Rants-

Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and a 20-year-old woman were found dead July 4 in McNair’s Nashville condo in what police are calling a homicide.

More than 150 people have died in ethnic strife and violence in the politically tense, western Xinjiang region of China earlier this week; some 20,000 police, firefighters and soldiers have been deployed to restore order.

Raves-

President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have agreed to increase nuclear-arms controls, aiming to reduce their stockpiles by roughly a third by the end of this year.

Just minutes after Dariel Firpo graduated from the New York City Police Academy, he intervened on behalf of a 79-year-old man who was being robbed, arresting the would-be mugger.