Persa listed as questionable in Northwestern injury report

As kickoff for Northwestern’s 2011 football season quickly approaches, we still do not know whether quarterback Dan Persa will be on the field Saturday. Persa is officially listed as questionable on the team’s injury report for the Wildcats’ opening game against Boston College, and it appears that the senior’s status will remain up in the air until the day of the game. Northwestern head football coach Pat Fitzgerald has been noncommittal about Persa’s health recently, saying that the quarterback Read more [...]

Matthew Palmgren lists home for sale

The husband of a missing Signal Mountain woman has listed the couple’s home for sale, according to a recent real estate listing. Matthew Palmgren, who lost his job at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee after his wife, Gail Palmgren, went missing on April 30, has not filed any court papers that would enable him legally to sell the property, legal experts said. The house, on Ridgerock Drive in St. Ives subdivision, is priced to sell at $669,000, or $95,000 below appraisal, according Read more [...]

Hamdan and Hills rule at Salisbury

(UKPA) – 6 hours ago  Green shoots emerged from a fairly barren season for Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum as a Listed win from Sajwah featured among a trio of promising two-year-olds in the owner's blue and white silks at Salisbury.Group One runners, let alone winners, have not really appeared this year from the Sheikh's usually competitive Shadwell operation. But Sajwah, who made all of the running in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Dick Poole Fillies' Stakes, and longer-term types Farhaan and Firdaws Read more [...]

11 stations listed for overcrowding

(UKPA) – 3 hours ago  Eleven key train stations, including several in London, have been listed as needing action to ease overcrowding.The Network Rail (NR) list includes the London stations of Victoria, Fenchurch Street and Charing Cross as well as Liverpool's Lime Street.The 11-strong list also includes Basingstoke in Hampshire, Bristol Parkway, Clapham Junction in south London, Preston, Surbiton in south-west London, Watford Junction in Hertfordshire and Wimbledon in south-west London.In Read more [...]