Police are still searching for the driver who fatally struck a Staten Island nursing student as he biked home from Wagner College Sunday night around 9 p.m. Investigators believe 29-year-old Ronald Tillman was killed by the driver of a dark-colored, newer-model SUV or pickup truck, possibly a Dodge Durango. (The front grill is now missing.) Tillman's mother, who lives upstate near Syracuse, tells the Staten Island Advance the driver is "a coward. What a coward. At least give him a little comfort instead of leaving him in pain and letting him die alone. I’m sure it’s somebody who was doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing... Still, fess up, and face the music. That’s despicable." more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Police on Staten Island are searching for the driver of a black SUV or pick-up truck who fatally ran over a cyclist last night near Wagner College. The unidentified 29-year-old cyclist was killed while biking along a curved stretch of road around 9 p.m. He was carrying a backpack containing a Wagner College folder and other papers, and the force of the collision knocked off one of his sneakers. The Staten Island Advance reports that according to a preliminary investigation the cyclist was headed "eastbound," or uphill, on the "westbound" side of the road. more ›

Incoming freshmen at Wagner College got some advice about Facebook and other Internet do's and don't's from someone who knows firsthand about how things can go out of control when fun pictures posted on a website get into the wrong hand: Miss NJ Amy Polumbo. more ›

The Princeton Review released its annual "The Best 366 Colleges" rankings, and NYC college schools make some interesting showings. The New School is number 1 for "Best College Town" (Barnard, Columbia, and NYU are also in the top 10), while Queens College is the third most sober. more ›

Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo made a repeat appearance on the Today Show this morning to share her "racy" photographs with Matt Lauer. This is how the Today Show website describes the photographs, which are apparently the ones someone took from Polumbo's Facebook profile and mailed to pageant officials:

The photos really aren’t that bad, by contemporary standards, but they aren’t necessarily good for the 22-year-old theater major’s public image, either. more ›

Oh, the dangers of the interwebs. Recently crowned Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo held a press conference yesterday to announce that she was being blackmailed into stepping down after someone sent packages of photographs where she's in possibly compromising positions to her and pageant officials. The pictures had once been posted on Facebook. more ›

FDU will now make their 4th trip to the tournament under coach Tom Green and its first since 1998. A tough road lies ahead for FDU as they will probably face one of the better teams in college basketball and history is against them. No NEC team has advanced out of the round of the first round in tournament history. more ›