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DENVER - United Airlines, hit hard by weekend storms in the Midwest, canceled dozens more flights Thursday as the second storm since Christmas threatened to pile 20 inches of new snow on Colorado.

Up to 8 inches of new snow were expected in Denver, which set a record for its snowiest Christmas with the nearly 8 inches that fell Tuesday.

United canceled 168 flights nationwide Thursday mostly because of the weather in Denver, its second-largest hub, to help prevent planes from being stranded there. That is about 5 percent of the airline's daily schedule.

"There will be impacts in other parts of the system, and we're doing our best to accommodate everyone," United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said.

It marked the fourth straight day that United had canceled flights .OSLO, Norway - Amy Winehouse has been summoned to appear in court in Bergen after appealing her fine for marijuana possession.

"I can confirm that she must appear in court," Bergen police spokeswoman Liv Karlsen said Thursday. "If one appeals a conviction, it's the rule that one has to appear in person, so this is not surprising."

The 24-year-old British singer-songwriter and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were arrested in Bergen on Oct. 18 and held overnight on charges of illegal drug possession.

They were released the next day after paying fines of $715 each on charges of possessing about one-quarter of an ounce of marijuana and continued on a European tour.

Winehouse later claimed she had been tricked into signing the charges and didn't know what she had put her signature to. Police say they are sure she knew, and that fluent English speakers helped her.

The singer's lawyer has said that a conviction and a fine could damage her career by making it more difficult for her to enter the U.S.

Winehouse has spoken openly about her penchant for alcohol and marijuana, and her hit single "Rehab" is an autobiographical tale of her resistance to being pushed to go to rehab: "They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said no, no, no."

She was photographed earlier this month walking outside her London home wearing a bra and jeans, with no shoes, looking distressed.

Her 25-year-old husband was ordered held in custody in London last month on charges stemming from a case in which he is accused of assaulting a barman in June.1694 - Queen Mary II of England died after more than five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.

1832 - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson.

1856 - The 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Va.

1897 - The play "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris.

1937 - Composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62.

1945 - Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.

1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.

1982 - Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead.

1987 - The bodies of 14 relatives of Ronald Gene Simmons were found at his home near Dover, Ark., following a shooting rampage by Simmons in Russellville that claimed two other lives. (Simmons was later executed.)

1997 - One woman was killed, more than 100 other people hurt, when a United Airlines jumbo jet en route from Narita, Japan, to Honolulu encountered severe turbulence over the Pacific.

2002 - The U.N. nuclear watchdog decided to pull its inspectors out of North Korea by New Year's Eve, a step demanded by the North.

2006 - Saddam Hussein's attorney made a last-ditch effort to impede his client's execution.