Governor-Elect's Wife Robbed at Gunpoint:  The wife of Missouri Governor-elect Eric Greitens was robbed Monday.  Fox News reports that Greitens' wife Sheena left a St. Louis restaurant early Monday evening and had just gotten into her car when a suspect opened the door and threatened her with a gun.  After she turned over her laptop and phone, the suspect fled.  Police were able to track a cellphone stolen from a nearby car to the suspect vehicle.  The vehicle crashed after a brief chase and three teenagers were arrested and the stolen phones and laptop were recovered.  Greitens, a Republican and former Navy Seal, said that a focus of his administration will be "safe neighborhoods."

Afghan Arrested For Rape/Murder of German Student:   A 17-year-old Afghan immigrant has been arrested for the rape and drowning murder of a German medical student.   Victoria Friedman of Breitbart  reports that the suspect, whose name was not released, entered Germany last year as an unaccompanied minor under Chancellor Andrea Merkel's "open door" policy.  DNA linked the suspect to the rape and murder of 19-year-old Maria L., early in the morning of October 16 as she was returning to her residence hall after a party.  Her body was found along the Dreisam River in Freiberg.  Police mentioned similarities between the yet-unsolved rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman weeks after Maria's death, in the town Endigen, roughly eighteen miles from Freiberg.