The small central Florida city of Sanford is returning to its regular rhythm, one year after the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Protesters are gone, and the downtown shopping district is back to its normal buzzing activity.

Years of drought are reshaping the beef industry as feedlots and a major meatpacking plant close because there are too few cattle left to supply them.

About 100 people have been rescued without injury by firefighters after a monorail at the Dallas Zoo stopped operating.

At the annual National Governors Association meeting in Washington this weekend, both Democrat and Republican chief executives are expressing pessimism that the White House and Congress will find a way to avoid the massive, automatic spending cuts set to begin March 1.

At least 11 NASCAR fans were injured Saturday when large chunks of debris, including a tire, sailed into the grandstands when a car flew into the fence on a frightening last-lap accident in the second-tier Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a section of federal law that only recognizes male-female marriages.

Authorities in Massachusetts say a report of a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was a hoax and that there is no threat to public safety.

A National Park Service internal memo obtained by The Associated Press compiles a list of cuts in services in parks from Cape Cod to Yosemite.

The F-35 is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program at a total estimated cost of nearly $400 billion.

U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in New York ruled Friday that Apple was wrong to bundle four amendments to its corporate charter into one proposal for a vote at next Wednesday's annual meeting. He says shareholders should get to vote on the amendments separately.

House debate on the bill next week could rekindle the unsettled dispute of last year, when House Republicans resisted Senate efforts to expand the bill to better cover gays, immigrants and Native Americans.

That's up 5 percent from 2011, when spending first broke the $50 billion barrier, says the American Pet Products Association, a trade group based in Greenwich, Conn.

Administrator Karen Mills says the SBA won't need to furlough employees because it already cut staffers through early retirements.

The American Medical Association's code of ethics bars doctors from refusing to treat people based on race, gender and other criteria, but there are no specific policies for handling race-based requests from patients.

The ad will air instead on another ABC affiliate, in Utica, N.Y. Like Scranton, Utica is home to a Dunder Mifflin branch on "The Office."

Despite little sign of a deal emerging with Republicans, Obama says he does not believe it is inevitable that the $85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts will take effect. He says finding a way to avert the cuts should be a "no-brainer" for congressional lawmakers.

Obama met with the Democratic governors Friday. The governors are in Washington for a National Governors Association meeting this weekend. Governors from both parties will attend the White House Sunday for dinner and Monday for meetings.

Yakima is recalling about 7,000 bicycle racks used on vehicles with rear-door spare tires.

The training officer whose dispute with former Los Angeles police Officer Christopher Dorner led to his firing says it was her "long shot" tip that led police to suspect Dorner of killing an Irvine couple, setting off the deadly manhunt that would end with Dorner's suicide.

A judge has sentenced Drew Peterson to 38 years in prison for murdering his third wife.

Authorities have identified an Augusta surgeon as being among five people killed in the crash of a private jet in eastern Georgia.

A New York man dubbed the federal government's most wanted deadbeat parent has pleaded guilty to failing to pay more than $1.2 million in child support.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits jumped 20,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 362,000, though it remained at a level consistent with modest hiring.

An autopsy has found that a former Johns Hopkins gynecologist who was suspected of secretly recording exams committed suicide by putting a plastic bag around his head and attaching it to a tank of helium.

An armada of snow plows and salt spreaders are deployed on highways across the nation's heartland, working to stay ahead of a powerful winter storm that already is blamed for one road death.