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blaming higher-ups for lax security.
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• 4. OBAMA GUN CONTROL IN 2013
• Reinstating an assault weapons ban is one possibility as the president pledges new proposals by January.
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• 5. HOW MUCH A PENNY COSTS
• The U.S. Mint says a penny costs more than two cents and a nickel costs 11 cents to make and distribute.
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• 6. WHAT'S LIKELY TO DISRUPT HOLIDAY TRAVEL
• The first big storm of the season heads to the Midwest after dumping more than a foot of snow in the Rockies.
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• 7. WHY WOMEN IN INDIA ARE OUTRAGED
• Thousands protested to end harassment and violence after the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in New Delhi.
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• 8. THE GETAWAY CAR FOR CHICAGO INMATES
• Surveillance video shows that after shimmying down the high-rise jail, Kenneth Conley and Joseph Banks hopped into a taxi.
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• 9. MISS USA IS MISS UNIVERSE
• Olivia Culpo, a 20-year-old Boston University student and self-described "cellist nerd," beat 88 other beauty queens to take the title in Las Vegas.
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• 10. SUNNY CLIMES, SUNNY DISPOSITIONS
• Seven of the world's 10 countries with the most upbeat attitudes are in Latin America, a poll says.
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