KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The superintendent of the struggling Kansas City school district has released a five-year turnaround plan....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- More snow fell Sunday as part of a powerful storm blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first weekend of spring....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Concerned that some patients were having to wait too long for medications, Missouri lawmakers passed a bill in 2008 broadening the ability of thousands of specially trained nurses to write prescriptions....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Victory within reach, President Barack Obama exhorted House Democrats on Saturday to stay true to their party's legacy and make history by bringing health insurance to millions of struggling families now left out. Leaders exuded confidence as they defused thorny problems in the countdown to a landmark vote....

MIAMI (AP) -- Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles.

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) -- Harvey Fite spent 37 years turning an abandoned bluestone quarry in the Catskill Mountains into a strange and striking landscape sculpture. Visitors to Opus 40 walk through rock-wall mazes that swirl around a 9-ton monolith looming in the center like a Stone Age exclamation mark.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Stewart Udall, an elder in a famed political family who led the Interior Department as it promoted an expansion of public lands and helped win passage of major environmental laws, has died at the age of 90.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Frustrated with the lack of action to overhaul the country's immigration system, tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied on the National Mall and marched through the streets of the capital Sunday, waving American flags and holding homemade signs in English and Spanish.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is reassuring immigration reform advocates that he is committed to working with Congress on a comprehensive bill to fix a "broken immigration system."

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The good news was all about things that didn't happen: No floodwaters pushing aside hastily built sandbag walls, no neighborhoods evacuated, no panicked residents wondering if they'd ever see their homes again.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago officials say there were no injuries after an emergency landing at O'Hare International Airport.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles -- even lobster boats -- to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation's populace.

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Two police officers who had pulled over a suspicious vehicle were shot and wounded by the driver, and the suspect was killed when the officers returned fire, Baltimore police said Sunday.

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in a southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years....

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A woman gardening wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves has brought neighborhood complaints and new rules from a housing authority in Colorado....

LONDON (AP) -- It's common to return a library book late - but not by half a century....

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- A burglar who spent about five hours on a store's computer after breaking into the business gave police all the clues they needed to track him down. Investigators said the 17-year-old logged into his MySpace account while at Bella Office Furniture and that made it easy for them to find him. He also spent time looking at pornography and trying to sell stolen items, all while using the business' computer....

BOSTON (AP) -- A man from Maine who struck a match on a U.S. Airways flight to Boston's Logan International Airport is facing some heat - but not over matches. Massachusetts State Police detained 50-year-old Paul Prater of Sanford on Wednesday over an outstanding identity fraud warrant in Canton, Ga. State police spokesman David Procopio said no charges have been brought for the match lighting, which Prater called an accident....