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Dixie Chick faces defamation suit
Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines is the target of a defamation lawsuit by the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys slain in West Memphis, Ark., in 1993. Maines spoke out for three people convicted of the slayings and said the stepfather was instead involved in the killings.
The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages. The stepfather, Terry Hobbs, says he suffered loss of income, injury to his reputation and emotional distress.
-- Wire report
Bushes poised to join Dallas elite
President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush have bought a home in the affluent Dallas neighborhood of Preston Hollow, where they will live after the president leaves office in January.
The president, a former part-owner of the Texas Rangers, will count among his neighbors the team's current owner, Tom Hicks, who owns a 29,000-square-foot mansion valued at $32.3 million adjacent to the cul-de-sac.
Other neighborhood homeowners include billionaire businessman T. Boone Pickens, Republican donor Harold Simmons and recently retired Exxon Mobil CEO Lee R. Raymond, according to property records.
-- Wire report
Low sales strike fear in retailers
Despite a surge in sales the day after Thanksgiving, retailers reported record lows for their November sales, making it the industry's worst month since 1969. Even worse, stores are worried that the usual lull between the holiday weekend and the final days before Christmas could remain dangerously quiet this year.
Retailers are seeing shoppers who are consciously sticking to small-ticket purchases and buying only functional items, leaving stores with bigger-than expected drops in same-store sales.
-- Business, C6
