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.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barbara Von Aspern loves her daughter, "thinks the world" of the person her daughter intends to marry and believes the pair should have the same legal rights as anyone else. It pains her, but Von Aspern is going to skip their wedding. Her daughter, Von Aspern explains, is marrying another woman.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sometimes, a fashion launch is just too enticing.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry says a massive fence along the U.S.-Mexican border isn't the answer to the nation's immigration challenges and instead says Washington should send thousands of border agents and National Guard to patrol the area.