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  • Energy was high at the Coronado Theater last night: it has been more than seven months since Transform Rockford held its first community rally there,…
  • School spirit at Penn State was dealt another blow Saturday when it lost its last home game of the football season to Nebraska. The loss comes just days after the firing of the university's iconic head coach Joe Paterno and the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on 40 counts of abusing young boys. NPR's Jeff Brady reports on the game's aftermath.
  • Efforts to pass other federal voting rights legislation have stalled in the closely divided Senate, as Democrats try to counter voting restrictions enacted in Republican-led states.
  • Jessica Pegula is seeded No. 6 and Emma Navarro is seeded No. 13. Both women are New York natives.
  • It's Match Week, when med students apply for residencies. An economist argues this residency system is a key reason why U.S. doctors are paid around twice much as doctors in other rich nations.
  • Underdog Sacramento Republic FC, which plays in the lower-division USL, is trying to do what hasn't been done since 1999 — topple a Major League Soccer team in the U.S. Open Cup final.
  • Even as it loses its chief executive, the CIA's recently retired third-ranking official is under investigation for possible improper relations with a defense contractor, says Newsweek magazine correspondent Michael Isikoff. Federal investigators are investigating CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo.
  • Robert traveled to the 6th Congressional District in Southern Ohio ...site of a hotly contested race between an incumbent Freshman Republican, Frank Cremeans, and Ted Strickland, who held the seat from 1992 to 1994. The balance of the House of Representatives could be at stake in next Tuesday's election. This race is widely regarded as a bellwether race in a bellwether state for determining which party will control the next Congress.
  • Republican lawmakers want equal party representation on the panel to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
  • "I have so many Bluetooth speakers, it's ridiculous," Amazon's top reviewer says. He's also received headphones, laser printers and a spin bike.
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