California storm sputters but evacuations continue for hundreds of LA foothill homes
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) -- Evacuations are still in effect for more than 500 foothill homes in Southern California even though the storm that spawned them is petering out....

White House: No more flinty jabs from Obama; 2 feet of snow gets Obama's respect
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential quips about Washington's supposed lack of winter toughness have disappeared as snow accumulations mounted....

Man dies after being swept up by Cyclone Oli as storm lashes French Polynesia
PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) -- An official in French Polynesia says swelling ocean waters driven by Cyclone Oli have left at least one person dead on the South Pacific archipelago....

Issue of burying power lines resurface as electricity trickles back on in southwest Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- With each major ice storm in Oklahoma, the question seems to resurface: Why not bury the power lines?...

South Dakota Sioux reservation still struggling to recover after storms knock out water, power
EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. (AP) -- Sonny Brave Eagle and his family spent six days in the dark without a phone or working radio before law officers found them in their home after a fierce winter storm cut power across South Dakota's impoverished Cheyenne River Indian Reservation....

Snow storm that covered South with snow, ice heads off to sea past Washington, DC
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A winter storm that crossed in a nearly straight line dumping snow, sleet and ice this week from northern Texas to Washington was heading off the Atlantic coast early Sunday....