Obama unveils new strategy for smaller military (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama insists the United States will maintain what he calls the best-equipped military in history despite deep and looming defense budget cuts.

Seeking NH buzz, Romney, Santorum run at Obama (AP)

AP - Each trying to sound every bit the nominee, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum looked past each other to run down President Barack Obama's economic policies Thursday as they jockeyed for support in New Hampshire and reached out to voters in conservative bellwether South Carolina.

At 75, Marion Barry gears up for another campaign (AP)

AP - As HBO considers making a movie about Marion Barry with Eddie Murphy in the title role, the real Barry is doing something that comes naturally: running for re-election in the nation's capital.

Titanic items to be sold 100 years after sinking (AP)

AP - Items as small as a hairpin and as big as a chunk of the Titanic's hull are among 5,000 artifacts from the world's most famous shipwreck that are to be auctioned in April, close to the 100th anniversary of the disaster.

Pursuit of Mexican drug kingpin draws to quiet end (AP)

AP - Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix stood attentively in court, acknowledging his guilt as a federal judge read a plea agreement that detailed his role at the helm of one of the world's most powerful cartels in the 1990s.

Family plans to issue statement on missing SC boy (AP)

AP - Investigators might have had no leads on a missing mother and child if the woman hadn't crashed her car on Christmas Eve. But even after questioning Zinah Jennings in custody, police don't know what's happened to her 18-month-old son.

LA arson suspect also faces German fire probe (AP)

AP - Harry Burkhart's problems didn't start when he allegedly ignited more than 50 fires that terrorized Los Angeles last week. He's under investigation in Germany for a house fire near Frankfurt, and investigators searching his Hollywood apartment turned up news articles about the Los Angeles fires and a series of car blazes in Germany last year.

Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun (AP)

AP - The parents of an eighth grader who was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas school are demanding to know why officers took lethal action, but police said the boy was brandishing — and refused to drop — what appeared to be a handgun and that the officers acted correctly.

At 75, Marion Barry gears up for another campaign (AP)

AP - As HBO considers making a movie about Marion Barry with Eddie Murphy in the title role, the real Barry is doing something that comes naturally: running for re-election in the nation's capital.

Euthanasia to control shelter population unpopular (AP)

AP - Seven in 10 pet owners say they believe animal shelters should be allowed to euthanize animals only when they are too sick to be treated or too aggressive to be adopted.

San Diego murder-suicide rocks Navy community (AP)

AP - The two Navy fighter-jet pilots were in their prime, having made the cut into one of the military's most competitive programs.