New York Times. The paper next to the courtroom door announced the charge for the day’s hearing in tiny type that hardly seemed equal to its gravity. “Mord,” it read in German. Murder. Josef Scheungraber, 90, is charged in the deaths of 14 Italian civilians in June 1944, when he was a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht. (Read the article by Nicholas Kulish)

New York Times. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of the Diocese of Brooklyn unveiled a proposal on Saturday to convert four Roman Catholic schools singled out for closing into public charter schools, an 11th-hour lifeline meant to preserve the education provided in the buildings and stave off potential overcrowding in city schools. (Read the article by Javier C. Hernandez)

AUTONEWS. Some questions about the proposed hook-up between Fiat and Chrysler LLC. 1. Do the guys from Fiat call Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli "Roberto?" (Read the article by Edward Lapham)

BROOKLYN RAIL. Michael Agovino’s The Bookmaker, a sensitive, honest, and often paradoxical chronicle of an Italian-American family living in one of the most neglected corners of New York City, will help revive interest in this rich immigrant experience.  (Read the article by Alessandro Cassin)

THE LAMRON. Professor Thomas MacPherson's artwork captures American immigrant culture in his exhibit, "Tom MacPherson: Italian American Family Album," currently displayed in the Lederer Gallery in Brodie. (Read the article bly Deborah Berthsman)

The Saratogian. Saratoga Springs. Rather than just learning how to speak, read and write Italian, students are learning all about the European country’s contributions to art, fashion, science, literature and music and how the language fits into everything from international business to foreign relations. (Read the article bu Paul Post)

NEWS BLAZE. Hindus and Jews have appealed the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to visit the savagely burnt Indian immigrant in a Rome hospital to send a strong message against the xenophobia. (Read the article)

The Art Newspaper. Italy. Inadequate national funding and curatorial disputes threaten to undermine centenary year. The Italian Ministry of Culture’s plans to celebrate the centenary of Futurism (the turn-of-the-century Italian avant-garde movement that was born 100 years ago this month) have come in for heavy criticism, both from within the committee established to coordinate events, and from independent curators and commentators. (Read the article by Gareth Harris and Guglielmo Gigliotti)

Newsahead. Art museums in Italy and elsewhere will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto of Futurism in the French newspaper, Le Figaro, on 20 Feb 1909. Written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), it rejected the art of the past and exalted energy, strength, movement and the power of the modern machine. (Read the article)