This evening I wanted to share with you some news that is very personal to me.  Because you have been such a good friend and a strong supporter of all my efforts, I wanted you to know first that tonight I will do more than just say goodnight on my Fox show.  I will say goodbye.

Wearing your hoodie in public could soon cost you up to a $500 fine  —  OKLAHOMA CITY,Okla.-The cold Oklahoma weather has many sporting hoodies outside to help fight the cold, but wearing a hood in a public place could soon be against the law.  —  The idea of banning hoods is not new to Oklahoma …

Kentucky Man Helps ‘Brave’ Girl Who Survived Plane Crash  —  Shaking and upset, a 7-year-old girl who survived a plane crash in southwestern Kentucky that killed her parents, sister, and cousin found herself on the doorstep of Larry Wilkins's home.  —  “When I answered the door, there was a bloody girl,” said Wilkins.

Dear PETA,  —  Chill.  At least Trig didn't eat the dog.  —  Hey, by the way, remember your “Woman of the Year”, Ellen DeGeneres?  Did you get all wee-wee'd up when she posted this sweet picture? http://conservatives4palin.com/.../ peta-woman-year-posts-phot... Hypocritical, much?

The Senate's 46 Democrats got 20 million more votes than its 54 Republicans  —  On Tuesday, 33 US senators elected in November will be sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden — including 12 who are new to the chamber.  The class includes 22 Republicans and 11 Democrats, a big reason why the GOP has a 54-46 majority in the Senate overall.

Former US Senator Edward W. Brooke dies at 95  —  Edward W. Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be elected to the US Senate since Reconstruction, died today, according to Kirsten Hughes, chairwoman of the Massachusetts Republican Party.  He was 95.

Obama to hit the road, selling economic progress  —  President Obama is heading back to Washington on Saturday after a two-week holiday visit to Hawaii, but he won't stick around for long.  —  Eager to stay on the offensive as new Republican majorities are seated in Congress …

EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn man hit in head by NYPD plans $3M lawsuit against city  —  His civil lawyer, Ilissa Brownstein, said she has filed notices to sue the city on behalf of Lawson and his gal pal who both starred in the bloody cell phone video showing the cop trying to arrest him on Nov. 20 …

Dems warn GOP: No ‘ideologue’ in budget job  —  Senate Democrats are warning Republicans to tread carefully with their selection of a budget scorekeeper for the new Congress, saying they will “strongly object to any effort to politicize this important office.”

Rikers Inmate Found Dead Despite Suicide-Watch Alert  —  The warning was sent at 4:45 p.m. on New Year's Eve: A Rikers Island inmate, distraught over an imminent prison sentence, was threatening to harm himself and was possibly suicidal.  —  According to jail policy, correction officers …

Protesters slam Oprah over comments that they lack ‘leadership’  —  Key organizers of the wave of recent protests over police treatment of African Americans lashed out at Oprah Winfrey Friday over comments she made to People magazine criticizing their movement as “leaderless.”

The worst argument against Thomas Piketty yet  —  Harvard economist Greg Mankiw has been a vocal critic of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century since its release.  His paper for this weekend's Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meeting contains his most recent response.

WHO ‘probing’ whether ISIS fighters got Ebola  —  Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul in this June 2014 photo.  —  Islamic State fighters are no match for Ebola.

John W. Hinckley Jr. Won't Face Charges in James Brady's Death  —  John W. Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981, will not face charges in the death last summer of James S. Brady, the former White House press secretary, federal prosecutors said Friday.