AP - Five Muslim immigrants were convicted Monday of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in a case the government said demonstrated its post-Sept. 11 determination to stop terrorist attacks in the planning stages.
AP - Bone-numbing cold spread Monday from the Midwest to the East, forcing millions to bundle up and scurry from place to place. Snowfall in northern New England topped 40 inches in one town, and travel remained disrupted as the days ticked town toward Christmas.
AP - President-elect Barack Obama plans to reveal on Tuesday his staff's conversations with the Illinois governor accused of trying to sell Obama's Senate seat, transition officials said Monday.
Passengers on the Continental Airlines jet that crashed on takeoff in Denver were told the plane had an engine problem but that it had been fixed, a passenger said. Gabriel Trejos was about to board Continental Flight 1404 with his wife and 1-year-old when gate officials announced the plane was experiencing "engine problems," Trejos said.