KOKH - Authorities in Enid are investigating a theft of a 1,000 pound bell from a church that is worth $10,000. The cast-iron bell was last seen at the New Hope United Methodist Church in the 600 block of N. Garland. Police say sometime between November 23 and November 30, someone stole the bell from the church’s parking lot. Police say the thieves knew what they were doing when they took off with the church bell.

CBS DFW - Insurance companies are adding up the damage from the ice storm, and much of the damage remains to be seen, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. Public relations manager, Mark Hanna, says there have been about 2500 claims so far, with more expected as we continue to warm up. “The thawing of frozen water pipes,” will ultimately determine how high claims will go. “We still don’t really have a handle of how bad that might be in your area.

3TV News - A Prescott man was arrested after he allegedly sold his vehicle on Craigslist and reported it stolen in a scheme to collect insurance money. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said Wade Dickinson, 28, contacted the agency in August to report that his home on the 4500 block of Murphy Station Circle was burglarized. Dickinson reported that unknown suspects forced entry into his home and took his 2009 Sinister sandrail from the garage, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Insurance Journal - A report from catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide notes that Winter Storm Xaver hit the north of Scotland last night, Thursday the 5th of December, with wind gusts of more than 140 mph (225 km/h), recorded in the Scottish Highlands. Xaver hit Europe less than six weeks after Winter Storm Christian. Across the northern UK there have been gusts of between 60 and 80 mph (96 and 128 km/h), with 100 mph (160 km/h) gusts recorded in mountain areas. The strongest winds are expected to decrease in strength later today; however, the risk of coastal flooding is expected to increase in the UK, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and Denmark.

Reuters - Celebrations by Seattle football fans in a Monday night game against the New Orleans Saints were so thunderous that they registered as minor earthquakes on a nearby seismometer, a state university professor said. The most intense rumble came after Seahawks’ defensive end Michael Bennett recovered a fumble by New Orleans’ quarterback Drew Brees in the first quarter and ran it back for a touchdown, said John Vidale, director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington. The cheering and foot-stamping at CenturyLink Field was picked up by a seismometer used by the network, which monitors ground motion in Washington and Oregon.

Sky News - A Seattle-to-Canada ferry service has said it has had a "wake-up call" after a sex offender allegedly managed to steal one of its boats. Samuel Kenneth McDonough, a homeless man, was arrested by a SWAT team who boarded the Victoria Clipper on Sunday, seven hours after the ship motored away and drifted in Elliott Bay. McDonough was jailed for investigation of burglary, reckless endangerment, malicious mischief and an outstanding warrant for failure to register as a sex offender.

PennLive.com - Police in Gettysburg are investigating a complaint concerning a ghost hunt that went bust after a police officer mistakenly thought it was a burglary in progress. The Gettysburg Times said Tuesday that the Thanksgiving night ghost tour ended with two tourists and their guide being detained at gunpoint. A patrolman passing the building said after seeing flashlights inside the closed store, he went inside and handcuffed and searched the three ghost hunters.

Fox News - An Ohio family is embroiled in a court fight with a man who moved into their home while they were out of town visiting a dying relative. WLWT News 5 reports the Springdale squatter — Robert Carr — produced a document he’d filed with the local county court when confronted by the displaced family. Carr, who changed the locks on the home and emptied the property of the family’s belongings, says the document -- a so-called “quiet title”-- lays a legitimate claim to the property because the family living there for 21 years had abandoned the home.

Reuters - For lawyers preparing to sue over Sunday’s deadly New York commuter rail accident, their success in court may depend largely on two factors: whether human error caused the derailment and if state or federal law governs railroad safety in the case. Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars could be at stake, based on previous cases. A Cook County, Illinois, jury in 2009, awarded more than $29.5 million to a Chicago woman injured in a 2005 commuter train derailment.

KUTV - Three men were taken to the hospital after a truck hauling a trailer filled with construction equipment smashed through the picture window of a home at 5784 Ferron Circle in Taylorsville. It happened just before 2 p.m. when family members say Ben Pearson, 54, potentially blacked out while driving and smashed into the house where Dean Rottini, his dog Nicki and his friend Tommy Gonzales were watching TV.