AP - Curious where those extra tuition dollars are going? One place to look would be the pockets of college presidents. Five presidents have cracked the $1 million compensation barrier, according to an annual survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education to be released Monday, and more are sure to follow. Nine earned more than $900,000 — a figure none broke in last year's report.

AP - The Republican who lost New Jersey's bitter gubernatorial race said he would have won had President Bush's popularity not been sagging.

AP - At Boise State University, smoking is banned in the buildings and they must have one smoke-free entrance where smokers are not allowed to huddle in the doorway for one last puff before going inside.

AP - A pair of twins who tried to dupe a judge in a larceny case have doubled their trouble.

AP - Recruiters for New York City's police department now hand out coffee mugs on college campuses. In Los Angeles County, they offer baseball jerseys with the words "Join Our Team."

AP - The whale sharks are the kings of the 6-million-gallon tank, their presence palpable even before they emerge from the murky darkness like massive star cruisers in a science fiction film. But once visitors to the new Georgia Aquarium have seen Ralph and Norton — the only whale sharks on display outside of Asia — they will still have at least 99,998 more fish to go.

AP - The U.S. attorney for southern West Virginia abruptly left office this summer after the Justice Department began investigating e-mails in which he offered to secretly assist a candidate for county prosecutor, a legislative audit released Sunday shows.

AP - Curious where those extra tuition dollars are going? One place to look would be the pockets of college presidents.

AP - The airman's possessions, laid out on a table in a military lab, offer a peek deep into the past.

The Christian Science Monitor - Mary Kelly-Swafford never knew mold could come in so many colors until she and her husband, Bert, began to gut their mid-city home.

AP - A black parent and the NAACP are criticizing a middle school's decision to perform a song that they say glorifies slavery.

AP - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that parents who demand better special education programs for their children have the burden of proof in the challenges.

AP - American priests maintain high morale and enjoy the appreciation of parishioners despite the molestation of minors perpetrated by a few among their ranks, the president of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops said Monday.

AP - The burned remains of a volunteer fire department chief were found in the woods after he went to battle a brush fire alone.

AP - A song about people picking cotton was pulled from a middle school concert in suburban Detroit after a black parent complained that it glorifies slavery.

AP - A Gainesville woman has been charged with child molestation after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy.

AP - Government spending caps suffered back-to-back defeats in Colorado and California over the past two weeks. But whether that means that the American public is turning against the idea of imposing fiscal discipline on politicians remains to be seen.

AP - State agencies and relief organizations were on the job Monday helping Iowans clear away wreckage and resume their lives following weekend tornadoes that ravaged small towns and killed one woman.

AP - Racial prejudice lay behind more than half the 7,649 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2004, the bureau said Monday. Hate crimes against black Americans were most prevalent.

AP - Two escaped prison inmates from Louisiana took advantage of sympathy for Hurricane Katrina victims to pass themselves off to University of Tennessee students as fraternity brothers who had been displaced by the storm, police said.

AP - A movement is under way in South Dakota to turn the tables on members of the bench.

AP - In this city of so many linguistic influences, Hurricane Katrina is the latest to reshape the colorful local tongue.

AP - Making out with palm trees. Mistaking police cars for taxicabs. Rolling a stolen restaurant barbecue down the road, flames shooting up from the chicken still cooking on the grill.

AP - Less than 12 hours after being freed on bail following a domestic complaint, a man allegedly killed his estranged girlfriend, wounded her father and then committed suicide, authorities said.

AP - A 37-year-old woman was charged with child molestation after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy whom she married last week.

AP - A song about people picking cotton was pulled from a middle school concert in suburban Detroit after a black parent complained that it glorifies slavery.

AP - The greater Los Angeles region surpassed Houston and the San Joaquin Valley as the nation's smog capital, in part because of a change in method of ranking, federal officials said.

AP - A movement is under way in South Dakota to turn the tables on members of the bench. Activists are trying to put a radical measure on next year's ballot that could make South Dakota the first state to let people who believe their rights have been violated by judges put those judges on trial. Citizens could seek damages or criminal charges.

AP - Racial prejudice lay behind more than half the 7,649 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2004, the bureau said Monday. Hate crimes against black Americans were most prevalent.

AP - Longtime convict David Ruiz, whose handwritten lawsuit more than three decades ago led to court-ordered Texas prison improvements, has died. He was 63.

AP - The president of America's Roman Catholic bishops defended American priests Monday, saying a "handful" of miscreants who sexually abused minors have forced the rest of the clergy "to endure an avalanche of negative public attention."

AP - A 37-year-old woman has been charged with child molestation for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy whom she married last week.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that parents who challenge a special education program for their disabled child must prove that it is inadequate.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez captured his second American League Most Valuable Player Award on Monday, edging out Boston slugger David Ortiz.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC hasn't told lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, 'You're fired.' But to borrow from her own genteel phraseology, she 'just doesn't fit' into the network's future schedule, either.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police in New York beefed up security in the city's subways on Monday by using bomb-detection devices to search passengers' bags on top of the random searches of backpacks and packages already underway.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time magazine's annual 'Person of the Year' for 2005 may not be a person at all.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The son of an infamous Mafia don can remain under a lenient house arrest that allows him to do a reality TV show in which he visits a strip club and parties with poker pals, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - For beverage connoisseurs tired of turkey-and-gravy or green-beans-and-casserole flavored sodas, there's a new choice being offered this year by specialty U.S. soda maker Jones Soda Co.: salmon.

AP - Eight advocacy groups asked a federal judge on Monday to ensure that no elderly or disabled Americans lose access to their prescription drugs as they enroll in the new Medicare drug plan.

AP - Lawyers for the owners of a nightclub where 100 people died in a 2003 fire want criminal charges against their clients tossed out because evidence was allegedly withheld from a grand jury.

AP - Vine Deloria Jr., a groundbreaking author and an influential advocate of American Indian rights, has died, family members said. He was 72.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A New Orleans judge on Monday ordered the release of two people arrested before Hurricane Katrina but never charged and threatened to free 21 other suspects this week if the city's crippled criminal justice system does not get moving.

BEIJING (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, fresh from a stinging electoral defeat at home, said on Tuesday that China and his home state should work together to develop clean and renewable sources of energy.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge temporarily barred a logging project on Monday that would have included a small section of California's Giant Sequoia National Monument.

AP - Police have introduced a new anti-terrorism tool designed to thwart potential subway bombers while reducing the intrusiveness of random bag searches: explosives detectors.