Dave Mattingly

Crews are slowly making progress to restore power to areas of the U.S.

most affected by the latest winter storm.

More than 530,000 homes and businesses are still without power this morning.

That's down from more than 800,000 at this time yesterday.

The hardest-hit states include Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, where heavy icing brought down trees and power lines.

Curtis Tate with member station WEKU reports on efforts to get the lights back on in Kentucky.

At least six people were killed in Sunday night's fiery crash of a private jet at an airport in Bangor, Maine.

That jet went down during takeoff.

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A former Olympic athlete who represented Canada in snowboarding has pleaded not guilty to charges of ordering multiple killings while running a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring.

Ryan Wedding entered his plea yesterday in a federal court in Santa Ana, California, southeast of Los Angeles.

Wedding was apprehended in Mexico last week, less than a year after he was added to the FBI's list of its 10 most wanted fugitives.

Wedding competed in the Winter Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City.

Prosecutors say Wedding had been in hiding in Mexico for more than a decade.

They accuse him of moving up to 60 tons of cocaine between Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and Southern California under the protection of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.

The U.S.

Olympic team is set for the upcoming Winter Games in Italy.

Here's NPR's Ping Wang.

More than 230 U.S.

athletes are headed to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.