Royal Oak Daily Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mother of one of three U.S. hikers held in Iran says their families are trying not to get pulled into the tense relationship between the U.S. and Iran. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) — The nation’s largest doctors’ group has agreed to join efforts to repeal the military’s ’don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy. Full Story »

PINE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A former student held a school administrator hostage for more than an hour Tuesday morning, then surrendered to police without firing a shot, officials said. No one was injured. Full Story »

DETROIT (AP) — By Thanksgiving, five members of the of the newly elected Detroit City Council will be packing heat. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America’s health care system. Full Story »

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 21-year-old Michigan poker professional who chose cards over college won the World Series of Poker main event in Las Vegas early Tuesday, winning $8.55 million and becoming the youngest player to win the tournament in its 40-year history. Full Story »

It was almost 25 years ago that Clarence Justin Aldred Jr. used a baseball bat to break into a woman’s Waterford Township home, beat her boyfriend and kidnapped her. Full Story »

A former General Motors Corp. executive and Clarkston resident has pleaded guilty to fraud in a $6.5 million kickback scheme. Full Story »

Ryan Rosman did what he could to make Michael Ziegelbaum feel welcome when they met at Michigan State University. Full Story »

School districts from Rochester and Walled Lake to Pontiac and Farmington Hills already took the ax to their budgets because of state funding cuts, and now must pick it up and chop away again. Full Story »

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian prosecutor says three Americans detained on the border with Iraq have been accused of espionage. Full Story »

The four U.S. representatives serving Oakland County were split down party lines in regard to Saturday’s passage of a health care reform bill. Full Story »

Michigan State Police officials have declined to comment on whether a suicide victim and suspected sex offender was a suspect in the the Oakland County child killer case. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack. Full Story »

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and other luminaries at what was once a fortified border crossing — retracing her steps on the night 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall fell. Full Story »

MADISON HEIGHTS -- A Madison Heights man is jailed on attempted murder and other charges after police say he choked a woman unconscious and locked her in the trunk of her car. Full Story »

As Congress gathered in Washington to begin debate on legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system, local people gathered in Royal Oak to rally in support of the bill. Full Story »

SELDEN, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge. Full Story »

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say an early morning fire tore through a home in Oklahoma City, killing all four people inside. Full Story »

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trolleys, subways and buses were running again Monday and riders were trickling back to the city’s transit system after an early-morning contract agreement ended a crippling six-day strike. Full Story »

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Army spokesman says the man suspected in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood is in critical but stable condition at Texas hospital. Full Story »

DEARBORN (AP) — AAA Michigan says gasoline prices are down 7.8 cents per gallon over the past week to a statewide average of $2.67. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of the alleged Fort Hood shooter held his mother’s funeral at the same Virginia mosque that two Sept. 11 hijackers attended in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Full Story »

DETROIT (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is making a trip to Detroit to raise money for two Democratic congressmen. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. Full Story »