Bay Ledger News Zonebill@blnz.comtag:www.blnz.com,2009:people/wayne_parrytag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/11/02/Bold_Republicans_bidding_control_Congress_269a

GOP vows push for limited government with new House majority; Obama searches for common ground. Emboldened by a commanding House majority and Senate gains, Republican leaders vowed Wednesday to roll back the size of government and, in time, the nation's sweeping health care law. President Barack Obama, reflective after his party's drubbing, accepted blame for failing to deliver the economic security Americans demand while saying of his health overhaul: "This was the right thing to do."

2010-11-03T20:33:56ZAP NewsCALVIN WOODWARDtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/11/02/Bold_Republicans_bidding_control_Congress_194c

Republicans look for big gains, House control in elections as Obama implores Democrats to vote. Confident of major gains, Republicans challenged the Democrats' grip on power in Congress on Tuesday in midterm elections shadowed by recession and stirred by the rebellion of tea party conservatives.

2010-11-02T20:03:21ZAP NewsDAVID ESPOtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/10/31/Obama_makes_last_campaign_stop_7dff

Many sensing change, voters weigh in on Democratic Congress, Obama's agenda and resurgent GOP. The fate of the Democratic Congress was put before voters Tuesday in midterm elections that drew Americans to balloting stations starting before dawn, some clamoring for change, others digging in their heels against resurgent Republicans. Expectations took hold in both camps that the political order was in for a makeover in these anxious times.

2010-11-02T16:25:34ZAP NewsCALVIN WOODWARDtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/10/29/factory_fears_China_will_Girl_ba51

NJ factory that makes Girl Scouts uniforms fears organization will outsource its work to China. The owners of a family-run New Jersey factory that makes uniforms for the Girl Scouts of America said they may be forced to close or lay off workers if the organization takes its business to China.

2010-10-29T18:27:33ZAP NewsSAMANTHA HENRYtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/10/19/college_places_boozy_energy_drinks_6d51

NJ college bans boozy energy drinks like Four Loko and Joose, urges others to consider same. It's cheap, it comes in tall cans, and it contains caffeine, other common energy-drink ingredients ? and as much alcohol as four beers.

2010-10-19T12:34:28ZAP NewsGEOFF MULVIHILLtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/10/07/Report_gov_scrapping_long_planned_d5a9

NJ Gov. Chris Christie agrees to rethink decision to cancel big rail tunnel connecting NJ, NYC. Under pressure from the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Chris Christie agreed Friday to rethink his decision to cancel construction of a $9 billion rail tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City.

2010-10-09T03:29:03ZAP NewsANGELA DELLI SANTItag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/10/08/Christie_agrees_reconsider_tunnel_cancellation_f727

NJ Gov. Chris Christie agrees to rethink decision to cancel big rail tunnel project. Under pressure from the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Chris Christie agreed Friday to rethink his decision to cancel construction of a $9 billion rail tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City.

2010-10-09T02:39:20ZAP NewsANGELA DELLI SANTItag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/09/30/Rain_pounds_storm_moves_East_ad09

Heavy rains wash across Northeast, quickly ending dry spell and cutting power to thousands. Flooding posed a threat around the Northeast on Friday on the heels of a pounding storm that submerged cars, cut power to thousands and forced scattered evacuations as it crept up the East Coast.

2010-10-01T22:00:27ZAP NewsFRANK ELTMAN and JIM FITZGERALDtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/10/01/students_suicide_illustrates_Internet_dangers_650c

NJ college student's suicide illustrates the Internet's dangers; gay activists decry his fate. The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet's alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.

2010-10-01T13:28:26ZAP NewsGEOFF MULVIHILL and SAMANTHA HENRYtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/06/15/Feds_approve_tribe_recognition_7358

NY's Shinnecocks receive federal recognition, a key step toward possible casino. A small Indian tribe on New York's Long Island learned Tuesday that it had won a decades-long fight for formal federal recognition, inching it closer to opening a casino.

2010-06-15T21:26:56ZAP NewsFRANK ELTMANtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/05/16/Metal_legend_Ronnie_James_dead_7832

Friends remember 'devil's horns' metal music great Ronnie James Dio as kind soul. Even as he endured grueling chemotherapy treatments to rid his stomach of cancer, Ronnie James Dio showed the fiery passion that made him a metal legend, flashing his famous devil's horns signal as he lay in a hospital bed.

2010-05-17T10:36:33ZAP NewsNEKESA MUMBI MOODYtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/03/14/Post-snow_Northeast_mops_from_wind-driven_9895

Northeast slowly dries out from wind-whipped storm; some residents hope to return soon. The powerful nor'easter had moved out at sea, but flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities.

2010-03-17T00:46:54ZAP NewsSAMANTHA HENRYtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/03/15/States_expand_gaming_plug_budget_1697

Roll the dice, not once, but twice! States expand gaming to plug recession-battered budgets. Faced with a drop in gambling revenue, states are adding games, considering new casinos and increasing lottery options ? anything to keep their cut of the profits rolling in.

2010-03-15T19:37:11ZAP NewsMICHAEL J. CRUMBtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/11/23/AC/DC_Miles_Davis_more_sets_6475

AC/DC, Miles Davis kick off box set season; also releases from Michael Jackson, Def Jam, more. Here are a selection of box-set offerings this season:

2009-11-23T18:24:15ZAP NewsThe Associated Presstag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/10/06/share_2009_Nobel_physics_prize_6044

3 men win Nobel Prize in physics for work in fiber optics, digital photography. The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.

2009-10-06T22:27:05ZAP NewsMALCOLM RITTERtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/10/06/Americans_share_Nobel_physics_prize_7162

3 men win Nobel Prize in physics for work in fiber optics, digital photography. The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.

2009-10-06T20:01:07ZAP NewsMALCOLM RITTERtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/10/05/Nobel_physics_prize_puzzling_predict_4706

3 men share 2009 Nobel physics prize for work in networking society, digital photography. Three Americans whose 1960s research laid the foundation for today's world of computerized images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.

2009-10-06T19:39:43ZAP NewsMATT MOORE and KARL RITTERtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/10/06/Americans_share_2009_Nobel_physics_8236

Three Americans whose 1960s research laid the foundation for today's world of computerized images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.

2009-10-06T17:15:13ZAP FeaturesMATT MOORE and KARL RITTERtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/10/06/Americans_share_2009_Nobel_physics_6845

Three Americans whose 1960s research laid the foundation for today's world of computerized images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.

2009-10-06T16:47:47ZAP FeaturesMATT MOORE and KARL RITTERtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/07/23/mayors_lawmaker_arrested_corruption_case_3464

NJ governor calls scale of corruption 'outrageous' as 3 mayors among those arrested in sweep. Officials are decrying political corruption in New Jersey after more than 40 people, among them rabbis and elected officeholders, were arrested in an investigation in which some were accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars and of black-market trafficking of kidneys and fake Gucci handbags.

2009-07-24T12:47:50ZAP NewsDAVID PORTER