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The lack of power in many areas hit hard by last week's storms put a damper on festivities. For some, the power may not return until this weekend. Some of the worst damage occurred in and around the nation's capital.

Patch, a Jack Russell terrier, boarded a train near Dublin Wednesday. When the train staff discovered him, they posted his picture on Twitter. Within a half hour, his owner saw the photo and tweeted "That's my dog!"

Clayton Mace of Sioux City, Iowa, put up a sign, 24 feet wide, congratulating all seven of his kids for graduating high school. Drivers on a nearby interstate can see it. No doubt local officials support education, but The Sioux City Journal reports they've ordered the sign taken down as a zoning code violation.

Videos captured the scene. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. The "Big Bay Boom" was all that, and more.

The whistle-blowing website says the exchanges will embarrass some western companies.

Linton Weeks describes the strange moments taking place in Juxtopia — the world where technological devices coexist with a lack of easily acquired power to run them.

The Latino civil rights group, the National Council of La Raza, is headed to Las Vegas for its annual convention. Members expect to address recent changes to immigration law around the country, and the Latino vote in this year's election. Host Michel Martin checks in with convention organizer Ron Estrada.

Al-Jazeera has rekindled conspiracy theories about the Palestinian leader's 2004 death. But its investigation has also raised questions.

The longtime conservative jurist has been one of the nation's most respected and admired legal thinkers on the right. But in an interview with NPR, he expressed exasperation at the modern Republican Party, and confessed that he has become "less conservative" as a result.

Tim Burton's artwork, at once so playful and so often strangely dark, is perfectly suited to inspiring creative pie making in Los Angeles, as entries in KCRW's annual pie contest last year proved.