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• The country orders new inspections after nine people are killed in the collapse of a 1970s-era tunnel.
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• 4. WHERE THE SCHOOL YEAR IS GETTING LONGER
• Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee are adding at least 300 hours to the calendar.
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• 5. TRACING A KILLER'S CONFESSION
• Israel Keyes implicates himself in as many as eight killings in four states before killing himself in jail.
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• 6. FOLLOW THE POPE (at)PONTIFEX
• The Vatican announces the pontiff will begin Tweeting from a new personal handle.
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• 7. A NEW STAB AT AVOIDING WASHINGTON'S 'FISCAL CLIFF'
• Pelosi says she will try to force a House vote on a Senate-passed bill favored by Democrats to break the deadlock.
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• 8. KC CHIEF AND SLAIN GIRLFRIEND SEEMED 'FINE' BEFORE MURDER-SUICIDE
• A friend says linebacker Jovan Belcher and Kasandra M. Perkins had argued about "normal couple stuff."
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• 9. WHAT 'STUPID HUMAN TRICKS' CAN GET YOU
• David Letterman receives Kennedy Center honors, along with rockers Led Zeppelin, actor Dustin Hoffman, bluesman Buddy Guy and ballerina Natalia Makarova.
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• 10. A MAGIC ACT GOES UP IN FLAMES
• Magician Wayne Houchin recuperates after a Dominican Republic TV host set his hair on fire with cologne.
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