Today in Black History: Poet, musician, lyricist and social activist Gil Scott Heron was born on this date in 1949.
The New York Times
As Views Shift on Guns, Reid Corrals Senate
Editorial: Using Medicaid Dollars for Private Insurance
Obama Pushes Plan to Build Roads and Bridges
More Diagnoses of A.D.H.D. in New C.D.C. Data
A Simple Way to Send Poor Kids to Top Colleges
Gunfire Claims 2nd Prosecutor in Texas County
On and Off the Debate Stage, Candidates Spar in the Mayoral Race
New Ads to Press Albany on Campaign Financing
The Christian Science Monitor
School suspensions: Does racial bias feed the school-to-prison pipeline?
Business, labor reach immigration deal on guest workers. Will it stand?
Gun control: Did Obama let the moment pass?
How high oil prices lead to financial collapse
The Star Ledger
Spike in aging prison inmates creates tax turmoil in N.J.
Trenton's Foundation Academy pulling ahead of public schools
Obama, mother of Chicago shooting victim team up for youth violence movement
Camden joins the fold, but does N.J. takeover of schools actually improve them?
The Detroit Free Press
Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy cuts start to affect suburbs
Meningitis outbreak hit Michigan hardest: 259 infected, 14 killed
John Carlisle: Once homeless, one local barber offers free haircuts to help poor improve their lives
Poll: Support for right-to-work law evenly divided in Michigan
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
No rush by DeKalb board members to regain jobs
Charters face cuts after dispute with school district
From scandal at APS to suspicious scores nationwide
Reaction to the indictments
Atlanta schools defendants must turn selves in by Tuesday
'The art of war' at Atlanta Public Schools
The Washington Post
How one federal agency beat the sequester
Slain district attorney had armed himself
Hopkins’s Ben Carson apologizes for ‘choice of words’ on gay marriage
Epithets against Latinos, gays hamper Republicans’ outreach efforts
Top prosecutor returns to court
Elwin Wilson, reformed racist who apologized for his past, dies at 76
The Los Angeles Times
U.S. budget cuts will mostly spare Calif. economy
A mayor's full-court press to keep basketball
Healthcare divides GOP and many Latinos
Gov. Jerry Brown issues 65 pardons over Easter weekend
Engineers, conservationists work on lasting fix for Watts Towers
The Chicago Tribune
Victim of attack by teens on CTA train: 'It was terrifying'
28 teens charged in 2 downtown attacks
Hadiya Pendleton's family putting final touches on foundation
141 counts in girl's slaying
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Minister recounts Easter Sunday shooting outside his Ashtabula church; one dead
Activists push Kent State to invest in African studies program
USA Today
Report: Man shot after Ohio church’s Easter service
Study: Sexual activity is rare among young adolescents
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