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• W.Va. gas line explodes, burns homes and roads
• Dollar Store, Inc.: The booming business of being cheap
• Photos: Sikh soldier first to wear turban during palace guard
• Chimp from '70s experiment died of ‘broken heart’
• Key ingredient in beer may help treat the common cold
• Extremists help Syrian rebels seize base in bloody battle
• McCain: I would teach Senator Colbert ‘how to shut up’
• Boehner: 'Let's be honest. We're broke'
• See what was the most RT'd tweet of the year
• Harvard’s ‘how to be a lawmaker’ draws 37 Dems, 10 Republicans
• Boehner: It's Obama's turn to come up with debt proposal
• Why Jon Stewart almost didn’t take ‘Daily Show’ job
• Australian radio station to give $500K to nurse's family
• Healthiest U.S. states named -- how did your state fare?
• Judge denies bond motions in Trayvon Martin case
• Utah college student rents out abandoned puppies by the hour
• Treasury to sell remaining AIG shares, makes $22.7 billion total profit
• Trayvon Martin murder suspect wants GPS monitor removed
• Michigan expected to pass right-to-work legislation
• Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye hospitalized
• Man strips at Austrian exhibition of paintings and sculptures of naked men
• Delta buys 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic
• Australian prank call radio to donate profits to nurse's family
• S. Africa, Vietnam sign rhino protection agreement
• U.S. designates Syrian rebel group 'terrorists'

W.Va. gas line explodes, burns homes and roads Posted: 11 Dec 2012 01:05 PM PST At least five homes went up in flames and part of I-77 is closed. "It actually cooked the interstate It looks like a tar pit."

Dollar Store, Inc.: The booming business of being cheap Posted: 11 Dec 2012 12:48 PM PST Family Dollar, Dollar Tree and Dollar General, have quietly become a $56 billion industry and they are opening new locations faster than Starbucks.

Photos: Sikh soldier first to wear turban during palace guard Posted: 11 Dec 2012 12:32 PM PST An officer, right, checks Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, 25, a Sikh soldier with the Scots Guards, performs guarding duties outside Buckingham Palace in central London, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. becoming the first guardsman to parade wearing a turban instead of the famous bearskin. Other Sikhs have taken part in guarding the queen's palace in the past but they wore traditional bearskin hats, rather than turbans. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Chimp from '70s experiment died of ‘broken heart’ Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:59 AM PST True story: A chimp born in captivity in 1973 was taken from his sedated mother and, as part of a scientific project, he's raised by a family in New York City and learns to communicate with humans through sign language. But the chimp couldn't fit in with humans and, when he is returned to life [...]

Key ingredient in beer may help treat the common cold Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:43 AM PST Got a cold? Treat yourself to a cold one. A new study, reports Agence France Presse, suggests that a chemical compound in beer can help the human body fight the virus behind the common cold. Of course, there are some important caveats. First, the study was conducted and published by Sapparo Breweries, a Japanese beer manufacturer, through [...]

Extremists help Syrian rebels seize base in bloody battle Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:26 AM PST It was the latest gain by opposition forces bolstered by an al-Qaida-linked group that has provided skilled fighters but raised concerns in the West.

McCain: I would teach Senator Colbert ‘how to shut up’ Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:09 AM PST What would Sen. John McCain want to teach Stephen Colbert if the comedian becomes the next senator from South Carolina? "How to shut up," the Arizona Republican told reporters with a chuckle on Tuesday. A new poll from Public Policy Polling suggests that Colbert leads the field of potential candidates to fill the seat being vacated [...]

Boehner: 'Let's be honest. We're broke' Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:19 AM PST House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of slow-walking negotiations to avoid the "fiscal cliff" and urged him to name specific cuts in government spending he would support as part of any compromise.

See what was the most RT'd tweet of the year Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:08 AM PST A tweet containing a photo of President Barack Obama embracing the First Lady quickly became the most retweeted tweet of the year, Twitter announced Tuesday on its "Year on Twitter" website, 2012.twitter.com. "Four More Years," the president tweeted along with the picture on Election Night. It's little surprise that the tweet made Twitter's top list considering that [...]

Harvard’s ‘how to be a lawmaker’ draws 37 Dems, 10 Republicans Posted: 11 Dec 2012 09:51 AM PST Roughly 50 incoming members of Congress, out of the 84 elected in November, were set to converge Tuesday on Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government's congressional issues conference—which might as well be described as "how to be a representative." The group includes 37 Democrats and 10 Republicans, some of whom are coming back to [...]

Boehner: It's Obama's turn to come up with debt proposal Posted: 11 Dec 2012 09:35 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday called on President Barack Obama to come forth with a new proposal to avert the "fiscal cliff" on December 31 - one that would get enough votes to pass the House and Senate. While Boehner said he had a "nice meeting, cordial" on Sunday with Obama, the top Republican said he was "still waiting for the White House to identify what spending cuts the president is willing to make as part of the balanced approach that he promised the American people. ...

Why Jon Stewart almost didn’t take ‘Daily Show’ job Posted: 11 Dec 2012 09:13 AM PST Jon Stewart has been the host of "The Daily Show" for 13 years, winning 18 Primetime Emmy Awards. But it almost never happened. In an appearance with Stephen Colbert at a fundraiser in Montclair, N.J., on Friday, Stewart recalled his initial conversations with Comedy Central executives before taking the reins from Craig Kilborn, the show's [...]

Australian radio station to give $500K to nurse's family Posted: 11 Dec 2012 08:41 AM PST The station that employed the DJs who prank-called the London hospital where Kate Middleton was being treated will donate at least $500,000 to the grieving husband and children of the nurse who took the call and later apparently killed herself.

Healthiest U.S. states named -- how did your state fare? Posted: 11 Dec 2012 08:24 AM PST The annual America's Health Rankings list is out, pitting U.S. states against each other in a no-holds-barred contest of health. So, how did your state fare?

Judge denies bond motions in Trayvon Martin case Posted: 11 Dec 2012 08:06 AM PST A Florida judge has denied defense requests to end 24-hour GPS monitoring of George Zimmerman while he is out on bond in the fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

Utah college student rents out abandoned puppies by the hour Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:48 AM PST A student at Brigham Young University in Utah is renting out puppies on an hourly basis in an effort to place the dogs in good homes.

Treasury to sell remaining AIG shares, makes $22.7 billion total profit Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:31 AM PST (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury's sale of its remaining stake in American International Group Inc will fetch $7.6 billion, bringing the government a total profit of $22.7 billion from its crisis-era bailout of the insurer. The share offering will close the chapter on one of the most politically contentious rescues of 2008, which ultimately gave AIG up to $182 billion of government support. ...

Trayvon Martin murder suspect wants GPS monitor removed Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:15 AM PST SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Accused murderer George Zimmerman will ask a Florida judge on Tuesday to let him remove his GPS monitoring device and travel freely within the state pending his June 2013 trial in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, 29, has been confined to Seminole County under a $1 million bond since July, when a judge concluded that he presented false information about his assets and was a flight risk. ...

Michigan expected to pass right-to-work legislation Posted: 11 Dec 2012 06:41 AM PST Demonstrators are preparing to descend on the state Capitol to protest the state legislature's likely passage of the bill, which would forbid requiring employees who benefit from a labor contract to pay union dues.

Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye hospitalized Posted: 11 Dec 2012 06:30 AM PST "For the most part, I am OK," Inouye, the longest-serving-sitting Senator, said in a widely circulated statement.

Man strips at Austrian exhibition of paintings and sculptures of naked men Posted: 11 Dec 2012 06:08 AM PST An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and sculptures portraying nude men through the ages.

Delta buys 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic Posted: 11 Dec 2012 05:34 AM PST Delta Air Lines Inc. is buying almost half of British airline Virgin Atlantic for $360 million as it aims to boost its share of the lucrative New York-to-London market.Delta says it will form a joint venture ...

Australian prank call radio to donate profits to nurse's family Posted: 11 Dec 2012 05:17 AM PST CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Australian radio station behind a prank call to a British hospital will donate its advertising revenue until the end of the year to a fund for the family of the nurse who apparently took her own life after the stunt, the company said on Tuesday. Southern Cross Austereo , parent company of Sydney radio station 2Day FM, said it would donate all advertising revenue, with a minimum contribution of A$500,000, to a memorial fund for the nurse, Jacintha Saldanha, who answered the telephone at the hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate. ...

S. Africa, Vietnam sign rhino protection agreement Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:44 AM PST South Africa says its diplomats have signed an agreement with Vietnam to try and halt the trade of horns taken from poached rhinoceros.

U.S. designates Syrian rebel group 'terrorists' Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:32 AM PST The U.S. State Department designated the Jabhat al-Nusra militia fighting Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria a foreign terrorist organization today.

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