Posted: 5:32 PM Motorists in the Rocky Mountain region are enjoying considerably lower gas prices than the rest of the U.S. and it’s due to healthy gasoline inventories; the availability of cheap Canadian crude and refineries that operate exceptionally well.
Posted: 3:00 PM Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is visiting the Connecticut town where a gunman massacred 26 people at an elementary school last month.
Updated: 2:36 PM The 113th Congress has passed a $9.7 billion bill to help pay flood insurance claims to homeowners, renters and businesses damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
Posted: 2:29 PM It's official. A tally of the Electoral College vote affirms President Barack Obama's re-election.
Posted: 10:27 AM More than 400 students who escaped a gunman's rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary have returned to school.
Posted: 9:21 AM Gay marriage has cleared a first hurdle to becoming law in Illinois after approval in a state Senate committee.
Posted: 6:00 AM The House is headed for a vote on aid for Superstorm Sandy victims after House Speaker John Boehner mollified Republicans from New York and New Jersey upset with his decision to cancel action on the bill.
Posted: 4:10 PM Moody's Investors Service says Congress must go beyond its deal this week and come up with a plan to shrink the budget deficit if it wants to keep the U.S. government's top credit rating.
Posted: 6:52 AM Hundreds of thousands of workers are set to get a pay raise to start 2013, as 10 states increase their minimum wage.
Updated: 6:25 AM Legislation to block the "fiscal cliff" is headed to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature. The bill will avoid, for now, the major tax increases and government spending cuts that had been scheduled to take effect with the new year.
Posted: 3:46 PM Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett says he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over sanctions imposed against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.
Posted: 1:01 AM The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has charged a 24-year-old man with attempted murder for allegedly setting a homeless woman on fire as she slept on a suburban bus bench.
Posted: 12:58 AM Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Afghan government's announcement of a new step in putting Afghan forces in charge of the nation's security is evidence that the country is on the path to self-governance.
Posted: 12:32 AM Recreational marijuana clubs are open in Colorado.
Posted: 12:23 AM Legislation to prevent the government from going over the so-called fiscal cliff will also block a $900 automatic pay hike for members of Congress.
Posted: 12:19 AM Hundreds of thousands of revelers crowded into New York City's Times Square to watch the crystal-covered ball make its annual descent, ringing in the start of 2013.
Updated: 10:42 PM CBS News reports a deal has been reached , but the country will still go over the fiscal cliff - at least temporarily.
Posted: 12:03 PM Hours before New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Rockettes help usher in the new year, Times Square was teeming with revelers wearing plastic "2013" glasses and snapping photos.
Posted: 11:51 AM Maryland's law allowing same-sex marriage takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, and gay couples across the state are preparing for New Year's Day weddings.
Posted: 11:48 AM The charity in charge of distributing donations from the nationally televised Superstorm Sandy relief concert has been thinking small when it comes to doling out more than $50 million.
Posted: 11:44 AM Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach rejects the idea that a tough stance against illegal immigration is at least partly to blame for fellow Republican Mitt Romney's loss in the presidential election.
Updated: 10:19 PM Two teenagers and a 12-year-old girl have been charged in the shooting death of a North Carolina man during a carjacking.
Posted: 10:15 PM Five children and one adult have died after a sport utility vehicle plunged into a rain-swollen creek in eastern Mississippi.
Posted: 10:11 PM A regional jet has skidded into a snow bank at an upstate New York airport and become stuck, temporarily stranding passengers.
Posted: 6:57 AM Top members of Congress and President Barack Obama are holding out slim hopes for a limited fiscal deal before the new year.
