Before Thursday night’s carnage, there had been just one homicide in Montclair, N.J., in the past two years.

Day of Grief in New Jersey After Violence Claims 3 Lives

Chi Akizuki is hardly a household name, but he helped build the road that has become a super highway for players like Hideki Matsui and Ichiro Suzuki.

Baseball’s Japanese Roots Survive Test of Time and Will

Tom Glavine picked up his 296th victory, ending a five-start winless streak and leading the Mets over the Oakland Athletics.

With Extra Rest, Glavine Breaks His Slump

The second-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq said that Qaeda leaders had been alerted to a plan for an American push in Baquba.

Militants Said to Flee Before U.S. Offensive

The America’s Cup begins Saturday in Valencia, Spain, with Alinghi, the defending champion, taking on Emirates Team New Zealand in the best-of-nine-race series.

Breaking From Tradition in the America’s Cup

The Bush administration said top officials were once again debating how and when to close the detention facilities.

At White House, Renewed Debate on Guantánamo

Should other media companies follow Sam Zell and the Tribune Company into ESOP-ville?

A Lifeline of Sorts to Newspapers

On summer weekends for the past 16 years, Margarita Hernández has prepared authentic Mexican fare for visitors to Brooklyn’s Red Hook Park.

Stuffing Tortillas and Parkgoers, Dawn to Dusk

A hedge fund’s near collapse stems directly from bad bets on subprime mortgages and is the biggest such bailout since 1998.

$3.2 Billion Move by Bear Stearns to Rescue Fund

Analysts agree that the sleek iPhone will change what consumers expect from the mobile phones offered by wireless companies.

AT&T Hoping the iPhone Has Coattails

Orders to lower the flag, and decisions not to, are part of a conflict over how to commemorate tragedy when there is so much of it.

Lowering Flag for War’s Dead Brings a New Rift

Some of the nation’s biggest companies will announce a new program meant to make health insurance available to their former employees ages 55 to 64.

Keeping Early Retirees Afloat

Aides to Michael Bloomberg say he has been quiet about the war because to do otherwise would simply be grandstanding. 

A Mayor Often Ill at Ease, and Usually Muted on Iraq

Leading Democrats introduced legislation that would more than double taxes on most of the income earned by partnerships.

Bill Is Offered to Increase Tax on Private Equity

A single-line, bank-style checkout system has given Whole Foods one of the fastest grocery store lines in New York.

A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket

Zimbabwe’s population is falling as its economy fails, and South Africans face new competition for jobs and housing.

Influx From Zimbabwe to South Africa Tests Both

Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez may never be easy for baseball fans to embrace, but they showed Friday night that they will always have one another.

Bonds Hits No. 749, and Rodriguez Is There to Cheer

Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s reform efforts have stalled, and the state’s legislative session stumbled to a familiar Albany close.   

Spitzer Makes His Stand and Things Fall Apart

The clothing retailer was sold to Istithmar, the investment arm of the Dubai government.

Dubai Government Buys Barneys for $825 Million

Laura Albert, who signed a movie contract with her nom de plume, JT Leroy, was ordered to pay $116,500.

Jury Finds JT LeRoy Was Fraud

An article in Weekend on June 15 about a deal between the Menier Chocolate Factory theater company in London and the producer Bob Boyett that gives Mr. Boyett first rights to transfer the company’s shows to Broadway referred incompletely to the transfer of the company’s revival of “Sunday in the Park With George” next winter. The Broadway revival will be a Roundabout Theater Company production. Boyett Ostar Productions, Mr. Boyett’s producing partnership, will be an associate producer; it is not bringing over the revival by itself.

Corrections: For the Record

A bicyclist was killed yesterday in the Baychester section of the Bronx by a truck that fled the scene, the police said.

Truck Kills Cyclist in Bronx

Oregon State has returned to the College World Series finals, despite losing six position players and three workhouse pitchers from last year.

Champions Take Different Path to Finals

An article in The Arts on Thursday about the new Wellcome Collection museum in London referred imprecisely to the work of the Nobel Prize winner James D. Watson, who led the inaugural ceremony. He was a discoverer of the structure of DNA, not of DNA itself.

The motion could lead to a closing of the company, which has reported losses far in excess of its revenues but has stayed afloat through the stock sales.

S.E.C. Requests Receiver for Universal Express

Elliana Kathryn Walmsley is an American dancer. She became known for appearing in Lifetime's reality show Dance Moms.

Elliana Walmsley, American dancer

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Rodney Roy Beck, nicknamed "Shooter", was an American professional baseball relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants (1991–1997), Chicago Cubs (1998–1999), Boston Red Sox (1999–2001) and San Diego Padres (2003–2004). He batted and threw right-handed.

June 23, 2007

Headlines from June 23, 2007

Day of Grief in New Jersey After Violence Claims 3 Lives

Baseball’s Japanese Roots Survive Test of Time and Will

With Extra Rest, Glavine Breaks His Slump

Militants Said to Flee Before U.S. Offensive

Breaking From Tradition in the America’s Cup

Billboard 200

Epiphany

Good Girl Gone Bad

Memory Almost Full

Double Up

It Won't Be Soon Before Long

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for June 23, 2007