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• 7. ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS FAMILY, NM TEEN TALKS
• Nehemiah Griego, 15, tells authorities he had been having homicidal and suicidal thoughts.
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• 8. INDONESIA SENTENCES BRITON TO DEATH
• An Indonesian court sentenced a British grandmother to death for smuggling cocaine worth $2.5 million in her suitcase onto the resort island of Bali.
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• 9. HIGH SCHOOL GRAD RATE HIGHEST SINCE 1976
• Education Department says the rise of students completing their education is a reflection of the struggling economy and a greater competition for new jobs.
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• 10. REMEMBERING 'JOE PA'
• A year after his death, State College residents will hold a vigil Tuesday evening for the longtime Penn State coach whose reputation was tarnished by scandal.
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AP News in Brief
Obama stands his ground on fiscal disputes, seeks more spending amid looming fiscal deadlines
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama devoted one word -- "deficit" -- to the issue that brought Washington to the brink of fiscal crises time and again during his first term.
• But it was the paragraph that followed in his inaugural address that foreshadowed what's to come -- more hard bargaining and more last-minute deals driven by Obama's own conviction that he now wields an upper hand.
• "We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future," he said. "The commitments we make to each other -- through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security -- these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great."
• This was the language of his re-election campaign.
• And while his speech contained no reference to either political party, his pointed rejection of "a nation of takers" was an implicit reminder of Mitt Romney's infelicitous (Continued on page 32)
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