The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

BETHESDA, Md. -- It was Saturday night at the U.S. Open, and Rory McIlroy was still about 22 hours from actually clinching his first major championship.

The Rory McIlroy Hype Machine, however, already was running at full tilt.

It was no fault of McIlroy, who buried his head in his hands as the question came from a reporter in the front row of the interview room.

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A New Jersey physics professor is in police custody for allegedly running a prostitution website involving about 200 women and more than 1,200 johns, authorities said Monday.

David Flory of New York City, a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, was arrested Sunday while sitting in a Starbucks in Albuquerque, N.M., said Lt. William Roseman of the Albuquerque police. Flory, who ran the site mostly from New York, had long owned a vacation home in Santa Fe, N.M., Roseman said.

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Teammates call Bergen County Undersheriff Harry Shortway Jr. a 73-year-old great-grandfather with a lethal weapon -- his curveball.

Shortway, a pitcher with the Hawthorne Fire Department Softball Team, achieved his 800th career mound victory this month, a goal that the former Marine was determined to accomplish pitching modified ball.

Shortway passed his 700th career win 11 years ago but stepped up to the plate to take a swing at 800 games, hoping that age and time would not take away his pitching arm.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and seven other Democratic senators reintroduced legislation last week that would grant permanent-resident status to the immigrant relatives of active-duty military personnel.

The Military Families Act would make immigrant parents, spouses and children of anyone who has served in the armed forces since 2001 permanent residents. The bill would also cover the immigrant relatives of those who have died while serving in the military.

GLADSTONE, N.J. -- Yani Tseng was born almost 18 years after fellow Taiwanese golfer Liang-Huan Lu dueled Lee Trevino in the final round of the 1971 British Open, eventually losing by one shot.

"Mr. Lu," as he came to be known, won the French Open the week after the British, plus 19 other international events.

NEW YORK -- Jorge Posada removed himself from the Yankees' starting lineup on Saturday night, and his future with the club was suddenly cast in doubt.

After Posada was dropped to ninth in the batting order by Joe Girardi, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said that the struggling designated hitter went to the manager's office at about 6 p.m. and asked to be taken out of the lineup at Yankee Stadium.

WASHINGTON -- Recent fatal accidents involving tour buses and interstate gas pipelines spurred a Senate committee on Thursday to order new safety rules.

New buses would have seat belts, stronger roofs and better windows to reduce the chance of death or injury in accidents under one of the bills. Also, physicals for drivers would have to be performed by certified medical personnel, and a tracking system would be created to make sure licenses are up to date and no unqualified drivers are allowed on the road.