National Briefing

NEW YORK

NAACP elects new chairman

The NAACP elected a healthcare executive as its youngest board chairman, continuing a youth movement for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.

Roslyn M. Brock, 44, will succeed Julian Bond. She had been vice chairman since 2001 and a member of the 500,000-member NAACP for 25 years.

Brock, who works for Bon Secours Health System in Maryland as vice president for advocacy and government relations, spent 10 years working on health issues for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

FLORIDA

Endeavour all set for landing

Space shuttle Endeavour aimed for a Sunday night landing at NASA’s spaceport, but cloudy weather threatened to delay the astronauts’ homecoming.

Endeavour and its crew of six are returning from a bigger and brighter International Space Station. They added a new room and a dome containing seven windows in a highly successful mission that won presidential praise.

LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team, said that there was about a 50-50 chance -- maybe a little better -- that the weather would clear enough for the shuttle to land.

Mission Control will have Edwards Air Force Base in California ready to support a landing in case Florida doesn’t pan out.

-- times wire reports