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KDKA Business: Congressional Operating Costs Balloon To $6.5M

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:58:29 -0500

The government estimates it will spend $6.5 million by the end of January in salaries and other administrative costs for the $700 billion financial rescue program.

KDKA TV News: Senate Refuses To Seat Roland Burris

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:44:47 -0500

Roland Burris announced Tuesday he was rejected for Barack Obama's Senate seat, in a bizarre rainy-day scene on the Capitol grounds as lawmakers awaited the gaveling of the 111th Congress into session.

KDKA TV News: Palestinians Say Israel Kills 34 At UN Schools

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:26:13 -0500

An Israeli bombardment hit outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, and Palestinian medics said at least 34 people died - many of them children - as international outrage grew over civilian deaths.

KDKA TV News: 111th Congress To Be Sworn In

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:22:40 -0500

The Democratic-dominated Congress convenes Tuesday to confront perhaps the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and to grapple with a hugely ambitious agenda set by President-elect Barack Obama.

KDKA Business: Stocks Turn Mixed On Service Sector News

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:21:50 -0500

Stocks pared their earlier gains Tuesday following disappointing readings on pending home sales and factory orders.

KDKA TV News: Stocks Turn Mixed On Service Sector News

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:21:50 -0500

Stocks pared their earlier gains Tuesday following disappointing readings on pending home sales and factory orders.

KDKA Business: Factory Orders Slide For Record 4th Straight Month

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:49:50 -0500

Orders to factories fell for a record fourth straight month in November, and analysts believe manufacturing will continue to suffer in coming months as the country slogs through a recession entering its second year.

KDKA TV News: Factory Orders Slide For Record 4th Straight Month

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:49:50 -0500

KDKA TV News: Travolta Family Returns To US With Son's Remains

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:58:25 -0500

Actor John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston have returned to Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son, Jett, who died at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama. The couple received an urn with his ashes and left the island chain on Monday night, according to Obie Wilchcombe, a member of the Bahamas parliament and a family friend.

KDKA TV News: Twitter Hacking Hits Numerous Celebrities

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:52:13 -0500

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn't the phishing scam that's been going around-it was a lone hacker, the microblogging service said later on Monday.

KDKA TV News: Cross-Dressing Doctor Found Dead In Mass. Prison

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:47:25 -0500

Richard Sharpe, a cross-dressing dermatologist serving life in prison for murder, was found hanging in his cell at MCI-Norfolk Monday night.

KDKA Business: Toyota's Japan Plants To Shut Down For 11 Days

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:32:07 -0500

Toyota is suspending production at all 12 of its Japan plants for 11 days over February and March, a stoppage of unprecedented scale for the nation's top automaker as it grapples with shrinking global demand.

KDKA TV News: Toyota's Japan Plants To Shut Down For 11 Days

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:32:07 -0500

KDKA Business: Russia Cuts Gas Supply To Europe

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:46:58 -0500

Ukraine's gas company Naftogaz said Tuesday that Russia's Gazprom slashed natural gas shipments to Europe by about two-thirds, while Balkan nations reported a complete shut off of Russian gas, in a sharp escalation of a struggle over energy that threatens Europe as winter sets in.

KDKA TV News: Russia Cuts Gas Supply To Europe

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:46:58 -0500

KDKA TV News: India: Pakistanis 'Must Have' Backed Mumbai Attack

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:36:48 -0500

India's prime minister said the sophistication of the Mumbai siege means that Pakistani authorities must have had a hand in the attack, but he was careful Tuesday not to directly accuse Islamabad, keeping tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals at a low burn.

KDKA Business: Tough Economy Has More People Choosing Cremation

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:10:46 -0500

Never have urns looked more attractive to consumers than now. Many Americans strapped for cash are looking for a cheaper way to go. The Casket and Funeral Supply Association of America says sales of caskets are down, and the sales of urns are up.

KDKA TV News: Dead Baby Thrown In N.J. Hospital Garbage

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:43:28 -0500

A shocking story came out of Jersey City, N.J. on Monday night: the remains of a baby were thrown out in a hospital's trash. The child's family wants to know how it happened and where the baby's remains are now. Bashire Moore was born days before Christmas with a weak heart that would kill him and when the funeral home came for the body, one tragedy was compounded by another. The funeral home came to get the boy and his body wasn't there.

KDKA TV News: Boy, 4, Shoots Babysitter For Stepping On His Foot

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:32:29 -0500

Police say a 4-year-old boy in southern Ohio shot his babysitter because the sitter accidentally stepped on his foot. Police said 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young children in a mobile home in Jackson on Sunday when the shooting occurred.

KDKA TV News: Burris Says He's Senator But Dems Won't Seat Him

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:08:34 -0500

Senate Democrats struggled to avert a showdown steeped in race and corruption Monday as a defiant Roland Burris declared, "I'm a United States senator" and flew to the capital to claim President-elect Barack Obama's old seat in Congress.

KDKA TV News: Study: 600,000 Women Get Unneeded Biopsies

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:03:15 -0500

Every year, an estimated 1.6 million woman get breast biopsies. A new study suggests that nearly 600,000 of those women are getting unnecessary surgical procedures, CBS News medical correspondent Jon LaPook reports.

KDKA TV News: Death Certificate: Travolta Son Killed By Seizure

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:58:55 -0500

Jett Travolta's body shows no sign of head trauma and his death certificate says he was killed by a "seizure," an undertaker said Monday, as the 16-year-old's celebrity parents prepared for a Florida funeral.

KDKA TV News: Obama Taps Leon Panetta For Top CIA Post

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:52:25 -0500

Sources tell CBS News that President-elect Barack Obama has selected two more people for his intelligence team - Leon Panetta to be CIA director and Retired Admiral Dennis Blair to be director of national intelligence.

KDKA Business: Treasury Provides $15B From Bailout Pot To 7 Banks

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:04:47 -0500

The government says it has supplied another $15 billion to seven banks in the latest round of payments from the $700 billion rescue fund.

KDKA TV News: Biden To Head To Asia For Congressional Trip

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:57:06 -0500

Vice President-elect Joe Biden is heading to Southwest Asia on a congressional trip.

KDKA Business: U.S. Govt To N.Y. Judge: Jail Madoff Without Bail

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:14:40 -0500

Prosecutors on Monday said disgraced financier Bernard Madoff violated bail conditions by mailing about $1 million worth of jewelry and other assets to relatives and should be jailed without bail.

KDKA TV News: U.S. Govt To N.Y. Judge: Jail Madoff Without Bail

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:14:40 -0500

Prosecutors on Monday said disgraced financier Bernard Madoff violated bail conditions by mailing about $1 million worth of jewelry and other assets to relatives and should be jailed without bail.

KDKA TV News: Franken Wins In Minn. Recount, But Lawsuit Looms

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:13:39 -0500

A Minnesota board on Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, whose lawyer promised a legal challenge that will keep the race in limbo for weeks.

KDKA Business: Automaker Sales Continue Dismal Slide

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:10:40 -0500

By every measure, 2008 was one of Detroit's worst years on record, reports CBS News business correspondent Anthony Mason. Chrysler's sales went off a cliff, plunging by 30 percent in 2008. Ford and General Motors were each down more than 20 percent.

KDKA TV News: Automaker Sales Continue Dismal Slide

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:10:40 -0500