Patrick Michael Rucker, author of This Troubled Land: Voices From Northern Ireland on the Front Lines of Peace, will give a talk at Monmouth County Library Headquarters, Manalapan, at 7 p.m. July 11. Rucker moved to Belfast in 1998 in order to write the book in which he speaks with victims, assassins, thugs, soldiers and the peace campaigners who are involved in the struggle between the Catholics an Protestants, Loyalists and Republicans in Northern Ireland. The book is a record of the actions, emotions and thoughts of those who lived through "the troubles," according to a press release. More...

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The state Senate session may have had to be extended before passing the last piece of this year More...

Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. More...

The numbers are staggering enough: just one earned run allowed during an entire softball season of 146 innings, an unfathomable earned run average of 0.05 in pitching and 230 strikeouts to go with it. More...