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UNDATED (AP) — The U.S. military has released the names of the six soldiers killed Monday in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. The New York City Police Department already had identified one soldier as one of their detectives, 15-year police veteran Joseph Lemm. Three of the other soldiers are 31-year-old Staff Sgt. Louis Bonacasa of Coram, Long Island, 28-year-old Michael Cinco of Mercedes, Texas and 30-year-old Staff Sgt. Peter Taub of Philadelphia.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Mall of America in Minneapolis could be a place of protest today when hundreds of demonstrators turn out. They'll be at the nation's largest mall to draw attention to last month's police shooting of Jamar Clark. Minneapolis police say the 24-year-old black man died following a struggle with officers. Others say Clark was handcuffed at the time.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oregon woman accused of intentionally running over dozens of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip with her young daughter in the car makes her first court appearance today. Twenty-four-year-old Lakeisha Holloway is charged with felony murder, hit-and-run and child abuse. Sunday's crash killed one person and injured at least 35 people. Holloway's attorney has acknowledged that her mental health could be an issue.
SEATTLE (AP) — New York City can expect temperatures to be in the mid-60s on Christmas Day. That'll be several degrees higher than Los Angeles. It's part of the wacky, upside down weather partly created by El Nino. Already there's been spring-like weather in the Northeast, a risk of tornadoes in the South and a lot of snow across the West.
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Teresa Giudice (JOO'-dys), one of TV's "Real Housewives of New Jersey," will be getting released from federal prison today, nearly a year after serving time for bankruptcy fraud. A lawyer says once she's released from the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut, she'll travel to her home in Montville, New Jersey. She'll be on home confinement until Feb. 5. Giudice's husband Joe begins serving his 41-month prison sentence in March.
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