From the Wires

CNET: Facebook’s Messages service is testing out an option to send messages to people that aren’t your friends for a $1 fee.

AP: Now that Washington and Colorado have legalized possession of marijuana, there is a possibility that cigarette makers could supply the market.

News & Observer: Retailers have learned that adding Christmas scents and music and even lowering the temperature can help along holiday sales.

AP: Miss Universe 2011 Leila Lopes of Angola will crown her successor during the competition today featuring 89 contestants at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Washington Post: Martha Stewart Omnimedia CEO Lisa Gersh is stepping down after less than a year on the job.

AP: The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information on a manhunt for two bank robbers that escaped from a high-rise Chicago jail.

Fox: Two NASA spacecrafts fell out of orbit around the moon and crashed into the surface.

Reuters: The company whose AR-15 type Bushmaster rifle was used in the Newtown school massacre in Connecticut will be  put up for sale by owner Cerberus Capital.

ABC: Instagram released changes to its Terms of Use that are frustrating users.

Ad Age: McDonald’s is pushing franchisees to stay open on Christmas to lift December sales.