| 2012 most expensive year for motorists: AAA Dec 31st 2012, 17:19  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The average gasoline price in 2012 was a record-high $3.60 a gallon, topping the previous high of $3.51 in 2011, travel group AAA said on Monday. AAA blamed refinery outages, major hurricanes and unrest in the Middle East for the rise. Drivers in states like Hawaii, Alaska, California and New York paid the highest prices. However, the price fell to $3.30 a gallon in December, the lowest monthly average for the year, AAA said. (Reporting by Selam Gebrekidan)
|  | Newtown gunman buried in private funeral, father's family says Dec 31st 2012, 17:00 (Reuters) - The gunman who killed 27 people and himself in Newtown, Connecticut, this month in the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was buried at a private service over the weekend, a spokesman for his father's family said on Monday. The location of Adam Lanza's burial was not disclosed. His father, Peter Lanza of Stamford, Connecticut, claimed the body, said the spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Connecticut's chief medical examiner released Lanza's body on December 27, a spokesman for the office said. ... | | Ban on demanding Facebook passwords among new 2013 state laws Dec 31st 2012, 16:11  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Employers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers' password-protected social networking accounts and teachers in Oregon will be required to report suspected student bullies thanks to new laws taking effect in 2013. In all, more than 400 measures were enacted at the state level during 2012 and will become law in the new year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Some of the statutes, which deal with everything from consumer protection to gun control and healthcare, take effect at the stroke of midnight. ...
| | Senate report faults State Department, intelligence on Benghazi Dec 31st 2012, 16:08  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department's decision to keep the U.S. mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly dangerous threat assessments before it was attacked in September was a "grievous mistake," a Senate report said on Monday. The Senate Homeland Security Committee's report about the September 11 attacks on the U.S. mission and a nearby annex, which killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, faulted intelligence agencies for not having enough focus on Libyan extremists. ...
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