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• Detroit police: U.S. has a gun problem and the epicenter seems to be here
• 113th Congress: New cards, same game
• Giffords meets with families of Newtown shooting victims
• Atom smasher goes on hiatus for big revamp
• Grand jury indicts New York couple as bomb suspects
• Feds: Second inmate who escaped Chicago jail captured
• Why your tweets are being collected and stored at the Library of Congress
• Body of missing Calif. woman found at Lake Tahoe
• Do war-weary troops have drinking problems?
• Report: Top parks officials kept $20M hidden
• Board mulls allowing guns in Ariz. county building
• Pelosi defends altered photo of congresswomen
• 'The Big Bang Theory' Is the New 'Friends'
• 'So brutal': India rape victim's friend recounts ordeal
• Obama poised to name new Cabinet members
• Why has the jobless recovery been so slow?
• House approves $9.7 billion in Sandy aid
• Photos: Winners of the 2012 NatGeo Photo Contest
• WWII love letters found during home renovation

Detroit police: U.S. has a gun problem and the epicenter seems to be here Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:38 PM PST The city had 386 criminal homicides in 2012, more than any time in the past two decades.

113th Congress: New cards, same game Posted: 04 Jan 2013 01:45 PM PST Fresh faces on key committees could shake things up a bit, but confrontational politics are here to stay.

Giffords meets with families of Newtown shooting victims Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:39 PM PST Nearly two years after being critically wounded in a mass shooting, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Friday met with families of victims in last month's shooting that left 26 people dead inside a Connecticut elementary school.

Atom smasher goes on hiatus for big revamp Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:25 PM PST The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a 2-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum energy levels that could lead to more stunning discoveries following the detection of the so-called "God particle."

Grand jury indicts New York couple as bomb suspects Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:51 PM PST A grand jury indicted a New York man and his girlfriend following their arrest on Saturday after police found an explosive compound, bomb-making manuals and weapons in their Greenwich Village apartment.

Feds: Second inmate who escaped Chicago jail captured Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:31 PM PST The second of two bank robbers who escaped last month from a high-rise federal jail in downtown Chicago was captured Friday at an apartment complex across the street from a suburban police department, authorities said.

Why your tweets are being collected and stored at the Library of Congress Posted: 04 Jan 2013 01:23 PM PST The Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 billion tweets since it began collecting an archive of all Twitter messages in 2010.

Body of missing Calif. woman found at Lake Tahoe Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:14 PM PST RENO, Nev. (AP) — The search for a missing 19-year-old California woman who disappeared on New Year's Eve at Lake Tahoe ended Friday when her body was found behind a snow bank about a mile from the site of a music festival she attended that night, authorities said.

Do war-weary troops have drinking problems? Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:13 PM PST Responding to recent internal reports that, after a decade of war, a growing number of troops consider themselves heavy drinkers, the Marine Corps has announced a new get-tough policy: Personnel who tally a blood alcohol content of .01 or more while on duty will be sent straight to counseling.

Report: Top parks officials kept $20M hidden Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:57 PM PST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Officials at the highest levels of the California Department of Parks and Recreation helped keep millions of dollars secret for more than a decade, the California attorney general's office said in a report released Friday.

Board mulls allowing guns in Ariz. county building Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:34 PM PST KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona county is considering a plan to remove the metal detector at its administration building and allow people to freely carry guns at the location as they carry out government business.

Pelosi defends altered photo of congresswomen Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:31 PM PST House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday defended an altered picture of Democratic congresswomen that was posted on her Flickr photo-sharing site.

'The Big Bang Theory' Is the New 'Friends' Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:51 PM PST So The Big Bang Theory, CBS's sitcom about how smart people are silly, has broken its second ratings record in as many months, with Thursday night's episode "The Egg Salad Equivalency" attracting a mind-walloping 19 million viewers, with a 6.0 rating in the key 18- to 49-year-old demographic. So that is about as big as a sitcom gets. Toward the end of its run, Friends was topping out around 20 million viewers, meaning Big Bang is now standing shoulder-to-shoulder with one of network TV's biggest and longest comedy successes. ...

'So brutal': India rape victim's friend recounts ordeal Posted: 04 Jan 2013 11:08 AM PST He described how the pair was attacked for 2 1/2 hours before being thrown on the side of the road, where passersby ignored them and police debated jurisdiction issues before helping them.

Obama poised to name new Cabinet members Posted: 04 Jan 2013 11:13 AM PST With the "fiscal cliff" crisis behind him, President Obama is poised to name two new key players to his cabinet, with both announcements expected to come next week.

Why has the jobless recovery been so slow? Posted: 04 Jan 2013 12:03 PM PST For now, the job market has dodged the "fiscal cliff," but employment growth is also notably slower than in past recoveries from recession.

House approves $9.7 billion in Sandy aid Posted: 04 Jan 2013 08:25 AM PST There will be another vote later this month on a $51 billion package in relief aid to state governments for rebuilding.

Photos: Winners of the 2012 NatGeo Photo Contest Posted: 04 Jan 2013 09:00 AM PST

WWII love letters found during home renovation Posted: 04 Jan 2013 12:27 PM PST Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A couple remodeling their Detroit home discovered a past resident's secret history: A treasure trove of love letters from a World War II veteran long before he had married. Hubert Sawyers III and Eliza Sorise-Sawyers came across the stash lodged in a heating [...]

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