1. The Big East has a lot of work to do: It's folly to panic after the first week of the season. On the other hand, it was a brutally bad opening week for the Big East. Pitt, Connecticut, Cincinnati and Louisville all lost. UConn and Cincinnati were dominated. In fact, the only team to beat an FBS opponent was Syracuse, which won at Akron. This season began with a lot of promise for the league ...

The Village of Dexter recently signed off on construction of the first portion of the Border-to-Border Trail –– a 35-mile non-motorized path that will span the Huron River throughout Washtenaw County and beyond when completed.

Here are the selected local concert events from this week's edition of Weekend. To browse more events, or submit your own, go to www.nhregister.com/events. What shows you plan on catching?

I'm no train traveler, having ridden the Tweestie Railroad once as a kid, and then a midnight Amtrak train from Greenville, S.C., to Washington, D.C.

NORFOLK, Va. — Sailors below E-5 are temporarily barred from standing armed watches aboard Atlantic Fleet surface ships, and chiefs and up must monitor crew-served weapons stations, following four instances of negligent firearms discharges aboard separate ships since June.

Private school’s loss of students has become public school’s gain in Oak Bay. Glenlyon Norfolk principal Rob Kiddell says the economic downturn has had an effect on the junior school’s registration, to the point where some families chose to enrol their children in the public system.