YONKERS, N.Y. (AP)—The U.S. Department of Transportation and Consumer Reports magazine have released a poll that illustrates how widespread distracted driving is among young people and a plan to help fight it.

The poll says 63 percent of people under 30 acknowledge driving while using a handheld phone and 30 percent say they’ve sent text messages while behind the wheel. For those over 30, the percentages were 41 percent on the phone and 9 percent texting.

Only about a third of the young people said they feel such behavior is very dangerous.

PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Federal officials wrested control Friday of the troubled Philadelphia Housing Authority, a move that followed the spectacular flameout of the agency's long-acclaimed director.

Embattled board members of the Philadelphia Housing Authority resigned and ceded control of the agency to the U.S. Housing and Urban Development agency amid investigations of secret sexual harassment payouts at the agency, purported slush funds and more than $33 million in outside legal fees since 2007.

ADDRESSING MEDIA—Mayor Michael Nutter, accompanied by former board members of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, labor leader Patrick Eiding, left, Debra Brady, the wife of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, Nellie Reynolds, and former Mayor John Street, right, makes remarks in Philadelphia, March 4. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Week of March 12-18

March 12

1773—This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable begins building the settlement which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born de Sable would over time become a man of considerable wealth owning commercial buildings, docks, trading posts and a mansion. De Sable was the product or a French man and an African woman. He died Aug. 19, 1818.

BENJAMIN BANNEKER, MALCOLM X and QUINCY JONES

1791—Pierre Charles L’Enfant is commissioned to design and layout the nation’s capital city—Washington, D.C. However, a dispute with President George Washington forces his departure the very next year. Thus, the final design and layout fell to Black inventor and mathematician Benjamin Banneker. Although two White men were nominally in charge of the project, historical records show that it was Banneker’s mathematical skills and his memory of L’Enfant’s plans that enabled the project to be completed.

by Mike Glover

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)—Most Americans haven’t heard of Herman Cain, the former head of a chain of pizza restaurants who is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination.

But in Iowa, home to the nation’s first presidential caucuses, Cain has caught the attention of conservative activists influenced by the tea party movement who aren’t bothered by candidates who have succeeded in business but have never held a public office.

CONSIDERS GOP RUN—In this Sept. 18, 2010 file photo, Georgia businessman Herman Cain, who is edging toward a run for the White House, addresses a gathering in Hoffman Estates, Ill. (AP Photo/The Arlington Heights Daily Herald, Mark Welsh)

“He’s creating quite a buzz,” said former Iowa Republican Party Chairman Richard Schwarm. “He is someone Iowa caucus-goers are going to take very seriously.”

Cain, 65, from suburban Atlanta, has visited Iowa several times recently and was scheduled to return to Des Moines on Monday for a conservative forum. Cain likely will express views similar to other speakers, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, but he’ll offer a vastly different resume.