Looking back at the stories to remember from this week: Many Americans who wanted to be insured at the start of the new year had until midnight Tuesday to enroll. While no major glitches with the government's troubled website were reported, the Obama administration said it will give more time to people who can show they missed the deadline because of problems with the online system. An ice storm that brought down power lines last weekend left hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity from Michigan to Maine and into Canada. The storm was blamed for more than two dozen deaths, some of them from carbon monoxide poisoning from emergency generators. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that gay weddings can continue in conservative, Mormon-dominated Utah while the state fights a judge's ruling that struck down a ban on sex-same marriage. Utah is the 18th state to allow gay marriage. The case may well be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. In Ohio, a federal judge ordered that gay marriages be recognized on death certificates. Soviet arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov developed the light and rugged assault rifle wielded by revolutionaries, terrorists and soldiers the world over. He died Monday. As for his contribution to bloodshed around the globe, he once said: "I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted Thursday as saying those trying to ensnare him will be left "empty-handed." The scandal, involving allegations of bribery and illicit money transfers, has brought down three government ministers - one of whom has implicated Erdogan - and strained relations with the U.S. UPS and FedEx failed to deliver some packages by Christmas because of bad weather and an unexpectedly large surge of online shopping. The two women walked free on Monday in what was widely seen as an attempt by the Kremlin to ease criticism of Russia's human rights record ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. They spent nearly two years behind bars for their irreverent protest against Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral. The 3-cent increase approved Tuesday in the price of a first-class stamp is aimed at helping the Postal Service recover from the effects of the 2008 economic downturn. It will take effect Jan. 26 and will last no more than two years. Two Americans finished the job in a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk - their second outing in four days. All nonessential equipment had to be turned off because of the malfunction. Studies show heart troubles spike this time of year, and the possible reasons include cold weather (and the shoveling of snow that often accompanies it), stress and too much holiday imbibing.