AP - The lopsided numbers tell the story of the U.N.'s uphill struggle to protect civilians caught up in the latest rebel assault in conflict-wracked eastern Congo.

AP - Barack Obama told millions watching him accept the Democratic nomination in Denver that his grandmother's influence on who he is and the way he views the world was substantial.

AP - Authorities in western New York state say a house fire has killed three young boys and seriously injured their grandmother.

AP - Voters in 11 states were choosing governors Tuesday, deciding close contests in North Carolina and Washington as Republicans tried to chip away at the Democrats' slim majority of gubernatorial seats.

AP - Some of the nation's most divisive social issues — gay marriage, abortion and affirmative action — went before voters Tuesday as 36 states passed judgment on ballot measures as well as candidates.

AP - Republicans saw a chance to take back power in several state legislatures Tuesday, while Democrats hoped voter enthusiasm for the White House would boost their chances to pick up seats.

AP - The family of a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy is suing the operators of a Detroit foster home where they say their son starved to death.

AP - Prosecutors in Massachusetts say the younger sister of a girl who suffered a severe brain injury will testify that her stepfather pushed the child down a flight of stairs.

AP - A storm dropped as much as 15 inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada, hastening the state of the ski season but bogging down traffic on mountain highways.

AP - Nebraska officials say a 15-year-old girl dropped off at a hospital is the 27th child left under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law.

AP - The trial of a man accused of videotaping himself sexually assaulting a toddler has been postponed after new videos surfaced that allegedly show him having sex with an adult woman.

AP - For nearly a year, six Chinese crew members on a ship that crashed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge — creating the bay's worst oil spill in nearly 20 years — have been detained by federal authorities.

AP - There aren't many people accused of trying to break INTO jail.

AP - Less than five miles from the White House, separated by a river and so much history, people spoke of popping champagne, of winning the lottery. They remembered those who died before witnessing this day, and they stored away 'I Voted' stickers as if they were precious heirlooms.

AP - A mother has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for driving her son and his friends to a California skate park to kill a 13-year-old gang rival.

AP - Barack Obama supporters in the senator's hometown began gathering near Grant Park for a huge election-night rally they hoped would be a historic victory celebration.

AP - New York City will cancel the police academy's next class, cut hundreds of jobs and close dental clinics for poor children to trim its budget amid an economic crisis, a city official said Tuesday.

AP - A North Dakota program that distributes venison to the needy will accept only deer killed with arrows, fearing that firearm-shot meat may contain lead fragments.

AP - It takes a lot of paper to raise a crane in New York City these days.

AP - Democrats picked up a governor's seat Tuesday as voters in Missouri elected Attorney General Jay Nixon in an open race. In Indiana, voters re-elected Gov. Mitch Daniels Tuesday as the Republican easily turned back a Democratic challenger hoping to benefit from an expected strong turnout for Barack Obama.

AP - They came. They queued. They voted.

AP - The state that gave Barack Obama his first primary setback supported him when it counted Tuesday.

AP - Anthony Shuford used to ride the No. 32 bus past the White House and wonder if the president had any idea what his life was like. After voting for Barack Obama on Tuesday, he said he would never feel the same about that house, or his country.

AP - The elevation of Barack Obama to the White House is a transcendent moment, for what this election says about a nation where blacks were once considered property.

AP - Cheering, screaming and weeping with joy, an estimated 50,000 Barack Obama supporters welcomed his election Tuesday night in a delirious victory celebration in the senator's hometown.

AP - The state agency that promotes tourism to Hawaii said Tuesday it would pay its disgraced former president more than $290,000, most as a 'resignation payment,' after he was heavily criticized for forwarding offensive e-mails to friends from his work computer.