NATION IN BRIEF

Fewer people moving than decades ago

Despite the nation’s reputation as a rootless society, only about one in 10 Americans moved in the last year —- roughly half the proportion that changed residences as recently as four decades ago, census data show. The monthly Current Population Survey found that fewer than 12 percent of Americans moved since 2007, a decline of nearly a full percentage point compared with the year before. In the 1950s and ’60s, the number of movers hovered near 20 percent.

Wealthy villagers reward workers

Public employees of a well-heeled Ohio village are again beneficiaries of a custom by which residents hand them hefty holiday bonuses. The 103-year-old Gates Mills Improvement Society hands out the bonuses to the village’s workers each year. This year the 61 village workers received about $50,000. Median household income in the quaint village of about 2,500 residents is $134,000. Gates Mills is about 23 miles east of Cleveland.

Puerto Rico to try to kill off monkeys

The easy life is over for roughly a thousand monkeys that have run wild through southwestern Puerto Rico for more than 30 years. Authorities launched a plan this month to capture and kill the monkeys before they spread across the entire island, threatening agriculture, native wildlife and possibly people. But some animal experts and the farmers who have complained for years about the rhesus and patas monkeys think it may be too late. “They may go deep into the forest, but they will never go away,” said Dr. Mark Wilson, director of the Florida International Teaching Zoo. “There’s just too many of them, and they are too smart.”

Pair of pit bulls kill man at home

A 60-year-old man in Rubidoux, Calif., was mauled to death by a pair of pit bulls in the backyard of his rural Southern California home. The man was taking a cigarette break when the male and female pit bulls attacked him shortly after noon on Friday, said Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The man, who was the grandfather of the dogs’ owner, died at the scene. His name was not released. County Animal Services spokesman John Welsh said the dogs were euthanized later in the afternoon.

The lineup for Sunday talk shows

> ABC’s “This Week” —- Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

> CBS’ “Face the Nation” —- Kerry Kennedy, cousin of Caroline Kennedy; Reps. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.), Peter King (R-N.Y.) and Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.); Joel Klein, chancellor, New York City Department of Education.

> NBC’s “Meet the Press” —- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

> CNN’s “Late Edition” —- Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Eric Cantor (R-Va.); Laura Tyson, former Clinton economic adviser; Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard chairman and CEO.

> Fox News Sunday” —- Vice President Dick Cheney.