WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumer prices rose modestly in January on higher costs for food, gas, rent and clothing.

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A political aide to Maryland's former Republican governor was sentenced to 30 days of home detention Thursday for an Election Day robocall conspiracy that prosecutors cast as an effort to keep black voters away from the polls.

SEATTLE (AP) -- The man who killed his two sons in an explosive house fire in Washington state will not be buried in the same cemetery as the children, his family said Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million - a record 1 in 12 - as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely than before to marry whites.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker John Boehner says he supports a compromise bill extending payroll tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed, but he says it's not going to help the nation's economy.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The latest Republican to surge in polls, Rick Santorum is trying to turn his newfound strength into something lasting.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A severely malnourished 15-year-old Wisconsin girl found walking barefoot in pajamas near her home last week told police her father and stepmother had forced her to live in the basement for years and that they beat her, starved her and even forced her to eat her own feces.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Some 24 million voter registrations in the United States contain significant errors, including about 1.8 million dead people still on the rolls and many more approved to vote in multiple states, according to a report released Tuesday.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- A new report says a police sergeant gave the order to "take him out" when an armed student turned toward another student in a Texas middle school hallway in January.