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Wal-Mart Stores and Home Depot have reported disappointing sales, blaming the housing market slump and turbulence in the mortgage market that is spreading to the broader economy. Homeowners are feeling the pinch of rising mortgage rates and higher living costs.

Martha Stewart is released from a federal women's prison in West Virginia and will be spending the next five months under home confinement at her estate in New York. Stewart will return to a company with a stock price that's soared while she's been in prison for her part in a stock scandal.

Congress mandated use of the gasoline additive Ethanol as part of last year's comprehensive energy bill. But demand has outstripped supply and added to rising fuel prices. Democratic California Senato

A federal judge in Florida refuses to order that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be reinserted. Attorneys for Schiavo's parents have taken the case to an appeals court in Atlanta.

What's going on with the local housing market? The decline in housing prices is slowing down, and home sales are on the rise. Yet, the number of foreclosures is increasing, and unemployment remains high.

President Bush visits the Gulf Coast again, pledging to help clean up the region. Also, Vice Admiral Thad Allen, director of federal relief efforts, discusses plans being developed for Hurricane Rita, damage to New Orleans' levee system and clashes with Mayor Ray Nagin.

It's been two weeks since a sugar refinery explosion in Port Wentworth, Ga., killed nine people and burned more than three dozen. Plant workers are coping with the explosion and fire, which burned for a week. Neighbors are preparing for a memorial service in Savannah.

Flights on U.S.-based air carriers suffered more delays in the first four months of 2007 than in any year since the government began tracking the numbers in 1995. Rebecca Roberts talks with David Field, U.S. Editor of Airline Business Magazine, who is at the International Air Transport Association conference in Vancouver.

In the first of interviews scheduled with all eight San Diego City Council members at the close of the calendar year, we take stock of the city's accomplishments of 2009, issues as yet unresolved, and upcoming problems in 2010, including severe budget cuts.

President Bush travels to Russia to prepare for his meeting Sunday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. It's the final summit before both men leave office. Bush hopes to persuade Putin to drop objections to U.S. plans for a missile defense system.