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Obama urges lawmakers to remember history (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama says Congress should ignore the politics around his health care overhaul and remember that the unpopular proposals that created Medicare and Social Security passed with lawmakers' courage.

The big yellow billboard that could take your kid to school (AP)

AP - School districts have imposed all sorts of drastic cuts to save money during the down economy, canceling field trips and making parents pay for everything from tissues to sports transportation.

California kids stay calm, help deliver mom's baby (AP)

AP - "The baby's coming now!" Jabari told the dispatcher as his mom screamed in the background.

Boy Scouts' 'perversion files' could be exposed (AP)

AP - The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.

Fargo floods turn farm fields into sprawling lakes (AP)

AP - For farmer Brian Thomas, getting to town for errands is no simple matter these days as floodwaters cover fields and sections of country roads in the rural areas near Fargo, N.D.

Bees swarm 2 Phoenix women out for evening walk (AP)
AP - Two women in Phoenix are in critical condition with hundreds of bee stings after a swarm attacked them while they were out for an evening walk.

Calif police department on alert for deadly traps (AP)

AP - Police in this picturesque city in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them.

Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' dies at 85 (AP)

AP - Fess Parker, a television icon to a generation of youngsters as Davy Crockett and later Daniel Boone, has died at the age of 85 of natural causes.

Md. lawmakers not feeling so Southern anymore (AP)

AP - Maryland's official song may include a line about "Northern scum" left over from the Civil War era, but the state isn't feeling so Southern anymore.

Pa. suspect is rare US woman facing terror trial (AP)

AP - If the woman dubbed "Jihad Jane" goes on trial, she would become just the second American woman tried on U.S. soil on terrorism charges — and the first accused of directly working toward a Muslim holy war.

Attorneys: Chicago man providing info on terrorism (AP)

AP - An American who admitted slipping quietly into the Indian city of Mumbai on scouting missions that led to the November 2008 attack that left 166 people dead already has started spilling terrorists' secrets to U.S. authorities, according to his attorney and federal prosecutors.

Sheriff's office: Body on WA beach is missing boy (AP)
AP - The body of an 8-year-old boy who vanished with his mother has washed ashore on an island beach in Puget Sound about 12 miles from where their abandoned minivan was found. The boy's mother is still missing.

SC gov agrees to pay ethics fine, gets divorced (AP)

AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has closed two chapters of his life, agreeing to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve ethics charges brought against him after last summer's revelation of an extramarital affair, and receiving word that a judge had formally ended his 20-year marriage to his wife, Jenny.

Marine general to testify at Haditha hearing (AP)
AP - A four-star general will testify at a pretrial hearing in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq war, a Marine Corps spokesman said Thursday.

Gunman kills KC 7-Eleven clerk working final shift (AP)
AP - Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk, before moving on next week to full-time job at a hospital, when he was gunned down during a robbery.

NTSB seeks better communications after NWA mishap (AP)
AP - Federal safety officials recommended Thursday that better communications procedures be adopted in the wake of a fatal Montana plane crash and a Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by more than 100 miles last year.

Fargo residents learn from mistakes in flood fight (AP)

AP - Before this flood season, officials in Fargo asked homeowners to clear paths in their yards so that firm and straight walls of sandbags could be placed to protect their homes. One resident cut down his tree. Another went so far to use a torch to melt the ice off his ground.

Medical marijuana a frequent target for criminals (AP)

AP - Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves.

Leprechaun holdup suspect linked to Santa robbery (AP)

AP - The man who staged a St. Patrick's Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.

Polanski lawyers seek inquiry into misconduct (AP)

AP - Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex case.

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