A broken chairlift at Maine's Sugarloaf Mountain injured at least three skiers and hundreds were being evacuated off of the chairlift after being stuck in the freezing cold. Good thing a CNN employee is on the lift to report back!

Have you seen the Times' account of the final hours of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig? Because: Wow.

If you're reading this, chances are you're warm and cozy—either because you're inside, or because you're not in the Northeast, suffering through "Snowpocalypse" or whatever the hell the Weather Channel is calling it. Here's what it looks like.

Tonight's performance of Broadway's Spider-Man musical has been canceled while they deal with safety concerns.

Well, it seems like we're not the only ones who think the new Spider-Man musical needs to be put down before it hurts anyone else. Two Broadway stars have weighed in, in dramatic fashion, against the show. As have investors.

In light of the most recent accident at the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, we just cannot stay silent any longer! This is a terrible and, evidently, dangerous show that they need to pull the plug on.

A "criminal gang" trying to steal fuel punctured an oil pipeline in Mexico on Sunday, sending rivers of oil through the streets of the small village of San Martin Texmelucan and causing a massive explosion that killed 28 people. [BBC]

Three young men aged 15, 17, and 27 were hanging out at their usual spot, a railroad overpass in Commerce, California. They heard a train coming, so they moved to the opposite tracks. They didn't hear the other train coming.

The Washington, DC Pentagon metro station was totally shut down this morning when a suspicious object was spotted blinking in a trash can. X-rays determined it was a "battery-operated Christmas ornament." The War on Christmas has gone too far.

[People paddle a boat at the flooded street in village of Rijeka Crnojevica, Montenegro, where hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes because of floods caused by heavy rains. Photo via AP.]

Poor BP is claiming that U.S. government estimates on the size of the Gulf oil spill are way too high, by 20-50 percent. Of course, the more oil that was spilled means more fines the company must pay. Nice try!

Venezuela has been hit by deadly floods and mudslides that have claimed at least 25 lives. This has prompted President Hugo Chávez to invite dozens of now-homeless Venezuelans to stay at his presidential palace until they are resettled. How benevolent!

Looking for something new to worry about on the plane? How about this: A 25-year-old co-pilot tried to adjust his seat and managed to send his plane, and its 113 passengers, on a 7,000-foot drop at a 26-degree angle.

At 10:46 a.m. this morning, Long Island was hit with a magnitude 3.9 earthquake. That's crazy.

Indonesia's volatile Mount Merapi is still spewing "knee-high black sludge" at about 60 mph.

Last night was the first preview performance of the new Julie Taymor/U2 Broadway jam Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the much-plagued musical about Peter Parker and his super-villain enemies. So how'd it go? Well, please stand by for technical difficulties.

A United Nations official said the cholera outbreak in Haiti could spread to 200,000 people within the next three months, and that some 2,000 people had already died: "This epidemic is moving faster. It's going to spread." [Reuters]

The 29 New Zealand miners missing underground since an explosion last week were declared dead following a second, "massive" explosion.

More bad news in New Zealand: Gas levels at the coal mine where 29 are trapped remain too toxic for rescuers.

A robot is being deployed to search for 29 miners trapped in New Zealand.