NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Rep. Donald Payne was a modest man who favored quiet persuasion over bombast, qualities that didn't detract from his effectiveness as an advocate for the most vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad, former friends and colleagues recalled at his funeral Wednesday.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- School districts soon will be able to opt out of a common ammonia-treated ground beef filler critics have dubbed "pink slime."

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal regulators are sending a special team to investigate the San Onofre nuclear power plant on the Southern California coast after tubes that carry radioactive water failed a pressure test.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bank of America is providing mortgage relief to about 200,000 homeowners.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Goldman Sachs, arguably the most storied investment bank on Wall Street, has been compared to a money-sucking vampire squid and called the evil empire of finance. On Wednesday it got an entirely different kind of black eye - delivered by one of its own.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 4 million people across the United States, from Los Angeles to much of the East Coast, live in homes more prone to flooding from rising seas fueled by global warming, according to a new method of looking at flood risk published in two scientific papers.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of U.S. jobs openings fell in January from a three and a half year high. The modest decline suggests hiring could continue at its healthy pace but may not accelerate.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Cranes are moving a jet that rolled off a taxiway and was significantly damaged at the world's busiest airport in Atlanta.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In everything it does, from product design to business deals, Apple strives for as much control as possible.

NEW YORK (AP) -- In her first interview since Whitney Houston's death, daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown said she's "doing as good as I possibly can" and recalled the tender last moments she shared with her superstar mother before her sudden death last month.