheriff's deputy who had suffered a fatal heart attack moments after arresting him, authorities said.

  12. U.S. golfer Tiger Woods hits his tee shot at the sixth hole during the second round of the Target World Challenge golf tournament in Thousand Oaks, California, December 14, 2007. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)
    Dominant Woods takes charge with course record 62 Reuters - Fri Dec 14, 8:15 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    THOUSAND OAKS, California (Reuters) - Tiger Woods shrugged off any hint of rust after a two-and-a-half month break to charge four shots clear in the Target World Challenge second round on Friday.

  13. Marine discharged over Iraqi soldier's death Reuters - Fri Dec 14, 5:47 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine convicted of negligent homicide in the 2006 stabbing death of an Iraqi soldier was sentenced on Friday to a bad-conduct discharge and reduced in rank to private.

  14. Nathan Rohleder uses a snow blower to clean his grandfather's sidewalk Saturday morning Dec. 15, 2007 on Allen Street in Hays, Kan.. After fighting a series of ice storms, the area was hit Friday evening with a winter storm dropping 13.5 inches of snow according to the National Weather Service monitorinig center in Dodge City, Kan.. (AP Photo/Hays Daily News, Fred Hunt)
    Latest storm gives Kansas foot of snow AP - 46 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.3

    OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma residents were mostly spared a threatened second wintry blast on Saturday, as crews were still working to restore power to homes and businesses blacked out by last weekend's storm.

  15. This Dec. 1967 file photo, supplied by The Point Pleasant River Museum, shows the destruction from the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, W.Va., that collapsed into the Ohio River killing 46 people on Dec. 15, 1967. (AP Photo/ The Point Pleasant River Museum)
    W.Va. town remembers 1967 bridge failure AP - Sat Dec 15, 4:34 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. - It took less than 30 seconds for the Silver Bridge to tumble into the Ohio River, killing 46 people and leaving towns on either side stunned and bereft. Stephen Darst, who saw it happen 40 years ago Saturday, has relived that half-minute countless times.

  16. Chief accused of drunk fire truck racing AP - Fri Dec 14, 5:02 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    BURLINGTON, Maine - A fire chief in Penobscot County has been charged with being drunk behind the wheel while driving a fire truck with its lights on and its sirens going.

  17. Computer History Museum senior curator Dag Spicer looks at a replica of the first transistor at the museum in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. The first transistor was built 60 years ago on Dec. 16, 1947. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
    Chip-shrinking may be nearing its limits AP - Sat Dec 15, 12:18 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.

  18. 300-lb man OK after 40-foot shaft fall AP - Fri Dec 14, 10:36 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    WASHINGTON - A construction worker who fell about 40 feet down an elevator shaft is nearly unhurt, with no serious injuries. District of Columbia Fire and EMS spokesman Alan Etter said the man, who's about 25 years old, was working on a house under construction in Southeast Washington Friday morning.

  19. Former Alabama and NFL quarterback Joe Namath talks to the media about getting his Bachelor of Arts degree in the media room of the football building at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Friday Dec. 14, 2007. The dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Robert Olin, sits to the right watching. (AP Photo/Porfirio Solorzano)
    Namath back at Bama to receive degree AP - Fri Dec 14, 4:30 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Broadway Joe was back on campus, finally getting a diploma to go with his football accolades.

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