AP - Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world — where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always be filed online.

AP - Amid the verdant lawn and leafy trees of the tidy Jefferson Senior High School campus, a police officer patrols the grounds and a sign warns that guns are illegal.

AP - Tropical Storm Fay rumbled toward Florida's southwest coast on Tuesday as residents with memories of a killer hurricane in 2004 took the precaution of shutting schools, government offices and many businesses.

AP - This is the "Pretzel City," thanks to German bakers who settled here in the 1850s. It's appropriate, given the way a lightweight named Abraham Lincoln twisted up a political colossus here and began cementing his place in American myth.

AP - An 18-year-old Harold Mattern welcomed the idea of clearing forest trails and building bridges and dams as a member of President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps.

AP - Hard times and higher fuel prices will follow kids back to school this fall.

AP - Parents, don't put away those video games just yet — today's gamer may be tomorrow's top surgeon. Researchers who gathered in Boston for the American Psychological Association convention detailed a series of studies suggesting video games can be powerful learning tools — from increasing younger students' problem-solving potential to improving the suturing skills of laparoscopic surgeons.

AP - New York City officials have dedicated plaques in the memory of two firefighters killed a year ago at a ground zero skyscraper.

AP - Lawyers for Texas child welfare authorities and the parents of eight children from a polygamist sect agreed Monday to try negotiating a settlement before beginning new custody hearings.