Groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor, whose stand-up routines about race, sex and life made him a modern day icon, is dead. He was 65. Pryor died after being rushed to a hospital from his home shortly after 8 a. m. Pryor had suffered from multiple sclerosis, a disease of the nervous system.

A 70-year-old grandmother and Sunday school teacher is charged with stealing a baby Jesus statue from an Arkansas town's nativity scene. Virginia Voiers says she thought she was just taking part in a rambunctious holiday prank, when a witness called Eureka Springs police on her.

On their way back from Camp David, President George W. Bush's motorcade has been in a minor accident a couple of blocks from the White House. An ambulance traveling with the motorcade in case of emergency couldn't stop in time when the lead vehicles slowed down, crashing into a Chevy Suburban. The Suburban then hit a support van in front of it.

Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff ReporterThe large dog was sniffing trees and barking at squirrels sitting in the branches, when they suddenly descended and attacked him, reports BBC News.