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  • WINTER WEATHER
    Steadily falling snow blanketed the Midwest on Thursday, part of a vicious cold snap engulfing much of the nation, and a tractor-trailer spun out of control on snow-slick roads in Ohio, killing four people and injuring seven.
     
  • DUTCH ELM DISEASE
    An interactive look at Dutch elm disease.
     
  • TALLEST BUILDINGS
    The world's tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates, rises more than a half mile into the sky. It is more than 50 percent taller than the next tallest building.
     
  • COLLEGE FOOTBALL INTERACTIVE
    No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Texas face off in the BCS title game Thursday night. The undefeated Crimson Tide and Longhorns will each try to add another championship to their considerable pedigrees. It's a meeting of two old-line programs from the South _ Roll Tide vs. Hook 'em Horns _ where football is the biggest thing going.
     
  • UMAR INDICTMENT
    A grand jury indicted a Nigerian man Wednesday on charges accusing him of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day by trying to use a weapon of mass destruction.
     
  • YEMEN
    The U.S. recently increased its focus on Yemen, which for years has had a known presence of al Qaida. The concern is that if instability deepens in the impoverished nation, which is already troubled by internal conflict, the terror group could be provided with a greater opportunity to establish itself.
     
  • SIMPSONS 450TH
    "The Simpsons" is now TV's longest-running scripted nighttime series.
    Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie - those those never-aging, yellow-skinned inhabitants of Springfield - are back for their 450th episode on Sunday, Jan. 10.
     
  • UNEMPLOYMENT
    Interactive showing the U.S. unemployment rate broken down by state and sector.
     
  • BCS CHAMPIONSHIP
    An interactive on the Alabama versus Texas national championship game that includes videos with analysis by AP College Football Writer Ralph Russo and AP National Writer Eddie Pells, along with statistics, schedules and key points.
     
  • NEWARK EVACUATION
    A man walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal at one of the nation's busiest airports on Sunday night, and flights were grounded for hours and passengers had to be re-screened while air safety officials searched for him.
     
  • 2010
    See images of celebrations of the new year around the world.
     
  • YEAR IN RACE
    The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the U.S. helped change the way some Americans look at race relations.
     
  • WARSHIP RECORD
    Arleigh Burke-class destroyers such as the USS Ross and USS Cole, which survived a terrorist suicide bombing in Yemen, have proven to be durable workhorses in the U.S. Navy. Over the 22 years since construction of the first one began at Bath Iron Works, the ship has steamed into the record book: The destroyer's production run has outlasted every other battleship, cruiser, destroyer and frigate in U.S. Navy history.
   

   

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