By KELLY P. KISSEL (LITTLE ROCK, Ark., AP) — As a the muted ends of a powerful winter storm that has killed more than a dozen people plodded through the… Read more »

By DAN SEWELL and HOLLY RAMER (CONCORD, N.H., AP) — A powerful winter storm brought snow to inland parts of the Northeast and driving rain and wind to areas along… Read more »

By STEVE PEOPLES (BOSTON, AP) — In the city where a protest over tax policy sparked a revolution, modern day tea party activists are cheering the recent Republican revolt in… Read more »

By KATIE ZEZIMA (NEWTOWN, Conn., AP) — He was the awkward kid who wore the same clothes to school every day. He rarely spoke and even gave a school presentation… Read more »

(CHICAGO, AP) — One of the two bank robbers who made a daring escape from a high-rise federal jail in Chicago was arrested after a dayslong manhunt, an FBI spokeswoman… Read more »

By MEGHAN BARR (NEW YORK, AP) — From his toy-cluttered Brooklyn apartment, the man in the red suit was making his list and checking it twice. But he made no… Read more »

By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ and JOHN MILBURN (DES MOINES, Iowa, AP) — The first major snowstorm of the season began its slow eastward march across the Midwest early Thursday, leaving at… Read more »

By VANESSA GERA Though the Mayans never really predicted that the world would end on Friday, some New Agers are convinced that humanity’s demise is indeed imminent. Or at least… Read more »

By DON BABWIN and MICHAEL TARM (CHICAGO, AP) — A manhunt for two bank robbers who used a makeshift rope to pull off a daring escape from a high-rise Chicago… Read more »

By MICHELLE R. SMITH, AP The killings at a Connecticut elementary school left parents struggling to figure out what, if anything, to tell their children. President Barack Obama said he… Read more »