AP - Michael Hernandez pulled a charred photo album from the wreckage of his home, the plastic pages melted and flaking after a wildfire tore through the mobile home park where he lived with his grandparents and 7-year old daughter.

AP - Lori Drew garnered headlines after being painted as a vindictive mother whose online actions allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide.

AP - Nebraska's lawmakers are trying to limit the state's open-ended safe haven law with an age cap on children who can be dropped off at hospitals without fear of prosecution.

AP - Oral Roberts University will lay off about 100 employees, days after it agreed to a near-$450,000 separation agreement with its former president who resigned amid a spending scandal.

AP - An 8-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting his father and another man is shown in a video calmly telling law enforcement officers that he found the men lying in his home after returning from school on the day of the shootings.

AP - The former owners of a New Bedford leather goods factory raided last year by immigration agents will pay $850,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by workers who claimed the company violated various wage laws, attorneys for the former employees said Tuesday.

AP - A fourth suspect has been arrested in the death of a Long Island lawyer who was shot during a botched ambush robbery that police say was set up by the lawyer's business partner.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his climate change summit on Tuesday by telling attendees from around the world that they can balance environmental protection with economic growth.

AP - The setting could pass for a high-tech trading floor: men in dark suits, sitting at tiered banks of desks, studying a steady stream of video and data on floor-to-ceiling monitors.

AP - The wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens says she'll create a refuge for wild horses, after the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it was considering euthanizing some of the animals.

AP - A San Diego jury has convicted a man of murder for killing a professional surfer with a punch during a scuffle.

AP - Four illegal immigrants were found in the back of a Wal-Mart truck, and the driver and two alleged accomplices were accused of trying to smuggle them through a Border Patrol checkpoint.

AP - In one classroom, a group of preschool teachers squatted on the floor, pretending to be cave-dwelling hunter-gatherers. Next door, another group ended a raucous musical game by placing their tambourines and drums atop their heads.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even bigger political star — President-elect Barack Obama.

AP - Minnesota's deadlocked U.S. Senate race will edge closer to resolution on Wednesday as an army of election workers begin a statewide recount of more than 2.9 million ballots.

AP - The former owners of a New Bedford leather goods factory raided last year by immigration agents will pay $850,000 to workers — including illegal immigrants — to settle a lawsuit claiming the company violated wage laws, attorneys said Tuesday.

AP - Nebraska lawmakers appeared Tuesday to be leaning toward tightening the state's safe-haven law by setting an age limit of either one month or one year for children who may be legally abandoned by parents or guardians.

AP - An 8-year-old boy accused in the shooting deaths of his father and another man told police he did not fire the first shots at the men but later shot them so they wouldn't suffer. But near the end of an hourlong video of his interview with authorities, the boy admits to the slayings in St. Johns, burying his head in his jacket.

AP - Nebraska lawmakers gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a new 30-day age limit for children who can be legally abandoned under the state's safe-haven law.

AP - Planners of Pride Campus never shied away from touting their proposed high school as a haven for gay youth seeking refuge from sometimes hostile traditional classrooms.

AP - A southern Illinois farmer's wife pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting federal bankruptcy fraud and agreed to cooperate with authorities in a case connected to the unsolved slayings of a potential witness and his wife.

AP - Farms and orchards that continue to use three pesticides that harm salmon will have to greatly expand buffer zones around their fields so the chemicals don't reach streams, federal biologists ruled Tuesday.

AP - A bonfire built by a group of young adults caused a weekend wildfire in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion dollar mansions, and injured more than two dozen people, authorities said Tuesday.

AP - While state agencies are being told to rein in their spending, Texas House members have ordered at least $140,000 in renovations for their members-only lounge, including antique chandeliers, granite countertops and big screen televisions.

AP - On the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown disaster Tuesday, organizers of an annual memorial service displayed the first panels of a 36-foot-long stone wall that is to be inscribed with the names of more than 900 victims of the violence in Guyana.

AP - A wealthy retiree opened his three-story lake home to an out-of-work mechanic he had befriended, then was murdered and his possessions plundered, according to indictments against the mechanic and 15 other people.

AP - The former chairman of the state Senate's budget committee was convicted Tuesday of bribery and pension fraud, making him one of the most powerful New Jersey public officials found guilty of federal corruption in recent years.

AP - Jury selection began Tuesday in the case against a Missouri mother accused of taking part in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide.

AP - Attorneys for the state and inmates' rights groups clashed Tuesday at the opening of a high-stakes trial over whether California's jam-packed prisons have led to unconstitutionally poor medical and mental health care.