• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. PISTORIUS INVESTIGATOR FACES ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES
• Detective Hilton Botha, who gave confusing testimony at the Olympian's bail hearing, is charged in a 2011 shooting that wounded seven.
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• 2. SYRIA CAR BOMB KILLS 31
• The bomb struck a security checkpoint in Damascus near the ruling Baath party headquarters and the Russian Embassy.
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• 3. MIDWEST SNOWSTORM BEARS DOWN
• Officials predicted more than a foot of snow and a storm to rival a February 2011 blizzard that killed more than two dozen people.
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• 4. A FIX FOR THE DREAMLINER
• Boeing will propose a way to repair the faulty batteries that have kept the jets grounded for more than a month.
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• 5. HACKING PROBE SHIFTS BALANCE OF POWER IN CYBERWARS
• The AP's Anne Flaherty says Mandiant's report on China is a victory for the $30 billion a year computer security industry.
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• 6. IS THAT TEST REALLY NECESSARY?
• A medical coalition lists over 130 overused treatments, including repeated colonoscopies.
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• 7. A POSSIBLE BOOST FOR SAME-SEX UNIONS
• Obama is considering urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's gay marriage ban.
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• 8. WHAT'S IN THE WATER AT A LOS ANGELES HOTEL
• Health officials are releasing test results today of the Cecil Hotel's water after a woman's corpse was found in a cistern on the roof.

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