Maurice Griffin, an Electrolux employee for 29 years, shows off his sweatshirt as he leaves the plant in Greenville, Mich. on Jan. 29. Economists expect gradual improvement in Michigan's economy in 2005, but some doubt Michigan will have replaced all the jobs it lost in the most recent recession until after 2007.
The Sarasota County sheriff's office released a video of a sixth grader, Carlie Brucia, being led from the rear of a car wash in Sarasota, Florida on Feb. 1. Brucia was allegedly killed by a man with multiple probation violations. Lawmakers and the public were outraged when it was revealed that the suspect was on the streets and not in jail.
Rich Walker, center, kisses Brad Chilcoat after the couple was married by Deputy Marriage Commissioner D.J. Dull, left, at City Hall in San Francisco on Feb. 15.
Karleen Raley and her daughter, Debra Umland, right, console each other as they stand in the rubble that used to be the Raley residence in Hallam, Neb., on May 23. A storm system that spawned more than a dozen tornadoes swept south-central and southeast Nebraska, leveling the Raley home as well as most of Hallam.
Former first lady Nancy Reagan kisses the casket of her husband, former President Ronald Reagan, prior to the removal of his remains from the Capitol Rotunda in Washington on June 11.
Former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay is led in handcuffs into the federal courthouse in Houston by federal agents July 8, after turning himself in to face charges that resulted from a nearly three-year federal investigation of the scandal-ridden energy company.
Firefighters battle a wildfire near Santa Clarita, Calif., on July 18.
A patron of the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Springfield, Ill., reads a copy of the "The 9/11 Commission Report" on July 22. The United States government could not protect its citizens from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it failed to appreciate the threat posed by al Qaeda operatives who exploited those lapses to carry out the deadliest assault ever on American soil, the chairman of the Sept. 11 commission Tom Kean said.
Then-Gov. James. E. McGreevey of New Jsersy addresses a news conference as his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, middle, and his mother, Veronica McGreevey, right, listen at the statehouse in Trenton, N.J. on August 12. At the news conference, McGreevey announced his resignation and disclosed that he had had a gay affair.
Terry Frey of Port Charlotte, Fla., guards his house with a shotgun and pistol Aug. 14, warning potential looters to stay away. Hurricane Charley made landfall in the area Aug. 13.
Raymond Villasenor gets his flu shot from Denise Straulea after he waited several hours in line at the Cooper City, Fla., Publix grocery store on Oct. 8. The line remained long.
A man waits at an intersection across the street from the gasoline price board at the Shell gas station in San Mateo, Calif., Oct. 11.
Terri Schiavo is shown in this video released by her family on Oct. 14 in Tampa, Florida. 2004 was a remarkable year of legal wrangling that has kept Schiavo, severely brain damaged since 1990, alive and at the center of an unprecedented court battle.
Scott Peterson listens intently at the beginning of defense closing arguments in Redwood City, Calif., Nov. 2. Jurors in his trial found the former fertilizer salesman guilty of killed his pregnant wife, Laci, pitting the prosecution's largely circumstantial case against the defense's theory of a possible frame-up.
President Bush, left to right, former President Bill Clinton, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Jimmy Carter walk from the William J. Clinton Presidential Center to the podium during dedication ceremonies for the library in Little Rock, Ark., on Nov. 18.