DETROIT (AP) — Efforts to improve public spaces in Detroit are being bolstered by just over $1 million in new investment and an additional three-year commitment through a national...

NEW YORK (AP) — Soundgarden and estates representing Tupac Shakur and Tom Petty are among those suing Universal Music Group for materials lost in a 2008 fire.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Reginald Robinson went to a talk about Hampton's Buckroe Beach in 2013 and he left hot - it had nothing to do with the summer heat.

Only whites were allowed on its sand for many of its 121-year history.

"What about Bay Shore?" someone asked. It was a beach that bordered Buckroe but was separated by a fence.

"Oh," the speaker said. "That was just a little place for the coloreds."

Some of Robinson's best childhood memories were on that "little place."

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Two sites in Little Rock have been selected to receive federal civil rights grants totaling to about $1 million.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the Dreamland Ballroom and the Little Rock School District were selected last week to receive an African American Civil Rights Grant for nearly $500,000 each.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Grammy Awards celebrate their 60th anniversary on Sunday in New York City. The Associated Press will be there, as it was when the awards were first held on May 4, 1959.

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HOLLYWOOD — The newly formed Recording Academy has given its top award to an Italian, Domenico Modugno, for his "Volare."

The record was hailed the best of 1958 at the first annual Grammy awards Monday night. "Volare" was also named best song of the year.

DETROIT (AP) — Construction has started on a project to transform a northwest Detroit neighborhood.

A groundbreaking was held Tuesday at the new 2.5-acre Ella Fitzgerald Park. The city says it's the first phase of the Fitzgerald Neighborhood Revitalization Project which will include rehabilitation of 115 homes, a greenway and landscaping of nearly 200 vacant lots.

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — An exhibit on the Harlem Renaissance has opened at the African-American Cultural and Genealogical Society Museum of Illinois in Decatur.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A pair of exhibits opening at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown highlight the work of American artist Andrew Wyeth and photographer Herman Leonard.

"Andrew Wyeth at 100: A Family Remembrance" celebrates the 100th anniversary of Wyeth's birth in Pennsylvania. The exhibit includes items from his personal collection, including never-before-displayed sketches, paintings and artifacts. It also includes photographs of the artist taken by his granddaughter, Victoria Wyeth.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia town plans to unveil a mobile mural of its native daughter, singer Ella Fitzgerald.

News outlets report the 13-foot (3.96-meter)-tall, 12-foot (3.66-meter)-wide mural is scheduled to be installed Thursday in Newport News at Jefferson Brookville Apartments.

A small rendering of the mural was unveiled in a ceremony at city hall Tuesday. Officials say the mural is intended to travel to various outdoor and indoor locations every two to four weeks.

CHICAGO (AP) — The 39th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival will celebrate the 100th birthdays of Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Ella Fitzgerald.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state's official Martin Luther King Day observance is being held at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center adjacent to the Capitol.

Emmy-winning violinist Damien Escobar will join the Syracuse Children's Chorus and others in performing at the annual event. Escobar appeared on the NBC hit show "America's Got Talent" and has performed on numerous talk shows and at the White House.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Buddy Bregman, an accomplished arranger, producer and filmmaker whose credits ranged from albums by Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby to directing dozens of television movies and documentaries, has died.

Bregman died Sunday in Los Angeles at age 86. His daughter, actress Tracey Bregman, confirmed through her manager that he had been battling Alzheimer's disease.