• Mount Pulaski ready for yearlong celebration:
  Kickoff New Year's Eve  [12-23-10]

• All-day snow on Christmas Eve expected to slow travel  [12-23-10]

• 2010 Red Kettle campaign at 31% of annual goal
  [12-24-10]

• Logan County 4-H achievement recognition awards for 2010  [12-23-10]

• Joint Solid Waste Agency information is online  
  [12-23-10]

• Former Logan County Board member Laura Schilling dies  [12-23-10]

• Travelers brace for snow, ice in Midwest  [12-24-10]

• 2 firefighters dead, 17 injured in Chicago blaze
  [12-23-10]

• Meeks withdraws from Chicago mayor's race
  [12-24-10]

• Hearing officer: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor  [12-23-10]

• 'Large Guy' convicted in Chicago racketeering case  [12-23-10]

• Woman, 27, found dead at August Busch IV 's home  [12-24-10]

• Big sister searches for missing Las Vegas dancer  [12-24-10]

• Secret Santa: NORAD mum on how it tracks St. Nick  [12-24-10]

• Christmas Eve work shutdown to spell mobbed malls  [12-24-10]

• In Christmas tradition, Gulf Coast birds counted [12-24-10]

• Californians start cleaning up mud, water, debris [12-24-10]

• Storm lashes California and leaves polluted water  [12-23-10]

• Man seen in NYC rolling suitcase stuffed with body  [12-23-10]

• Ind. mom says she hid young son's body for a year  [12-23-10]

• Jury recommends death for dad, son in bank bombing  [12-23-10]

• Rust Belt states losing people, political clout
  [12-23-10]

• Vets-in-training helping elderly keep animals
  [12-23-10]

• Study questions seniority-based teacher layoffs [12-23-10]

• Cherokee, Apple partner to put language on iPhones  [12-23-10]

• 2010: A quake, a meltdown, a dramatic rescue
  [12-23-10]

• Famed balloonist laid to rest in NM  [12-23-10]

Politics & Government

• Fed board: Keep companies from oil spill evidence  [12-24-10]

• Alert issued on beverage containers on planes
  [12-24-10]

• Biden says gay marriage 'inevitable'  [12-24-10]

• EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases  [12-24-10]

• Obama toasts 'season of progress' after big wins [12-23-10]

• Obama signs 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal  [12-23-10]

• Obama hoping for low-profile Hawaiian vacation [12-23-10]

• Lame-duck Congress morphed into Energizer bunny  [12-23-10]

• Congress approves defense bill, sends to president   [12-23-10]

• 9/11 responders' $4.2B aid package called miracle  [12-23-10]

• Congress fails to pass whistle-blower rights bill [12-23-10]

• Congress extends trade assistance for 6 weeks [12-23-10]

• Reid: Treaty buffs Obama as Nobel Prize winner [12-23-10]

• Gays ousted from military now hoping to return [12-23-10]

• Alaska court refuses to overturn Sen. vote results  [12-23-10]

Weather

International

• RI police: Santa didn't rob bar; bartender charged  [12-24-10]

• Lawyer: Man in Mass. pizza prank agrees to pay up  [12-24-10]

• Purse from Fla. school board shooting sold on eBay  [12-24-10]

• Man, 89, comes clean, returns book after 76 years [12-23-10]

• Vermont gov gives press 1 last dog and pony show  [12-23-10]

Science, Technology and the Environment

• DNA says new human relative roamed widely in Asia  [12-23-10]

• UK science journal publishes study by 8-year-olds  [12-23-10]