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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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• 1. THAILAND TO JUNTA: PLEASE CHANGE YOUR SOUNDTRACK
• Thai citizens give the thumbs-down to the military's idea of TV programming during martial law: dour announcements and patriotic hymns.
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• 2. ONE STATE'S RESPONSE TO THE EXECUTION DRUGS SHORTAGE
• Tennessee is bringing back the electric chair if prisons can't get the lethal doses. Legal challenges are expected.
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• 3. DEATHS REPORTED AFTER MORTAR HITS ASSAD ELECTION GATHERING
• It's not clear how many fatalities there are; the Syrian president himself wasn't present.
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• 4. HOW DETROIT IS COMBATTING CARJACKINGS
• Among the measures: Convicted carjackers will get their faces and prison sentences plastered on billboards.
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• 5. DALLAS MAVERICKS OWNER APOLOGIZES TO TRAYVON MARTIN'S FAMILY
• Mark Cuban talked about a "black kid in a hoodie" in discussing prejudice. Now, he says he didn't consider the feelings of the slain Florida teenager's relatives.
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• 6. "HONG KONG ON THE HUDSON": A NEW LOOK FOR NYC'S WILD WEST SIDE
• A once desolate neighborhood is being transformed in a decade-long project with 17 high-rises -- some of them on platforms over Penn Station's railroad tracks.

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