An Airbus 320 jetliner crashed into the Hudson River after a flock of birds apparently disabled both engines, but rescuers pulled the more than 150 aboard into boats before the plane sank. 9:19 PM

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• On ditched jetliner, a boom and then a jolt

Northeasterners got socked Thursday with the same subzero temperatures -- more than 30 below zero in some spots -- that brought teeth-chattering misery to the nation's midsection.

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• Weather Service offers tips on keeping warm
• Murder charges dropped in Idaho girl's snowy death

As House leaders unveiled legislation for an unprecedented $825 billion economic stimulus, UC Berkeley economist Christina Romer said she never dreamed that her scholarship on the Great Depression would be useful in making current economic policy. Carolyn Lochhead

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The Senate approved a major expansion of wilderness areas nationwide Thursday, protecting more than 2 million acres of public land from drilling, logging and mining, including 735,000 acres across California. Zachary Coile

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• Wilderness package includes 735 acres in state
•  Passions heat up over dolphins in N.J. river

A road atlas and campground directory discovered in the airplane cockpit of an Indiana man helped lead authorities to the remote Florida campsite where he was finally arrested.

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