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AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to try to reverse the term-limits law he had long supported so he can seek a third term next year and help the city emerge from financial turmoil, a person close to the mayor told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

AP - The federal government is chipping in nearly $30 million for 15 passenger rail projects across the country as Americans continue to drive less and take the train more, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Tuesday.

AP - First the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the 1990s, then the accounting scandals earlier this decade, forced ballparks and arenas around the country to change their names. Enron Field became Minute Maid Park, and names like PSINet Stadium and CMGI Field vanished.

AP - The federal government is proposing to add 47 species of plants and animals and one insect to the endangered species list all found only on the island of Kauai.

AP - The glittering, steel and glass domed rail hub had seemed for years to be the only thing that was going right at ground zero.

AP - East L.A. birthplace of the lowrider, Los Lobos and Oscar de la Hoya is to Mexican-Americans what Harlem is to the black community. Now it wants to become its own city. Commonly mistaken for a part of Los Angeles, East L.A. is actually an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, with more than 130,000 people 96 percent of them Latino packed into 7.4 square miles.