October 7, 2012

After allowing a leadoff home run to Coco Crisp, the Tigers’ Justin Verlander shut down Oakland through seven innings of a 3-1 win in Game 1 of an American League division series.

Nationwide, mailed ballots now account for nearly 20 percent of votes, yet such ballots are more likely to be compromised, and contested, than those cast in person, statistics show.

It might sound like science fiction, but 3-D printers are quickly becoming a consumer product, and people are already planning how to print a firearm.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is paying a trading firm for software that will give the agency its first real-time window on an increasingly sophisticated stock market.

While President Obama is widely seen as a friend of the tech industry, and has gotten far more donations, the excitement of his 2008 campaign has ebbed among investors and executives.

Rumors of the death of the writer Clive James have inspired assessments of his career and given him an opening to promote his latest material.

The Browns took advantage of an early Giants fumble to take a 14-0 lead before Ahmad Bradshaw, Eli Manning and Victor Cruz turned things around.

“The Best of Everything” is based on Rona Jaffe’s 1958 novel of workplace sexual politics (and sexual sex).

Political documentaries, rediscovered works and pre-code films are part of the Museum of Modern Art’s “To Save and Project” program, which celebrates film preservation.

Riccardo Muti conducted the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall in works that ranged from Respighi to a New York premiere by Mason Bates.

“Duck Dynasty,” the A&E reality show about a Louisiana family that makes duck calls, is growing in popularity.

If the presidential campaigns of 2008 were dipping a toe into social media like Facebook and Twitter, their 2012 versions are well into the deep end.