Every morning, they're lining up at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley. These aren't tourists. These folks are there to work. Staff writer Stephanie Hoops (shoops@VenturaCountyStar.com) takes a look at the rush in researchers to the library in recent weeks, all of whom are poking into the background of John Roberts Jr., the former Reagan White House legal advisor who has been nominated to the Supreme Court.

There are a number of other local stories we're looking at as possible A1 for tomorrow inlcuding a follow on the devastating fire at the Oxnard swap meet over the weekend and a local reaction to the end of an era: the bankruptcy of the Atkins diet company.

Off the wire, we'll have the story on President Bush's appointment of John Bolton to U.N. ambassador; the latest on the Discovery shuttle mission; Iran's decision to resume nuclear production; riots in Sudan and the latest from Iraq.