HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., Dec. 5 -- New York Jets defensive end Shaun Ellis faces drug and other charges after he was stopped last weekend in Hanover, N. J., en route to the Jets training facility.

Ellis, the Jets' defensive co-captain and their longest-tenured player, was charged with possession of marijuana, driving without insurance and speeding.

The Morristown, N. J., Daily Record said Ellis pulled even with a police car, briefly slowed down, and then passed it.

A police report said Ellis was "uncooperative" and refused to give his paperwork to the officer, but played in last Sunday's 34-17 loss to the Denver Broncos, the newspaper said.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5  -- Eight quarterbacks were among the ailing when the injury report for the NFL's 14th week was released Friday afternoon.

The quarterbacks who will not play are Cincinnati's Carson Palmer (right elbow) and Detroit's Dan Orlovsky (right thumb). Buffalo's Trent Edwards (groin) and Seattle's Matt Hasselbeck (back) are listed as doubtful.

Tennessee's Vince Young (right thumb) is questionable, with Houston's Matt Schaub (knee), Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger (knee) and Tampa Bay's Brian Griese (right elbow) in the probable category.

Among those on the list, only Orlovsky was not a starter when the 2008 season started Sept. 4.

Washington  - Microsoft must hate keyboards.

With each new version of its Windows operating system, the software behemoth has created an interface that relies more heavily on the mouse and less on the keyboard.

Almost everything - from the clickable orb called the Start menu to the gadget-laden sidebar - cries out to be clicked rather than accessed by some key combination.

While there's certainly nothing wrong with the mouse as an input device, overusing it poses two problems: it reduces your productivity, and it increases your likelihood of getting some sort of repetitive stress injury.

Hamburg  - The fantasy movie Inkheart, the first film based on the best-selling juvenile fiction series by author Cornelia Funke, premieres next week, one day before Funke turns 50.

Los Angeles based Funke is often described as a German equivalent of JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series.

She has hooked huge numbers of adult readers worldwide, along with the children and teens who relish the magic worlds of her novels. The movie release seems likely to mark a change of gear for her from being just big to going mega.

Los Angeles  - Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was named the most powerful woman in Hollywood Friday as the Hollywood Reporter unveiled its annual list of the most powerful females in the US movie capital.

Winfrey was chosen "based on her dizzying array of Oprah-branded media and her immense cultural influence," the trade publication's editor-in-chief Elizabeth Guider said in a statement Friday.

Tijuana, Mexico  - Tijuana, in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California and just across the border from the US city of San Diego, is suffering a dramatic escalation of gruesome violence.

Last weekend, police found nine decapitated bodies in one incident and nine other murders perpetrated separately from that.

This is nothing out of the ordinary in the troubled border city of 1.6 million residents, where some 600 people are believed to have been killed so far this year.

And it is also only a fraction of the drug-related killings that have soared to more than 5,000 across Mexico since January, mainly in its northern states. On Thursday alone,