Franklin Massie

Congressman Jim Gerlach has made the surprise announcement that he's dropping out of the Republican race for Pennsylvania governor. Read More

3 people, two women and a man, were found shot to death and a third woman was rushed to a hospital in critical condition late Thursday night after NOPD officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 2700 block of Urquhart Street near Franklin and St. Claude Avenues. Read More

WINDSOR—Landline telephone service has been restored to all customers affected by the Dec. 22 fire at a Verizon switching station on Church Street in Windsor, according to a company spokesman. Read More

They have split the glittering prizes of the Guinness Premiership between them for more than a decade now – six Leicester titles in 11 years, four Wasps triumphs over the same time span – and if neither of the English game's dominant clubs can claim to be fielding a vintage team this term, it does not mean one of them will not be popping another cork come late May. The only guaranteed means of forcing a change of guard is to deny these masters of the play-off format access to it in the first place, which means keeping them out of the top four. Read More

Classical scholars amongst us might describe the rugby year of 2009 as an annus extrarius: a strange 12 months bordering on the bizarre, what with the fake blood business, the drugs scandals, the inexplicable plague of gouging incidents and all the rest of it. Read More