<div id="subtitle">Poll shows Americans favor playoff system to pick college football champion</div><div><p>A majority of college football fans want to scrap the current Bowl Championship Series and replace it with a playoff system that's similar to college basketball, according to a new national poll released Tuesday ...

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is running even with relatively unknown Republican challenger Pat Toomey for a 2010 race that could help determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, according to a poll released on Friday.</p><p>Specter, 79, is a longtime ...

<div id="subtitle">Quinnipiac responds to injunction: reinstates volleyball, cuts men's indoor track</div><div><p>Quinnipiac University has reinstated its women's volleyball team and dropped men's indoor track in response to an injunction issued in a gender equity lawsuit against the Connecticut school.</p><p ...

<div><p>The governor of Maine on Wednesday signed a law making the northeastern US state the fifth to allow gays to marry.</p><p>Governor John Baldacci, a Democrat, signed the law after the upper chamber in the state legislature voted 21 to 13 in favor.</p><p ...