Dozens of students from the University of Chicago returned Sunday from a four-day multistate trek dubbed the world's largest scavenger hunt after trying to find Barack Obama's haircut and a car horn that plays "La Cucaracha," among other things.

The list of 269 items is outrageous and seemingly impossible.

Citizens, politicians and protesters marked Minnesota's 150th anniversary of statehood by gathering at the Capitol on Sunday to remember its past and ponder its future.

The Springfield Airport Authority says United Airlines flights from Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport to Washington, D.C., will end July 4.

More than 4,300 Scouts are at southern Indiana's Lincoln State Park for one of five national events celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.

The centerpiece for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall has drawn criticism from a federal arts panel, which says the proposed statue looks "confrontational" and resembles the head of a socialist state more than a civil rights leader.

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

The Pentagon says the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln has entered the Persian Gulf.

A steady stream of visitors yesterday passed through the Statehouse Rotunda to see a five-hour re-creation of the April 1865 viewing of President Abraham Lincoln's body.

Abraham Lincoln is going on tour.