The economy perked up late last year as factories ramped up production. Unfortunately, a lot of what those factories made is still in warehouses and on store shelves. 

Home prices have fallen by a third since the 2006, creating tremendous bargains for home buyers. Mortgage rates are at rock-bottom lows, making houses more affordable than they have been in decades.

Newt Gingrich unleashes a fiery ad attacking his rival while Romney appealed to Florida’s Hispanic voters. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports. (Nightly News)

Influential Republicans are mobilizing to stop presidential candidate Newt Gingrich from ascending in the race. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports. (Nightly News)

Two tragic spine injuries in Minnesota high school hockey games in the last month have sparked debate among parents, officials, and fans over how the rough sport can be made safer.

On the heavily redacted recording, one of Moore's friends argues with the dispatcher amid confusion over which agency should be sending paramedics.

France and Afghanistan agree NATO should speed up by a year its timetable for handing all combat operations to Afghan forces in 2013, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, raising new questions about the unity of the Western military alliance.

A federal judge in Seattle has sentenced the "Barefoot Bandit" to 6 1/2 years in prison for his two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts.

A small asteroid the size of a city bus zoomed between Earth and the moon's orbit Friday, just days after its discovery, but it never posed a threat to our planet, NASA says.

If the stars continue to align properly over the desert, McIlroy might finally give Woods what he’s lacked his entire career — a rival with staying power.

If there's going to be a David Tyree in Super Bowl XLVI, it'll be a guy like Julian Edelman.

In another blow to San Francisco’s newly elected sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a judge has refused to lift an order that prevents him from contact with his wife and son.

A young boy in Florida with an amazing memory is showing off his knowledge of the US presidents on YouTube. WESH's Amanda Ober reports. (NBC News)

As China expands its influence on the Mekong River, it is encroaching on a region dominated for decades by a much more profitable trade: narcotics.

Liam Neeson's "The Grey" is a man's-man of a genre pic that will satisfy the action audience.

Reality show star spread the hoax to her 12 million followers.

Richard Harris and his wife have four dogs buried at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in New York's Westchester County, one waiting to be interred, and three more living with them who will eventually be laid to rest there. He and his wife plan to join them.

Any university student who has ever purchased a used textbook knows that there are sometimes strange surprises hiding between those pages. Usually they come in the form of messy scribbles, but in one student's case the unexpected gift-with-a-textbook-purchase was a bag of cocaine.