By Gridiron Granny For Rutgers the season long winning formula is simple, play impenetrable defense while the offense does just enough to win. Last week vs. Navy that successful formula held serve as the defense once again snatched victory from the maw of defeat. That formula wont be necessary this week vs. the offensively inept [...]

Court documents indicate it may have been a drug deal gone bad that ended with the shooting deaths of five people last month in rural Franklin County. The Palladium-Item reports a probable cause affidavit against suspect David Ison shows he was buying oxycodone from Roy Napier and the two had argued over Napier raising the [...]

#13; The Item reports that Short Hills resident Lisa Hackett joined the Downtown Millburn Development Alliance this past Monday, Oct. 3, as its new executive director. #13; The Item reports that Hackett was hired by the DMDA for her strong background in marketing. She has worked for MTV Networks and NBC. For the past 10 [...]

POPLARVILLE, Miss. Poplarville school officials are looking for other uses for 16th section land on which is located the shuttered Pearl River Valley Golf and Country Club. The Picayune Item reports (http://bit.ly/oQBMcr) that the Poplarville School Board advertised for bids for someone to take over the facility but there were no takers. School officials say [...]

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana judge has set a $1 million bond for a man accused of shooting a man and woman in a restaurants drive-thru line. The Palladium-Item reports (http://bit.ly/o5giZE ) that 20-year-old Chad Malone of Richmond was formally charged Monday with two counts of attempted murder in the Sept. 16 shootings [...]

EDMONTON – I grew up on the moon, actually, Will Ferguson explains by cellphone from Calgary. Of course it isnt true. He corrects himself. Kathmandu. Fergusons being silly. As usual. The Alberta authors wit has earned him numerous accolades, including three Stephen Leacock Medals for Humour. Not bad for a kid from the northern hamlet [...]

Tempers flared during the Downtown student government Senate meeting Friday when members from several ASU MEChA organizations tried to speak while the senate was discussing MEChA de ASU Centro’s funding request. Multiple members of Movimiento Estudantil Chican@ de Aztlan – who were holding cardboard signs and posters with STD statistics – tried speaking unsuccessfully with [...]

MILWAUKEE, Oct 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) – –Color and Flavors Set New Third-Quarter Records for Revenue and Operating Income Sensient Technologies Corporation /quotes/zigman/269504/quotes/nls/sxt SXT -0.43% reported diluted earnings per share of 64 cents for the quarter ended September 30, 2011, a third-quarter record and an increase of 12.3% over the 57 cents earned in last [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon The Syrian economy is buckling under the pressure of sanctions by the West and a continuing popular uprising, posing the greatest challenge to President Bashar Assads government. With Syrias currency weakening, its recession expanding, its tourism industry wrecked and international sanctions affecting most essential sectors, the International Monetary Fund now expects Syrias economy [...]

ARLINGTON, Tex. — Nelson Cruz’s slump hurt enough, but even after he hit a game-tying home run in the seventh inning, the Detroit Tigers figured it was safer to pitch to him in the ninth than to Mike Napoli as they desperately fought to take the Texas Rangers into extra innings Monday night. Related Cardinals [...]