National News Today
- California climber dies after slip and fall on way up Mount Shasta with other climbers
- A 33-year-old-woman has died while ascending California's Mount Shasta with other climbers who tried to help.
- 1 hospitalized, another person injured in suburban Miami mall shooting
- One person was shot at a suburban Miami mall Monday and taken to a hospital by helicopter, and another person was injured, authorities said.
- 2nd FBI informant says Fort Dix plot suspects were training for 'jihad'
- An FBI informant testified Monday at the trial of five men accused of plotting to kill soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix that a trip they took to Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains was intended as training for a holy war.
- Man who calls himself 'Clark Rockefeller' to get $140,000 in gold coins back to pay defense
- The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller will get back about half of the gold coins and cash seized by authorities after he was arrested for allegedly kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter.
- 'I lied,' says ex-mayoral aide, who pleads guilty in sex scandal and gets 4 months in jail
- Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall broke her silence Monday, shedding tears as she pleaded guilty.
- Barbara Bush starts liquid diets, continues recovery after ulcer surgery
- A Houston hospital says former first lady Barbara Bush is in good condition and recovering from ulcer surgery as expected.
- Obama choice of Napolitano for cabinet means Republican becomes Arizona governor
- President-elect Barack Obama's announcement Monday that Gov. Janet Napolitano is his choice to head the Department of Homeland Security means a Republican will move into the governor's office.
- NM baby dies, another hospitalized from rare infection associated with powdered formula
- The New Mexico Health Department says a baby has died and another has been hospitalized due to a rare infection.
- Correction: Students-Dishonesty story
- In a Nov. 30 story about a survey of high school students' honesty, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of an expert affiliated with the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He is Mel Riddile, not Riddle.
- LA police arrest 2, rescue 17 dogs in breakup of dogfighting operation
- Los Angeles police say they have made two arrests and rescued 17 dogs in the breakup of a dogfighting operation.