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  1. Greg Weakland, 19, secures a tow hook to a stranded passenger's car to help it up an inclined street as snow blows down in Topeka, Kan., Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Topeka Capital-Journal, Mike Burley)
    Storm blasts central US, at least 5 die AP - 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

    ST. PAUL, Minn. - A winter storm packing heavy snow walloped the central United States, causing at least 5 deaths and dozens of injuries as multi-car pileups forced authorities to close parts of several major highways.

  2. Woman's body removed from W.Va. building AP - Sat Dec 22, 6:22 PM ET

    HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Investigators on Saturday removed the body of a young woman found in a crawl space at an apartment building where a missing Marshall University student lived, authorities said.

  3. Former New Orleans Chef LeRoy Crump, Jr. works at a fast pace during the lunchtime crowd in his new Clarksburg, W.Va. cajun restaurant Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. Crump lost his home and restaurant to Hurricane Katrina two years ago. Like other displaced Mississippi and Louisiana residents, Crump has taken root in an unlikely place, bringing along a hankering for the tastes of home and the ability to share them. From Nevada to West Virginia, professional and amateur chefs alike are sharing Cajun and Creole fare with folks who still consider it exotic. (AP Photo/Dale Sparks)
    Katrina helps spread Cajun cooking AP - Sat Dec 22, 3:03 PM ET

    CLARKSBURG, W.Va. - It's midmorning at Bon Appetit, and the beignets are long gone. Behind a Plexiglas wall, a cook is chopping vegetables for lunch. Music heavy with brass is blaring, and Chef LeRoy Crump Jr. is rushing about with cell phone in hand, periodically stepping outdoors to greet a passer-by and tout the special, a Cajun shrimp cream pasta.

  4. NY man guilty in death of white teen AP - Sun Dec 23, 3:30 AM ET

    RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - A black man who invoked images of lynch mobs in explaining why he killed a white teenager was convicted of second-degree manslaughter when a jury rejected defense lawyers' arguments that his actions were justified.

  5. Man gives $31,000 to Salvation Army AP - Sun Dec 23, 6:06 AM ET

    ORWIGSBURG, Pa. - Less than two weeks after a man put 30 $100 bills into a Salvation Army kettle, someone decided to do one better.

  6. While waiting for a live shot during a morning news show, Lex looks for attention from new owners Camryn Lee and other family members, from left, Rachel, Jerome and Mady on Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Georgia. The adoption of Lex, an 8-year-old German Shepherd, by the family of fallen Marine Cpl. Dustin Lee marked the first time the U.S. military has granted early retirement to a working dog so it could live with a former handler's family, officials said. (AP Photo/Walter Petruska)
    Family adopts slain son's military dog AP - Fri Dec 21, 11:22 PM ET

    ALBANY, Ga. - A military working dog wounded in Iraq during a rocket attack that killed its Marine handler was adopted Friday by the slain Marine's family.

  7. File photo shows a man spreading salt on the ice-covered steps outside the State Capital Building in Des Moines, Iowa. A snow storm packing strong winds caused flight delays and closed highways across the central United States, leaving at least five dead in road accidents, US media reported on Sunday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)
    Five dead in US snow storm: reports AFP - Sun Dec 23, 3:28 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A snow storm packing strong winds caused flight delays and closed highways across the central United States, leaving at least five dead in road accidents, US media reported on Sunday.

  8. U.S. company recalls green beans over bacteria risk Reuters - Fri Dec 21, 6:40 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Michigan company said on Friday it was voluntarily recalling 1,026 cans of green beans because they may be contaminated with bacteria that cause botulism, a life-threatening illness.

  9. Judge Kenneth Biehn poses at his home in Inlet, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Judge Biehn sentenced Kareem Watts, then 14, to a juvenile program called Alternative Rehabilitation Communities from the bench of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas in 2001. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
    Judge: Prison or 2nd chance for teen AP - Sat Dec 22, 12:30 PM ET

    The boy before Judge Kenneth Biehn was quiet and withdrawn, an asthmatic whose mother used and sold crack cocaine and whose father was doing time for robbery. At just 14, Kareem Watts stood accused of his own, much more horrific crime: Stabbing to death a neighbor who disrespected his mother.

  10. Attorney Mark Geragos, left, representing Krikor Sarkisyan, right, and his family, speaks during a news conference in Los Angeles, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. The family of a 17-year-old girl, who died hours after her health insurer Cigna HealCare reversed a decision and said it would pay for a liver transplant, plans to sue the company, Geragos said Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
    Calif. family blames HMO in girl's death AP - Fri Dec 21, 11:04 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES - The family of a 17-year-old leukemia patient blamed Cigna Corp. on Friday for her death, saying the health insurance giant's initial refusal to pay for a liver transplant contributed to her death.

  11. Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in an undated photo. Hoover had a plan in 1950 to suspend the right to habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty, The New York Times reported on their web site on Saturday. (FBI/Handout/Reuters)
    FBI's Hoover planned mass U.S. jailings: report Reuters - Sat Dec 22, 6:43 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan in 1950 to suspend the right to habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty, The New York Times reported on their web site on Saturday.

  12. Baby Jesus statue gets GPS for Christmas AP - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

    BAL HARBOUR, Fla. - A baby Jesus statue here is getting a Global Positioning System for Christmas. The statue, part of a nativity scene, will be equipped with the device after the previous statue went missing, even though it had been bolted down.

  13. Top news story: Virginia Tech killings AP - Thu Dec 20, 5:23 PM ET

    NEW YORK - The massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech by a mentally disturbed student gunman was chosen the top story of 2007 by U.S. editors and news directors in The Associated Press' annual vote.

  14. Four-month-old giant panda cub Zhen Zhen plays with a ball in her enclosure at the San Diego Zoo during a media preview Friday, Dec. 21, 2007 in San Diego. Zhen Zhen and her mother Bai Yun will make their public debut at the Giant Panda Research Station exhibit on Saturday Dec. 22. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
    San Diego panda makes her public debut AP - Sun Dec 23, 12:42 AM ET

    SAN DIEGO - San Diego's most popular resident finally met her fans, up close and personal: Giant panda cub Zhen Zhen made her public debut Saturday at the San Diego Zoo.

  15. A dancer performs at a the gentleman's club in Dallas, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007. Beginning New Year's Day, Texas will require clubs to collect a $5 per head tax on customers of the state's 150 or so strip clubs. Much of the money will go to help sexual assault victims. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
    Texas slaps a tax on strip clubs AP - Fri Dec 21, 10:12 PM ET

    DALLAS - Texas, where strip clubs have given rise to Anna Nicole Smith and many other less-generously endowed performers, is about to make it more expensive to watch a little bump and grind.

  16. Jamie Lynn Spears in an image courtesy of Nickelodeon. The kid sister of pop phenomenon Britney Spears has posed a 'what do we tell the children?' dilemma for parents of fans of Nickelodeon's 'Zoey 101' who see Jamie Lynn as a clean-cut, sensible role model on the show. (Nickelodeon/Handout/Reuters)
    Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy poses parental dilemma Reuters - Thu Dec 20, 5:47 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jamie Lynn Spears wasn't the only one who was "shocked and scared" when the popular television star realized she was pregnant at age 16.

  17. 2 more freed in Ga. teen sex case AP - Sat Dec 22, 7:55 AM ET

    ATLANTA - Two more young men have been freed after serving time in jail for a case involving a 17-year-old who had consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl.

  18. Inmate: Suspect in boat deaths confessed AP - Fri Dec 21, 7:39 AM ET

    MIAMI - A jail inmate told investigators that a suspect in the killings of four people aboard a charter fishing boat admitted his role in their shooting deaths, but insisted he did not pull the trigger, according to court documents.

  19. Collapse survivor slowly rebuilds life AP - Sat Dec 22, 12:56 PM ET

    MINNETONKA, Minn. - The ruins of the Minneapolis bridge collapse are all cleaned up now, but Garrett Ebling is still picking up the wreckage it made of his life.

  20. U.S. Border Patrol Agent-in-Charge Richard Graham Jr. crosses the Similkameen River on horseback while on patrol Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007 near the U.S.-Canadian border near Oroville, Wash. Graham says the use of horses by the Border Patrol gives them better access to some terrain in his territory than that provided by motorized vehicles. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
    Mustangs patrol U.S.-Canada border AP - Sat Dec 22, 6:56 AM ET

    OROVILLE, Wash. - Astride sturdy mustangs named "Okanogan" and "Spurs," U.S. Border Patrol agents Darrel Williams and Justin Hefker ride quietly along a ridgeline above the Similkameen River valley.

  21. Stephen Grant, third from left, is escorted by Macomb County Sheriff's deputies after being found guilty of second degree murder of his wife Tara Grant in Mount Clemens, Mich., Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. Stephen Grant had previously pleaded guilty Dec. 7, 2007, to mutilating the corpse of 34-year-old Tara Grant. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
    Mich. man convicted of killing wife AP - Fri Dec 21, 11:05 PM ET

    MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - A man who tearfully stood before TV cameras and repeatedly denied any involvement in his wife's disappearance was convicted Friday of killing her. Stephen Grant, 37, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Tara Grant, 34, at the home they shared in the Detroit suburb of Washington Township.

  22. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, shakes hands to congratulate Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, right, on the Assembly's approval of a health care reform plan, during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. The $14.4 billion health reform measure will expand coverage to nearly 70 percent of the state's uninsured and require most Californians to buy health insurance was approved on a party-line, 45-31 vote. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
    Mass inmate release possible in Calif. AP - Fri Dec 21, 6:45 AM ET

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates from the nation's largest prison system as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday.

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