National News

	Initial Senate vote looms on health legislation Democratic leaders remain optimistic that today's critical health care vote in the Senate will come out in their favor.
	UC Santa Cruz remains barricaded after Berkeley arrests Students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aren't ceding any ground in their protests against fee hikes and budget cuts after 41 demonstrators were arrested at UC Berkeley.
	Storm grounds Reno flights; I-80 crash stalls cars A winter storm with winds gusting to more than 80 mph is expected to leave as much as a foot of snow to the northern Nevada mountains.
	FAA says equipment outage caused 819 flight delays The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights.
	Atty: Hospital hearing set for Fort Hood suspect An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday.
	US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard Prosecutors say they'll drop manslaughter charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide contractors charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.
	Lawyer: Ohio's lethal injection a human experiment An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal-injection plan is so untested it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.
	Terror plot ringleader gets 13-year prison term The ringleader of a group of men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices has been sentenced to 13½ years in prison.
	More states add jobs, but many for temporary staff In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.
	Miley Cyrus tour bus overturns in Va., killing one The star herself was not on board, but one of Miley Cyrus' tour buses overturned on a highway in Virginia this morning.