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• 6. WHO'S TRYING TO GET HIS PENSION BACK
• Jerry Sandusky is expected to participate by video in a hearing seeking to get back the benefit revoked after his child molestation conviction.

• 7. INTEL SAYS ITS PROCESSORS ARE NOW 'CONFLICT-FREE'
• The company has been working to make sure it's not using minerals from mines held by armed groups in Congo.

• 8. CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN HOMELESS MAN'S DEATH
• Trial is nearing its end in the case of a California man who died after a confrontation with police captured in surveillance video.

• 9. A NEW PERFORMER FOR 'SNL'
• Sasheer Zamata will join "Saturday Night Live" when new episodes start this month, only the fifth black woman on the cast since 1975.

• 10. WINSTON SAVES BEST FOR BIGGEST
• The Heisman winning Florida State quarterback struggled for much of the BCS championship -- then put together the drive of his life in a 34-31 win over Auburn.

AP News in Brief
South, East brace for dangerous polar air as Midwest slowly starts to step out of freezer

• INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Frigid air that snapped decades-old records will make venturing outside dangerous for a second straight day, this time spreading to southern and eastern parts of the U.S. and keeping many schools and businesses shuttered. Meanwhile, residents driven from their homes by power outages in the Midwest worried about burst pipes.
• Monday's subzero temperatures broke records in Chicago, which set a record for the date at minus 16, and Fort Wayne, Ind., where the mercury fell to 13 below. Records also fell in Oklahoma and Texas, and wind chills across the region were 40 below and colder. Officials in states like Indiana already struggling with high winds and more than a foot of snow urged residents to stay home if they could.
• "The cold is the real killer here," Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said Monday as

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