LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A brilliant light seen darting across the Southwest night sky was most likely a piece of asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said Thursday.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) -- The people of Wyoming were still coming to grips with the unthinkable events of Sept. 11, 2001, when another tragedy hit and rattled the state to the core.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nadine Mass' godfather died just steps from the exit of the World Trade Center. The Port Authority police officer and his captain had been trying to carry a woman in a wheelchair to safety.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- As the sun rises on tilled soil on the outskirts of Fresno, Calif., Mori Vance bends to pick black eyed peas, then disappears among towering okra bushes. Vance, who is African-American, is harvesting her first crop with several other novice black farmers, all hoping to make it their life's work.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas now has her own postage stamp. It's the 34th in the post office's Black Heritage series.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The first African-American woman to lead an Ivy League university is stepping down.

The federal Food and Drug Administration and a leading doctor are disputing suggestions by television show host Dr. Mehmet Oz that trace amounts of arsenic in many apple juice products pose a health concern.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Officials say premiums will drop next year for popular Medicare Advantage insurance plans, while enrollment is on the rise.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The design for NASA's newest behemoth of a rocket harkens back to the giant workhorse liquid rockets that propelled men to the moon. But this time the destinations will be much farther and the rocket even more powerful.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Long a city with a reputation for withholding information, Chicago now wants to make public every crime over the past 10 years - a highly unusual move among the nation's major police departments.