Good news for elk? Agency finds no further chronic wasting disease in Star Valley (Casper Star-Tribune) LANDER -- This fall's alarming case of a diseased moose in western Wyoming remains an "oddball" discovery, a state official said on Monday. [News Source]

Latest Updates (Malaysia Today) About 4,000 members of Muslim Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) gathered peacefully at the Polo field here before proceeding to the official residence of Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas in Jalan Utama to submit a memorandum. [News Source]

CTV Winnipeg’s Top Ten (CTV Winnipeg) From the Taman Inquiry to taser deaths and murder trials ... CTV News looks back at Manitoba's biggest stories in 2008. [News Source]

Irish pork recovering slowly after feed scare. Hams returned to racks and shelves in time for the traditional Christmas dinner following a recall of all pork products, announced by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. [News Source]

3RD UPDATE: Mexico suspends purchases from 30 meat plants (Columbia Missourian) NEW YORK — Mexico suspended meat imports from 30 processing plants in 14 states, including some in Missouri, on Wednesday and Friday, according to a list posted on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Web site. The action pushed down beef and pork futures in trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday. Among the plants listed on the site are the Smithfield Packing Inc. plant in Tar ... [News Source]

Couple tackles cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (London Free Press) Molecular neuroscientists Marco and Vania Prado hope by studying the good they can understand the bad. [News Source]

Irish pork recovering slowly after feed scare (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) Hams returned to racks and shelves in time for the traditional Christmas dinner following a recall of all pork products, announced by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland on Dec. 6. The decision had stripped butchers and supermarkets bare when dioxins – 80 to 200 times the permitted level – were found in samples of Irish pork traced to tainted animal feed. [News Source]

Rockland AM Report (The Journal News) 5:12 p.m., Tallman, standby. 5:12 p.m., Suffern, electrical problem. [News Source]

Mexico suspends imports from 30 U.S. meat plants, 3 in Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) Mexico suspended meat imports from 30 processing plants in 14 states, including three in Nebraska, on Wednesday and Friday, according to a list posted on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Web Site. [News Source]