National: The Obama administration proposed reducing the amount of sulfur in gasoline by two-thirds to reduce pollution and health costs. The administration claims it would have the benefit of taking 33 million cars off the road. Environmentalists and car companies favor it. Oil companies say it will cost billions to implement and raise the price of gasoline.

• A Georgia grand jury indicted 35 Atlanta public school teachers and administrators in a test-cheating scheme that investigators cracked by flipping a third-grade teacher who helped change test results. The biggest fish is Beverly L. Hall, former superintendent, who is accused of orchestrating a scheme to erase and correct wrong answers on the students’ state tests.  Hall had won accolades and $500,000 in performance bonuses for test results that proved too good to be true.

Musical Chairs: CNN’s veteran Soledad O’Brien has been pushed off her morning show. She’s being replaced by Chris Cuomo and a blonde.

NPR cancelled its afternoon “Talk of the Nation” call-in show hosted by Neil Conan after more than 20 years on the air. The show is being replaced by “Here and Now” produced out of Boston and hosted by former television anchor Robin Young and Jeremy Hobson of “Marketplace Morning”. Conan hosted “Talk” for 12 years and spent 30 years at NPR. He says he’s done.

Read the Fine Print: The $1 million reward offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of killer former Los Angeles cop Christopher Dorner has not been paid and the people claiming it may get stiffed. At least three people gave information leading police to Dorner’s location on his last day, but several organizations including local governments that offered the money have backed out because the info did not lead to the “arrest and conviction” of the suspect. Dorner killed himself in a mountain cabin surrounded by cops.

World: About 220 people were stranded on an ice floe that broke away from the beach in Latvia. Many of them were ice fishing. All were rescued by boat, but the hidden headline here is that March in Latvia is beach season.

Then There Were Eight: Michigan basketball came from 14 points down last night to beat Kansas 87-85 in overtime and get into the final eight. Today: Syracuse v. Marquette and Wichita State v. Ohio State. Tomorrow: Michigan v. Florida and Louisville v. Duke.

Passing: Richard Griffiths, the portly British actor who played Harry Potter’s mean uncle in the movie series, died at age 65 after heart surgery.

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