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Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday on track for the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices were closed for a second day and utility workers struggled to restore power knocked out by a weekend blizzard.

In some Los Angeles-area foothill towns, homeowners are packing their cars and fleeing their homes.

Finding a job got much tougher last year, as the number of available openings fell by nearly one quarter.

Federal safety officials say they will look into complaints from Toyota Corolla drivers about difficulty with the steering on their vehicles.

San Antonio's police chief says officers are searching a landfill for evidence in the disappearance of an 8-month-old boy.

A Massachusetts medical examiner has found that figure skater Nancy Kerrigan's father died of a heart rhythm problem after suffering a neck injury so severe it damaged his voice box.

Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety problems at the world's largest automaker.

Things look good aboard the shuttle. A few pieces of foam insulation did break off the external fuel tank during launch, but there's no indication anything hit the shuttle.

A sheriff's dispatcher says fires have struck two more rural east Texas churches, just hours after investigators announced that a blaze last week marked the eighth arson against a house of worship in the state this year.

A 31-year-old Indiana man says he didn't have food but kept himself hydrated with Mountain Dew and snow while he was stuck in his snow-covered SUV in southwestern Colorado for three days.