NBC currently sits in 4th place in the ratings among the broadcast networks. The lowly last place is a tough place to be. Especially for a network that dominated just around a decade or two ago. So it's hard to blame NBC for resorting to going back in ti

Worcester Worcester Jewish Community Center’s Mystery Theatre Dinner with Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray, President Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, State Representative John Mahoney, Worcester City Council Joe O’Brien and Kate Toomey and District A

Joel and Ethan Coen, the famously "quirky" filmmaking brother team responsible for eight of Hollywood's most distinguishable films, including "Blood Simple," "Raising Arizona," "Barton Fink" and "Fargo," are again making the trip from New York to Hollywo

I wish to share the sad news of the demise of Dr John Mahoney who passed away yesterday. Dr Mahoney, is husband to Dr Florence Asi Peters Mahoney, our renowned historian and author of several books on the history of the Senegambia, the liberated slaves a

TOWN OF NEWBURGH - The town will have a new police chief next month. Lt. Michael Clancy will be appointed chief of police on Feb. 6. Clancy has been running the department while the Town Council decided on a replacement for John Mahoney, who retired in J

SUCCESSFUL Victorian private treaty network M&M Wools has been bought by exporter and trader Queensland Cotton. Queensland Cotton's wool business head Michael Avery confirmed the buy this week. M&M was established in 1985 by proprietor Paul Miall and for

By Molly Lambert on January 20, 2012 11:15 AM ET AP Photo Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for his terse Western novels, has sold a spec screenplay. His books have been adapted into film three times -- The Road , No Country

Star-Ledger file photoMichael Ward, the director of the FBI's Newark office, speaks in this 2010 file photo. MANALAPAN — A 32-year-old waitress from Manalapan repeatedly sexually abused a 5-year-old girl she babysat, laughing as she recorded the assaults

Growing grapes that can be turned into tasty wine always has been a formidable challenge in Minnesota. But this year brought a truly unexpected setback: It never got cold enough for vintners to make ice wine. This week's cold snap was a month too late.

Brian Lam is the editor of Wirecutter, a list of the very best gadgets. Hello! I just found a handful of wonderful technology in Las Vegas, an oasis in the desert, at CES, the country’s biggest electronics show. There are over 100,000 people here to see

The Bachelor airs Mondays at 8/7c on ABC and stars Ben Flajnik for 2012. Hello, Readers. Welcome back to what has quickly proven itself to be the b*tchiest season in Bachelor history. For crying out loud, what is the world coming to when we can’t even

Your guide to a gadget-filled week There's...too many of them! Panasonic's booth last year. Which TV is your favorite? John Mahoney Here we are again, in Vegas. Tomorrow, the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off, and we'll be here to

John Mahoney / postmedia news Air Canada is among several Canadian companies whose pension plans have taken a beating in the stock market. Companies that offer defined-benefit pensions may face rising costs this year and could end up asking regulators fo

This was the year when Stoke City came within one victory, one measly victory, of lifting the league title itself. They have never been closer, before or since, to becoming the champions of England. SIMPLY THE BEST: George Eastham, left, and

Chris Rockwell pulled out a small spiral notebook to glance at his Christmas shopping list.- 12:01 am Take a look back at news and events The Desert Sun covered in 2011.- 12:05 am Scuffles broke out and police were brought in to quell unrest th

Using petrography (which is basically the science of getting down to the gritty details of rocks), a team from the University of Leicester and the National Museum of Wales sampled the mineral makeup of several large outcroppings of rock in Pembrokeshire,

Inside the store is Simon, and here's the fun twist. Remember when Agent-to-the-Spies Tom Strickler gave Mikey a badass new back story earlier this season? Well, turns out the file he based that on belonged to Simon. None-too-pleased about it, Simon's pl

Conor McPherson and Martin McDonagh enjoy higher profiles, but Irish playwright Enda Walsh feels much closer to the spirit of Joyce and Beckett than either of his better-known contemporaries, who generally hew fairly close to the dictates of realism. Lik

As a freshman at Greenwich High School, William Sadock took an improvisation class that he enjoyed at the time. Now, as a senior looking back, Sadock sometimes wonders if the class will have a negative impact on his grade point average. Under the high s