The "Fiscal Cliff" looms ever closer as the lawmakers go back to work today. That automatic $600 billion tax increase and spending cut that was agreed on in 2011 is due to take effect in January if Congress doesn't come up with a deal or a delay for the mandated package.
U.S. President Barack Obama has put his nomination of General John Allen as NATO's supreme commander on hold, pending an investigation into the U.S. commander in Afghanistan's alleged "inappropriate communications" with a woman involved in the scandal that led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus.
Two people were killed and another seven taken to the hospital on Saturday night at 11 pm when a massive explosion rocked a neighborhood in south Indianapolis.
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard painter/needle-gunner that was charged in July with setting a fire at the shipyard doing over $400 million damage to the nuclear submarine Miami, pleaded guilty in court this morning.