The Big Dig: Workers spent Saturday restoring power and clearing roads in the wake of the blizzard “Nemo” no one had trouble finding.  At least 400,000 customers are still without power. Five deaths are blamed on the storm. In Boston an 11-year-old boy died of carbon monoxide poisoning after his father put him in the car with the engine running to warm up. The tailpipe was covered with snow and the car filled with fumes.

National: The Los Angeles police are re-opening the case that led to the firing of Christopher Dorner, the former officer wanted for three murders. Dorner was fired after a finding that he lied when he accused his training officer of kicking a suspect. In an online manifesto Dorner, who is black, said he was the victim of racism. LA Police Chief Charlie Beck said about re-opening the case, ““I do this not to appease a murderer. I do it to reassure the public that their Police Department is transparent and fair in all the things we do.”

 The LAPD has a secondary mess on its hands explaining why they shot up two pickups trucks, thinking they were driven by Dorner. In one incident cops fired about 30 rounds into a pickup occupied by two women delivering newspapers. The women say there was no effort to stop them before officers opened fire.

• A shooting on Bourbon St. left four Mardis Gras revelers wounded.
• Mars Rover drilled two tiny holes on the surface of the red planet, causing big excitement back on earth. Never before has human exploration dug into the surface of another planet. Samples will be brought into the robot’s onboard laboratory.

World: As many as 30 million Indians took a dip in the Ganges yesterday in the Kumbh Mela ritual festival of cleansing . The event takes place every 12 years where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet. Over the course of a month about 100 million people bathe in the river. That’s like a third of America bathing in the Hudson.

Bad Rap: Rapper Chris Brown totaled his Porsche in Beverly Hills trying to get away from paparazzi, thereby giving them a better picture.

Passing: Zhuang Zedong, the Chinese Ping Pong player whose accidental meeting with an American player led to the opening of relations with Communist China, has died at age 71. Zhuang made friends with American Glen Cowan at a tournament in Japan. Pictures of the two together made such a stir in China that Chairman Mao invited the American team to his country. It was known as “Ping Pong diplomacy” and a year later President Nixon was in China for one of the great diplomatic meetings in history.

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