ALAMINOS CANYON BLOCK 857, GULF OF MEXICO (AP) -- Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the National Urban League said Tuesday that Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum tried to leverage a stereotype about black people and public assistance programs to gain an advantage in the Iowa caucuses.

CHICAGO (AP) -- For six decades, civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells was woven into the fabric of Chicago's South Side as the namesake of a public housing project.

Angela Davis, in her introduction to Mumia Abu-Jamal's 2009 book "Jailhouse Lawyers," called him one of the most important public intellectuals of our time. "As a transformative thinker," she writes of Abu-Jamal, "he has always taken care to emphasize the connections between incarcerated lives and lives that unfold in the putative arenas of freedom."

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold.

MIAMI (AP) -- Franky the drug dog's super-sensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police K-9's sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff itself an unconstitutional search?

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A State Department official says a German man was identified as a suspect in the Los Angeles arson spree because his mother was the subject of a provisional arrest request by Germany.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An ``Avatar'' hangover accounted for Hollywood's dismal showing early this year, when revenues lagged far behind 2010 receipts that had been inflated by the huge success of James Cameron's sci-fi sensation.

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- When Thomas Jefferson died, scores of slaves were sold from his Monticello plantation to settle his debts. Peter Fossett, 11, was among them, recalling that he was ``born and reared as free, not knowing that I was a slave, then suddenly, at the death of Jefferson, put on an auction block and sold to strangers.''

Manning and Maretta Jeter might never fully recover from losing their daughter, but they know Marisha would be happy to know her memory is living on in the form of the Marisha Sharay Jeter Scholarship Fund -- an annual award that's helping give other young scholars the college experience she never had.