Daily Record

WASHINGTON TWP. —Dorothy Beckbissinger was looking through a family photo album in the den of her Middle Valley Road home Tuesday afternoon when she saw the runaway tanker truck rolling through her backyard toward a steep slope.

MOUNT OLIVE — Benjamin Moore wants to install more than 9,000 ground-mounted solar panels that would produce 1.9 megawatts of power, about 70 percent of the energy consumed at its research and development center on Flanders-Bartley Road.

Barack Obama campaigned on hope and change, but he also might have delivered on something else: the urge to buy handguns.

HOPATCONG — Police are investigating two neighbors' claims that a deer shot twice by an officer allegedly lived at least four hours later, cradled in the lap of a sympathetic resident.

Morristown Housing Authority officials said the bed bugs infesting the senior citizen apartment building at 31 Early St. could be fully eradicated — but only if exterminators gain access to one particular apartment.

PARSIPPANY — Sanitation workers hunted through 10 tons of smelly trash to recover a wedding ring accidentally discarded by a Parsippany couple.

JEFFERSON — Police, firefighters and an unidentified woman rescued a Raccoon Island resident Sunday night after her row boat capsized on Lake Hopatcong.

Former Miss California Carrie Prejean, caught up in controversy over an alleged sex tape, had been scheduled to speak tonight at a New Jersey Family Policy Council event in Whippany.

Because of the large number of cats taken from the home, special arrangements were needed to provide for their care so they have been temporarily housed in a Seeing Eye kennel in Mendham Township under the care of volunteer Barbara Assante.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees bolted from the dugout even before the last grounder was scooped up. After waiting nine years for championship No. 27, no one would dare hold them back.

TRENTON — Republican Chris Christie toppled Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine, capturing the New Jersey governor's office on a wave fueled by voters anxious about their economic future.

A 23-year Parsippany police officer filed a notice of claim Monday against the police department outlining $2.5 million in potential damages.