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By The Associated Press A look at key issues in the health care debate: Full Story »

A fierce storm left dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds in its wake as it slogged eastward Wednesday, snarling traffic and closing hundreds of schools from the Upper Midwest through New England. Full Story »

A former cast member of the 1980s television show "Family Ties" is due in court in Boulder, Colo., on Wednesday. Full Story »

Associated Press - December 9, 2009 11:44 AM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - An Iraq War veteran from Boise has pleaded guilty to shooting into two locked apartments earlier this year. Full Story »

A patient charged with shooting a popular community doctor at a rural clinic hours after being denied narcotics there was being held on $10 million bail Wednesday. Full Story »

Nelson Mandela made it clear that Morgan Freeman was the man he would want to play him in a film. Full Story »

Businesses unexpectedly added to inventories at the wholesale level in October, breaking a record string of 13 straight declines. It was a hopeful sign that companies will begin restocking depleted store shelves, helping to... Full Story »

Petraeus says Afghanistan no worse off than Iraq was when he took command there in 2007. Full Story »

Associated Press - December 9, 2009 10:54 AM ET LOGAN, Utah (AP) - Bear River Head Start will use nearly $1.9 million in federal stimulus money to serve 32 more infants and toddlers through a... Full Story »

A top-ranking American warned Congress Wednesday that the military situation in Afghanistan likely will "get harder before it gets easier." Full Story »

Movie producer Tyler Perry says his mother, Willie Maxine Perry, has died. Full Story »

John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 6-inch swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his face, and an extreme and very personal vulgarity... Full Story »

After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler's home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close. Full Story »

Clay Aiken received a lot of votes as an "American Idol" contestant and eventual runner-up. Now, it's his lone vote that's drawing attention in North Carolina. Full Story »

Gatorade is discontinuing its Tiger Woods drink but says it made the decision before the golfer's car accident led to a media firestorm surrounding his personal life. Full Story »

In a wooded area up a dirt road off an interstate highway, Jamie Cap peers down the sight of his new shotgun at a target about 40 yards away. He adjusts the angle by nudging a toggle switch, then fires. Full Story »

Franklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced... Full Story »

Associated Press - December 9, 2009 8:14 AM ET MALAD CITY, Idaho (AP) - The U.S. Department of Labor says a southeastern Idaho restaurant must pay nearly $102,000 in back wages to 81 employees... Full Story »

Associated Press - December 9, 2009 8:04 AM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho Power Co. wants regulators to make permanent a program that helps the utility recover its fixed costs, saying it will... Full Story »

Associated Press - December 9, 2009 8:04 AM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Public schools chief Tom Luna has added more stops to his statewide tour aimed at gathering input on Idaho's application for... Full Story »

A panicking woman calls 911 from Tiger Woods' Orlando-area mansion, telling the dispatcher that her mother had collapsed. Full Story »

Stocks turned higher Wednesday as a weakening dollar boosted prices of commodities and lifted energy and materials stocks. Full Story »

TRENTON, N.J. (AP)- "The Boss" is backing gay marriage in the Garden State. Full Story »

Apanicking woman calls 911 from Tiger Woods' Orlando-area mansion, telling the dispatcher that her mother had collapsed. Full Story »

Progress against the insurgency in Afghanistan probably will be slower than seen during the buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq two years ago, but the Afghan campaign "is not hopeless," a top U.S. general said Wednesday. Full Story »