AP - Two snowshoers were caught in an avalanche Saturday high in the mountains of Provo Canyon and one remained missing when heavy snow and the threat of more slides forced rescuers to call off the search.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pentagon contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to publish positive articles by U.S. soldiers has also been compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq for help with its propaganda work, The New York Times reported on Monday.

AP - Home safe after a solo trip to Iraq, American teen Farris Hassan now faces a different kind of challenge: an upcoming calculus exam.

AP - Twelve miners caught in an explosion in a coal mine were found alive Tuesday night, more than 41 hours after the blast, family members said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major League Baseball appealed to a mediator on Wednesday to resolve its dispute with Washington, D.C., over a stalled agreement to build a $667 million city-financed stadium for the Washington Nationals.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virginia Governor Mark Warner said on Thursday he had ordered new DNA testing in the case of a man who was executed 12 years ago.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A report by a research arm of Congress on Friday concluded the administration's justification for eavesdropping authorized by President George W. Bush conflicts with existing law, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

AP - The number of methamphetamine labs found in Oregon dropped by more than half last year, after the state imposed a registry of the over-the-counter cold remedy used to make the illegal drug.

AP - Prosecutors allege Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban tried to broker the sale of information to Iraqi officials shortly before war began to overthrow Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - 'Phantom of the Opera' became the longest-running show in Broadway history on Monday night with a gala 7,486th performance of the hit musical, which included appearances by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and the original phantom, Michael Crawford.

BusinessWeek Online - The stakes are very high in the global economic race. As India and China strive to catch up, the debate continues about what the U.S. needs to do to maintain its lead. While it seems inevitable that other economies will grow, the issue here is whether their success will lead to greater prosperity for Americans or threaten our way of life.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The U.S. government paved the way on Wednesday for oil drilling in an Alaskan region used by migrating caribou and birds, three weeks after Congress blocked energy development in the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

AP - A report released Thursday that provided new details on the region's homeless population prompted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to call the nation's second-largest city the nation's "capital of homelessness."

AP - Firefighters on Friday cleaned up the remnants of grass fires in southern Oklahoma that scorched up to 20,000 acres and destroyed more than two dozen homes and businesses overnight.

AP - The older brother of an Indiana truck driver accused of trying to sell the names of U.S. agents to Iraq's government said the man has no twin, despite the defendant's claims of mistaken identity.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney headed to Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Sunday for meetings with leaders that are expected to focus on counterterrorism, the Palestinian election and energy.

BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - A heady mix of political drama and romance -- both gay and straight -- won major Golden Globe Awards on Monday with 'Brokeback Mountain' earning the best film drama prize and 'Walk the Line' best musical or comedy.

AP - An amateur photographer was indicted Tuesday for the murder of a 17-year-old college student whose body was found in a ravine in a remote area miles from campus.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A probe into possible wrong-doing by former Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros that ran more than 10 years is closing with an accusation by the investigating prosecutor that the Clinton administration stemmed an inquiry into whether Cisneros evaded paying income tax, the New York Times reported in its Thursday edition.

AP - Held captive for more than a year during the Iran hostage crisis that began in 1979, Don Cooke said the experience was "95 percent boredom and 5 percent stark terror."

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Transport Workers Union, which shut down the New York subway and bus system for three days during the Christmas shopping season, has narrowly rejected the contract offer recommended by union leaders.

AP - The initials were spoken aloud only once all week, and then apparently by mistake. After this past week's testimony, any role the CIA had — or didn't have — in the interrogation of an Iraqi general who died in U.S. custody remains a tantalizing and mysterious backdrop to the court-martial of Army Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr.

AP - The number of North American colleges with endowments topping $1 billion has jumped to 56, a new study says, with nine schools joining the elite club in what was an average year for university investments overall.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - American skeleton medal prospect Zach Lund was cleared to compete in next month's Turin Winter Olympics on Monday after he accepted a public warning from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for a failed drugs test.

AP - A high-speed chase that ended in gunfire closed the U.S.-Canadian border crossing near here for hours Tuesday, authorities said. Two men sought in a California homicide were arrested after one of them was shot and wounded.

AP - Motorcycles and skiers, baseball players and lovers, a 40-stamp series featuring America's biggest, tallest and deepest, from sea cliffs to bison to waterfalls and lakes. They're all commemoratives planned for next year by the U.S. Postal Service.

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution for an Indiana inmate just minutes before he was scheduled to be put to death for the 1981 slayings of a Howard County couple.

AP - The body of a 3-year-old boy was found Friday after his adoptive mother reported him kidnapped and then finally confessed to slaying him, police said.

AP - The twelve children of the Challenger astronauts were toddlers, teenagers or starting careers as pilots when they gathered with family to watch the shuttle launch just a few miles away on a chilly morning they would never forget.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines said on Sunday its agreement with flight attendants had been ratified after local vote counts at bases in Houston, Newark and Cleveland.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials, meeting one last time under Alan Greenspan's guiding hand, are expected on Tuesday to raise U.S. interest rates for a 14th straight time, while signaling uncertainty about the future.