Flight attendant caught wayward pilots unaware WASHINGTON - A call from a flight attendant to the pilots of the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis catapulted the cockpit crew from complacency to confusion. A parent's dilemma: a child with ties to terrorism WASHINGTON - It's a dilemma no parent wants to face - fearing a son or daughter may be mixed up in terrorism, wondering whether to turn in a loved one. Storm dumps snow on Midwest, bitter cold to follow DES MOINES, Iowa - A gigantic storm dumped more than a foot of snow across much of the Midwest and New England as it marched eastward Wednesday, creating blizzard conditions, burying cars under huge drifts and providing ammunition for a massive campus snowball fight in Wisconsin.
'Christmas Carol' beats the dickens out of box office rivals LOS ANGELES (AFP) - With more than 40 shopping days left until Christmas, North American theater audiences already had enough holiday cheer to put "Disney's A Christmas Carol" at the top of the box office this week.