NEW YORK—Something very strange is happening in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. Playwright Katori Hall takes us into the room to reveal what it might have been like to be in the Memphis room in April 1968 on the night before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. In the room, we watch a civil rights icon flirt, curse, get rattled by lightening, smoke Pall Malls, sip booze, acknowledge his stinky feet and even have a pillow fight with a young woman.

Two studies this week raised gnawing worries about the safety of vitamin supplements and a host of questions. Should anyone be taking them? Which ones are most risky? And if you do take them, how can you pick the safest ones?

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- The planning commission in Medford, Ore., has voted against a proposal to put giant advertisements on the control tower at the city's airport.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The nation's only professional group for active-duty gay military personnel is holding its first conference in Las Vegas this weekend, an event only made possible by the recent lifting of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibited gay and lesbian troops from serving openly in the armed forces.

2009-2010 data says that Black and Native American students are lagging 20 to 40 percentage points behind their white counterparts in terms of meeting state benchmarks. The same article also notes that at the 10th grade level, 79.7 percent of white students meet standards as opposed to 42.3 percent of black students.

Here, the former RNC Chairman reflects on his life and philosophy, on his hopes for the GOP, and on the party's prospects for attracting more African American voters in 2012. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Education Departments says a majority of states have notified it that they intend to take President Barack Obama up on his offer to let them get around unpopular proficiency requirements in the education law "No Child Left Behind."

NEW YORK (AP) -- A former billionaire who was the primary target of what prosecutors called the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in U.S. history was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 19-month civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles Unified School District found that the district failed to provide an equal education to English-learners and black students, resulting in wide academic disparities, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday.

DETROIT (AP) -- A Nigerian man said Wednesday he tried to bring down an international flight over Detroit with a bomb in his underwear in retaliation for the killing of Muslims worldwide, taking a federal court by surprise as he pleaded guilty on the second day of his trial.