This Week's National News
- Oil falls below $50 with no OPEC cuts and more weak economic indicators
- Oil prices tumbled below $50 a barrel Monday as manufacturing activity in the U.S. hit a 26-year low, a showing that was much worse than expected.
- 1 taken to hospital by helicopter after shooting at suburban Miami shopping mall
- Authorities are investigating reports of a shooting at a suburban Miami mall.
- 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.
- Ex-Detroit mayoral aide pleads guilty in sex scandal, will serve 4 months in jail
- Ex-mayoral aide Christine Beatty pleaded guilty Monday in the text-messaging sex scandal with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that gripped the city for nearly a year. She will spend four months in jail.
- Parents say slain anchorwoman was sexually assaulted, broke hand fighting off attacker
- The parents of the television anchorwoman who was beaten to death said Monday there is evidence their daughter also was sexually assaulted, and that she broke her hand fighting her attacker.
- Obama selects retired Marine Gen. James Jones as White House national security adviser
- President-elect Barack Obama has selected retired Marine General James Jones to be his national security adviser.
- Consumers ask 'What's for dinner?' as supply shrinks after major kosher processor shuts down
- Rabbi Moishe Silverman stood taking inventory of a meat freezer at South Florida Kosher, the supermarket and butcher shop where he works. Dressed in a yarmulke and tie and wearing a plastic apron over his white butcher jacket, he surveyed the piled boxes of chicken and beef.
- Obama expresses sympathy over Mumbai attack, won't comment on next steps for India
- President-elect Barack Obama expressed sympathy for the victims of the terror attacks in Mumbai but declined to say whether the Indian government would be justified in pursuing terrorists in next-door Pakistan.
- Obama says he chose strong individuals on purpose, ready to hear a variety of viewpoints
- President-elect Barack Obama says that in choosing independent-minded people like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert Gates for his administration, he wanted people who have strong opinions and are not shy about expressing them.
- 1 of victims in terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, was Chicago man traveling on business
- One of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, was a Chicago resident who worked for a company that provides radiation therapy for cancer patients.