Mass. Senate candidates battle to the end (AP)

AP - Nearly one year to the day after President Barack Obama was sworn into office as an agent of change, Massachusetts Senate candidates battled to the wire Monday in an election that threatened his agenda and reflected voters' frustration with the status quo.

FDA debates tougher cancer warning on tanning beds (AP)

AP - Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there's increasing scientific consensus that there's no such thing as a safe tan, either.

Man questioned after 5 found dead in Texas home (AP)

AP - Authorities working to determine what spurred a flurry of gunshots that left five people dead in southeast Texas are questioning a 20-year-old man who lived with the victims in the isolated house surrounded by pasture land.

Worshippers urged not to 'sanitize' King's legacy (AP)

AP - A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon's church, urging the audience not to "sanitize" King's legacy or let the president off the hook on issues like poverty.

Hamtramck builds homes to atone for discrimination (AP)

AP - More than 40 years after her family was forced from their home because they were black, Sallie Sanders received the keys to a new house built to settle one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States.

Haitians seeking US refuge will be returned (AP)

AP - U.S. authorities are readying for a potential influx of Haitians seeking to escape their earthquake-wracked nation, even though the policy for migrants remains the same: with few exceptions, they will go back.

Reputed al-Qaida supporter set for NYC trial (AP)

AP - The strange case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is riddled with curious questions.

Rapes of elderly women terrify central Texas towns (AP)

AP - With a serial rapist on the loose, Cassandra McGinty has developed a new routine when she arrives home: search room to room, a handgun or stun gun drawn.

Analysis: Campaign traits carry over to presidency (AP)

AP - Turns out Barack Obama is the bill of goods America thought it was buying.

Leno gets support from NBC staff (AP)

AP - Jay Leno staffers say their boss isn't the bad guy in NBC's late-night upheaval.

Recession takes toll on university president pay (AP)

AP - The recession has reached the executive suites of the nation's public universities and colleges, putting a stop to a string of large annual pay increases for school presidents.

Cameron's `Avatar' wins best drama honor at Globes (AP)

AP - The Golden Globes gave top honors to James Cameron's "Avatar" and took its cue from the film's celebration of humanity, with winners ranging from the gritty child-abuse drama "Precious" to freewheeling comedy "The Hangover."

Anti-death penalty movement wooing conservatives (AP)

AP - Roy Brown seems like a rarity — a conservative who's against the death penalty.

Chemicals coat apples decades after Alar scare (AP)

AP - More than two decades after parents dumped apples from children's lunch boxes because of concerns about a chemical applied to the fruit, most researchers agree the crop is safer although most of it still carries pesticide residue.

Colorado surgery tech details stealing painkiller (AP)

AP - A surgery technician who infected three dozen people with hepatitis C and may have exposed thousands of others by switching used syringes with ones filled with a powerful painkiller says she got careless while at two Colorado hospitals and doesn't expect to be forgiven.

Attorney: Man in JFK breach just used 'wrong door' (AP)

AP - A man returning from Haiti who walked through a restricted door and set off an alarm that led to the evacuation of a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport simply went the wrong way, his attorney said Sunday.

Gravel beaches trapping oil from 1989 Exxon spill (AP)

AP - An engineering professor has figured out why oil remains trapped along miles of gravel beaches more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Prince William Sound.

Turner's bid for park bison stokes wildlife debate (AP)

AP - With 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park facing possible slaughter, billionaire Ted Turner has swept in and offered to hold the animals for five years on his sprawling Montana ranch while a new home for them is found. But Turner, ever the shrewd businessman, won't do it for nothing. The media mogul says he will care for the bison only if he can keep up to 90 percent of their offspring.