Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions?to mega_scoop@tvguide.com. I am so sad to see Marg Helgenberger leave CSI. What can you say about Catherine’s exit? ? DeAnneADAM: I’d say it’ll be pretty poetic, if you read between the lines ? and I know you [...]

Remember Erick Silva’s bizarre disqualification at UFC 142? The one that caused the Brazilian prospect to go from jubilant to despondent in about .15 seconds? The one that made UFC commentator Joe Rogan call out referee Mario Yamasaki’s judgment while in the Octagon? The one that made us all wonder why there’s no instant replay [...]

A Twin Cities event hosted this spring by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) likely violated a 16-year old ruling by the Minnesota campaign finance board. The group, which brings together corporations and state lawmakers to create and distribute conservative legislation, failed to register a lobbyist with the state when organizing an issues forum, as [...]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2012) ? In a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), people with schizophrenia showed greater brain activity during tests that induce a brief, mild form of delusional thinking. This effect wasn’t seen in a comparison group without schizophrenia. The study appears in the December issue of Biological [...]

WASHINGTON ? The pitch from the Republican presidential contenders to voters sounds a lot like the children’s game of follow the leader. When Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich aren’t puffing up their own leadership credentials, they’re running down the leadership skills of one another and of President Barack Obama. If anyone missed Monday’s conference call [...]