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DES MOINES, Iowa - A fierce winter storm hammered more than a dozen states Tuesday with dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds that threatened to create 15-foot drifts in parts of the Upper Midwest. Full Story »

HONOLULU - A one-day surfing contest held only in extreme conditions was under way for the first time in five years Tuesday, thanks to the massive waves pounding Oahu's famed North Shore. Full Story »

LUCASVILLE, Ohio - An Ohio killer was put to death in an efficient 10 minutes Tuesday in the first U.S. execution to use a single drug injection instead of the standard three-chemical combination that has come under legal attack because it can cause excruciating pain. Full Story »

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Golfer Tiger Woods' Swedish mother-in-law was treated for stomach pain after collapsing at his Florida home early on Tuesday and being rushed to a nearby hospital by ambulance. Full Story »

BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana Sen. Max Baucus' live-in girlfriend had eyed the state's U.S. attorney post for years before he nominated her for the job, her former colleagues said. Full Story »

President Obama wants to help America's 15 million unemployed. But short-term job creation is not the government's best game Full Story »

SPARKS, Nev. - A government plan to round up and relocate thousands of wild horses in the West faces opposition from advocates who say the proposal is inhumane and unnecessary. Full Story »

BERLIN (Reuters) - Marion Jones's Sydney Olympic individual sprint and long jump medals will be reallocated this week but her 100m gold will not be given to Greece's Katerina Thanou due to her own involvement in doping. Full Story »

Wet and wintry weather was expected across the Central U.S. on Tuesday as a low pressure system continued to track over the Central Rockies and into the Plains. Full Story »

KABUL, Afghanistan - Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived Tuesday in Afghanistan with plans to assure officials and American troops there that the United States is committed to winning the war despite plans to begin pulling forces out in 2011. Full Story »

NEW YORK - A New Jersey woman whose false story about a gang rape sent an innocent man to prison has pleaded guilty to perjury. Full Story »

TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) - A proposal to legalize gay marriage in New Jersey narrowly passed a key state Senate committee on Monday, paving the way for a legislative showdown this week and boosting the possibility New Jersey will join the handful of U.S. states allowing gay couples to wed. Full Story »

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A condemned killer scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death with a single drug — in an execution that could take longer than previous procedures — arrived Monday at the Ohio death house. Full Story »

DALLAS - Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II, who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has died. He was 80. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer group that reported several of the holiday season's must-have toys are unsafe wants to make a correction. Full Story »

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Three nurses unions merged on Monday to form the largest-ever labor organization for U.S. medical professionals, which is expected to wield greater clout in collective bargaining and the national healthcare debate. Full Story »

HONOLULU - The PBS science series "NOVA" plans to broadcast a documentary presenting evidence that a torpedo fired from a Japanese midget submarine may have struck the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Full Story »

MADISON, Wis. - Police on Monday found the body of a man wanted in two double homicides in Wisconsin in the car of one of his victims, a coroner said. Full Story »