The late Roland Stevens, a lifelong resident of Madison, summed up North Madison's Rockland section in his remembrances, "Pot Skimmin's." "First it is rocky - very, very, very rocky - and that, I presume is how it came by its name," he wrote.
New Cleveland Indians manager Manny Acta's coaching staff is nearly complete. On Monday, Acta picked Tim Tolman as the bench coach, Steve Smith as third-base coach and Scott Radinsky as bullpen coach.
New Haven police say a city man doused his wife and her two children with an accelerant and set fire to the woman, who suffered burns on up to 40 percent of her body.
The Kansas City Chiefs have released troubled running back Larry Johnson . A two-paragraph statement from the team Monday simply listed Johnson's statistics and announced his release.
A city seethes in anticipation. Outside Yankee Stadium, workmen wielding power washers crisscross the walkways on a crisp autumn afternoon, dutifully cleaning each and every groove between thousands of concrete squares.